Colossal

AUGUST 9, 2023

In a practice spanning sculpture, design, photography, collages, and music, Diallo finds inspiration in collaboration and learning from others. Find more work on the artist’s website and Instagram. Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Colossal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

All images © Calvin Nicholls, shared with permission In exacting detail, a giraffe nuzzles its young and a panda noshes on eucalyptus fronds in Calvin Nicholls ’s paper sculptures ( previously ). Find more information on his website and Instagram. Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Colossal

APRIL 10, 2024

All images © Goran Konjevod, shared with permission In Goran Konjevod ’s meticulously crafted origami pieces, countless creases, ridges, and folds transform into stunning forms ( previously ). Find more on the artist’s website and Instagram. Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Colossal

JANUARY 4, 2022

Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. One winner will be published in Aperture magazine, receive a $3,000 prize, and have a solo show in New York. The Other Art Fair. Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards. Open Calls.

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Artist Arts and Crafts Programming Exhibition 101

Colossal

JANUARY 1, 2024

“The Height Of Folly” by Michelle Kingdom Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Tulsa Artist Fellowship 2025-2027 Award Term Featured U.S.-based You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter.

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Colossal

MARCH 29, 2023

All images © Nikichi From the long, graceful turn of a rabbit’s ears to the cozy embrace of polar bears, Nikichi summons the emotional nuances of intimacy, solitude, and contemplation in his delicately carved sculptures. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Find more of Nikichi’s work on Instagram.

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Colossal

AUGUST 9, 2023

Based in Nottingham, the Australian artist is especially connected to the U.K. Increasingly aware of her impact on the environment, Parkhouse turned to found materials in an effort to render all of her sculptures biodegradable and repurpose as much as she could. Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Colossal

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

All images © Syndie Jimenez, shared with permission In museums or galleries, artist Sydnie Jimenez never saw figurative sculpture that looked like her or that felt relatable. Hand-building figures from clay, the artist uses coil and pinching techniques starting with the feet. Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Sculpture Exhibition Artist Fashion 67

Colossal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Created by teams of craftspeople connected to Nakagawa Masashichi Shoten , the series translates the fluffy, two-dimensional character into adorable wooden sculptures made of camphor, the tree Totoro occupies in the film. Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Colossal

MAY 30, 2023

All images © Lisa Stevens, shared with permission Ridges, florets, and spirals comprise the vibrant terrains of Bristol-based artist Lisa Stevens ’ marine-inspired ceramics. you can see Stevens’ pieces on display at Independent Design Collective in Bristol and Katherine Richards Art Gallery in Brighton and Hove.

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Colossal

MARCH 30, 2023

Photo by Alix Joiret The soft pile of tufted yarn meets vibrant color in Brussels-based artist Shishi San ’s bold sculptures. San is currently working on her biggest project to date, so you can keep an eye out for updates on Instagram and find more on her website. Photo by Alix Joiret Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Colossal

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Image © Bernhard Lang Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Artists working in visual art, installation, multimedia, performance, literature, music, photography, filmmaking, curating, are welcome to apply.

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Colossal

OCTOBER 28, 2022

A host of wild creatures inhabit the whimsical world of artist Penny Thomson ( previously ), who creates intricate, kinetic sculptures that fit in the palm of your hand. Briony adds, “That is why we say that a batch of two or three kinetic sculptures usually take between one week and 40 years to make!”

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Colossal

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Tender stems bear lush blooms and windswept leaves gather around new growth in artist Shota Suzuki ’s delicate metal sculptures. ” Suzuki’s work is included in Natural Mastery: Lacquer and Silver Works from Japan at Stuart Lochhead Sculpture in London from December 1 to 9.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Socrates Sculpture Park Open Call. The 2022 Socrates Annual Fellowship program is looking for public art proposals for its Sink or Swim Climate Futures project and group exhibition.

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Colossal

JULY 31, 2023

All images © Chris Millar, shared with permission Worlds within worlds emerge from the kaleidoscopic visions of Canadian artist Chris Millar , whose meticulous sculptures encompass a range of materials, mechanisms, and sound. “It’s a kinetic sculpture that opens a vault door to reveal an entryway to a phantasmagorical otherworld.”

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Sculpture Arts and Crafts Artist Fashion 68

Colossal

JULY 3, 2023

Image © Chris Wood Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Mophradat Orbitals Open Call (International) This open call will take four curators and art researchers to Dakar, Senegal. Deadline: July 4, 2023. Deadline: July 10, 2023.

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Colossal

APRIL 5, 2024

In their Guardabosques’ guises, the specimens are crafted from colored paper precisely scored, cut, and folded to shape each characteristic detail. If you’re in the Northeast, you can find a few sculptures at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, in the exhibition Bats!, which continues through July 28.

