Anish Kapoor at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

We are very excited about heading down to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park tomorrow to check out "Flashback" by British artist, Anish Kapoor. This exhibition runs from 16th June - 4th November 2012.

Kapoor has achieved international acclaim for his sensual and beguiling sculptures created using pigment, stone, stainless steel and wax, and his work is represented in major exhibitions, collections and public spaces across the globe. 

We'll be sure to let you know what we think when we get back tomorrow night and will hopefully have a few photographs of our own to show you too.

Recycled Toy Dog

Check this out for a novel way to use all those discarded or broken toys that today's kids get through!. Created by British artist, Robert Bradford.

 "I stared into my kids' toy boxes and they made a great combination of colors, shapes and textures. It gave me the idea to turn them into new 'beings'," says the artist

Baby Blue Snail

Check out this freaky little creation! Originally spotted for sale on Etsy this is what the artist had to say about Blue Willow the Sleepy Snail...

"Blue willow is made from a giant snail shell, old porcelain doll head, clay and raccoon penis bones for antennas. She has turquoise blue flocking for body. She is approximately 7 inches long, 7.5 inches tall and 3.5 inches deep.She is an original, one-of-a-kind sculpture."

WTF???!!!

Sculpture and Sport: A Celebration for 2012

 John Buckley – Paralympic Athletics Sprinting

To celebrate the London Olympics and Paralympics, the Ashmolean Museum will display  a group of bronze sculptures from 'Art at the Edge', a specially commissioned series of works representing different Olympic and Paralympic sports. 

 Sophie Dickens – Judo

Each sculpture is cast in bronze and made by a different artist to reflect a cross-section of contemporary British sculpture.

The exhibition runs until 20th May 2012 and admission is free.

Images (c) Art at the Edge

Le tailleur de pierre by Bruno Goury

"Le tailleur de pierre", meaning The Stone Mason, is by artist and metal sculptor Bruno Goury. 

Goury works at The Forge in Maison Dieu, between Clamecy and Vezelay in the Nievre (Burgundy).

 To see more of Goury's work, please check out his site HERE or connect on Twitter @GouryBruno

Image (c) Bruno Goury

 

Young Bull Study by Eamonn Higgins

 

Whilst browsing Gracehill Gallery in Ballymena, N.Ireland, we came across the very impressive work of Eamonn Higgins. We were particularly taken by this "Young Bull Study".

Eamonn Higgins is both sculptor and artist, residing in North Antrim. Here's a great example of his sculpture...

 'Eochu's Punishment'

All images (c) Eamonn Higgins

Meet Mrs Frog! Owner of The Frog Shop!

Meet the stunning Mrs Frog!

Created by Hayley Kendal, an artist and maker of sculptural beings made of discarded objects, from Gloucester UK.

Please find Hayley on Twitter @KendalSculpture or visit her blog over at Hayley Kendal Sculpture

All images (c) Hayley Kendal

Whoo gives a hoot?

Slightly obsessed by these porcelain owls 

found on Papier Damour

Blue and White Cola Bottles by Taikkun Li



Photographs (c) Taikkun Li



These blue and white Cola bottles are by Chinese artist Taikkun Li, available via  Pagoda Red .

Taikkun Li's work encompasses design, sculpture, ceramics, film, and photography. After graduating from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, he was granted the only distinguished Full Merit Trustee Scholarship to the MFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

We enjoy alot of window shopping on Pagoda Red's website. Pagoda Red, located in Chicago and Winnetka, specialises in 19th century Chinese furniture and decorative arts for the home and garden. They represent a number of Chinese emerging artists and other Asian inspired contemporary artists.

Inner Space by Friends With You

How at peace is this little guy?! 

He is part of the brilliant "Inner Space, the Secrets of the Unknown" collection by Friends With You

"Tops" by Kylie Coles

Kylie Coles is a contemporary woodturner working with recycled paper and wood, plyboard and hand dyed veneer layers in her studio in Cheshire.

CO9Cloud love her current series, "Tops" and "Converging Forms". These stunning conical bowls are made with recycled paper detail, as shown here.

 

To see more of Kylie's beautiful work please visit her site HERE or visit her at any of the following later in the year:-

The Contemporary Craft Fair at Bovey Tracey from the 10^th to 12^th June CraftsAtBoveyTracey

Sandbach Craft Fair 23^rd July Sandbach Craft Fair Details

The Cheshire Open Studios (Sept/Oct) ArtistsAtWork

The Great Northern Craft Fair 20^th-23^rd October Great Northern Craft Fair

Mark Castator Sculpture

Images (c) Mark Castator

Mark Castator is an Artist, Sculptor and Painter based in Boulder, Colorado.

