Arthur Cheesman. Emilie Faïf. Joana vasconcelos | lovely textiles. El matador, 2007 Joana Vasconcelos caught the attention of the international art world in 2005 at the Venice Biennale. Her sculptural work is that which often marries highly intelligent concepts with playful execution. Her work will be immediately recognisable to some of you for the volume and dexterity of crochet work. However she makes important sculptural pieces which pull upon a great range of influences, materials and disciplines.
Her output is prolific, having it's roots in sculpture it has grown in scale and detail, range and focus. From outdoor installations to video, ceramic, fabric, and hair, from feminism, identity, globalisation to alcoholism, themes of intellect and kitsch. victoria, 2008 Vasconcelos' work repeatedly plays upon the tension between the large scale of peices and the small initmate details of their technical execution. Gorette, 2006 For example the monumentally scaled chandelier pictured below, A Noiva (the bride) is made from around 25,000 tampons. Joujoux, 2007. Art yarn hexipuff | KnitHacker.
Anne-Claire Petit. Nathan Vincent - The Artist. Horrifying crochet from Croshame. Frankenstein crocheted purse or bag by croshame. Knitted Masks by Aldo Lanzini. ” Definitions are always quite liquid. I use my needle as if I were a sculptor. I move instinctively and I don’t think about the design of my work: I create straight away. ” – Aldo Lanzini. Patricia Waller. Knitty Gritty: 15 Works of Knit Art and Graffiti. Knitty Gritty: 15 Works of Knit Graffiti & Yarn Bomb Art Article by Steve, filed under Installation & Sound in the Art category. If you thought knitting was a hobby only suited for the bored, the boring and the borderline senile, think again. It takes plenty of smarts to be a knit-wit and these 15 crafty creations prove those who wield the needles are anything but woolly-minded.
Dave Cole’s Big Idea (image via: Daily Serving) Dave Cole thinks knitting is going to be big someday, but he’s not waiting for that day to come. (image via: The Knitting Machine) Cole continues to tour the art exhibition circuit, showcasing what he calls “Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting” and adding to his extensive portfolio. Knit Rhymes with… (images via: Craftbits and Naida’s Crochet) Tell Naida you don’t like her knitted crap and you might just get a needle where the sun don’t shine. C’thulhu Waits, Knitting (images via: SickSickCity, Well isn’t it nice? Hair of the (Sheep)Dog (image via: If it’s hip, it’s here) Olek. Monte A. Smith. Monte A. Smith: I am a fine arts major with a digital media emphasis at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. I work mainly with narratives using video and photography. Lately I have become more interested in interactivity and installation.
Outside of digital/new media I am working with street art in the form of knitted/crocheted coverings of things such as parking meters, bike racks, traffics signs etc. I started working with “knitfitti” in late 2005. I also work with more traditional street art media such as stencils, stickers and posters. Studio. From the Museum of Modern Art Press Release: The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center present an installation in P.S.1's outdoor courtyard by Los Angeles-based firm Ball-Nogues, led by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues, winner of the eighth annual MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program. The competition invites emerging architects to propose an installation for the courtyard of P.S.1 in Long Island City, Queens. The objective of the Young Architects Program is to identify and provide an outlet for emerging young talent in architecture, an ongoing mission of both MoMA and P.S.1.
This year, five finalists selected by a closed nomination process were asked to present designs for an installation at P.S.1. The winning installation, Liquid Sky, designed by Ball-Nogues (Los Angeles), will be on view in the P.S.1 courtyard beginning June 21. Designers and Principals in Charge: Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues Project Team: Paul Endres, Mark Pollock, Erik Verboon, Corey Brugger.
Brutal Knitting. Lana Sutra - Installation images | United Colors of Benetton. Joana Vasconcelos. Crochet : Tous les messages sur crochet - Page 2 - chez Henriette L. Critical Mass 2010 Winners. Sarah Moli Newton Applebaum : INVAERK. Sarah Moli Newton Applebaum Posted by Tine on mar 21, 2012 in Art, Trend | One Comment Knit Knit knit… 1 Comment laine | Pearltrees 14. april 2012 [...]
Sarah Moli Newton Applebaum : INVAERK [...] Soft Like Kittens › Amigurumi Dinosaur Skeleton. Originally posted to my blog in March 2011 This craft project was a long time in the making: a 120cm (4') long amigurumi dinosaur skeleton, now suspended museum-style from our lounge ceiling. It has 47 pieces and took 14 balls of wool! I started it around three years ago, when we lived in the Emily Place apartment, inspired by the lovely high ceilings there. I took a long break after the body and head were done, because I got frustrated trying to make the legs, and just sat down recently determined to finish it. I had a couple more enforced breaks caused by yarn shortages, but finally it is DONE! Another angle, with Pippin for scale.
It was all made freehand without a pattern, just a diagram of a Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus skeleton I printed from Google Image Search and a very rough scale, where 1cm on the printout = 8cm of crochet. It's composed of single crochet worked in spirals, with a few bits of slip stitching and half double crochet to make curves. Mozart Guerra - Sculpteur.
Yarn Bombing. Yellowtrace blog » Design Free Thursday | Yarn Bombing {aka Graffiti Knitting}.: Design Free Thursday | Yarn Bombing {aka Graffiti Knitting}. Yarn Bombing, also known as Graffiti/ Guerilla/ Urban Knitting is a schizophrenic love child of Banksy and Martha Stewart. Ok, so I made that up. But if those two were to have a love child, I have no doubt he or she would be into graffiti knitting. Am I right or what? Turns out there are a number of blogs and books out there by rogue knitters who want to improve our urban landscape one stitch at a time. I even found a book written by Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain called Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti. Anyway, the point is – how super awesome does it look? But hey, who knows. Word. Some of you may recognise this image from one of my posts back in June.
