3/07/2007

Chantal Michel


Image: © Chantal Michel


Image: © Chantal Michel

Very interesting work by Chantal Michel.

Didier Massard


Image: © Didier Massard

Didier Massard's landscapes are breathtaking. What's even more impressive is that they are completely fabricated.

3/05/2007

Rebecca Stevenson


Image: © Rebecca Stevenson

Rebecca Stevenson's sculptures are both beautiful and grotesque. More work here.

Gottfried Helnwein


Image: © Gottfried Helnwein

Macabre work by Gottfried Helnwein. See also his excellent drawings.

12/01/2006

Gayle Chong Kwan


Image: © Gayle Chong Kwan

Gayle Chong Kwan does amazing dioramas with food.

Timothy Cummings


Image: © Timothy Cummings

Nicely macabre work by Timothy Cummings. More work here.

8/26/2006

Polixeni Papapetrou


Image: © Polixeni Papapetrou

Interesting work by photographer Polixeni Papapetrou.

7/09/2006

Francesca Sundsten


Image: © Francesca Sundsten

Surreal paintings by Francesca Sundsten. More work here.

7/08/2006

Davor Vrankic


Image: © Davor Vrankic

Macabre and beautifully drawn work by Davor Vrankic made all the more sinister through the lack of colour.

Kim Keever


Image: © Kim Keever

Kim Keever's work is awe-inspiring, especially his working method. More work here.

7/05/2006

Sonja Braas


Image: © Sonja Braas

Stunning work by Sonja Braas who juxtaposes images of natural disastors with photographs of models.

7/04/2006

Nicky Coutts


Image: © Nicky Coutts

Nicky Coutts tranforms Hieronymus Bosch's paintings into unsettling landscape images.
"The original paintings have been re-photographed and painstakingly digitally altered to remove every sign of life so that only the background elements remain".

Andrew Brandou


Image: © Andrew Brandou

Beautifully haunting and playful work by Andrew Brandou. He's currently showing his work at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York.

7/02/2006

Saul Fletcher


Image: © Saul Fletcher

"Saul Fletcher's small, intense photographs capture eerily abstracted details of usually peopleless, ordinary interiors." More

7/01/2006

Emily Allchurch


Image: © Emily Allchurch

Emily Allchurch "recreates Master paintings digitally using contemporary scenes". These backlit transparencies must be stunning to view in the flesh.

Tom Chambers


Image: © Tom Chambers

Tom Chambers' images are wondefully menacing. They remind me of Simen Johan's work.

Peggy Shaw


Image: © Peggy Shaw

Peggy Shaw mixes physical objects with "ethereal images" to beautiful effect.

6/30/2006

Elizabeth Ernst


Image: © Elizabeth Ernst

Interesting work by Elizabeth Ernst who photographs her sculpey models of circus characters.

3/25/2006

Tim Flach


Image: © Tim Flach

Tim Flach's exceptionally sensitive and quirky images of animals.

2/19/2006

Yuji Iwasaki


Image: © Yuji Iwasaki

Enigmatic and striking work by Yuji Iwasaki who constructs models from clay.

1/29/2006

Roger Ballen


Image: © Roger Ballen

The strange world of Roger Ballen is both fascinating and terrifying. More work here.

1/28/2006

Erwin Olaf


Image: © Erwin Olaf

Erwin Olaf's stylish photography certainly can't be ignored.

1/20/2006

Frederick Sommer


Image: © Frederick Sommer

I have always loved Frederick Sommer's haunting work.

1/13/2006

Ray Caeser


Image: © Ray Caeser

Stylised and entirely digital work by Ray Caeser.

1/05/2006

Robert and Shana Parkeharrison


Image: © Robert and Shana Parkeharrison

Breathtaking work by Robert and Shana Parkeharrison who explore the labours of the Everyman.

1/01/2006

David Bowers


Image: © David Bowers

Fantastic paintings by David Bowers with a slight nod towards surrealism.

Melissa Brown


Image: © Melissa Brown

Charming artworks by Melissa Brown.

12/29/2005

Hans Bellmer


Image: © Hans Bellmer

Sinister dolls by Hans Bellmer.

12/28/2005

Joel Peter Witkin


Image: © Joel Peter Witkin

An interesting interview with the genius known as Joel Peter Witkin.

12/24/2005

Mia Friedrich


Image: Mia Friedrich

Interesting work by Mia Friedrich, especially the surreal set.