Nick McFarlane
Posted by Art Project Curator, 10/31/2008 8:48:06 PM
Nick McFarlane is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator working in London. Much of his artwork to date has dealt with New Zealand's cultural identity and examined issues such as the wealth gap within society. His semi-complete Yamake features the New Zealand 10c coin, reworked as a skull and cross-bones... A fitting symbol for these turbulent financial times.
Chris Campbell
Posted by Art Project Curator, 10/31/2008 8:44:58 PM
Christopher Campbell
Born 1975. Graduated Leeds Met University 1998
Lives and works in London
Libra....likes pina coladas and walks in the rain.
David Le Fleming
Posted by Art Project Curator, 10/31/2008 8:31:00 AM
Le Fleming has been exhibiting as an artist for about ten years now, the past five years of which have been in London, Great Britain. Originally from New Zealand, his work is very distinctive, bright and decisive, yet with an air of being feral at the same time. His trademark traits are things such as standardised line breadths and floating 'noise environments' made up of typographic elements to house his human subjects. The shapes are simplified and fenced off with absolute punctuation, whilst the subjects are painted delicately and are sympatheticto the eye.
The canvas is key to Le Fleming’s work, choosing to work with found objects such as car bonnets or fridge doors. Anything which has character fits the bill, but particularly objects with typography still intact are of interest to him. Painting onto such materials has the advantage of acquiring certain contextual properties. They’re real things which have existed with specific purposes. By appropriating these found objects, the artist is toying with the line between authentic artifacts and couched projections of artistic discourse.
Jari Salo
Posted by Art Project Curator, 10/31/2008 7:53:35 AM
Jari Salo is an artist from Helsinki, Finland. He works as a creative director/partner in the new school marketing agency Laundry Helsinki. Jari is best known works include over 30 snowboard designs for several snowboard brands including Burton, Joyride and Option Snowboards. Jari has also been doing designs for clothing brands like Analog Clothing, WESC and RIV. His style is organic and often based on mixed media including drawing, painting, real elements and photos. His interest in nature and different cultures is reflected in many of his works. Jari spends over 100 days snowboarding yearly and is a member of 1% For The Planet.
www.jarisalo.com
www.onepercentfortheplanet.org
Luis Perez
Posted by Art Project Curator, 10/31/2008 6:50:38 AM
Born in Valladolid (Spain) 1978. Degree in Art History, Universidad de Valladolid (Spain). Has participated in over 20 group and solo shows, and won the
Beca de Artes Plásticas (Fine Arts Grant) Diputación de Valladolid
in 2006, Valladolid (Spain). His work is in public and private collections in
Spain, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, United States, Australia,and Japan
Code FC
Posted by Art Project Curator, 10/30/2008 8:13:27 PM
Italian born F.C. alias #codefc
is a multi media artist who lives and work in London
as vj/video artist/painter. He studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design graduating in Public Art and Design in2002.
His work
blends rocky organic images, art history influences, computer design
(where
the name comesfrom) and of course his two decade activity in the
graffiti/street art movement. He's been involved in a series of collective graffiti exhibitions and
two solo exhibitions that included a collection of paintings completed over the last ten years showing
a variety of media and styles.
The painting often escapes the usual square boundary of a canvas to be applied onto everyday objects found in skips,
sometimes left abandoned using concrete/silicon, installed in places as ”illegal public art“, “performances” as an activity to transform/recycle
society’s waste
into art .
Born in Cantabria Spain (1964),Gomez Bueno studied Fine Arts at the Universidad de Tenerife (Canary Islands)and at the Universidad Complutense (Madrid). He has lived between Los Angelesand Europe since1988.
Gomez Bueno's work has been exhibited at museums including the Museo deBellas Artes of Santander, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo of Madrid, Circulo deBellas Artes of Madrid, Centro de Arte of Tenerife, Centro de Arte LaRegenta (Las Palmas), Grand Palais of Paris, Laguna Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), LACE (Los Angeles) and Chiso Museum Kyoto, as well as at a good number of commercial galleries in Spain, Belgium, France,Italy, Germany, England, Mexico and USA.
