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DAF Giveaway: English Graphic by Tom Lubbock (1958-2011)

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This month, DAF is pleased to be giving away a copy of the newly released book English Graphic by Tom Lubbock (1958-2011)

English Graphic is a collection of essays on the subject of illustration, focusing entirely on English artists using “graphic media”: drawings, prints and watercolors. The pieces are largely drawn from Tom Lubbock’s weekly Great Works column for The Independent, with some longer pieces originally published as reviews or catalog essays.

Connecting and overlapping ideas on line and shape, more than fifty images range from the visionary to the empirical, from folk art to caricature. The historical span of the book is broad, from the Uffington White Horse to the Winchester Psalter Hellmouth to Harry Beck’s London Underground Map and beyond. The high point of English Graphic art in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is at the heart of the book, featuring extended essays on Fuseli, Blake, Bewick, and Palmer.

How to Win:

To enter fill in the entry form below, please include your first and last name,  email address, and location only. Winners will be contacted for shipping information. Contest open to United States and Canadian residents only.  One entry per person only. Contest closes on Monday, November 12, 2012. Winner will be drawn randomly and announced on November 14, 2012. Good luck everyone!

This contest is now closed.  Winner announcement can be found here.

(Note: Daily Art Fixx received a copy of English Graphic for review but does not receive commissions or payment of any kind for promoting this book. We only write about what we like!)

Nom Kinnear King: Painting

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Blustery-Dae-Nom-Kinnear-KingOriginally From The Norfolk Countryside, now living south in Hove, east Sussex Nom Kinnear King creates creates in oils imaginary female portraits. Her subjects are girls who roam from town to town in a patchwork old fashioned never world, where accordions and clarinets trail their steps, their joyful and curious behaviour shadowed by sweet melancholy.

Nom is represented by Fine Grime, Just Another Agency, and  George Thornton. She is also a member of the Prisma artist collective.

To see more, visit NomKinnearKing.com.

Bobbie Russon: Painting

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Born in 1966, London, UK based artist paints the transition from childhood to adulthood, mapping a path of loss, awkward self-awareness and developing sexuality.

“When I work it starts almost like a form of meditation, drawing is a way to work directly from the subconscious onto paper, paintings then follow.  There are recurring elements in my work, most notably the loss of innocence and awkward self awareness of a child becoming an adult. There is a loneliness to my paintings, something I felt very acutely growing up as an only child and seem unable to shake. dolls or animals rather than other humans feature as companions with their almost human-like but dumb, false understanding.  If I can evoke a memory or emotion in a stranger by my own personal interpretation of a shared but private experience without having to use words then I feel I am succeeding.”

Russon’s solo exhibition “Tea and Camphor” runs through October 2011 at bo-lee Gallery in Bath, UK.

See more of Russon’s work on Facebook.

Alexander Korzer-Robinson: Cut Book Art

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Drawing from a background in psychology, Bristol UK based artist Alexander Korzer-Robinson focuses on the notion of the “inner landscape”.  Using discarded materials, Korzer-Robinson makes objects as “an invitation to the viewer to engage her/his own inner life in order to assign meaning to the artwork.”

His cut book art is made by working through the books, page by page, cutting around some of the illustrations while removing others. The images seen in the finished work, are left standing in the place where they would appear in the complete book. As a final step the book is sealed around the cut, and can no longer be opened.

Of his work, Korzer -Robinson says: “As we remember the books from our own past, certain fragments remain with us while others fade away over time – phrases and passages, mental images we created, the way the stories made us feel and the thoughts they inspired. In our memory we create a new narrative out of those fragments, sometimes moving far away from the original content. This is, in fact, the same way we remember our life – an ever changing narrative formed out of fragments. This mostly subconscious process of value judgements and coincidence is what interests me as an artist and as a psychologist. Through the artistic work, these books, having been stripped of their utilitarian value by the passage of time, regain new purpose. They are no longer tools to learn about the world, but rather a means to gain insight about oneself.”

To see more of Alexander Korzer-Robinson’s work, visit AlexanderKorzerRobinson.co.uk.

Lee Jeffries: Photography 2012

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Some recent work from Manchester, UK based photographer Lee Jeffries (featured).    The models in his photographs are homeless people that he has met in Europe and in the United States.  Jeffries makes an effort to get to know each of the subjects before asking permission to take their portrait.

