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Illustrator Ulrike Marais explores grief and memory in her insect-themed cookbook picture book

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Brighton-based illustrator Ulrike Marais tackles themes of grief and memory via insects and meals in her latest project, Omi's Dinner Party. The inclusion of ladybugs certainly helps to make the themes and story more accessible. I was messing around with printmaking, Lino and a form of printing using old oat milk cartons," she says. "It

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Beyond the Brand: new Warhol exhibition unearths rarely-seen art treasures

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As art historian and museum curator Joachim Pissarro's accompanying essay explains: "Ads is a masterful culmination of Warhol's career-long interest in the blurred lines between commercialism and fine art, and it resituates these omnipresent themes into a new state-of-the art array consonant with this late era's zeitgeist.

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Maiyashu's new picture book explores how people relate to their hometowns in a breathtaking way

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It's a theme that author and illustrator Xinyue Chen, AKA Maiyashu, explores to great effect in their latest picture book, I Will Always Be Here. What do you picture when you think of home? A building, your bedroom, or even just a feeling? This story is inspired by my experience of migration in China and leaving China," they explain. "I

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Playfully sinister works by the Cameron Twins challenge our connections with our past selves

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This is a theme within both our printmaking and sculptural practice, raising questions about the effect of nostalgia on people's own past experiences and memories and what might or might not lie just beneath the surface.".

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Humans and Animals Commune with Nature and the Cosmos in the Multidisciplinary Work of Kiki Smith

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Smith began examining themes relating to the body in the 1980s, spurred by the death of her father, who was also an artist, and the loss of her sister to AIDS. Acclaimed artist Kiki Smith completed the piece in 2022, and it’s one of the most recent works in which she honors the natural world and humanity’s role within it.

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Sebastian Foster Announces 30 Artists for Their Eclectic Fall Print Set

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The new release features 30 works by well-established illustrators, printmakers, and painters from across the U.S., Anne Siems Austin-based gallery Sebastian Foster just announced its 2023 Fall Print Set, marking the 11th anniversary of the collection since it launched in 2012. Canada, the U.K., Japan, and Europe.

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Sebastian Foster Announces 30 Artists for Their Eclectic Fall Print Set

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The new release features 30 works by well-established illustrators, printmakers, and painters from across the U.S., All images courtesy of Sebastian Foster, shared with permission Austin-based gallery Sebastian Foster continues its 2023 Fall Print Set, marking the 11th anniversary of the collection since it launched in 2012. Canada, the U.K.,

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