Nathalie Djurberg is a Swedish video artist who is best known for her clay-mations, videos featuring animations made out of clay with music by Hans Berg. Her work seems naive at first, but on closer inspection, it is often violent and erotic at the same time. Her work is currently exhibited at the Camden Arts Centre in London

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I recently saw Allison Schulnik’s show at Zieher Smith Gallery in Chelsea. It was like walking into a celebration of paint in all its thick, impasto glory, as it came together to create a land of misfits and dazzling rejects. The show stopper was the stop motion, claymation, called MOUND that was both a macabre ceremony and beautifully choreographed ballet of creatures set to the music of It’s Raining Today by Scott Walker. In the film the material of clay and paint comes well off the canvass and fuses Frankenstein life into each gently crafted character.

O-clay, Nirvana like you’ve never seen them before. Though they do less damage to the stage here than a typical Nirvana set.

Created by Melbourne-based artist Marisa Lai, this claymation video for the single, A Greased and Golden Palm, by French pop singer Orouni, is simply stunning. [Read more about Australian art, design, and music at The Colour: Aussie culture in pictures]

Chantal Claret from the New York-band Morningwood taught herself how to do claymation and she made a video for their song Snobby Little Elf. It’s pretty amazing.

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Animator Lee Hardcastle submited this awesome claymation version of Evil Dead to the Empire Jameson ‘Done in 60 Seconds’ competition.

Toronto-based illustrator Jessica Fortner creates really elaborate 3D scenes that she photographs to make final images that resemble stills from a claymation movie.

Green Jelly’s claymation video for Three Little Pigs proved to the masses that claymation isn’t just for kids with its beer-swilling, joint-toking pigs and Joe Camel-esque wolf (who meets a bloody end at the hands of Rambo). Nathalie Djurberg takes things one step further — beneath the bright colors and whimsical characters that populate the plasticine world of her short films flows a current of feces, perversion, and violence.