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Flora Bai on art as self-healing, developing her style, and exploring parallel worlds via shoes

Creative Boom

I envision my artwork filling every corner of every city, whether it be a grand sculpture, a mural, or a painting adorning the walls of someone's home." This creative freedom led to Flora taking her drawings, sculptures and paintings and applying them to American art schools.

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George Underwood: the designer who gave Bowie's albums their iconic look

Creative Boom

Now, as he prepares to participate in a charity exhibition honouring Bowie's legacy, we chat to George to look back on how he created these iconic covers and reflect on a lifetime of creativity, friendship, and the evolving intersection of music and visual art. I don't do much sculpture," George recalls.

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Paul Sende Explores the Perception of Geometry Via Visual Art

Design Milk

There, Sende was encouraged to work with different media and techniques, finding his sweet spot in modularity, visual patterns, optical effects, light phenomena, and kinetic experiences. Your interests will be peaked by the stories each piece tells. Where will his talents land next?

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Magical world of inflatable art opens new cultural landmark in Manchester

Creative Boom

Psychedelic universe You, Me and The Balloons invites visitors to immerse themselves in Kusama's psychedelic universe as they journey through a colourful landscape of large-scale inflatable sculptures, many standing over 10 metres tall or suspended from the 21-metre-high ceiling. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner. (1)

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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.

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Celebrating collaboration: Blackburn’s National Festival of Making

Creative Boom

During her residency, she has benefitted from the Darwen Terracotta team's expertise in designing and manufacturing architectural terracotta, faience and sculpture. The finished work will be exhibited at Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery.

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Warhol, Land Art and a giant mirrored building set in the striking desert landscape of ancient Saudi Arabia

Creative Boom

Amid this backdrop of transformation, Arts AlUla has been formed to commission site-specific artworks from international and Saudi artists. In 2020 and again last year, Desert X (alternatively held in Coachella, California every other year) saw the installation of incredible sculptures framed by windswept red sandstone cliffs.

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