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Cradle: Playful tufted chairs and stools shaped like cats offer comfort and hope

Creative Boom

Titled Cradle, the exhibition at Reem Gallery in Ham Yard, Soho, will bring the Central Saint Martins fine art graduate's unique body of work to the masses, all centring around the recurring theme of cats in nursery rhymes and folk stories. Selby's crafted creatures are timely and offer comfort during these dark times.

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Xiangni Song follows her instincts to create paintings of the abstract images in her mind

Creative Boom

Spending her time between Beijing and New York, Xiangni was trained at the School of Visual Arts in 2016. She subsequently transitioned from illustration to fine art by enrolling in the MFA Fine Arts program at Pratt Institute in 2020. This doesn't mean her background in illustration was time wasted, though.

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The Best Courses on Skillshare in 2020

Just Creative

Storytelling 101: Character, Conflict, Context & Craft. View top Fine Art Courses. Personal Branding: Crafting Your Social Media Presence. Storytelling for Leaders: How to Craft Stories That Matter. Productivity Habits That Stick: Using Time Theming. Photography. Illustration. UI/UX Design. Productivity.

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Top 10 Art Posts of 2023

Design Milk

Large-Scale Ceramics That Are Both Eye-Catching + Functional SCP presented an exhibition of new, large-scale ceramic works by Dutch designer Floris Wubben during this year’s London Craft Week to showcase a series that fuses function with sculpture. And the most popular art post of 2023 is… 1.

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Swiss sculptor Christian Bolt offers a fresh answer to the age-old question: what is beauty?

Creative Boom

Sometimes, art can provide a fresh way to look at things. There he took a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Europe’s traditional and oldest art academy, where he studied technique and materials of sculpting, art history and anatomy. But he doesn't see that as a contradiction.

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'I like to make pieces that make you look twice': Carly Owens on her symbolic embroidery artworks and paintings

Creative Boom

Both of which have fine art and craft cultures that absolutely influenced me growing up," she explains. Black Mountain, for instance, is the home of Black Mountain College, an experimental art school attended by Anni and Josef Albers, Willem de Kooning, Ruth Asawa, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others.

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F5: Dwight White II on the Art + Collaborations That Inspire Him

Design Milk

Ask any artist how they found themself in the art world and many will regale you with a tale of an unexpected career path. This pivot to another this interest has carried Dwight down a winding path to a place where his work straddles fine art, sociology, and experiential design.

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