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Laser-Cut Paper Forms Tessellating Patterns in Ibbini Studio’s Ornate Sculptures

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Ibbini Studio ( previously ) creates intricate paper sculptures meticulously crafted to appear as though they have been made in nature. The duo began collaborating in 2017 and now creates pieces by hand and machine, using a painstaking process that combines analog and digital techniques. “My

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Artist Adam Bridgland pays tribute to rock lyrics with intense colours and visual attitude

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In a new show at London's Jealous Gallery, artist Adam Bridgland brings together wild hues, dynamic patterns and the powerful pull of nostalgia in an alluring visual display. We sometimes forget how much of a role lyrics play in our love of popular music.

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Dancing Figures and Natural Elements Coalesce in Jonathan Hateley’s Elegant Bronze Sculptures

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All images © Jonathan Hateley, shared with permission Immersed in nature, female figures dance, reflect, and rest in Jonathan Hateley ’s limber bronze sculptures. The subjects commune with their surroundings, greeting the sun or leaning into the wind and merging with patterns of foliage or lichen.

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Nathalie Miebach Weaves Data and Anecdotes into Expansive Sculptures to Raise Awareness of the Climate Crisis

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For Boston-based artist Nathalie Miebach , art is a way to translate scientific data into a visual language of patterns and relationships. “ Each piece began with a specific question I had and then the sculpture would attempt to answer it.

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Through Bronze Mushrooms and Gilded Cicadas, Xiaojing Yan Links Chinese Legend and Nature

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Based in Toronto, the artist has created a body of work that’s broad in medium and subject matter, ranging from small sculptures installed in circular formations to bulbous paper lanterns with rotating parts. Detail of “Song of the Cicada” (2017), cicadae exuviate, filament, gold paint, 7.2

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F5: Darren Appiagyei’s Ghanaian Roots, a Unique Toaster Project + More

Design Milk

Through these less-than-perfect qualities, he’s able to turn what was once considered flawed into gallery-worthy sculptures. ” Today, he stands as an awardee of the Cockpit Arts/Turners Award (2017), for which he received a studio space where he’s currently based.

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Tali Weinberg Entwines Human and Ecological Health with Climate Data Sculptures

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These twisting, interlaced qualities ground much of Tali Weinberg ’s fiber-based work as she pulls at the individual threads of our changing climate, using abstract weavings and textile sculptures to explore the inextricable nature of the crisis and the necessity for human intervention. data that corresponds to the thread colors.