louise weaver

Louise Weaver is a lovely textile lady from Sydney who covers poly-styrene / mixed media animal forms with crotchet. A modern play on taxidermy crossed with an overall sense of whimsical beauty, she captures wonderful personalities. When I was posting images of Nathan Vincent's work the other day I was reminded of Louise. She shows her work at Darren Knight Gallery every year or two. Julie Green, who I used to assist in her cane-weaving, first introduced her work to me saying that I might love it... um. She was right!

jeff eisenberg

lovely drawing by San Francisco based artist Jeff Eisenberg.

natural disaster

.... and then I had an idea.!

joachim knill

Just a onesy for today... Joachim Knill. He's a photographer that really plays with incorporating collage techniques and textiles. This piece, aptly titled Bed Bugs, uses a really sumptuous colour / texture/pattern-palette and feels both tribal and nanna-crafty simultaneously. The creatures remind me of those big black things from the Dark Crystal. Totally bizarre and crazy yet beautifully done. Love.

nathan vincent

my friend Anique, who is over in Berlin at the mo, sent me the link to this guy's site. Thanks Anique!!!! I frickin love this. I love the straight-forward feminisation of the male world, and I particularly love that the objects, in my opinion, remain masculine despite the textile medium. The crotchet causes the objects to become imperfect and wonky... particularly the chair + television... but what this does is give the sense of being used a lot and being well-loved... even the urinal. I guess this becomes slightly disturbing when applied to the guns and the animal heads, especially when they are such beautiful sculptures without any implied meanings... but to me that increases the depth of the artworks.

fauxreel

dan bergeron aka fauxreel.. too cool! He does these photo-based pieces of street art. in his own words he both 'liberates public space' + 'documents people that are rarely focused on in the mass media'. swoon. Power to him! He works out of Toronto, Canada.

kate macdowell

just a quickie before the weekend ends... kate macdowell. Bloody love this chick.. she just simply and sculpturally looks into the inner workings. Whats in there? what makes it tick? well for this person these things here.. and for that person these things there. Though maybe she is a bit self-portraity as there are lots of birds inside most her organs.

julie moon

Julie Moon!!! Hilarious and beautiful, powerful and decorative all at the same time. phwor!

new zealand book council - Going West by Maurice Gee

elsa mora

Elsa Mora is a wonderful artist... her philosophies are beautiful and it shows though her work. I thoroughly recommend browsing her website + blogs... these pictures are a taster! I particularly adore her paper-cuts: The red + white palette plus the pure detail + floral shapes, coupled with the feminine themes..... so touching and honest. She has re-awakened my passion for the possibilities of paper!

large knitting

thought I'd put this up as I am up late and patching knitted pieces together.. a bit like this though maybe not so neatly...... Unfortunately I can't remember where I found this image.... but I do remember they had a special system set up so that pieces were knitted everyday based on information received.. like they were making a kind of map. I shall try and be a bit more specific once my brain comes back.

jim kazanjian

1.Untitled House
2.Untitled Implosion

nina levy

fantastic sculptural installation, Toss, by Nina Levy from Brooklyn USA... the figurative forms are modeled from clay and then cast in polyester resin treated with oil paint. I love the sense of animation and surreal.

peter callesen

pushing the boundaries of 2D + 3D: paper-cut sculptures by Danish artist Peter Callesen..... bloody awesome.