Kim Simonsson

Kim Simonsson is a Finnish sculptor/ceramist. His childlike figures and animals look as if they escaped out of a Manga comic book, though they have western features. His work is a bit dark and uncomfortable yet sensitive.
Kim Simonsson: "In my sculptures western traditional ceramic is combined with modern trends of easten pop culture. So, in my opinion, I get an unusual and very interesting effect. I create my own world of strange characters that are my comments on daily life and its oddities.
My images seem dark to you? No wonder: I examine the diseases of modern society, and they are quite unsightly.
The subject of my work, as a rule, are children, animals, or something in between. An important detail: all my sculptures have glass eyes, they seemed to enliven cold dead matter."

Jorge Mayet

 
Jorge Mayet is of Cuban descent, living and working in Mallorca. A painter and sculptor with a photographic memory. His sculptures seem to be ripped out of their natural environment, left to float in mid air. These little green islands are created out of electrical wire, paper mache and green painted sponge, but they look very realistic.

Nuala O'Donovan

Nuala O'Donovan slowly constructs her porcelain sculptures over a period of weeks or even months. Drawing her inspiration from natural forms and patterns. Her decisions are guided by the characteristics of irregular/fractal patterns. 
Nuala O'Donovan; "My decision to research patterns and forms from nature stemmed from my interest in the narrative quality of irregularities in patterns. The history behind a scarred or broken surface is what fascinates me. The evidence of a response to random events visible in patterns in nature, is testament to the ability of living organisms to recover, to respond, and to continue growing and changing. It is the imperfections in the patterns caused by a unique experience that are evidence of the life force in living organisms."

Marc Giai-Miniet

Marc Giai-Miniet, this French artist creates fictional spaces in little boxes. 'Boîtes' in French it just means boxes, but the fascinating worlds and spaces he builds into these boxes grab your attention. Doll houses for adult people having a hang for the old sci-fi stories of the fifties. Marc Giai-Miniet meticulously fills these wonderful spaces with tiny machinery, people and loads of books. The starting point of a story, an experiment or just a factory with an intriguing past. Buildings without a facade to tickle your imagination. 

Gilbert Legrand

French artist Gilbert Legrand gives a new identity to everyday tools and objects. The modified and painted objects brings a smile to your face. After seeing Gilbert's fun characters, you can't but look different at your toolbox or kitchen aids. lovely and joyful.
Gilbert Legrand works as an illustrator from Toulouse, but was born in Paris.