Creative Boom

MARCH 16, 2022

While British artist Liz West is known for her immersive rainbow installations that transform buildings and public spaces across the UK, what we don't ever see are the drawings she creates to help her visualise them. People are curious to see the full workings of an artists' practice.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

London-based interdimensional artist Murugiah is set to illuminate the Greenwich Peninsula this September with a new light sculpture titled Rangoli Mirrored Cosmos. Opening on 16 September, the sculpture will also feature large interactive floor graphics at specific slots.

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Creative Boom

JULY 21, 2022

London artist Hanna Benihoud has unveiled Rainbow Ribbons in the newly-opened Claremont Park today. Incredibly, the dynamic flowing sculpture is fashioned from steel and powder-coated in an array of vivid colours. The idea for this latest sculpture came after leading a 'ribbon workshop' with local young people of all ages. "We

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 7, 2024

They're a great way to find cool, quirky, and unique pieces: everything from limited edition prints, postcards, greeting cards, handmade jewellery, candles, or even full paintings and sculptures. And if you're an artist, illustrator, or designer yourself, they're a great opportunity to make money doing what you love.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In the heart of Germany, nestled close to the French border, lies the small town of Saarbrücken – a place where imagination knows no bounds for the enigmatic artist Jonas Mayer. His sculptural works, on the other hand, follow a different process. A lot of parts will disappear, while others emerge."

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Creative Boom

MARCH 12, 2023

In a new show at London's Jealous Gallery, artist Adam Bridgland brings together wild hues, dynamic patterns and the powerful pull of nostalgia in an alluring visual display. Interdisciplinary artist Adam Bridgland hasn't, though, as his second solo exhibition stands as a testament to.

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Creative Boom

MAY 19, 2024

To manifest this idea, his team configured eight monumental mask silhouettes into a sculptural, cascading form, each one seeming to tumble into the next in a flowing sense of motion. Integrated into this fabric were channels for LED lights that could transform the entire sculpture into a dynamic, colour-shifting element.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 24, 2022

Launching at London's Maddox Gallery this September, Little Palette is a solo exhibition by the emerging British artist featuring various paintings and sculptures that challenge what we think about art and its many genres. Through each piece, Chaumeton uses humour and intrigue to make us think about each artist on display.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2024

The Swiss artist's new installation, Arena For a Tree, encased in a basket-type structure of wooden ribs, not only asks audiences to reflect on themes of nature and sustainability, but delivers a stark warning on climate change.

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Creative Boom

MAY 31, 2022

Working across installation, sculpture, video, and digital drawing, London and Hangzhou-based Weishan Yang is a polymath of sorts. And since then, I've worked with a few communities, independent artists and magazines such as Please Don't Touch magazine.". Reflex, 2022 © Weishan Yang. ?Working

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Alex Chinneck is back, transforming the streets of Bristol with new surreal sculptures that light up the night sky. First, sat proudly outside 'Building A'—home to BT's South West hub—is a red British phone box that has been "wrung out" by the artist, twisting a full 720 degrees. But this time with some definitive purpose in mind.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 2, 2023

If you remember the good old days of Nintendo Gameboy and Sony's PlayStation One, a new paper sculpture series by award-winning mixed-media artist Natalie Wong will bring back happy memories. RetroPlay is inspired by the resurging popularity of classic gaming. Suppose you want to remember that joy in your home or office.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Participating artists include Noma Bar, Zoë Barker, Sarah Boris, Marylou Faure, Peter Greenwood, Dani Molyneux, Danielle Rhoda, and Wendy Wong. We'll now share a little more detail about each of the eight artists below and give you an overview of the exclusive print they've created for Creative Boom. Love Boom by Sarah Boris.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Creative Boom caught up with NFT artist Leo Villareal to ask him about his projects and process – as well as the creation of his digital artworks. From then on, light has continued to dominate the artist's work. The total sale earned the artist £1.4m. Patterns of light based, floating in a sea of darkness.

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Creative Boom

JULY 16, 2024

Photography and video captured by Jay Dawson, Ben Hughes and Thomas Lennox Pearson Artist Andy Welland is behind what's thought to be the UK's largest piece of temporary pavement art. This year, you'll also be able to enjoy a fabulous 90-metre mural created by artist Andy Welland.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Made up of Abigail and Phebe Cameron, the Cameron Twins are London-based artists who recently graduated from Loughborough University with a degree in Fine Arts. We enjoy using this popular imagery in our sculptures and prints as they add a playful and witty quality to the work.".

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Creative Boom

MARCH 23, 2023

Originally from Wuhan, Flora moved to New York four years ago to chase her artistic ambitions. Ever since I was a child, I've always dreamed of becoming an artist," she tells Creative Boom. "I This creative freedom led to Flora taking her drawings, sculptures and paintings and applying them to American art schools.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 3, 2024

Photography by Kate Shanasy The Paris-based artist brings an intimate experience of colourful ocean life, inner coral reefs and natural wonders to the National Gallery of Victoria for their latest Triennial. French artist Jean Jullien is one of our favourite creatives working today. whatever your age.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 30, 2023

All photos taken by Pawel Streit and © Impulse Gallery The artist's latest exhibition in Lucerne showcases both philosophical insight and innovative technique. It's an age-old question, both for the artist and everyday people in general. What is beauty? But I'm getting ahead of myself here. What is beauty?

