Category: Public Art

Art and Artists, Public Art, Weird & Wonderful

Rippling tiles frame Houston’s culinary garden

With a mission to ‘enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment’, a small group of Houstonians came together to form a living museum. That living museum, better known as the Houston Botanic Garden is made up of 132 acres of varied ecosystems. From wetlands to woodlands, and prairies to pine groves, these distinctive spaces create opportunities for education … Continue reading Rippling tiles frame Houston’s culinary garden

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Art and Artists, Design, Public Art, Street Art, Weird & Wonderful

Poetic Vandalism from the Polish Paintress

Participating in ‘Poetic Vandalism’, the Polish Paintress Joanna Koziej, artistically known as Malarka, is spreading tiled treasures across the world. Creating one off pieces, large scale multi-tile installations, and sneaky additions to public spaces, Malarka and her artworks join our list of favourite finds. With a style that radiates an ethereal aura, staggered brush strokes, interrupted lines, and energetic waves transfer beauty from brush to … Continue reading Poetic Vandalism from the Polish Paintress

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Enter the Squojiverse

Who remembers the Toon Town Tiler we covered six years ago? With Mr Bounce, and Homer Simpson, and a bunch of superhero emblems? Well he’s still going strong. In fact, he’s birthed a whole new universe of mosaics populated by Squojis. Named as a mash up of square and emoji, Squojis are little mosaic faces inspired by emotive icons, each filling a small square. Striped, … Continue reading Enter the Squojiverse

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Streets by El Khao

Please welcome to the fold a brand new street artist bringing tiled brilliance to the world’s pot holes. Locating spots cracked and crumbled by the weather, Lalo Adam El Khao traces the pavement perforations for reworking in the studio. With every unique shape comes a unique design, with each creation starting life as a ghost made from pencil, crayon, or ink. The results are fabulous … Continue reading Streets by El Khao

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Delft to skate by

Few things brings a Tile Addict joy like the witnessing enthusiastic inclusion of tiles in a public space. Whether it’s a stylish restaurant, a dramatic mural facade, or an artful underground station, tiles improve pretty much every location they’re placed. This is true even of the most unexpected places, like today’s feature. Blending Dutch ceramic traditions with skating subculture, artist Arno Coenen created “an Outcast’s … Continue reading Delft to skate by

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Art and Artists, Digital Art, Public Art, Street Art

Ode to Chatham

Artists Nicole Mollett and José Den Hartog are bringing art to Chatham. Celebrating the maritime history of the area, the duo have been commissioned to create a large ceramic mural across the front façade of Rats Bay Pumping Station. As part of the large development plans for the waterfront, a new plaza will be located in front of the 1960s red brick building. This new … Continue reading Ode to Chatham

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Public Art, Street Art, Uncategorized

Bottle Alley

Today’s feature takes a little break from our tile-centric norm as we shine a light on a little local art. Running towards St Leonards from the pier to Warrior Square in the close-by coastal town of Hastings sits Bottle Alley – a charming accent that trails along the seafront under a covered promenade. Part of an area revamp in the 1930s, Bottle Alley has been … Continue reading Bottle Alley

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Collaborating Creatives

Permanently peeking out from a wall in Gradara, Italy, a pair of eyes in black and white stare soulfully across the road. Titled “Beyond the Walls”, this large public art piece was created by pixel master Giovanni Contardi and ceramicist Roberto Pompucci, with months of work and 50,000 hand painted tiles creating a striking homage to female empowerment. It’s the fourth time the two have … Continue reading Collaborating Creatives

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Patricia van Dalen

Venezuelan visual artist Patricia Van Dalen has over 40 years’ experience creating in multiple mediums. From painting, collage, print, and photography, to sewing, stained glass, woodwork, and mosaics, Van Dalen does it all in captivating combinations of curated colours. The shapes and aesthetics of many of her installations strike me as suitably tile-adjacent in their attitude, colour-blocked, layered, and angular, but with plenty of mosaics … Continue reading Patricia van Dalen

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Delightfully Delft-esque

Tile muraler and ceramicist extraordinaire Michael Chandler is gracing the Tile Addict spotlight today. With Chandler House, this UK-born South Africa-based artist lets his creativity run free, unrestricted by the shackles of tradition. Although Chandler House houses many home goods, including beaded vases, carved wooden sculptures, and printed fabrics, it’s the tile work we’re most interested in. Bars, cafés, and kitchens have all had the … Continue reading Delightfully Delft-esque

