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F5: David Trubridge on Forward-Thinking Art, Indigenous Voices, + More

Design Milk

He started off with plans to carve wooden sculptures, but in the process of renovating, he unintentionally picked up woodcraft – an easier path to creating furniture. Whereas he’s practical in nature, she attended art school, trained as a sculptor, and has a freer, more open approach to creating.

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Resin-Fossilized and Machine-Cut: The Art of Matthew Angelo Harrison

Design Milk

These CNC-altered works often cut into the objects they contain: wood African sculptures with uncertain authenticity, exotic animal skulls, and the headlight of a Tesla. The “African” sculptures offer the most complex questions. Installation view, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Ambidex, 2021 Photo: Farzad Owrang. Culling Figure, 2021.

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15 Artists Bring Spectacular Mirages to the Arabian Desert

Azure Magazine

The organization behind the exhibition, The Desert Biennial , is a California-based arts non-profit dedicated to staging site-specific interventions that build upon the land art movement of the ’60s and ’70s. Many of the resulting works oscillate between the worlds of nature and art. Courtesy of the artist and Desert X AlUla.

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Warhol, Land Art and a giant mirrored building set in the striking desert landscape of ancient Saudi Arabia

Creative Boom

With a population of 35 million, and more than 75% aged under thirty-five, the Kingdom is embarking on transformational development to embolden, employ and entertain its populous and attract growing national, regional and international tourism. FAME: Andy Warhol in AlUla cleverly plays on the idea that Warhol himself was a mirror of his time.

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These UCA students are using design to solve real-world problems

Design Week

At a time when the future and funding of creative arts education is under threat, it’s more important than ever to showcase the talent nurtured at UK arts institutions. In her video comprising over 300 images, fine art student Rose Sambrook reflects on lockdown and the never-ending feeling it conjured.

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Invoking Black Masking Traditions, Artist Demond Melancon Beads Elaborate, Celebratory Portraits

Colossal

The “wearable sculptures” are elaborate and celebratory, and Melancon’s works are known for their immense nature and for exhibiting his deft technical skill. I like the light in the old-school paintings, in the Florentine art, in the art from the 1700s.”

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A Vibrant Coral Ecosystem of Thousands of Crocheted Sculptures Confronts the Climate Crisis

Colossal

The Australia-born, California-based sisters began the Crochet Coral Reef project in 2005 to confront the devastations of bleaching, over – fishing, tourism, and agricultura l contaminations through sprawling, labor-intensive environments. Photo courtesy of LUAG by Stephanie Veto.