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Rabarama’s human decorations

Italian artist Rabarama creates human or human-like sculptures in distress, whilst contrasting these poses by covering their skins in decorations of patterns and symbols.

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David Maisel’s x-rays

David Maisel’s large-scaled, otherworldly photographs chronicle the complex relationships between natural systems and human intervention, piecing together the fractured logic that informs them both....

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Giuseppe Randazzo’s algorithms and stones

Italian designer Giuseppe Randazzo’s Stone Fields are created from several fractal subdivision strategies. “I love the work by Richard Long, from which this project takes its cue. The way he fills...

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Andrew Salgado’s stories of real people

Influenced by a hate crime against him and his partner in 2008 at a music festival, Canadian born London-based artist Andrew Salgado (1982) painted bold, largescale figurative paintings that explore...

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Fabian Oefner’s unique moments of physical and chemical drama

Swiss artist and photographer Fabian Oefner (1984) is a curious investigator, photographer and artist, whose work moves between the fields of art and science. His images capture in unique and...

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Paul Chiappe’s minuscule memories

Scottish artist Paul Chiappe creates pencil drawings derived from old photographs. These drawings are meticulously small (some so small that the use of a magnifying glass is required), and upon closer...

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Matteo Pugliese’s trapped sculptures

Italian sculptor Matteo Pugliese (1969) creates restless sculptures that are seemingly trapped in walls.

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Clara Adolphs’ thick impasto portraits

Clara Adolphs’ portraits are inspired by memories and captured in what might be described as a retro-perspective coupled with a thick impasto technique.

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Carl Melegari’s layered figures

Carl Melegari explores both the human form and the urban landscape. He primarily focuses on the semi-abstraction within the figure. Often working from life and models, Melegari explores how the...

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Art and taxidermy

See also: animals and death Erick Swenson, Untitled, 2004 Idots (Afke Golsteijn and Floris Bakker), Getting into science, 2009 Daniel Firman, Wursa, 2008 (at Fontainebleau Castle, Paris) Cai Guo-Qiang,...

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Daniel Barkley’s emotional essence

Daniel Barkley is a Canadian artist whose paintings are at their core reworkings of biblical and mythological stories. Portraying the emotional essence of the dramas, his mostly male subjects display a...

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Chad Wright’s Masterplan

Chad Wright’s “Masterplan” conflates a child’s sandcastle with architecture typifying postwar American suburbia. The three-part series culls artifacts from his childhood, investigating suburbia in its...

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Michal Mozolewski’s paint-like digital portraits

Polish artist Michal Mozolewski creates stunning digital portraits, which combine photography with (heavily) textured and paint-like artwork.

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Nadia Duvall’s second skin

Nadia Duvall’s aesthetic works are created by dropping paint into water and manually shaping it until it develops into a thin layer of film, which the artist refers to as her second skin.

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Jessica Tremp’s love for drama

As a child photographer Swiss born, Melbourne-based Jessica Tremp dreamt about being a dancer or being able to fly and able to learn to speak the language of the animals in the forest. Today, with the...

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Michaël Borremans’ evocative paintings

Belgium artist Michaël Borremans (1963) evocative paintings are influenced by 18th and 19th century artists, such as Édouard Manet and Diego Valázquez.

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Ernesto Neto’s Madness is part of life

Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto’s “Madness is part of life”, was an organic installation (2013) comprising thousands of suspended plastic balls in colourful netting, allowing visitors to walk through and...

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Brett Amory’s lost individuals

Brett Amory’s works are based on photographs he has taken of ordinary city architecture and random people who he sees on a daily basis but never speaks to. He feels especially drawn to individuals who...

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Margaret Ashman’s etched dancers

Margaret Ashman is an experienced printmaker specialising in photo etching. Her work investigates the human figure and movement. “My imagery is carefully constructed from my own photography and...

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Margarita Georgiadis’ illusion of reality

Margarita Georgiadis is an Australian artist whose work explores the illusion of reality, the presence of absence and the law of the continuum of forms. Margarita’s work is influenced by physics,...

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