Philipp Wiecherm: The Boneflake Collection
January 28, 2013 § Leave a Comment
The Boneflake collection is a sweet little booklet full of a selection of snowflake shapes collaged out of human bones. See the whole collection here.
Anatomical Heart Valentines Day Pop Up Shop
January 27, 2013 § Leave a Comment
This Valentines Day, London will be playing host to romantic pop up with a twist – every single one of the gifts, cards or cakes on sale will be based on an anatomically correct heart. It is a venture from Miss Cakehead & Medical Illustrator Emily Evans.
The shop will feature a wide range of gifts for those who like their romance with an anatomical twist; around 30 of the the finest arts, crafts and cake makers having been commissioned for the project. Beautiful anatomical heart inspired pieces from jewellery, art prints, cards, embroidery, ceramics to cake, chocloate and anatomical flowers. Saying it with hearts and flowers has never been so scientific!
Admission FREE 8-10th FEBRUARY 2013 12-6pm
133 Bethnal Green Road, London, E8 7DG
Kako Ueda: Paper Cuts
December 3, 2012 § Leave a Comment
These have got to be the most intricate and involved anatomical paper cuts I’ve seen by Japanese artist Kako Ueda.
Above from top;
Tree of Life: hand cut paper with acrylic 2005
Reciprocal Pain: hand cut paper with acrylic and watercolour 2009
Eros and Thantos: 2008
Owen Leong: Anatomical Beeswax Sculpture
November 30, 2012 § 1 Comment
Syndney based artist Owen Leong “uses the human body as a medium to interrogate social, cultural and political forces…Leong explores the passage between perceptual and physical thresholds of the body.”
Images above © Owen Leong. From top;
Infiltrator: Breath
2011
Cosmetic grade bleached beeswax, silicone, pigment.
35 x 23 x 14cm
Infiltrator: Blood
2011
Cosmetic grade bleached beeswax, silicone, pigment.
30 x 19 x 24cm
Infiltrator: Bone
2011
Cosmetic grade bleached beeswax, paraffin wax, spirit level, rice.
17 x 35 x 25cm
Infiltrator: Flesh
2011
Cosmetic grade bleached beeswax, epoxy resin, silicone, pigment, Chinese tea.
16 x 20 x 23cm
Eric Drass: Take my Heart
November 27, 2012 § Leave a Comment
This acrylic painting by Eric Drass is entitled ‘Take my heart (Take my whole life too)’. It’s available to buy on Saatchi Online.
Cecile Dachary: Crochet organs
November 26, 2012 § 1 Comment
French artist Cecile Dachary makes the most amazing crocheted pieces of art and includes many influenced by the body and anatomy;
‘I’m interested in the representation of the body with the fabric, it is the close relationship between this material and the human. The fabric is a second skin, a body wrap that keeps the imprint of the body that brought. This makes the living tissue, gives it a sensual materiality. The fabric bodyguard memories, whole or fragmented. This memory is kept multiple, moving, disturbing, violent, sensual or erotic. It is pattern or volume. I trace or pattern according to my emotions or my intuition the more figurative expression to a more simplified version of the original, round, through evocative organic volumes. I do not refer only outside but also inside, inventing my own representation of the body, organs and cells for microscopic bacteria, I fantasized images and gives fantastic. I try to express intimacy, the secret inside.’
DeAngel: Blood Splatter Paintings
November 23, 2012 § Leave a Comment
At first glance, I thought these dynamic paintings by DeAngel were someone having been dropped form a great height and inevitably splattered. But given they are called ‘emergining’, I presume, they depict a re-birth rather than death.
Above: Emergiendo III (emerging), Oil, 2008
Lyndie Dourthe: Anatomie
November 19, 2012 § Leave a Comment
These meticulously embroidered anatomical treasures were created by Lyndie Dourthe. From fabric skeletons squiched into taxidermy display domes, so tiny embroidered knives with drips of blood on them, her site is worth exploring.
Alex Peck Antique Scientifica: Anatomical Models
November 15, 2012 § 1 Comment
I’m addicted to this scientific antique site. Looking for that perfect antique surgical saw perhaps..? It’s all here.
These two images above are;
Anatomical model heart circa 1890
“A scarce signed and dated 1855 antique anatomical model of the human head by Auzoux. The model is oversized (18″ OAH) and termed greatly enlarged by Auzoux. The half of a human head is quite detailed and dramatic. First generation French Auzoux anatomical models are very desirable.”
“A detailed anatomical model of the human head in mid-section. The life-size model is by Auzoux, Paris, and so marked. It is in excellent condition and is mounted on a later base.”
Wellcome Collection: Death, A Self-portrait
November 14, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Opening tomorrow is the new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, Euston, London: Death, A Self-portrait (15 November 2012 – 24 February 2013).
I attended the Private view last night to get a provisional glimpse of the exhibition assembled by Richard Harris (the main contributor of works to the exhibition).
“the collection is spectacularly diverse, including art works, historical artefacts, scientific specimens and ephemera from across the world. Rare prints by Rembrandt, Dürer and Goya will be displayed alongside anatomical drawings, war art and antique metamorphic postcards; human remains will be juxtaposed with Renaissance vanitas paintings and twentieth century installations celebrating Mexico’s Day of the Dead” [from the site]
You can see a comprehensive selection of the artworks in the exhibition here.
Images above from top: In the Eyes of Others, Jodie Carey, 2009; John Isaacs, Monolith, Balint Zsalko, 2011
