Jasmine Pradissitto describes herself as “a practising Quantum Artist and Creativity Warrior”, a “painter who sculpts with light and colour using the scientific knowledge accumulated over years of experience”, creating ‘holograms you can touch’. Forms inspired by nature, the human condition and scientific breakthroughs, are melted and reshaped from plastics into sculptures as a commentary on an ever increasingly Anthropocene world.
Featuring: Elon Musk: The future we’re building – and boring ; Anab Jain: Why we need to imagine different futures ; Maurice Conti: The incredible inventions of intuitive AI ; Chris Milk: The birth of virtual reality as an art form ; Ray Kurzweil: Get ready for hybrid thinking
Featuring: Elon Musk: The future we’re building – and boring ; Anab Jain: Why we need to imagine different futures ; Maurice Conti: The incredible inventions of intuitive AI ; Chris Milk: The birth of virtual reality as an art form ; Ray Kurzweil: Get ready for hybrid thinking
Featuring – Zaria Forman: Drawings that show the beauty and fragility of Earth ; Al Gore: The Case for Optimism on Climate Change ; Satish Kumar: Soil, Soul and Society ; Sam ‘Ohu Gon III: Lessons from a thousand years of island sustainability ; Tega Brain: Eccentric Engineering: Thoughts for the Anthropocene ; and Francesco Sauro: Deep Under the Earth’s Surface, Discovering Beauty and Science.
Featuring – Zaria Forman: Drawings that show the beauty and fragility of Earth ; Al Gore: The Case for Optimism on Climate Change ; Satish Kumar: Soil, Soul and Society ; Sam ‘Ohu Gon III: Lessons from a thousand years of island sustainability ; Tega Brain: Eccentric Engineering: Thoughts for the Anthropocene ; and Francesco Sauro: Deep Under the Earth’s Surface, Discovering Beauty and Science.
CLIMARTE is a Melbourne-based organisation that produces, promotes, and facilitates arts events with an alliance of arts practitioners and organisations that advocate for immediate, effective, creative, and inspired action on climate change.
Following on from the successful 2015 inaugural event, ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017 will take place across Melbourne and regional Victoria from 19 April until 14 May, providing a platform for the discussion of the challenges, opportunities, impacts, and solutions associated with climate change.
‘Soil Culture’ was a programme that the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) delivered between 2013-16 which used the arts to inspire a deeper public understanding of the importance of soil, becoming the UK’s most substantial contribution to the UN International Year of Soils 2015.
Clive Adams is the founding director of the CCANW, a not-for-profit organisation which explores new understandings of our place within nature through the arts. Its aim is to use the arts to provide insights into today’s pressing environmental and social challenges.
Elisa Alaluusua originates from Finnish Lapland and has been exhibiting internationally since the beginning of 1990s. Her first degree was in drawing (1991), since then she has completed two MAs, one in UK (Environmental Art, 1995) and one in Finland (Art Education, 1999), and practice-based PhD at the University of the Arts London (2016) on the topic of Sketchbooks. In 2015 she won the second prize in the prestigious Jerwood Drawing Prize with her video/drawing ‘Unconditional Line’.
This article is based on her PhD research ‘Sketchbooks – A Comparative Analysis of the Use of Sketchbooks by Contemporary Artists’ and makes an attempt to get a better understanding of how thinking happens on sketchbook pages and what visual form it might take.
“Sometimes there are ‘breakthrough moments’ in the process of drawing, when through patient reflection new considerations about the subject emerge and move the work on to new and unexpected forms. There is a subtle point where the subconscious and conscious meet, and a drawing can then either self-consciously collapse or discover a fresh vitality and ‘truth’. The latter is what I try to find.”
Julia Hutton studied Fine Art at UCA Canterbury and MA in Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, London. Her work has been exhibited in the UK and overseas and selected for The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2015 and 2016, Drawing Biannual at RWA, Bristol 2015, and The Threadneedle Prize, London 2012.
Simon Downs originally trained in a particularly traditional school of illustration, but the rapid evolution of digital communications design forced him to rethink his design practice. In turn he became; a digital illustrator, a digital animator, an interaction designer, a multimedia designer and editorial designer; working in London for the finance and publishing sectors.
He writes on visual communication (including drawing) as a complex system, is a Director of the Drawing Research Network and has been an editor with the journal of drawing and visualisation TRACEY since 2003.