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Inspirational 20 is now released for instant download and instant access. Pick up a copy at:  https://payhip.com/b/OX4M Over 100 pages in interviews and imagery from contemporary artists around the globe - from textiles to collage, from painting to photography. All previous issues of Inspirational are available from:  https://payhip.com/johnhopper or why not take out a subscription to Inspirational, delivered monthly to your email. It's as easy as following the link:  https://payhip.com/b/MNp6 Inspirational...celebrating creativity # inspirational   # inspiration   # creativity   # artmagazine   # artpublication   # textileart # fiberart   # painting   # photography   # collage   # digital   # conceptual

Welcome to the 17 th  issue of Inspirational magazine. In this issue inspirational features interviews with four new artists, as well as one previous featured artist with new work, a community article, a project article, a book review, and events pages highlighting exhibitions and art events from around the world. Feature artist:   Akiko Suzuki  is the internationally renowned Japanese textile/fiber artist. She has worked in a range of disciplines and collaborated creatively and highly successfully with fellow creative artists on an international stage. Akiko gives an in-depth interview and shows a range of her work in this Inspirational feature.          Feature artist:   Amy Oliver  is a profound British conceptual artist that works with her own experiences regarding among other subjects – mental health, women’s rights, abuse and identity. Amy gives an in-depth interview and shows a range of her work in this Inspirationa...

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 ...

Black Eye Gallery is pleased to announce the August 2017 exhibition Liminal by Armando Chant Liminal builds an interest with the potential for engagement that exists with the relationship  between imagery and objects that sit within an in-between state of emergence and  realisation. This series proposes an encounter with the liminal image in construction, where there is  an exploration and interaction with the blurred boundaries between the real and  imaginatively unreal, and images that are in a process of slow and gradual emergence. Chant depicts an abstract landscape composed of marks and gestures that are  indeterminate and indefinable, embodying both bodily contours and vast panoramic  gestural landscapes. “My practice aims to explore and open up potentials for the dressed body to be reframed or  represented within an ephemeral and transient context across site and surface, and contribute  to another way of experiencing image and body withi...

Illustration: Wen Redmond. Trees Seen, Forest Remembered, 2008. Of all the images and work produced by textile artist Wen Redmond, I have chosen a sequence of work produced by her over a couple of years. An observational and emotional tie to the theme of the tree links the images together, but it is perhaps her wide ranging and varied working methods that make the link all the more apparent. Redmond is an artist that has strived to incorporate some particularly personal elements into her work. Photography seems to loom large, but it is the personal nature of observation and an emotional link with the subject that has guided the artist. An artist with a camera is a powerful combination. They tend not to randomly choose subjects that may prove useful at some point in the future, but are guided more to that of  individual elements within the environment, elements that are not always explainable individually, but become segments of a composition that may well be built up over a fairly...