To see more, check out Jeffries’ photostream on Flickr.

Jamie Salmon: Hyperrealsim

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Jamie Salmon is a British born, self taught contemporary sculptor, living and working in Vancouver, Canada. He started his career working as a commercial artist and sculptor for the movie effects industry. He specializes in hyper-realist sculpture, both figurative and portrait, utilizing such materials as silicone rubber, resin, hair and fabric.

Jamie says of his working process; “The most important part of the artistic process for me is the initial idea behind the work. If it isn`t as strong as possible, then the lengthy process of sculpting, molding, painting etc, no matter how well done, will be for nothing and the work will fall flat.

I want to make something that tells a story or moves people in some sort of way, not something that just looks very real. Of course, I need my works to have a certain degree of reality about them, but it`s more of a heightened reality. This is also why I like to play with scale in a lot of my works as well. I think it is something that catches people off guard and forces them to confront their ideas about reality, and to also think about the idea behind the work more deeply. Maybe more so than they would do if the piece were just life size.

I think hyper-realist art too often tries to reach what is ultimately an unattainable level of perfection. That should not be the goal with it anyway.

At the end of the day, I hope that my works contain meaning and convey a real sense of emotion as well. And if they also take people by surprise and affect them on perhaps an unexpected level, I really feel I`ve succeeded”. (bio from Avatar Sculpture Works)

To see more, visit AvatarSculptureWorks.com

Iain Mcarthur: Drawing

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Born in 1986 in Swindon, England, Iain Mcarthur became an art fanatic at the age of eight. Inspired by cartoon shows and comic books, he began creating odd fantasy drawings and and anime characters.  As he grew older, he began drawing realistic figures and faces, influenced by artists such as Mucha, Klimt, Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, James Jean, and others.

Mcarthur graduated from Swindon College in illustration and hopes to continue illustration studies in the future.  Using mostly pencil, watercolours, and pigment pens, he specializes in shirt designs, tattoo designs, prints designs, posters, album art, logo and branding, and editorial illustration.

To see more of Iain’s work, check out his profile on Behance Network or his blog IanMcarthur.blogspot.com.

Lindsey Carr: “The Augmented Animal” @ Roq La Rue Gallery

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gifts_from_the_red_barbarians-Lindsey-CarrLindsey Carr is an artist living and working on the coastline in the South-West of Scotland. Many of her subjects however, tend to be from more exotic locations and her wanderlust is expressed in paint rather than travel.  Her work is strongly influenced by European and Chinese natural history paintings and their subjects.  She sometimes uses these to examine the problems of “nature vs nurture”. Her paintings are created to resemble antique decorative artifacts.  Almost all of the frames are antiques and the paper is treated to give the impression of age. Sometimes Carr  embellishes her paintings with gold leaf, embroidered glass beads and pearls.

Carr’s current exhibition, “The Augmented Animal” is on now at Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle, Washington and runs through May 5, 2012. To see more; visit LindseyCarr.co.uk.

Sophie Ryder: Sculpture

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Crawling-Sophie-RyderBorn in London, England in 1963, Sophie Ryder studied at Kingston Polytechnic (1980-81) and the Royal Academy Schools, London (1981-84).

“Individual animals and groups of them, fashioned in wire and in bronze, some realistic and some fantastical, have featured in Ryder’s sculpture and colourful collages since her student days. Her technique of manipulating and winding metal wire to shape her creatures is physically demanding, but it endows her beasts with great dynamism. Human attributes may be found in some of her creatures, but in others innate animal qualities are underlined, particularly in some of the group and pair compositions.

Since 2000 Sophie Ryder has exhibited widely in public exhibitions in the UK, Canada, the United States, Eire, Belgium and the Netherlands. In Europe the spectacular 10 foot wire Torsos was exhibited at The Hague in Holland, sited in an underground chamber. A major show of indoor and outdoor work went to the Veranneman Foundation in Belgium. Shows in North America included substantial exhibitions in Montreal and Vancouver and recently Sophie participated at the Arts Festival in Carlow, Ireland.” (from Sculpture.org.uk)

To see more of Ryder’s work, visit SophieRyder.org.

Gabriel Neale: Painting

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Injured-Man-Walking-Gabriel-Neale Born in 1978, Gabriel Neale is an talented self taught artist based in the UK.  His paintings often depict solitary figures caught up in thought. To see more, visit NuMasters.com.