This is technically cheating, but I don’t care cause I think it’s pretty funny and {almost} appropriate. Whoa! {images via here, here & here} Yarnbombing. Transcending the Material « The Art of Ben Cuevas. These photos document “Transcending the Material”, a mixed media piece that I created and installed while in residence at the Wassaic Project (an arts collective and residency program located in New York state). The piece was exhibited at the Wassaic Project Summer Music and Arts Festival.
“The installation piece Ben Cuevas chose to showcase at The Wassaic Project features a knitted skeleton seated atop a pyramid of Borden’s condensed milk cans and a cloud of screen prints on Plexi glass suspended above it. The knitted skeleton is seated in the lotus position. The prints are of disembodied anatomical parts photographed in high resolution with diagrammatic illustrative overlays. Ben conceives of the piece as a reference to material culture and Wassaic’s local history (The Borden Company had a condensed milk factory in Wassaic) and a meditation on transcendence.”
Like this: Like Loading... About Ben Cuevas. Hannah Streefkerk. Les jolis pompons de laine ou les "réparations" de couture sur des arbres abîmés et des éléments naturels... Hannah Streefkerk sera àHorizons Rencontres «Arts Nature" 16 Juin 2011 -18 Septembre 2011Massif du Sancy, Freydefont (F)www.horizons-sancy.com. Olek. ^ Fil de Rue ^ - BloG collEctif de YarN bOmbing. Pictured: The anatomically correct model of the human brain - made of wool. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 16:38 GMT, 15 January 2009 As complicated to create as the brain is intricate, a psychiatrist has knitted herself an exact replica of the human body's most complex organ.
Taking Karen Norberg almost a year to knit, the 1.5 scale brain is colour-coded to represent the different elements and areas that make up the human mind. Knitted using 100 percent cotton yarn, the woolen brain is nine inches at its longest excluding the spinal cord that exudes from its base. Psychiatrist Karen Norberg of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts has knitted an anatomically correct model of the human brain Ms Norberg says: 'The traditional fibre arts - including knitting and crochet - are a very flexible medium for making complex forms,' 'The process of construction was also much more similar to the actual growth of a real brain than it would have been if I'd been using a material such as clay or metal. 'Then I assembled the parts together.
De la nourriture tricotée. Troy Emery. Stéphane Martello, sculpteur de laine stephane_martello05 – the Trendy Girl. Amigurumi on the Behance Network. Now you can really look like a knitwit with designer stubble. Updated: 23:17 GMT, 3 September 2010 It is the ultimate fashion accessory for anyone who thinks they might look good with a beard... but can't be bothered taking the time to grow one. Crochet enthusiast Tara Duff has created a range of beanies with fashionable facial hair attached - combining a little imagination with her passion for crocheting.
While keeping a simple pattern, the beanies and beards come in a number of different colours, and sell online from £30. Goatee cozy: One of Tara Duff's crazy crochet creations is modelled at an ezotic locale by her husband Fun for the whole family: The beanies are not just for men, as Tara and her three children show that anyone can pull off the look Her designs are modelled by her husband - but don't be fooled into thinking that the comedy headgear is just for men. Mrs Duff and her three young children are also proud owners of a beard beanie - and there is even a special bunny design for those who really want to get into the spirit of Easter. Royal wedding 2011: Jan Moir knits Kate Middleton and Prince William. By Jan MoirUPDATED: 11:01 GMT, 27 April 2011 Daylight has long gone, faded into the gloom of a wet spring night. In the glow of the lamplight, there is silence except for the click, click, click of two pairs of knitting needles. My mother and I have been in this room, knitting like dervishes, since dawn.
We are exhausted. Our hands are like claws. A new bulge of muscle, shaped like a chicken drumstick, has popped out on my forearm. Next to us, Prince Harry is sprawled across the table, his great, pink lollipop head at a weird angle and his ankles splayed. Knitting image: There's no denying our Prince William looks like Ed Miliband in a badly fitting demob suit while Kate's veil and tape-hair were not in the instructions Harry is supposed to be in his smart Household Cavalry Regiment uniform — he is supposed to be a captain on parade, a supporter of a king-in-waiting. ‘Are we doing Prince Andrew?’
‘Who’s doing the corgis?’ Corgis? ‘What about the Archbishop of Canterbury?’ That’s right. New York artist Olek shows off wacky woolly wonderland. By Daily Mail Updated: 15:09 GMT, 25 November 2010 Knitting cosy covers for things is nothing new. A woollen tea cosy is the hallmark of a civilised home and almost everyone's Nan has a Georgian doll in a woolly dress protecting the modesty of the spare toilet roll. These days even juice drinks can be seen wearing bobble hats. However New York-based artist Olek - real name Agata Oleksiak - has gone just that little bit further. Stitch-up: Two cosily-covered models make themselves comfy in Olek's knitted art exhibit A knit to remember: Ironing and music practice help while away the long winter evenings She has used 'hundreds of miles' of wool to create a showcase of her work cheekily entitled 'Knitting Is For Pus****'.
The gallery exhibit even features ten people entirely covered in crocheted suits playing out domestic scenes such as ironing, taking a bath and having a doze. Following a pattern: The wool-covered inhabitants of the house settle down to watch TV most evenings.