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The Creative Boom 2023 Christmas gift guide for creatives

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Hanging Decorations by Wrap and various artists Don't feed the Amazon beast! And now we're back for 2023 with another bumper crop of amazing gift ideas from independent artists and shops. We've got a selection of quirky and beautiful gift ideas that will raise your present-buying above the generic and propel your imagination.

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'It's out there: just go and look for it': Denomination's Margaret Nolan on finding analogue inspiration in a digital world

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Credit: Margaret Nolan Margaret Nolan has led Denomination as co-founder and Global Creative Director since 2002. The reflection on social and political issues and how artists use their medium to create a message is particularly powerful. The key thing about interesting art is discovering the story it is telling.

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Shattered Porcelain Fragments Are Elegantly Bonded in Kintsugi Sculptures by Yeesookyung

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Seoul-based artist Yeesookyung ( previously ) fuses Korean and Japanese craft traditions in her elegant, gilded sculptures. In a statement about her latest additions, she describes her fractured sculptures: To me, a piece of broken ceramic finds another piece, and they come to rely on one another.

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In ‘Zoophites,’ Les Lalanne Hybridize Beasts and Botany into Functional Sculptures

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It’s also an apt title for a poetic exhibition of sculptures blending beastly and botanical forms by the late Claude (1925-2019) and François-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008). Having worked as a guard in the Egyptian and Assyrian galleries of the Louvre, the artist often referenced ancient mythology and hybridity in his figures.

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Ann Weber Elevates Discarded Cardboard Boxes and Staples to New Heights in Billowing Sculptures

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Exemplifying the possibilities of combining humble materials with a good dose of resourcefulness, Ann Weber ’s monumental sculptures find their beginnings in discarded cardboard boxes. “The sculptures can be viewed as a critique of contemporary consumerist culture, but that is not my sole intent,” she continues. Photo by M.

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Fantasy Island shows Ireland from 70 photographers’ alternative perspectives

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Words Paul Moore — Date 25 June 2025 Work Photography Publication Book Documentary Politics Society History The concept of Fantasy Island , published by Rotten Books, sounds simple and quaint – 50 years of Irish photography by 70 Irish artists – while the final product is anything but. But why the transition from magazine to book?

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26 Contemporary Chinese Artists Explore Materiality in ‘Allure of Matter’

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CHICAGO—Containing a massive paper wave, a tower of leftover fat, and a tiger-skin rug of 500,000 cigarettes, The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China encompasses 48 works from 26 contemporary Chinese artists in an exhibition on view now in Chicago. Collection of the artist, courtesy of Pace Gallery.

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