as often is the case, the swimming events have produced some of the most bizarre & spectacular olympic games imagery; shown respectively: ‘clark’ USA, ‘seebohm’ australia and ‘arevalo salinas’ ecuador
ok that’s enough olympic mania for now, back to ‘normal’ stuff…
free UK newspaper ‘metro’, has produced a series of special cover wrap-arounds for the olympics, featuring portraits of winning athletes such as ‘jessica ennis’ by the inimitable ‘ian wright’; made with one of my own favourite materials: steel pins… beautiful
update: the series was conceived by agency ‘sid lee’ in collaboration with ‘adidas’
(tip via ‘mister hamelinck’)
a wonderful set of illustrations by young art student sherida kufour from the UK, who visited me studio again last week, inspired by her previous visit she has started working in a broader range of materials and styles, which is great to hear…
the series can be seen here and many thanks for the delicious cake and inspiring chat sherida, keep up the good work and see you soon…
interesting work from amsterdam-based ukrainian artist anne-lore kuryszczuk: acyrlic on canvas and mixed media, deconstructed and reassembled/sewn together to make these ‘kinetic’ paintings…
the mini-portrait film was made by my friend ‘inge willems’
as ‘london 2012’ nears the end, you can relive the whole thing (well at least the highlights) all over again, but in lego…
the swimming has to be my favorite…