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Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972) was an American artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker. He was largely self-taught in his artistic efforts, and improvised his own original style incorporating cast-off and discarded artifacts. He lived most of his life in relative physical isolation, cared for his parents and his disabled brother at home, but remained aware of and in contact with other contemporary artists.

LORETTA LUX • Loretta Lux (born 1969) was

born in Dresden, East Germany and is a fine art photographer known for her surreal portraits of young children. She lives and works in Ireland.

YAYOI KUSAMA Yayoi Kusama (born March 22, 1929) is a Japanese artist and writer. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage, soft sculpture, performance art, and environmental installations, most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colours, repetition and pattern. A precursor of the pop art, minimalist and feminist art movements, Kusama influenced contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg. Although largely forgotten after departing the New York art scene in the early 1970s, Kusama is now acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan, and an important voice of the avant-garde.

KAY NEILSEN

I make jewellery from hand-dyed plastic. I aim to create something beautiful from this ordinary material and give it a new sense of worth. The items have a precious quality and glow with colour because of the translucency of the material. I hand-dye the plastic into rich colours and combine it with textured silver fragments. The two materials contrast and compliment each other perfectly. Each piece is designed my myself and made entirely by hand.

ABIGAIL HUTTON

Abigail Hutton is a graduate of the Manchester School of Art in Printed Textiles, Abigail combines her passion for drawing and painting in her work. She does this ‘with a digital process to produce designs for interiors which embody a hand-done aesthetic and embrace painterly qualities in contemporary design.’

eBOY

Their influences come from: "Pop culture... shopping, supermarkets, TV, toy commercials, LEGO, computer games, the news, magazines...“

Kai grew up with Nintendo to inspire him, the rest of the eBoys lived in East Germany where video games did not exist. Their work makes intense use of popular culture and commercial icons, and their style is presented in three-dimensional isometric illustrations filled with robots, cars, guns and girls. Now, most of their designs are printed and not used solely for computer screens, allowing images to get more complex with details."If we don’t work on other projects at the same time it takes about six to eight weeks to finish a very detailed cityscape, three eBoy’s working on it, nearly full time. But, if we have to do it in our spare time, which happens often, it could take years to finish a picture since we can’t spend so much time on it."