'Lure' by Kate Mccgwire

I went to the Kate Mccgwire's Private View of 'Lure'. As her first major solo exhibition the exhibition explored her sculpture in the face of life and death, beauty and vermin, possibility and impossibility. The exhibition feature smaller works of art mounted upon card where illusions and patterns had been created using feathers, creating uniformity with nature's own, patterns of the impossible, a regular pattern from irregular feathers. It also featured monstrous sculptors which I imagine to be bigger than the boat she lives in even, consuming your entire entity, engulfing your every essence, fleeting the notions of life and death before you - the dead bird's wings of a bird who eats death for survival.

Overall the exhibition was powerful and intriguing in the fine detail used to create the sculptures, the fine detail that aligns the feathers in beautiful succession.

Parbo: Girls'n'Roses

Lucas Lasnier, otherwise known in the art world as Parbo is an Argentinian graphic designer and illustrator. He is also a founding member of the KidGoucho collective. The delicacy within his work is admirable, whilst the femininity is adds a sense of vulnerability and beauty to these images. Confident within their godess like reigns, the illustrations describe what it is to be a beautiful girls in roses. The sequence is quite aptly titled Girls'n'Roses, suggesting a strength to these girls, a subtle rock, a shy sensation, a confidence.

Kate Moross for Benzel feat. Jessie Ware

Kate Moross is a London based creative. The director of Studio Moross, she is a graphic designer as well as able to animate, as can be seen in the video collaboration with Benzel feat. Jessie Ware for “If You Love Me”. Even though I quite like the song by collaborative duo Benzel, I’m more fascinated by the graphics and technicolour dreams that are created.

Having always wanted to be an inventor as a child, she now realises that that is “basically what a designer is.” Even though she works hard, her motto is something along the lines of work hard and play harder, “work hard, but not too hard. Take time off, go on holiday.” Whilst she feels the most important skill-set for a designer is software, “know your software, and fill the gas in your knowledge when you need to, you should also focus on explaining and communicating your creative ideas. Having Crits at school and with your peers will prepare you.”

Her biggest milestone in her career was directing her first video for Simian Mobile Disco, “most people will think it was the Cadbury’s campaign, I would say that was a close second.”

Sebastien Tellier: Russian Attractions

Sebastien Tellier is a french singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His video for the song Russian Attractions is seductive in innocence, and dramatic in essence. Whilst slow moving dancers grace in synchronisation to the intensity of the strings, the drama builds.

The song, about falling in love is about the intensity of the pull of love, hence the term falling is used. The video re-iterates this notion whilst synchronised swimmers climatically swim in tense timing with sharp movements combined juxtaposed to slow drowning shots that draw you in as a viewer and take your breath away - you too are drowning in love.

The video effectively capture the notion of love, the seduction of the dancing, the mesmerisation of the movement and the timeless quality of traditional dance are used with modern technology to provide a modern yet timeless effect upon the audience.