The Glasgow Girls

Rare find in a charity shop, a story based on sisters studying at Glasgow School of Art - love and romance in the art world...

Langdon Graves

Icarus

“Nothing shall part us in our love till Death at his appointed hour removed us from the light of day.”

The Artist?

If I had to ascribe an image to Donna Harraway's manifesto, "I would rather be a cyborg than a gooddess," this would be my choice.

Haraway, Donna: "Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s“, in: Socialist Review 80, 1985, p. 65

As is the nature of the Internet, I'm not entirely sure who created this it has been sourced to the best of my ability. However anonymous - it's beautiful so it deserves its place in the world.



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Raspberry Nudes

Ben Allen

Ben Allen works in a multitude of media and materials. The piece above is fascinating, I like dissecting the different layers of medium: paint and emolsion over screenprinted canvas. I love the richness of colour, the repetition of the image and off centred printing - I always forget about the possibility of working into screenprints. I always tend to focus on a very linear black and white image which usually results in a book and shy away from colour but maybe this is something I should reconsider working on.
 Influences include comic book art, surfing, skateboard culture, Japanese graphics, the Mexican "Dia de la Muerte", typography, nature and the human condition.

LOVE SIREN 2 PINK
(2010)

I'm not a huge fan of street art but I love the graphic quality of line and introduction of typography that is clearly inspired by newspaper/fashion magazine headlines as well as, pop art, obviously. At times I do find Allen's use of colour is a bit garish and there's simply too much information conflicting (negatively)but images like the two above are intriguing. The strong pink and reds clashing with black and white just have an appeal.



Walkabout

(1971)

Nicolas Roeg

“Being so inspired by fairy tales, mysteries, books, TV shows and ballets etc. I like to make up characters myself as if I’m a playwright and these are characters and scenes I invented or observed… So I’ll see a picture of someone or something in a photo or a painting and cast them in my so-called play as a character I’ve made up or sometimes borrowed.”

Karen Kilmnik



Melancholia

(2011)

Lars Von Trier

Turks Fruit

(1973)

Paul Verhoeven