The incredible sculptures shown above are some of his newest work. 

Castator's sculptures are currently on show in Santa Fe at Winterowd Fine Art and Walker Fine Art in Denver - www.walkerfineart.com and www.fineartsantafe.com.org 

To see more of his creations or to learn more about the artist and his vision, please visit his site HERE

Nostalgic by Marie-Pierre Philippe-Lohezic

Photograph (c) Marie-Pierre Philippe-Lohezic

CO9 Cloud adore this stunning bronze sculpture by Marie-Pierre Philippe-Lohezic.

Entitled "Nostalgic" this is one of a range of new work by this talented French artist and sculptor, who is now based in Laguna Hills, CA. To see more of her incredible work, please visit Marie-Pierre Philippe-Lohezic's site HERE

Meet Cecil! Lighting by Alex Féthière

 Photographs (c) Alex Fethiere

We fell in love with Cecil whilst checking out the work of lighting, jewellery & sculpture designer, Alex Féthière. 

We'd like our very own Cecil light for our CO9Cloud studio, so thought you all may like him too! 

Alex makes all his products, which range from some really unique and gorgeous bracelets to a wine rack the size of a wardrobe and named 'Nasa', from industrial metals. The colour on his bracelets and belt buckles are unique to each individual piece as it’s not paint, it’s a pigmented porous layer of crystallized oxides. We learnt from Alex's blog that this is the greenest, most low-impact way to colour metal.  

To check out more of Alex's wonderful and original pieces find his site HERE

He also has a brilliantly written blog, a really good read, which you can find here... ART OF OLIVE GREEN

Pharmakinetic by Ross Bleckner for Steuben

 (c) Steuben

(c) Steuben

Designed by Ross Bleckner, Pharmakinetic is a limited edition of only 10 signed works, plus two artist proofs. 

Spotted whilst browsing the wonderful world of Steuben and with a price tag of $38,000, it is definitely in our "If money were no object" category, but we at CO9Cloud love that this piece, in Steuben's own word's, "was inspired by the three-dimensional properties of glass and its ability to warp and mutate light and how that process resembles the mind-altering effects that pharmacological substances have on the body". 

http://www.steuben.com

Leaf Series by Christopher Georgesco

 We love these modern contemporary sculptures by Christopher Georgesco.

Created between 2002 and 2009, the "Leaf Series" is Georgesco's most colourful series, though we think his "Prismatic Centrifuges" are worth a look too (see below)!

Christopher Georgesco was born in Lincoln, Nebraska and gained fame in Venice, California in 1968 when his first solo show was deemed an overnight success by William Wilson, critic for the Los Angeles Times.

Now in his 60's, his recent work "Rectangular Revisions" in Stainless Steel has just exhibited at the Michael H.Lord Gallery in Palm Springs. http://www.michaelhlordgallery.com/

Please take the time to have a look through Georgesco's new work and archives on his site here  http://www.georgescoart.com

Photographs (c) Christopher Georgesco www.georgesoart.com

Henry Moore Exhibition, Leeds Art Gallery

So good to see the sun shining today, really feels like Spring! One of our girls from CO9 Cloud has just spent a leisurely lunch break wandering round the new Henry Moore exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery. It was great to see so many people out and about enjoying the local legend’s work. In particular, CO9 Cloud were happy to see a group of primary school children sitting quietly, engrossed in their sketches of Moore’s paintings and sculptures, some of whose attempts were really quite good!

We really recommend checking out this exhibition, which runs until 12 June 2011. The gallery is free to all and run lunchtime tours as an introduction to the new Henry Moore exhibition, see their website for details http://www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery/

We think this is definitely worth the train fare up from London, across from Manchester or even down from Edinburgh for a great day out. If you are planning a visit to Leeds be sure to check out the blogs of CultureVulture and LeedsGrub which include the insider's guide to all the great things to do in Leeds, as well as where to eat, sleep and party! Links below...
http://theculturevulture.co.uk/blog/ 
http://leedsgrub.blogspot.com/ 

Mandy Long - Ceramic and Glass Sculptures

We spotted these ceramic sculptures by Mandy Long sometime ago in the window of Castle Galleries, a great little gallery right in the centre of Leeds. The piece that caught our attention was called ‘inspiration’ and intrigued us enough to make us want to find out more.

Mandy’s work is gutsy and strong (works include a focus on footballers, rugby players and more recently dancers) without being over-bearing and we think they capture the human form in all its glory superbly - an incredible accomplishment considering Mandy didn’t turn her hand to her true passion of sculpture until she moved to Leeds in 2000 and enrolled in a 3-Dimensional Design course at Harrogate College. To see more of Mandy’s work, please visit her website here http://www.mandylong.com/