Somehow it has been four years since our last not-quite tile compilation (check that out here, and the first one here), but there have been plenty of tile adjacent creations in that time. So here are six more!
1) Pieter Bostoen‘s Ceramic Masks
The striking stepped masks from Gent-based artist Pieter Bostoen are, the love child of sculpture and tile. Their three dimensional forms pop out from the wall, with a few pieces also serving as functional trays and trinket boxes. Each piece is dripping with personality, with vibrant colours, enchanting patterns, and striking contrast adding individual character to each one. Read more about the masks here.
2) Furniture by Kostas Lambridis
Mashing together diverse materials in abstract ways, Greek artist Kostas Lambridis creates the most unusual, sculptural furniture pieces. Wood, glass, metal, ceramic, and more are incorporated and stitched together in dramatic fashion to form wacky and wonderful tables, chairs, and beyond. Amongst these intriguing creations sit darling touches of tile, peeping out as mosaics and bricks. Read more about his unique works here.
3) The art of Frances Featherstone
It was love as first sight when I first saw the birds-eye view bedscapes of English artist Frances Featherstone. Plush quilts in vibrant shades, lounging ladies with drinks and books, and running down a third of each canvas, a gorgeous reproduction of a tiled floor. Read more about her work here.
4) Oliver Arturo
Selecting Lego as his medium of choice, artist Oliver Arturo creates pixelated recreations of cultural icons, album covers, and more which his marvellously modern mosaic technique. Read more about his art here.
5) The Toynbee Tiles
Birthing an urban legend and adding curious cultural artefacts to the streets of America, the mysterious Toynbee tiles lay down a puzzling message. Embedded in the asphalt, these cryptic plaques are made of layers of linoleum, tar paper, and asphalt crack-filling compound, each bearing the same unsettling message. Read more about it here.
6) The glass of Kristi Cavataro
The enigmatic interlocking tubes of coloured glass by Kristi Cavataro confound and enrapture. Seemingly impossible shapes curve and connect, with vibrant hues decorating every individual shard of glass, appearing, from afar, to be covered in mosaics. Read more about them here.
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