Ruth Power

Ruth Power
Ceramicist

Ruth Power creates her ceramics out of porcelain, but also uses bronze casts. She exhibits her work in the zozimus gallery in the Kilmainham arts club. Ruth Power also creates jewellery and other crafts, which she then sells at fairs and festivals. Ruth Power pushes the boundaries of Irish ceramics. She is inspired by Japanese tentacle pornography and has used a ranged of sea creatures and human with deformed faces. Ruth looks at the sexual side between humans and sea life creatures and how they respond in her work. The way she uses the tentacles in her ceramics to show tentacle rape rapped around human faces, shows its not just humans that influence this sort of behavior. Ruth Power uses casts of parts of her body to influence the meaning of sexual pornography and to explain how creatures and humans can be seen as sexual pornography objects. 

Ref:

http://ruthpowerart.blogspot.co.uk/

By Conor Murray

V&A Illustration Awards

V&A Illustration Awards 2014

Supported by the Enid Linder Foundation

(Submissions have now been closed winners will be announced on the 2^nd of June 2014)

The V&A Illustration Awards is to celebrate the best Illustration published over each year. Original artwork from the best Illustrated book, book cover, editorial Illustration and student Illustrator of the year are all recognised.

            Entry on to this competition is free and only happens once a year, which takes places online. All winning entries can be viewed here on the V&A website. Annual submissions increasingly constitute an online archive of contemporary Illustration styles. The winning books are added to the holdings of the National Art Library and may be read in the Library’s reading Rooms in the V&A.

            The winner of each category receives £2,000 and a trophy; furthermore the judges also select an overall winner of the V&A Illustration Awards who will receive an additional £2,000. In the student category 1^st place is awarded £2,000 and a trophy, however the student runner up receives a £1,000 award.

These are the winning work of the best student Illustrator of the year and the runner up. 

(First place above/Second below)

(Posted by- Benjamin Dixon)

   

Anni Leppala

            

Annie Leppala is a photographer who was born in 1981 in Helsinki. She really appreciates what she can do with a camera and a lot of her work is based in the present. She also likes to work with freezing time and seizing the moment, which is reflected through her photographs. I find her photography to be very elegant and subtle. She photographs a lot of landscapes and forestry type settings but I’ve also realized that she herself is in the majority of her photos. I think she looks nicely presented in her photos due to her bright hair and very pale completion, I find her interesting. How ever you never see her face in these you see the back of her head but even if she’s facing the camera she is covered with hair as if she is hiding from the camera or something else in the room.

            Leppala currently has an exhibition going on in London. It is in the Purdy Hicks Gallery and I recommend taking the tube to get there as the easiest route. If you are interested in photography I would advise to go to this exhibition because Lepalla is a new up and coming photographer and you may be able to get some advice or inspiration from her work and the images themselves are just so beautiful so this show in my eyes is a must see. The venue and exhibition details are below.

            

            Name:
 Purdy Hicks Gallery Ltd.

            Address:
65 Hopton St
SE1 9GZ


            Opening hours:
  Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm Sat

            Transport:
Tube: Southwark

            Event phone:
020 7401 9229

            Event website:
 www.purdyhicks.com

- Paige 

Pat Perry

Pat Perry is an artist who is from Michigan, as an artist he is committed to real things; he works from observation either capturing things in good detail or keeping lose and leaving his work minimal. However I find all his work captivating and interesting. The reason for this is because of his attention to detail in sketches of his work that you can find throughout his website and blog. Furthermore on the pieces of work where he has drawn landscapes for example he pays attention to a main part or the landscape and leaving only suggestions of parts of the landscape to help ground and place what he has already drawn.

This is just one of his pieces of work that I have chosen to look at and speak about. Pat Perry has drawn this as part of his work in Alaska; to create this piece of work he has used the mountains and landscape of Alaska and used wild life that you may see around the country.

http://patperry.net/art/alaska/

http://patperry.net/blog/

(Posted by- Benjamin Dixon)