Emma Hacks, 41 from Australia creates incredible images by painting nudes so that they blend into murals and wallpaper. For the first time she will paint a model live in front of an audience at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London. The artist is most famous for her body painting in the Gotye video, Somebody That I Used To Know that has racked up over 500 million hits on the video site Youtube. ...read
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That's what you call body art! Amazing UV pictures painted onto naked women celebrate the female form using images of sunsets, tropical oceans and mountains lit by moonlight
John Poppleton, from California, creates mindblowing works of art painted directly onto human skin using fluorescent shades. His project, called Under Black Light, consists of 'bodyscapes' of spectacular natural phenomena such as African sunsets, tropical oceans during rainstorm, and mountain ranges under moonlight. In more otherworldly, eerie designs the artist depicts cosmic scenes of stars, galaxies and shimmering auroras. ...read
That's a sweet Father's Day present for Wills! Artist creates portrait of The Duke of Cambridge and Prince George using TOBLERONE!
A giant chocolate portrait of the Duke of Cambridge and his son Prince George has been unveiled to mark William's first Father's Day as a Dad. The masterpiece was created by food artist Michelle Wibowo from Michelle Sugar Art, using a staggering 16,074 individual triangles of Toblerone. It took more than 1,500 bars of the iconic shaped chocolate bar using dark, milk and white chunks to create depth and dimension. ...read
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Artist, 24, creates stunning sculptures using beaches as her blank canvas just one month after picking up a rake for first time
Chloe Dickey drew a huge floral design on a Port Macquarie beach on Saturday in under two hours. The 24-year-old from Lake Cathie, NSW, works in the wet sand at low tide meaning her drawings don't stick around for long when the waves roll in.
Feline arty! Artist loves her pet cat so much she's added it to works by Botticelli, Dali and even the Mona Lisa
A bizarre but strangely wonderful concept of classic paintings and fine art work 'improved' by a fat ginger cat, Fat Cat Art is rapidly growing its online fan base. The pieces are the work of Russian artist Svetlana Petrova who features her own cat Zarathustra in every picture.
Crumbs! Is that a Banksy? Artist trades her palette for a plate to create captivating culinary pop art
Tisha Cherry, a New Jersey-born registered nurse, takes inspiration from films, music, and celebrities, and recreates iconic images using everyday food (pictured). 'Pop culture is essentially my muse and the food on my plate is my medium,' Ms Cherry says of her unusual hobby.
LATEST ALBUM RELEASES
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Carry Fire (Nonesuch)
As one of rock musics founding fathers, it would be easy for Robert Plant to rest on his laurels. But the former Golden God, 69, is an intrepid soul and he continues to experiment on this eleventh solo album. Bearing the lines of a life well lived, his songs are dark yet elegant, ranging from a Moroccan-influenced title track to the tuneful folk of The May Queen, its titled pilfered from Led Zeppelin. Theres also a potent duet with Pretender Chrissie Hynde.>★★★★
The Knowledge (Love)
The Squeeze partnership of Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook is enjoying an Indian summer, and The Knowledge takes up from where 2015s pithy Cradle To The Grave left off. The band sing the praises of their native South London in the way that CSN&Y; once celebrated Southern California, while the songwriting duo, at turns cutting and compassionate, also take on gentrification, fanatical record collectors and the abuse of schoolboy footballers.>★★★
Masseduction (Caroline)
If you want to know about my life, listen to this record, says Annie Clark aka St. Vincent of her fifth album, and the Texan is in confessional mode on New York, an ode to lost love, and the raw piano ballad Happy Birthday. A distinctive, if faintly precious, performer with a penchant for noisy guitar squalls, she also teams up with Fun songwriter Jack Antonoff, producer of Lordes Melodrama, to add greater accessibility to her jarring electro-pop.>★★★
Pinewood Smile (Cooking Vinyl)
The Darkness maintain their recent revival as frontman Justin Hawkins calls on new recruit Rufus Taylor, son of Queens Roger, to buttress his falsetto vocals with sturdy harmonies and drums. Tongues are firmly in cheek as Justin addresses commuter belt frustration on Southern Trains and the ethical conundrum of groupies on All The Pretty Girls. Lengthy solos get in the way of some decent songs, but Pinewood Smile should still leave devotees beaming.
★★★★
Raised Under Grey Skies (Island)
John Paul Cooper came to prominence as guest singer on Jonas Blues tropical house hit Perfect Strangers, but his own songs look more to blue-eyed soul and gospel. The title track is an affectionate account of his Manchester childhood. Other numbers are marred by some overcooked string and vocal arrangements, but a tender cameo by London grime star Stormzy, on Mommas Prayers, closes this debut on a high.
★★★
French Touch (Decca)
Far from a vanity project, Carla Brunis music career has now lasted for two decades, and this English-language covers collection is the former First Lady of Frances fifth album of chic, Gallic pop. Set to a refined, jazzy backdrop by producer David Foster, her slight, yet tuneful, voice has a certain je ne sais quoi, though her material is hit and miss. The Stones Miss You is stripped of its sneering menace, but The Clashs Jimmy Jazz gets a playful makeover.
★★★
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