In the art world, Gomez Bueno is known for his mix of conceptual and pop projects "GB forPresident" (1992), "Padre GB" (1993) , "Classifieds"(1995), "Gallery Logos" (1997), "Gomezphonics, in Stereo"(1999) and "Coming Soon" (2006). There are three bookspublished, 25 catalogues, and he has had 30 solo shows.
Commercially, GB has created graphics and art work for Think skateboards,Joyride Snowboards, Switch Bindings, Flexible boots, Roland Shapes, City FogSurfboards and GB Snowboards. His work has been reviewed in magazines suchas Surfing, Tres60, Heckler, Thrasher, Slap, Arte y Parte, Relax, Mono, VogueNippon, Lodown, Juxtapoz, Artweek and SuperX, ABC and major newspapers aroundthe globe.
Antoine Corbineau
Posted by Art Project Curator, 10/30/2008 6:45:51 AM
Antoine Corbineau is a graduate in Graphic Design and Fine Arts, from Camberwell College of Art London, UK, and the Ecole Superieure
des Arts Decoratifs in Strasbourg, FR. His work range goes from art directing graphic design and motion graphics projects, to paintings and illustration and everything in between. He has so far worked along with well respected designers like
Plus et Plusin New York and Pierre Bernard in Paris.
Antoine's paintings explore international issues, sociology, languages, demography, cities, borders, notably through the influence of Jerome Bosch, Hundertwasser,Tony Oursler or Norber Kox.
He currently lives and works in Paris.
Tommy Penton
Posted by Art Project Curator, 10/26/2008 9:10:47 AM
Tommy Penton is a renowned artist based in West London. He is best known for his cover artwork for a variety of artists such as Embrace, Tricky, New Order, Morcheeba and Talvin Singh. He has also been involved in the generation of these artists' posters, cd artwork and national advertising campaigns.
His latest work is a 9.2 Meter Long drawing from Tate Britain to Tate Modern. Showing a unique visual Walk along London's South Bank, produced into a book and exhibition called Tate to Tate.
His work shows an intelligent yet fresh approach to perspective art. A bright and fluid style with a gentle sense of humor.
www.tommypenton.com
www.tatetotate.net
Ryan Hadley
Posted by Art Project Curator, 10/26/2008 9:07:55 AM
"I am a stencil graffiti pop artist out of the "bad lands" of Shakespearian rural Warwickshire, I take my inspiration from contemporary rock culture and the "cult of celebrity". With a background in graphic design I’m drawn to clean lines and expressive colours. Having enjoyed enthusiastic feedback about my work I want to go bigger and louder in the future."
John Parkin
Posted by Art Project Curator, 10/26/2008 9:04:49 AM
The shape of Yamake is lends itself amazingly well to my current work 'luchador heads', a series of fictitous latin american wrestler masks painted onto old motor bike helmets. The history of the 'mascaras' is a significant part of lucha libre, dating back to the days of the aztecs the beautifully crafted individual masks are handed down father to son, immortalizing the iconic luchador as a superman.
Born in 1971 in London. Graduated City and Guilds, Foundation course in 1990, Byam Shaw School of Fine Art in 1995. Solo and group shows in UK, Czech Republic and Sri Lanka.
Born 1944 in Pasedena, California. His hyper-realistic art was inspired by the simplicity of Oriental art paired with his love of Western pop culture. His work ranges from paintings of celebrities in their youth to playing cards, but most are two-tone portraits, all punctuated by his signature red dot. A former punk rock singer, Bryan has sailed the Bermuda Triangle, joined a band of cave-dwelling gypsies in Grenada, sought the Oracle of Delphi, and has personally presented portraits to Peter Fonda, Madonna, Bob Dylan, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Pope Benedict XVI among others.
BYO: Cabbage
Posted by Art Project Curator, 10/26/2008 8:56:19 AM
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rained at St martins. Mixed media specialist. Female. Foreign.
Akiyoshi Takada (MADBUNNY/SUPERVIOLENCE)
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Born in Japan Prefecture in Japan, 1974, he is a Graphic artist, designer and photographer.
From an early age, he has been heavily influenced by a culture of skateboarding,
graphic art, music and so on. Whilst in senior high school, he specialised in design
and upon graduation began work at a famous print company. He is also a 'pro' snowboarder.
His is a world of colour, humour, death & pop.