From illustrations to graffiti painted on walls, Athena Paginton re-enacts these artistic and activist techniques and reinjects them into her practice as a makeup artist. Her creative ideas take the form of 2D creations, where the lines of human faces become the living, moving canvas[...]
Textile artist Emma Cassi is inspired by the work of fashion designer Dries Van Noten and learned embroidery on her own. After creating her brand of embroidered jewelry, she now designs fabric pots, painted herbariums, long silk panels and masks... With her masks made of[...]
Marianne Guedin plays with fresh flowers and creates scenographies where the art of botany and design meet. The artist and florist craftsman imagines decors on a human scale and, for one evening, designs compositions of supernatural flowers with eminently sensory textures, scents and colors. In[...]
Tracy Widdess’ masks are proper works of art. Currently living on Vancouver, she started knitting in 1999 and learnt alone. With a vivid imagination, she creates frightening wool monsters that are straight out of a science-fiction novel. She calls her work “brutal knitting”. Combining the[...]
Born in Norway and working in London, Magnhild Kennedy, AKA Damselfrau, creates dreamlike objects. Self-taught, it’s by chance that Magnhild Kennedy embarked on mask making. She began to produce them for herself, then her husband and friends. Made of patches found everywhere (flea markets, internet,[...]
Nick Cave is a messenger, artist and educator working between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums inclusive of sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. His solo exhibitions have expanded globally from the United States through France, Africa, Denmark, Asia, South[...]
Gwen van den Eijnde was born in 1981 in the Netherlands but is developing an international career. After his studies in the textile department of the Arts Décoratifs school in Strasbourg, he continued his education in New York, then became a resident artist in Stuttgart[...]
Leigh Bowery is a performance artist and fashion designer born in Australia in 1961. Uncomfortable in the relatively conservative environment of his home country, he moved to London in 1980. He quickly got noticed and became an important figure in the London underground scene, especially[...]
Fashion designer Walter van Beirendonck is born in 1957 in Belgium. His fashion design is characterized by the use of intense colors and graphic spirit and takes its inspiration in various contexts. Since its inception, Walter van Beirendonck finds inspiration from many sources as art,[...]
Erik Bergrin is a young New York artist. Self-taught, he began his career by creating costumes to wear for nightlife, while studying psychology in college. As his hobby grew, he got his first job in a puppet shop, sewing costumes and mascots. After having had[...]