Spotlight on: ALTON

FMP – My Generation. Artist: Edward Woodger Specialism: Graphic Design Where Next: Brighton University Discription: “I believe there is a new generation of people taking part in sub-cutlers within the UK and the ‘old’ sub-cutlers are becoming as strong as they once were in their prime. ‘My Generation’ is a magazine which focuses on MOD culture through the years , the magazine is aimed at an audience of people aged between 16 – 25, who want to know more about this important sub-culture. All existing magazines on MOD culture are too similar and aimed at the generation of the 1960s, my … Continue reading Spotlight on: ALTON

Spotlight on: ALTON

FMP – Garden Furniture made from Recycled and Upcycled Matireals. Artist: Lottie Venn Specialism: 3D Design Where Next: University of Brighton – stydinging 3D Design & Craft (BA Hons) Discription: “For my project I wanted to create functioning and interesting Garden Furniture, made from recycled and up cycled materials. I’m interested in using recycled materials because they have a history of their own and strong character within each material. I’ve tried to maintain these qualities within the pieces I’ve made, but at the same time give them a new function within design.  I’ve made two pieces of furniture, The Gardening Chaise … Continue reading Spotlight on: ALTON

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Robyn Cumming

asylum-art: The work of Robyn Cumming Robyn Cumming’s aesthetic can be described as Steel Magnolias gone awry, but in the best way possible. Working from the heaps and piles of the stereotypical female imagery we all know and love (or love-to-hate, depending on your own alignments), the Toronto-based artist creates a body of work exploring, exploiting, and evolving the ordinary into something a little more sinister, and far more eccentric. Her own clever bio sums it all up, quipping, “If [Cumming] were an emotion, [she] would be laughing that turns into coughing…and then dry-heave style crying.” Decomposing iconography of womanhood and the … Continue reading Robyn Cumming