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Animated short film, traditional hand drawn, directed by Nico Di Mattia 2009 (via)

View more works by Penny Davenport. Also take a look at the Library of the Evil Orchid.

Robin Schwartz: My photographs are drawn from real journeys undertaken with my daughter, Amelia. I am driven to depict relationships with animals but the photographs are not documents; they are evidence of the invented worlds that we explore and the fables we enact together. Photography gives us the opportunity to access our dreams, to discover the extraordinary. (via)

smackmusic on flickr

Pen on tracing paper by Wonil

Laziness exemplifies satire well. Taken on a political or personal level, the point is well made. “My brain has become the brain of a fish. It’s in no state to think of anything…but why disturb the waters.” (via)

Animated by Aleksandr Tatarskiy and Igor Kovalyov
Directed by Yevgeniy Sivokon 1979

Trained taxidermist Polly Morgan began working as an artist in 2005. Her work exploits her taxidermy skills in still life arrangements. She plays with conventions of both: the interaction of the wild subjects within the peculiar context of the civilised still life pose; the conceit of the dead animal frozen in a living pose. (via)

Clusters of quail chicks are often used in Morgan’s work to represent moss on the side of a derelict coffin, a swarm of maggots or a chorus of voices from a telephone receiver. Here she calls them Dead Heads; a term used to describe the decapitation of spent flowers, which can be read as a metaphor for the chicks’ own short lives.

Polly Morgan’s flickr

I think that many of my works can be described as an advertising campaign coming from possible parallel realities. They’re conceived as actual advertisements, just without the claim of a product, slogans, and of course the pay I would receive upon completion. What they sell is rather the real value upon which our society is based, without any sort of lie or hypocrisy hidden within them. (Read more)

Cakeland by Scott Hove is a sculptural installation resembling a collection of perfect delicious cakes– wall mounted, hanging and standing– a walk-through cake environment complete with its own lighting. It is a sweet refuge, an endless kaleidoscopic landscape of cake, a respite from the grinding realities of the outside world. (via sweet station)

Take a virtual tour inside the shrine at Hi-Fructose.

Benedetta Mori Ubaldini: The pieces i do in chicken-wire come from a childlike side of my imagination. What i love is to create installastions as three dimensional pictures. The simplicity of this material contains the magical power of transparency, that is capable of giving each piece the lightness of an apparition, a ghostlike quality, like a trace from a memory.

My balloon pieces are what i fondly call ‘ugly art’. They deal humorously with sexuality, body issues and everyday life.

Angela Bartram is a visual artist making work as live art, video and sculptural objects. Her research is concerned with definitions of the human and animal, mouths, thresholds and “in‐between” spaces.

‘Scientists’ quizzed 2,000 animal lovers and asked them to list their ideal traits - before designing a computer profile of the creature. The freakish results included the ears of a rabbit, face of a cat, body of a golden retriever and tail of a horse. The monstrous mammal - named Max - has high energy levels, loves daily walks and sleeps for an average of nine hours 27 minutes a day. via theSun

Patricia Piccinini’s worlds are full of youngsters, including pink and blue truck babies promising to tell where grown-up trucks come from.

Patricia Piccinini’s exhibition at Artium explained by herself

The Gathering

Jamie Mccartney is an artist who is hard to define. “I blame my degree in Experimental Studio Art,” he explains, “I’m still experimenting”. He admits to being a sculptor but shuns any closer definition. “I make things,” he says prosaically. This mock humility belies a strong and, some would say eccentric, character with a definite je ne sais quoi. Jamie is a maverick, a polymath, and a self-confessed enfant terrible. What he makes is causing quite a stir. (via)

Have a look at - Pussycat - The Spice of Life - Shuttle Cocks and Ammonight

The Raha just sent me this fantastic artpiece For the Love. thank you very much!!

Shirin K. A. Winiger,  An addition to the Maria Magdalena series.

one of my inspirations was Araminta de Clermont’s photography project: Body art behind bars (more images)

Forgive me father, for I have sinned.

Shirin K. A. Winiger

also check out P-sus.

Zach_ManchesterUK replied to my work with this photo

Patrick Jannin added Le Baptême (detail cross)

Robert Gligorov was born in 1959 in Kriva Palanca, Macedonia. He lives and works in Milan, Italy.
Gligorov’s work attempts to shock the viewer. Confronting a society accustomed to sophisticated and extreme forms of visual communication, Gligorov amplifies the shock value of his work in order to compete with the deluge of images that cloud our visual field.

Tiffany Bozic has spent the majority of her life living with and observing the intricacies of nature. Her work often incorporates richly pigmented acrylic paint on solid maple wood panels.

04:05, so… what is video art? by asbeentaken (Leonel Cunha)

Recently Kim’s been obsessing over museums, her new “hobby.” Here she reads from her latest report, “The Creation of Value: meditations on the logic of museums and other coercive institutions. via PinkyShow.org

Victor Safonkin’s work is self-described as Eurosurrealism, or European classic surrealism & symbolism. (via)

The artist about himself:

Wim Delvoye, born in 1965 is a is a Belgian sculptor and conceptual artist. He’s been tattooing pigs since the 1990s and started his a tattooed pigs project in in the beginning of 2000 in China, the Art Farm. The unconventional artist has exhibited in numerous prestigious galleries around the globe. Find a full listing on artnet and all images and links to Wim Delvoye on artcyclopedia’s Launchpad for Further Research

Bluebottle flies, spider, nylon, lead, acrylic

Making a killing 2006

The Hangover Lullaby on Youtube // Dailybeat