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Meet Mancini

Inspired and informed by Brazilian tiling tradition, self taught artist Alexandre Mancini specialises in creating large scale murals decorated with both traditional motifs and abstracted shapes. Covering the entire sides of buildings, walls, smaller scale details, mobile panels, and private interiors, Mancini’s artworks offer vibrancy, enlivening the spaces where they sit, producing relief from plain architecture, and providing an enticing focus for the eyes. The … Continue reading Meet Mancini

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Reinvaded

Can you believe it’s been almost five years since we last spoke about global gallivanter and mastermind mosaicist Invader? Last time we checked he had hit over 75 cities world-wide and installed 3,724 sneaky mosaics. The most memorable of which (for me) include The Dude from Invading LA 2018, the four ghosts from Invading Hong Kong 2018, and the camouflaged invader from Invading Versailles 2019 … Continue reading Reinvaded

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Architecture & Interiors, Art and Artists, Public Art, Street Art

Ombre Walkway

The vibrant magical mind of Adam Nathaniel Furman has blessed us once more with some spectacular ceramics. Covering the columns of the ground level of an office building in Croydon, Furman has created what he’s called a “porcelain palace for the people”, decorating the thoroughfare in a wonderfully textured ombre artwork. Croydon Colonnade consists of sixteen 25ft columns and a few of the building’s external … Continue reading Ombre Walkway

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Architecture & Interiors, Art and Artists, Public Art

The Ceramic House

Somehow this unusual place has slipped by us, not featuring in a post or even given a passing mention. But that changes today. The Ceramic House will have its moment. Coated in unique tiled features, The Ceramic House serves as a permanent exhibition for the works of Brighton-based architectural ceramicist Kay Alpin. Each tile and installation tells a story, carrying us through the history of … Continue reading The Ceramic House

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Faces of the world

A little street art surprise today with the fabulous, multifaceted sculptural installations by Tegmo. Like fellow French artist Shatters, splintered mirrors are Tegmo’s medium of choice, encouraging the inclusion of surrounding locales within each piece. These fractured, angular shards of mirror are attached and structured in unusual three dimensional forms, creating reflective mountains that stand alone, are decorated with plants, or spread their shiny surfaces … Continue reading Faces of the world

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A Thousand Streams at London Bridge

It’ll be a year before we get to enjoy the colourful delights of this new London artwork but it’ll absolutely be worth the wait. Stretching for 57 metres across the wall outside London Bridge station, this wildly kaleidoscopic design will celebrate the many faces of the city’s community in classic Adam Nathaniel Furman style. In collaboration with the London School of Mosaic, Furman’s design is … Continue reading A Thousand Streams at London Bridge

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Art and Artists, Public Art, Street Art

You’ve not seen mosaics like this

Elevating the mastery of mosaics to utterly bewildering heights is an artist whose skill and vision is unmatched, with talents honed by “straddling the worlds of fine art and contemporary craft”, and tiletastic displays one has to see to believe. Today we’re talking Susan Day. Creating large-scale, architectural installations of handmade ceramics, Day’s artworks have decorated a number of public walls including the facade of … Continue reading You’ve not seen mosaics like this

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The underground Tile War

It’s time to add another ceramic street artist to our collection with the collager from Cologne – Adult Remix. Black and white artworks depicting pop culture icons, alternative folk, and politically charged social messages feature on all sorts from cans of spray paint to packaging. Gracing heavily graffitied walls, public bins, and lamp posts, Adult Remix’s pictures are pasted into place, but there’s also a … Continue reading The underground Tile War

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A bit about Angus

Today it’s all about another vigilante ceramic street artist. Bristol-based self-taught Angus has been sharing his work with the world since 2015. His street mosaics are largely video-game inspired with iconic characters such as Luigi, Zelda, and Sonic featuring. Other cultural references to Family Guy, The Simpsons, and The Smurfs pop up as both painting and mosaics with a few more political pieces mixed in. … Continue reading A bit about Angus

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Pieces of Masterpieces

Potholes meet some of art’s most iconic images in the most recent series of vigilante mosaicking from Tile Addict favourite Jim Bachor. Master Pieces, both in name and in nature, features fragments from Van Gogh, Warhol, Grant Wood, and Edward Hopper decorating a few lucky patches of tarmac around Chicago Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles was the first recreation, and has been sitting proudly on … Continue reading Pieces of Masterpieces

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