Street Stone Statement
When Julian Opie was commissioned to produce an art wall for a new designer hotel, citizenM Tower of London, he turned to stoneCIRCLE to manufacture the frieze. Continue reading Street Stone Statement
Tag: Public Art
Striking Snowbird
The Cliff Lodge ski resort in Utah decided to create an Aspen tree motif on two large wall mosaics, one in the ballroom lobby, and the other in the ballroom mezzanine, each thirty feet wide by four feet high and consisting of over 166,000 individual vitreous glass mosaic pieces each. Continue reading Striking Snowbird
Mosaic Movement
Melanie Watts create stunning mosaic murals for a public art project raising awareness of endangered species. Watts has recently created a stunning glass mosaic of an endangered white barn owl for the Gyosei Art Trail on the Grand Union Canal in Milton Keynes. Continue reading Mosaic Movement
Intrepid Invader
Invader is the pseudonym of a French urban artist, whose work is modelled on the crude pixellation of 8-bit video games. His work is composed of ceramic tile murals installed in urban locations. Continue reading Intrepid Invader
Presenting Pixel Power
In Santiago, Chile Jorge Campos, A.K.A. Pixel, is taking mosaic street art to a whole new level.
Pixel shares his images of cultural heroes, and riffs on art icons, with the people of Santiago by bringing mosaic art to local neighborhoods. Continue reading Presenting Pixel Power
Genovese Graffiti
If the UK has Banksy, Italy has Tiler. This reclusive Genovese street artist’s creations have been popping on the walls of the city for many months. Created from painted tiles, Tiler’s installations have appeared suddenly in many different areas of the port. Continue reading Genovese Graffiti
Butterfly BAL
“I create bespoke drawings with unique themes, and source beautiful and colourful materials to ensure the artwork really holds the viewers’ attention.” Melanie Watts. Continue reading Butterfly BAL
Analogia Project
The Analogia Project is a fictional interpretation of design that integrates a real space with unreal entities exploring the consequential relationship between them. Continue reading Analogia Project
Nebula Chroma
The latest project by Sonia King of Mosaic Works, Dallas, is titled Nebula Chroma. This depiction of a giant space cloud is now the focal point of the multi-storey main lobby in the Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. The light-filled, three-storey atrium creates a dynamic setting for Nebula Chroma, King’s 7ft by 17ft masterpiece that was recently awarded first prize in the Design and Detail … Continue reading Nebula Chroma
Nicole Nadeau’s Nipple Tiles
US artist Nicole Nadeau, best known for A New Wave (2006), Work of Art: The Next Great Artist (2010) and Road Rage (2016), has used one of her own breasts to create a mould for a collection of hexagonal tiles. Nadeau created a single mould of her breast to form the tiles, which are cast in ceramic and mounted onto solid-surface material Corian. Each tile … Continue reading Nicole Nadeau’s Nipple Tiles
Mosaic Roofscape
One of the most striking images at Cevisama 2005 was an array of 19 aluminium sunflowers carrying images of the eight prize-winning projects selected from the 50 that were submitted in the third Tile of Spain Awards competition. Continue reading Mosaic Roofscape