Don’t Know Textile Artist Qualeasha Wood? You Will.

If you’ve not yet heard of textile artist Qualeasha Wood, you will soon. The emerging artist uses two different techniques for her unusual and provocative work: tapestry and tufting. In both she evolves the traditional craft from a decorative element into a personal statement expressed through self-portraiture. The pieces reflect her experiences living as a queer Black woman, the interplay between analog and digital, and relationship between artist and art. (more…)

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Self-Portrait by Abigail McGourlay Wins Isolation Artwork Competition

Self-Portrait by Abigail McGourlay Wins Isolation Artwork Competition
Abigail McGourley, Brewing, 2020, oil on canvas, 120 x 85cm

Abigail McGourlay Isolation Art Winner

Sheffield’s Abigail McGourlay, a 20 year old art student at The University of Leeds, has won The Art Society’s Isolation Artwork Competition with a wonderful self-portrait. (more…)

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Flora Borsi Animeyed Part 2

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Hungarian photographer and retoucher Flora Borsi has added five new images to her Animeyed collection, a series of unique digitally manipulated self-portraits, that previously existed of six. (more…)

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HBO Documentaries To Air Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

HBO Documentaries Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Robert Mapplethorpe, self-portrait, 1977

Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) was known for his blunt and unabashedly honest photographs. Highly stylized black and white photos of male and female nudes, the S&M scene, self-portraiture, celebrity portraits, flowers and statuary were among his most common subjects. Now considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, Mapplethorpe: Look At the Pictures, a documentary directed By Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival will air as part of HBO Documentaries on Monday, April 4th. (more…)

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Flora Borsi Animeyed

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Hungarian model, photographer and retoucher Flora Borsi has a series of digitally manipulated photos in which she shares one of her own eyes in self-portrait with that of an animal. The series, Animeyed, consist of 6 such portraits. (more…)

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