Some photos of Holly O’Meehan’s exhibition Elusive Tactility at Paper Mountain in Perth AU – went to the opening night during the Christmas break

Source: http://hollyomeehan.com.au/Elusive-Tactility

—-> Construction of shape and form – blending of materials – techniques used to create them – the ‘useless’ nature of seemingly useful things (e.g. cups that can’t hold anything)

Natalie Jeremijenko’s TED Talk about her Environmental Health Clinic and ecological solutions to widespread health problems

Also a link to info on her ‘Mussel Choir’ project:

http://www.creative-states.org/articles/2017/1/natalie-jeremijenko-mussel-choir

(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Mary Mattingly

Videos about her work WetLand, 2014 and ongoing (cannot be shared via Tumblr)

http://www.marymattingly.com/html/MATTINGLYWetland.html

A Ruin in Reverse, 2013 —-> artefact, both buried and found, forgotten and remembered

Heading West, 2011, part of her series Wearable and Portable Architecture, 2011-2012 —-> designed to be worn in all environments: thinking about the changing world and the necessity of adaption for survival

source: http://www.marymattingly.com/html/MATTINGLYWork.html

Pina Yoldas, An Ecosystem of Excess, 2014 —> creates a ‘posthuman ecosystem’ that has evolved to live off of plastic pollution, specifically the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – inspired by the ‘primordial soup theory’ (now literally the plastic soup)

Top: installation view at the Transmediale festival

Left: Eggs that acquired hues of Pantone colored plastic

Right: Pacific Balloon Turtle

Sources:

Tale of a Strange Marriage (Konkai Zoshi) by Ukita Ikkei c.1858

Example of an Emaki scroll is part of a tradition of replacing humans with animals. This particular scroll uses the satirical genre which depicts foxes – believed to take human form in moonlight

“This somewhat eerie depiction of a fox wedding under an autumn moon expresses the artist’s biting criticism of the Tokugawa shogunate and its attempt to shore up its waning authority by marrying an imperial princess to the shogun.” – Metropolitan Museum

source: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/57.156.7/

essay on Emaki scrolls: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jilh/hd_jilh.htm

Photographs from folk festivals around the country by Henry Bourne for Arcadia Britannica: A Modern British Folklore Portrait

Top Left: Jane Wildgoose, Jack-in-the-Green, Hastings, East Sussex

Top Right: Paul Whiting, Red Leicester Morris, Whittlesea Straw Bear festival, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire

Bottom Left: Peter Paul, Bill, Wagoner, and Simon Lane, ’Orse (Dobbin), Hoodening, St Nicholas-at-Wade, Kent

Bottom Right: Christian Cornell (student), the Straw Bear, Whittlesea Straw Bear festival, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire

Source:

http://www.henrybourne.com/arcadia-britannica/

https://www.theguardian.com/global/costume-and-culture/gallery/2015/jun/09/queer-folk-folklore-fantastical-costumes-old-english-festivals

The Singh Twins’ paintings:

Above left to right – Dressed to Kill [Sportlights series] – Untitled [individual] – – – Below left to right – Raining in My Heart (Longing) – Steppin Out With My Baby (My-Donna) [both from The Art of Loving series]

The Singh twins make collaborative work about contemporary socio-political issues informed by their British-Indian heritage

“Their highly decorative, narrative and symbolic work, has been recognised as pioneering a modern revival of Indian miniature painting within contemporary art practice. But their distinctive style is much more eclectic. In addition to the Indian miniature tradition of painting, they also draw on the artistic language and conventions of other traditions, east and west, old and new – including ancient Greek and Roman, Persian and Medieval European manuscripts, The Victorian illustrators and Pre-Raphaelites, Art Nouveau, and photography.”

—> EXHIBITION AT WALKER ART GALLERY, LIVERPOOL until 20th May 2018 I must try and visit (Called Slaves of Fashion)

source: https://www.singhtwins.co.uk/index.html