Yao Lu is a digital artist who creates beautiful landscape images in the style of traditional Chinese paintings – beautiful mountain and water scenes are shrouded in could and mist, eliciting serene and romantic feelings. But a closer look at these images reveals that all is not as it seems. The images are digital composites [...]
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BP: Belching Petroleum – The Art Of The Oil Spill
It is not clear which is the biggest scandal. BP pumping maybe a million gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico (after all, industrial mishaps do happen); or the Obama Administration’s continued support for opening up more and more of America’s shores to oil drilling (when, after all, industrial mishaps do happen [...]
Turning Back The Clock – Harri Kallio and the Dodo
I have often wondered what the now extinct dodo bird looked like when it was still around and roaming in the wild. Harri Kallio has tried to give us an insight into this lost-forever part of our world with his series “The Dodo and Mauritius Island” Kallio undertook extensive research into the dodo, what it [...]
Clever or Effective? The Work of Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan’s art examines the massiveness of our consumption and its effects. In his artist’s statement he says “The pervasiveness of our consumerism holds a seductive kind of mob mentality. Collectively we are committing a vast and unsustainable act of taking, but we each are anonymous and no one is in charge or accountable for [...]
Fantastical Worlds?
Mary Mattingly is a highly imaginative artist. In a genre of work akin to science fiction, she extrapolates today’s developments to create a vision of a future world. The background to some of her themes has been explored before but her work, evolving over a number of years, builds, layer upon layer, to create an [...]
