Lab Craft

One for all of you way out west. Lab Craft has just opened at the very cool Oriel Myrddin Gallery in Carmarthen. Just the one press image so I cannot vouch for the work....but.....with Tord Boontje and Nina Tolstrup among the artists, it is certainly not going to be shabby.
"..lab craft explores the use of technology as an extension to the capabilities of the human hand".

Adam Caruso

Calling all students

Amazing and brilliant opportunity for 16-18 year olds. Design a piece of supersized artwork to be displayed on billboards all around the country.

Patrick Mifsud

Sometimes I fear I can hear distant screams from you...'why so much fine art?'....I really hope not, as its all so relevant - its about space; positive, negative and how we can affect it.
Patrick Mifsud deals with space. Often reacting to a specific site, Mifsud manipulates the environment through seemingly simple arrangements of things. The result is sometimes truly beautiful, but can also be a quite disarming, (even referencing a crime scene a times). There are hidden narratives and stories amongst the arrangements, and the more I look, the better and more interesting it becomes. Simply wonderful.
Mifsud is currently showing at the Marsden Woo Gallery.

Philip Malouin

Apologies, a bit late with this one, as Philip Malouins' show at Next Level Galerie has finished. Still well worth a retrospective look. The brass and concrete material combination sounds wrong, is totally unexpected, but really sings. It almost has an ecclesiastical feel to it,  the hard concrete being an altar or tombstone set against the radiant, chalice like metal. Then there is the scale issue, how big are they? they could be 30cm or 30metres tall, and would still look amazing. What I also like is the way has Malouin has conducted a proper investigation into an idea. It is so easy to show too many concepts in a small exhibition, but here everything demonstrates a high level of critique, selection and refinement. Loads of other goodness on his site too.

Eleonore Nalet

That blogger picture bug has reared its head again so no images at the moment.
But check out Serpentine, a very interesting object by Eleonore Nalet. Amazing how such a simple, plain looking frame can become something very opulent and welcoming.

Starn Studio

Thanks for the nudge about these guys Stevie. There is a brilliant little video that captures the Starns 2010 Metropolitan Museum of Art installation here.