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Deborah Kruger: Kansai (screen printing on fused plastic bags, sewing), 2018 (69" x 72" x 1") The artist Deborah Kruger uses her creativity to understand the world around her, specifically the natural world, its problems in trying to adapt to enforced changes by humans, and ultimately the shifts that are forced on ourselves through those changes. Her work is about movement, migration, change, uprooting. In the following interview Deborah helps explain her view of the world, her perspective, her creative understanding. Migration is a big part of the Plumage series. At first it seems that the theme is purely devoted to bird migration, but you have expanded the definition to mean so much more. What else does it include? DEK: Like most artists, I learn about the world through making art. Initially, the work was purely about birds and their migration. Over time, I realized that the interruptions to bird migration due to habitat destruction were parallel to the migrations of ...

Welcome to the 16 th issue of Inspirational magazine. In this issue inspirational features interviews with four new artists, one previous featured artist with new work, a talent spot artist, a book review, and events pages highlighting exhibitions and art events from around the world. Aline Brant  is a Brazilian-based artist that produces embellished and embroidered work over and through photographs, connecting the figures in the photographs to a larger, expansive reality, one that rejoices in colour and nature. Debra Fritts  is a US-based  sculptor that produces amazingly h aunting figurative work, images that are part of narratives that are magical, otherworldly, but at the same time rooted in our own experiences. Rita Summers  is an Australian-based artist, designer and passionate eco dyer, and upcycler. Her work in awareness of who we are, where we are, and the impact our lives have on everything and everyone around us is an example of how creativity c...

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Black Eye Gallery is pleased to announce the September 2017 exhibition: WABI- SABI by Damien Drew. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi is an appreciation of a transient and understated  beauty in the modest, imperfect, ephemeral or decayed. Drew’s exhibition expresses this  notion through his perspective of modern day Japan. Japan has one of the world’s largest economies and a population that is shrinking due to  low birthrates. With employment opportunities predominantly found in large urban centres  there has been a marked decline in rural regions. Drew’s images seek to document that which  is temporary and to celebrate its beauty in turn. The viewer is invited to consider details  and qualities in paired scenes that may be inconspicuous, congruent or contrasting. In a  world that is increasingly homogenised through global retail chains, Drew carefully observes the melancholy beauty of the many towns and villages that have now become neglected. “We ...