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Colossal

JULY 6, 2023

” Embedded within a jetty of the San Francisco Bay, the sculpture was created by Peter Richards and George Gonzalez in 1986 and captures the sounds of waves as they crash into and fill the pipes, emitting a musical mix of gurgling and gushing noises as the tide changes. I am quite compelled by things that just barely work.

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Colossal

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

All images © Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen, shared with permission Enormous blooms crafted from thousands of sheets of creased, textured, and twisted paper explode in Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen ’s vibrant installations. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? You can explore more work on Instagram.

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Colossal

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Locust Projects invites visual artists from around the world to apply to create a large-scale new work at its Miami space. Governors Island Winter Ice Sculpture Show. Open Calls.

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Artist Arts and Crafts Programming Exhibition 101

Colossal

AUGUST 1, 2022

Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Faena Prize for the Arts (International). The annual SPIE International Day of Light Photo Contest focuses on light and its vital role in nature, art, and technology. Open Calls.

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Colossal

APRIL 3, 2023

All images © Ágnes Herczeg, shared with permission Delicate silk threads laced around tiny wooden armatures compose intricate scenes in Ágnes Herczeg ’s sculptures. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month.

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Colossal

MARCH 1, 2022

Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Bio Art and Design (BAD) Award 2022. Recently graduates interested in bio art and design are encouraged to submit proposals for the 2022 BAD Award. Open Calls. Deadline: March 16, 2022.

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Artist Arts and Crafts Printmaking Programming 101

Colossal

JUNE 1, 2022

Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. International Art Textile Biennale 2023. Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize. Faena Prize for the Arts. 8th National Juried Exhibition at the Oxford Arts Alliance. Open Calls.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 30, 2022

"I got so inspired that I decided to start experimenting with digital art and 2D, and publish it online every few days, no matter what. Growing an audience, Nikita started receiving commissions, and it wasn't long until he began working with his favourite music artists and exhibiting worldwide. And there we have it.

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Colossal

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We’ve published dozens of articles on artist monographs and compendiums of broader topics across art and design and science and history over the last 12 months, and these are the 10 titles that impacted us most. Ocean, Exploring the Marine World. Nick Cave: Forothermore. An Alternative History of Photography.

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Colossal

APRIL 2, 2024

“The mannequin is the ‘ideal woman’ who does not age, have wrinkles, fat, or any other human quality,” the Chicago-based artist says. “(The mannequin) stands in for all of us who are obsessed with our homes, whether it is the décor or activities inside that make us ‘homemakers,'” the artist says. .

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Colossal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Photos by Red Photography, © Yukihiro Akama, courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, shared with permission In Huddersfield, England, a half hour’s drive down the road from Yorkshire Sculpture Park , artist Yukihiro Akama fashions a whimsical, miniature world from within a furniture maker’s workshop. Work in progress.

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Colossal

APRIL 28, 2023

Paul-based artist Liz Sexton gives the simile new meaning with recent marine-themed additions to her ongoing papier-mâché masks series, highlighting the distinctive faces of familiar creatures like walruses, manatees, and polar bears that find themselves out and about on dry land. Do stories and artists like this matter to you?

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Colossal

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Image courtesy of Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Working across sculpture, installation, and video, the artist returns to the aesthetics of Africa and the African diaspora as she amends the art historical narrative by putting Black women and Black feminist thought at the center.

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Colossal

MARCH 1, 2023

Image © Paperboyo Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. The Flag Project (International) Artists of all skill levels can submit work inspired by their most memorable food memories in the city for the fourth annual Flag Project.

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Colossal

JULY 5, 2022

Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. One artist or collective will be awarded $10,000 to complete the work. The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize. Loghaven Artist Residency. Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Image © Theo Jansen A Wind-Powered Herd of Beach Animals Merge Into a Storm Defense System in Theo Jansen’s Latest ‘Strandbeest’ An 18-meter-long Strandbeest scuttles across the sands of a beach in The Netherlands in a short video by Dutch artist Theo Jansen, who has been releasing his otherworldly creatures into the world each year since 1990.

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Colossal

APRIL 21, 2020

Based in Austria, Natalia Lubieniecka scours Vienna’s markets for antique objects, fabrics, and anatomical posters that eventually inform and meld into her peculiar sculptures. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member and support independent arts publishing.

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Colossal

JANUARY 2, 2020

A new book by Charlotte Vannier considers how embroidery has evolved from a domestic task mostly done by women into an art. Comprised of the work of 84 contemporary artists from around the world?—including “I am fascinated by the idea that a simple thread becomes a piece of art completely, and how many artists use it. .

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

His extensive studies of the human body progressed not only human portrayal within art but within medicine. As contemporaries note, Da Vinci was “not willing to admit himself as an adept of the mainstream knowledge of the time”— in art, in biology, in architecture? Brunelleschi studied to be a goldsmith and sculptor, not an architect.

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