Joanne Woffinden at RCA Graduate Show 2012 London

Highlight from the  RCA Graduate Show 2012 London - Concrete artist Joanne Woffinden's work worth to mention.


I loved this item / she was the definitely one of the most mature ceramic works at the Royal College of Arts Graduate show in London today.

Influenced by subtle tensions, which lie within the space,  light and shadow of architectural form,  she intends to create a relationship between surfaces and  forms,   which  can  alter our  perception  of space.

Her current work synthesises influences taken from contemporary  architecture  and  the  underlying currents, which unfold Baroque structures.

Through  the  use  of  the  curve,  she  has explored ways  to  create  a  spatial  flow  between planes and  lines,   which  disrupt  and  work  with  simple geometry.    She would  like  to  invite  the  viewer  to  engage with space in new ways. 

Concrete armchair - Nina Saunders

found in Sculpture.co.uk, Nina Saunder's armchair looks like a fluffy real armchair with cushions. Great outdoor furniture.

Nina Saunders was born in Odense, Denmark in 1958 and trained at Central St Martin's, London. The artist creates a series of sculptures which are both funny and quirky, yet at the same time quiet and contemplative, from a range of medium including concrete, leather, textiles and bronze.

Source: http://www.sculpture.uk.com/artists/nina_saunders/

Concrete lamps - Annika Nordenskiold

Annika Nordenskiöld lives and works in Sweden. She has graduated from Berghs School of Communication and Konstfack – University college of arts, crafts and design. Annika’s work is mainly paintings, but also sculpture and works of art in different materials. Her work has been exhibited in Finland, Germany, Japan, Sweden and USA.


I don't know how these lamps look like when switched on in the dark but they are a nice example of painted concrete furniture.

Source: http://www.rita.se/

Rainer Mutsch

Modular outdoor furniture.
Winner of the Good Design Award 2010 this furniture allows the user to move freely on the objects and to choose an individual seating position according to his or her individual taste.

Links:
http://www.rainermutsch.net/products_dune.php
http://acidolatte.blogspot.com/2011/07/rainer-mutsch.html?zx=5eafd28f0616425f

Marila Dardot - Concrete letters

Marila Dardos is a Brazilian artist and he created a couple of concrete letters with the title of "Because the words are everywhere".

If you can lift them, you can create your own concrete word.

Source:
http://www.mariladardot.com/
http://acidolatte.blogspot.com/2011/07/marila-dardot.html?zx=b735249bd6d4f2e

Yoan Capote - Concrete sculptures

Yoan Capote is a Cuban artist.

He merges human organs with inanimate objects, rearranges the human body and reinvents the purpose of everyday life: the sculpture Nostalgia, which features an ordinary suitcase unzipped to reveal a wall of bricks, can be seen as a metaphor for nomadism and its limits, the wall of bricks standing for our own impediments we all carry with us wherever we go.

This work concentrates on the polemics of gender (male, female homosexuality etc…) applied to a design exercise about the representation of gender. The intention of the artist was to find a three-dimensional shape that in two different positions represents the male and female breast. The two concrete pieces are exactly the same sculptural shape; in different positions. The furniture has both female and male views.

Sources:
http://www.yoan-capote.com/
http://acidolatte.blogspot.com/2011/07/yoan-capote.html?zx=ca9bfd7ce8e95447

Concrete Lego

Concrete lego blocks for $14.

http://www.likecool.com/Concrete_Building_Blocks--Toy--Gear.html