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Math Bass (b 1981, New York) is a multi-disciplinary artist probably best known for graphic paintings, which utilize saturated symbols to build up a language of signs that constantly converse with one another. Math also works in sculpture, performance, installation, drawing, and sound.

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Radu Belcin, born 1978 Brasov, Romania, where he lives and works. He studied at the National University of Art in Bucharest.

“One could say Radu Belcin is a painter of the night; of twilight. He highlights the dwindling consciousness of our melancholic dispositions, which, in the persistently postive, glaringly lit storm of modern imagery, seems to illuminate the opposite: Darkness, nighttime, being alone in nature; and with it, figuratively, perhaps even symbolically: Regression and latency as reservoir of our oft romantically motivated memories. In an inimitable way, Radu Belcin’s compositions offer us a space—a stage—to reanimate the repressed, the desired, and the forgotten through an identification of his lonely archaically acting figures.” Excerpt written by Uwe Goldenstein

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Book sculpture by Jade Pegler.

Jade Pegler lives in Wollongong, Australia. She works with paper and textiles combining a range of techniques including papiermache, bookbinding, hand and machine stitching, collage and origami.

http://mein-inspiration.blogspot.com/.../12/jade-pegler.html

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Marijke van Welzen creates wearable art using techniques she developed over the years. Not afraid of experimentation or a challenge, Marijke produces unique art garments that explore a theme or tell a story. She has a BA in Textile Art and in English. She has worked as a middle school teacher for 40 years.

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Hajime Nakatomi is a bamboo artist famous for his bamboo weaving techniques. He served his apprenticeship under Honda Shoryu, a bamboo master, after the graduation from university, then establishing his own studio in 2005.

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Nancy L. Moore is a Canadian artist based in Newtonville, Ontario.

Nancy is a graduate of the Graphic Design Program at George Brown College. Nancy grew up in a household where art and creativity were always encouraged. She gives credit to her late father, Wayne Moore, an artist who loved nature.

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Italian painter Giosetta Fioroni was born into a family of artists. Her father Mario was a sculptor, and her mother Francesca a painter and puppeteer. She studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, where she met the artist Toti Scialoja (1914-1998), who would influence her practice.

She moved to Paris in 1959, where Denise Breteau organised an exhibition of her works in 1963. Her early works were fully abstract but gradually gave way to abstract symbols and later to the emergence of figuration.

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Claire Basler (b 1960, French) has always been inspired by nature ever since she has been a child.

Growing up with a father who besides practising Architecture had a wealth of plant knowledge and the “botanist spirit” as Claire phrased it. With her dropping out to of Art school she was going against the conceptual art movement to stay true to herself and to paint what she loved and was inspired by most: Nature

Depicting complex beauty became what Claire was fascinated most by. Picking and foraging fresh plants she studies them, observes their lifecycle and paints them with their innert sensuality bringing her art to life. It is that vibrancy that pulls the spectator into a glimpse of Claires own nature and sensibility.

As one of the first artists she wanted to push open the door to the public showing her process and sharing her craft at her studio through her now infamous open days and her sense of self has carried through all her work until this very day.

Her depictions of delicate flowers moving gracefully from one end of the frame to the next and brushstrokes imitating the wilderness found in nature itself have become loved by many. Besides painting large murals she uses her sense of space to create fabrics and materials for interiors strongly believing that decoration is not just artificial but enhances the way we work, live and breathe in our environment as she herself breathes through her artwork.

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Iyo Okumi / 奥見伊代

Embroidery artist / Illustrator, Japan

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Jan Mankes - Lijster met aardewerken pot (Thrush with Pottery Jar).

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SANDRA KANTANEN

Born 1974 in Helsinki, Finland. Lives and works in Hanko, Finland.

“Bird”, no. 1-10, 2005

pigment print on painted aluminium

Ø 21cm

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Kalamkari textiles of India.

The Persian name Kalamkari or ‘qalamkari’ is derived from the words kalam (pen) and kari (craftmanship) which translates into drawing using a pen. While there is a mention of these fabrics in ancient scriptures, this art received great patronage during the 16th-17th centurywhen the Golconda Sultanate ruled the Deccan. These wealthy sultans supported this craft and so did the Mughals who were their successors. It was also popular with the British who used these textiles for decorative purposes. Influenced by the Persian school of art, Kalamkari is being practiced for centuries in Andhra Pradesh and the artisans who practiced this art were known as ‘qalamkars’.

The entire process of manufacture is complex and involves as many as 17 steps with multiple rounds of dyeing, washing and boiling the fabric. The initial fabric is sourced from various places like Coimbatore, Erode and Tirupur in Tamil Nadu which is first washed thoroughly to remove any impurities in the form of grease, wax and dirt.

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Alexandra Verkerk (Dutch) graduated from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 1986. After the academy she moved into the studio on the WG site, where she still works.

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Yayoi Kusama Chandelier with Pain, 2002 Mirror, Chandelier, Motor 288 x 166 x 166 cm Roslyn Oxley Gallery

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Students of the textiles department in the Govt. College of Art & Craft, Calcutta, India have recently come out with a lovely project called Da Vinci Notebooks. Using natural dyes and kalamkari technique they designed a very attractive collection of clothes. Here they are, demonstrating their creations.

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Students of the textiles department in the Govt. College of Art & Craft, Calcutta, India have recently come out with a lovely project called Da Vinci Notebooks. Using natural dyes and kalamkari technique they designed a very attractive collection of clothes. Here they are, demonstrating their creations.

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Barbara Kroll is a German painter following the motto "less is more" - simplicity, expressiveness, composition as well as color." Her inspiration comes from the scenes of everyday life, but there is a real drama, anguish and the higher sense in her drawings.