I’m loving the work of Sydney-based artist, James Hancock, who has done the CD artwork for local singer/songwriter, Josh Pyke, amongst a handful of equally creative projects. He works across ‘all types of media in both art and design practices … drawing together heterogeneous elements taken from found objects, hand-generated content in drawing, printmaking, painting, photographic experiments, and other playful sources’. He says that his art is ‘not bound by medium, but by process and experimentation’. A collection of his works has been published in ‘SPACE3 – A Visual History‘.
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chapolito said | 8 August, 2006
oh wow, james is an amazing artist. every piece of his is unique. it’s very refreshing to see such fluid and embraced versitility in an artist! SPACE3 also is very interesting, appears to be a solid collection of artists. I’ll definitely have to check them out when I get over there.