Oh yes, yes they are. Seriously, I mean it.
By Ai Weiwei.
You can check them out at the Tate Modern.

Via Dezeen.

Urban poetry by Mark Jenkins.
Via arto.

Even though we do live together (and happily!), each of us has a blog and they are both really, really different. Nonetheless, today my work on Mary Sibande (pictured) is lovingly chilling at Mr M's.

PS: This might ring a bell, as it's been published in Hand/Eye too! And if you want to read the proper art theorist, long and hard version, you can pop in here.

By Ginette Lapalme, found at her flickr.

Once again Mr M points me out to fabulous sutff.
Read about Franz Xaver Messerschmidt here.

Loads of work, very expressive, very coherent (although in a rather terrible site).

Bold soft sculptures. Via the fab My love for you is a stampede of horses.

Oh well, oh well.
I was just getting the taste of blogging again after the internet move, and now the summer family-visiting responsibilites will make it hard again!
Mr. M and me are going to see his family in his village (I told you about it here).
Be good.

I leave you with the extraordinary work of Debra Baxter, who I already posted in the A to Z of makers, but her work is so fascinating that I'd like to show you guys too. The materiality, the subtlety and the humour of her pieces are unique.






PS: If you love it, she's got a jewellery shop!

New project updated in my portfolio!

there is always space for ghostly, femenine, magical installations in this blog.
The materiality of memory is always a thrilling and personal topic to explore for an artist or a designer.
Please take your time to look around the other projects too.
By Shane Waltener.
Via Double Takes.

"I've been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful"

Possibly the grandest artist that has ever existed.
May her soul continue to inspire us forever.

I had never cried for a dead artist before.

Fascinating work inspired by cells, like a microscopical view of a feeling.
Via Design for Mankind.

Last Friday I went to Swab and one I found out about Amadine's work. I was in awe. Her ideas are simple, based on daily objects, but she reconstructs them in a new way.

I can't remember where I found his work but he is awesome!

Somehow, very intimate.

I loved this pic.

As you know, I've been collecting artists that catch my eye at the A to Z of makers (or the blogger version). But the format I use there (one pic, one name; nothing else), may not do justice to how much I like Nick van Woert's work. It's full of a sense of humour that, actually, can be revisited and re-read. I added him to my Cargo favourites, and I am automatically updated on his new stuff. He kind of blows my mind a bit. So there.

She is finished. I had never worked so intensively on something in my life. My admiration to all women who have spent their lives working with needles.

Now, now, now, I've been blah-in about "when I lived in Swaziland" this and that but I'm extremely proud to say that the best club ever (and gallery) has a brand new website!