Category Archives: art

David Neale

So brilliant this man, David Neale. “a Gold and Silversmith who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.”

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C. Göran Karlsson

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C. Göran Karlsson. Pics from here and here.

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I’m reading – Konstnärer & deras ateljéer

The artist’s studio is a mythical place. The romantic dream of the studio as a harbor for creativity. The book Konstnärer & deras ateljéer is a juicy piece where you get to peep into 26 contemporary Swedish artists at their various workplaces. Some of them have their studio in their apartments, some of them in old garages or warehouses, one of them even in a henhouse. A spledid book about art, creativity and design. Only written in Swedish as fas as I know, but the pictures speaks for themselves.

The people behind the book is stylist Anette Mörner, photographer Anne Nyblaeus and author Bo Madestrand.

ISBN: 978-91-86603-42-7

Participating artists:

Ylva Ogland
Anders Widoff
Klara Kristalova
Christian Pontus Andersson
Tova Mozard
Kristoffer Nilson
Julia Peirone
Fredrik Wretman
Meta Isaeus-Berlin
Daniel Jensen
Jenny Källman
Tobias Bernstrup & Cajsa von Zeipel
Rickard Sollman
Astrid Sylwan
Hans Isaksson
Carin Ellberg
Thomas Elovsson
Johanna Billing
Gustaf Nordenskiöld
Maria Friberg
Makode Linde
Ulrika Sparre
Jesper Waldersten
Anna Kleberg
Lukas Göthman

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Johannes Nyholm

I’m kind of swept away after meeting one of Sweden’s most talented, contemporary artists in his studio here in Gothenburg, Sweden today – Johannes Nyholm.
2013 has started well.

Johannes Nyholm is an artist and film director who’s work are presented in a wide range of forums. I’m sure you have seen, or heard of the trailer Las Palmas for example (16.8 million views on Youtube as of this writing). In the main role, as a middle aged lady (and drunk, disturbing tourist) is Johannes’s 21-month-old daughter.

Had a lot of laughs watching the FULL MOVIE during the holidays. Hanging above, one of the characters in the bar.

Johannes has previously made a bunch of music videos for bands such as The Knife, Little Dragon and The Tallest Man on Earth. In my hand above, the mini gitar from the great video The Tallest Man on Earth – It will Follow the Rain.

Johannes is also famous for the short claymation films The Tale of Puppetboy.
“A very lo-fi and raw claymation about a nervous clay figure named Puppetboy. The style is very hands on, DIY, but with a precise touch of facial expressions and tense atmosphere. A combination of slap stick and romantic, erotic drama.” (IMDb).

I actually held the clay puppet boy in my hands today, yes! Gosh.

This Christmas the short film Puppetboy (Dockpojken) appeared on Youtube, the best Christmas present. A half hour live action short film about an obsessed animator and a film crew doing a documentary on him (Johannes). The movie has received a lot of awards at festivals around the world.

The super nice shadow puppet play Dreams from The Woods is a nine minutes of fragile shadowplay about love and sorrow, featuring the Girl, the Bird and Death. Watch the full movie here.

I do like the concept of being able to support an artist by buying the possibility to see a treasure as a whole. And all for a small amount ($1.99 / 1 Euro / 10 kr). Maybe artists can feed on what they do in greater extent in the future.

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Kristine Thenman

Swedish Kristine Thenman‘s work is subtle and humorous. An overarching theme in her work is nature. Nature as seen from different perspectives.

Will you pass by Stockholm in January? In that case take the chance to visit Kristine’s upcoming exhibition ”Tid och otid” (12 jan – 30 jan 2013) at Konsthantverkarna.

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Brendan Huntely

Brendan Huntley is an artist living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Find a bunch of Brendan at Ocula. And an interview at The Blackmail.

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Jillian Tamaki

Jillian Tamaki is a Canadian illustrator and cartoonist living in Brooklyn, NY. She is also a teacher at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Lucky students.

Jillian’s client list is impressive as well as her work, especially the personal work in my opinion (the quilt in this post for example).

Jillian’s blog.

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Hilda Hellström

Sometimes you get lucky. Yesterday Fine Little Day crew were out and celebrated the coming holiday. Next to me this young woman sat down. Turned out to be the very talanted Hilda Hellström. I’ve been browsing her webpage all morning.

Hilda Hellström is a Swedish designer who has an interesting way of combine art and design with a focus on the process and thoughts behind the result.

“Hellström explores the notion of myth and narrative that inhabit objects and is preoccupied with things that shock us and situations that elevate the soul. She describes herself as an analytic craftswoman, having been influenced from a young age by both her phychoanalyst mother and carpenting father.”

Above, Copy Kitchen The Sausage Machine.

Above 2, food storage jars made of radioactive earth from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster area in Japan. Hilda contacted the last person still living inside the evacuation zone, Naoto Matsumura, and collected soil from his rice fields that can’t be farmed due to contamination. More at Dezeen.

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Cilla Ramnek

Went to this lecture the other day, with Swedish artist Cilla Ramnek. It’s easy to feel sympathy not only for Cilla’s work but also for her attitude and perspective towards her work. Cilla embraces the irrational and see her own non-ability to take in too much information, and today’s technology (she works as completely computer-free), as a good thing. In times she works purely autistic according to her own words. You who have followed this blog fairly regularly, know my weakness for primitivism and outsider art. It came as no surprise that Cilla Ramnek is attracted by that genre of art as well. Although I assume that Cilla nor is completely self-taught nor suffer from any “extreme mental states”, her work has a clear kinship with the “tone” in good other art in my eyes. It feels unconventional, intuitive, therapeutic and totally manic. It draws me in like a magnet.

Cilla says she prefers to work without meaning and purpose. Free. But she also enjoy to take assignments. And she has had big ones over the years, for Ikea and Svenskt Tenn for example.

The balloon who suddenly appeared in the room when Cilla held her lecture.

Photos in this post are from the exhibition I visited earlier this year.

And Richard Pearse‘s work.

Singer (Anna Roxenholt) in the Swedish band New Found Land comes from my home town, Gothenburg. Here is a new song from the upcoming third album. The music has been described as “Ane Brun with a touch less opera, or Lykke Li with a bit more grit.”

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Dream mobiles

The über nice result of the collaboration between Tyra von Zweigbergk and Maja Steen (blogged here) has culminated in an exhibition at Grafikens Hus in Stockholm “Floating mobiles with trimmed characters. All mobiles are for sale”. Gosh I wish.

Via Wonderwall.

Photos borrowed from Grafikens Hus and Tyra von Zweigbergk’s blog.

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