Cutting edge art

Kashman Harris
Avant Art, Feature
  The Japanese artist Yutaka Sone is presently in London showcasing his latest exhibition, Sculpture, at the highly respected David Zwirner gallery, which displays the wide variety of his sculpting w...

Sensuous territories of the mind

Corinna Lotz
Avant Art
Rachel Clark’s intimate and yet coolly-objective paintings have the power to draw you in and take you on an emotional journey. In figurative art, external reference points are easier to read. But in abstrac...

Artistry and Integrity

Samantha Kuok Leese
Avant Art
. An oil-on-canvas painting of a pair of macaws leans against the wall of a dim classroom in Chengdu province’s Hua Xin Vocational College. The student artist who painted them is Jing Chao, a young man in hi...

Samia Halaby: New Paintings

Justin van Vliet
Avant Art
  At 77, Samia Halaby is not lacking in inspiring, youthful energy and clearly enjoys challenging those around her. Even when photographing her, I asked for a subtle smile, to which she replied, "Well make m...

Paradise lost

Shaad Ali Baig
Avant Art, Culture
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Magnificent, compelling and often disconcerting, Edward Burtynsky’s images of manmade (and man-destroyed) landscapes have taken the art world by storm. Burtynsky speaks to Glass on oil, environment and why ...

Dream Sequence photography series

Roberta Lister
Avant Art, News
After 3 years of on-going work, the Dream Sequence photographic collaboration has come to fruition. The abstract series oscillates around the portraiture of unconventional fictional figures seen “at the crossro...

Like A Mute Dada Poem

Cristina Bodgan
Avant Art
In the asymmetrical space of a gallery, behind a large windowpane, six distinct works seem to have exploded from an imaginary centre. They have landed on the floor, on tilted plinths, on the walls. There is...

A modern artist

Justin van Vliet
Avant Art
Recognised for his ambiguous layering and subtle transparencies, Scottish painter Stuart McAlpine Miller, a graduate from the Glasgow School of Art, has developed an impressive portfolio over the last 20 ye...

AW 13 London Street Style

Roberta Lister
Avant Art
. As the weather finally closes in for a chilly winter, we look to the streets of London for style inspiration with an eccentrically British twist. The good news is that dresses and skirts are still on the m...