The Patternbank team loves Mebourne based artist Nick Thomm’s mixed media approach to his art. Thomm uses the contrast of historical icons highlighted by digital, technicolour backdrops, to create a futuristic look in his ‘Spirits’ series and a balance of monochrome and acid brights generate a surreal beauty in in his ‘Modern Primitives’. See Thomm’s video work on his Vimeo.
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Sebastian Wahl uses hand made papers that he has been collecting since as early as 1992. Searching, collecting and cataloguing is a large part of the process that he loves. He meticulously isolates the images from their original reality by cutting them out using an x-acto knife and then injects them into a new reality with the help of glue, he then places the selected images between multiple layers of clear resin building a collage time capsule in 3-dimensions. Check out more Kaleidoscopic creations on his website.
William Mark has in immense fascination with looking at magnified objects and finding beauty that the unaided human eye is unable to see without the aid of modern cameras and lenses. It’s incredible the amount of detail, pattern, texture and complexity William is able to reveal in these beautiful images. He certainly is a scientist with a flair for art. Check out his Flickr page for many more microscopic masterpieces.
Patternbank love Florian Meisenberg’s paintings with their cartoonish characters and surreal objects that appear in ambiguous layouts on the canvas. Meisenberg uses a wonderful array of subdued ice cream colours that sit on pale backgrounds with the odd painted computer cursor or icon popping out at us. Check out more of his playful paintings at the wentrupgallery.com
Matthew Craven uses historical images as a backdrop for a more abstract form of storytelling. Images from lost cultures, relics and landscapes, both well-known and extremely ambiguous create the patterns within his work. These arrangements highlight shape and composition rather than historical accuracy, solidifying their participation in a completely unique myth. Check more of his fine work on his website. Earlier this year, FRGMNTS was shown at Gallery Hijinks in San Francisco, go check their website for lots more inspiring Artists.
Rob Sheridan is an American graphic designer, director, and photographer best known for his extensive work with the band Nine Inch Nails. Sheridan attended art school at New York’s Pratt Institute for one year before being hired at age 19 by Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor in 1999, on the merits of a Nine Inch Nails fansite he created during high school. See more at rob-sheridan.com
We are finding these digital sculptures titled ‘Sixpack Colourlover’ by Stefan Künzler utterly mesmerising, he’s a 3D Designer, Graphic Designer and Artist from Zurich, Switzerland. The incredible detail, complexity and weirdness of these designs conjures up futuristic tribal masks from another dimension. Go check more of his mind bending work on his website.