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JANUARY 14, 2024

In its first edition, Roam thematically links together a diverse range of 58 artists and creatives across 150 pages who explore topics including sculpture, tattoos, film festivals, foraging, fashion, scavenger hunts, map-making and ceramics.

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Creative Boom

JULY 3, 2023

Acclaimed designer, architect and visual artist Simone Brewster is here to boldly challenge those assumptions in a new design commission, The Shape of Things , at NOW Gallery in Greenwich, London. Visitors can also view brand-new comb sculptures inspired by African hairstyles, which are wearable and celebrate the designer's heritage. "I

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

© Alicja Kozłowska Polish artist Alicja Kozłowska goes to great lengths to create marvellously mundane objects to highlight mass consumption and overproduction. Some people may underestimate the power of embroidery, yet textile artist Alicja Kozłowska is here to prove that quite literally anything is possible with a needle and some material.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 18, 2024

After that period, as techniques improved and the practice became more popular, folk artists combined the moulded sugar with other art forms, such as shadow play and paper cutting, to create a more diverse range of patterns. Over generations, sacred sculptures morphed into secular sweets as sugar became more affordable.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 28, 2024

Artist Ivan Toth Depeña pays tribute to the essence of light and energy in Photon/s, a new concept-driven public art installation in Charlotte, North Carolina. Blending screens and sculptures, the piece is designed to be a permanent beacon for the city's vibrant cultural landscape.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 9, 2023

Courtesy of DCG and the Artist On the eve of his upcoming solo exhibition 'Let This Be A Sign', Nigerian artist, painter and sculptor Samson Bakare tells Creative Boom about his inspirations, process and unique approach to re-envisioning the history of Africa. Courtesy of DCG and the Artist Songs of Hope, 2023 © Samson Bakare.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2024

Hideki's team also crafted sculptures that surround the car, which are physically identical but use internal lighting with different textures to represent the idea of personalisation. The work features a to-scale representation of the LF-ZC, powered by solar energy captured through organic photovoltaic cells.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 20, 2023

These artists, in particular, hint at how travelling around Europe has shaped Wenching's art. From studying sculptures on buildings to looking at what people are wearing in cafes, I've got an eye for detail that is always eager to explore," she reveals.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 16, 2022

What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter. On the one hand, there's a long-running stereotype of artists and bohemians wearing black, featureless clothing. What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter. Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s by Eddie Chambers. I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston.

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Creative Boom

JULY 3, 2023

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's exhibition You, Me and The Balloons is a colourful wonderland of inflatable inspiration: a suitable opener for a brand new type of arts centre. The new venue will be commissioning and presenting a year-round programme by leading artists from across the world.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 18, 2023

Freelance designer, artist and curator Tom Buchanan explores the objects that define artists in his new photography book-cum-research project, Out of The Box. Described as a celebration of the lost art of collecting, Out of The Box uses containers as its jumping-off point in order to pay homage to artistic hoarders.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 15, 2024

"Desert Island Comics is a New York institution offering a diverse collection of unique print pieces created by an array of exceptional artists, writers and illustrators. And every season, the owner invites an artist to create a sculptural window display for his shop."

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

George Underwood From schoolyard friends to legendary album covers, we chat with David Bowie's lifelong collaborator about his artistic journey and a new exhibition of work inspired by the much-missed singer. He went on to become a freelance artist, making hundreds of book covers, LP and CD covers, advertisements, portraits, and drawings.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Courtesy of the artist. An imaginative new art show points to how the horror genre influences rebellious artists and helps us to understand a chaotic world. In this way, the last five decades of British history are recast as a story of cultural shapeshifting, told through some of our most provocative artists. © Kerry Stewart.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Artist Xiangni Song has transferred everything she learnt from the world of illustration to her paintings, which specialise in capturing daily observations and peculiar personal experiences. Since then, she has explored various mediums by creating two-dimensional works and sculptures.

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Creative Boom

MAY 29, 2023

"The final branding was mostly informed by references from modernist 3D art, digital sculptures, 3D still-lifes and digital architecture," he adds, citing the work of CG artist Fernando Gasperin. Elements of the logo, for instance, have become sculptural forms based on 3D renders that can be accessed digitally.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

With a background as a tattoo artist, Tom Strom is an emerging American illustrator whose images will draw you in and perhaps give you a little scare. He can and does work digitally if the project requires it, but in his heart, he's devoted to watercolour, gouache, acrylics, oils and even sculpture.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 24, 2024

This year's National Festival of Making in Blackburn, Lancashire, will host four new commissions for which artists have paired with industrial sector factories to reinforce Lancashire as a centre for making in the UK. Since the programme's inception, 31 artists have been commissioned to work with 24 artisan makers and manufacturers.

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