It started with one clap…
Who wants to clap alone? Ian Berry’s Clapping Hands were projected on many buildings but now he’s not alone, up step these International Artists to join him in their own way.
About the ARTISTS
from art with tape, collaged magazines to lego - simply pen, paint and many made of textiles here are many International artists take on the challenge to make their hands clap
Ian Berry
Ian Berry started this with his son, Elliott, quite by accident.
He has been working 15 years as an artist with denim and has shown around the world, in galleries and museums.
Soon he will show at the Museum Rijswijk in Holland, Levis Museum in Germany, Huddersfield Art Gallery and the National Textile Museum of Sweden on Boras.
He was labelled a top 30 artist under 30 in the world and names a top 50 influence in denim in 2019.
Every piece of work is only made with denim and glue, no paint, no eye, no bleach.
Andre Veloux
British, Princeton, based artist Andre Veloux work is created entirely from Lego bricks.
His work in private collections worldwide and has been installed in public spaces.
Expressing social commentary on gender, gender equality, women's rights, and women's empowerment through Lego bricks, creates captivating two and three-dimensional artworks.
He is represented by the Krause Gallery, New York City since 2016. He also produces live art events involving the public, most recently a collaboration with Princeton University.
Benjamin Murphy
Benjamin Murphy is a visual artist and writer based in London.
Born in West Yorkshire in 1988, Benjamin now exhibits globally. He holds both a Bachelors degree and a Masters degree, specialising in Contemporary Fine Art.
Exhibitions: The Saatchi Gallery, Beers Contemporary, Subliminal Projects.
Charity Exhibitions: The Serpentine Gallery, Sotheby’s, The Houses Of Parliament, The Wallace Collection.
Benjamin wrote his first play Flowering Desolation in 2018, and his first book (a business book for emerging artists) in 2019.
Who said artists don’t like to do hands?
Max Zorn
Max Zorn is a Dutch artist who has been active in street art at night and urban art since 2011. His style is notable for its use of brown packing tape as a medium and cutting on acrylic glass with a scalpel to create portraits that need lighting from behind to be seen - so of course seems greater a projection.
There are many videos of Max working and process online have gone viral numerous time. Ian and Max have been friends for many years and these hands were great too receive.
Max is currently preparing for a museum show with the Erarta Museum in St. Petersburg in 2022.
Daisy Collingridge
Born and raised in Greater London since 1990, Daisy is an artist with an education in design and driven by craft. Since graduating from Central St Martins with a degree in fashion design, her practice has continued to revolve around textiles and fabric manipulation but has developed into the realms of sculpture and performance.
She is now a part of the 62 Group which aims to challenge the boundaries of textiles practise.
Education:
2010-2014: Central St Martins
BA diploma fashion design womenswear
2009-2010: Loughborough University
Art and Design Foundation
Sophie Standing
Working from the Seychelles and Kenya, Sophie Standing is a British born artist who has lived in Africa for 15 years. She produces her art by combining applique and free motion embroidery. The details of the animals are created by sewing with different coloured threads only.
For the applique, Sophie mostly uses cotton fabrics from Liberty Tana Lawn and the Kaffe Fassett Collective (Philip Jacobs, Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably). Her sewing threads are 100% cotton and made by Aurifil of Italy.
Sophie produces work up to 1.5 meters long, and a single piece of art this size can contain 3000 meters of thread.
Marcus Aitken
Recently named as Saatchi Arts top 20 emerging artists to watch in 2020, Marcus is a contemporary artist and painter from South London who uses a combination of layering, distressing and blending to present a multifaceted surface to his work.
Having shown in both solo and group exhibitions internationally, he has a background in design and developed his artistic style creating cutting edge abstract works with vibrant and exciting sculptural elements.
“For me, it’s all about the physicality of painting and connecting with my materials, tools and surfaces. I paint to capture precious moments in time - it’s very much a performance, its raw, impulsive and intuitive.”
Will Rochfort
Taking inspiration from 20th century artists and the golden age of Hollywood, Will Rochfort has developed his own unique style of narrative painting.
"My paintings are snapshots of moments in time, often idealised and always entirely staged using my friends and family as models. My focus is on the figure and the story, colour and composition and always seeing the paint at work when you get close"
As his reputation continues to grow, Will Rochfort is now represented in the UK and the USA and is fast becoming one of the most sought after figurative artists working today.
Ruth Fox
"I see a pair of clapping hands as a call to action, now.’
Ruth grew up in Hertfordshire before moving to London for 15 years, where she started her artist practice 5 years ago.
Now based in Margate, Kent and working from her studio at home next to the beach. Her 6 year meditation practice influences her ideas about how we experience and treat the body. She is also interested in brainwave states of alpha, theta and delta as a means to calming mind and body, and the body in 'flow state.'
"I explore how we see and experience the body, often second to, and at the service of the mind. ‘
Kirstie Adamson
Like Ian Kirstie has a great interest in finding ways of using waste materials in her artwork. Her skill is with magazine and old direct mail printed material collaged to make her art. Ever since 1994 she has been using technique, ever since she was asked to collage a still life using newspapers.
While she has worked with other materials, likeI turning her attention to reclaimed metal during her degree in Applied Arts at the University of Derby, graduating in 2000. She experimented with a variety of materials following this but in 2007she decided to specialise in magazine collage.
‘I don't use any imagery from the magazines but I use the colours and textures that I find as an alternative to paint. It is intentional that when viewing my work that the method used is not instantly obvious. At first glance it is often assumed that I have used paint and only on closer inspection does it become apparent that the piece consists entirely of ripped and cut magazines’.
Jess Wilson
Jess Wilson is an Illustrator/Printmaker currently based in London.
Clients have included Sony, Guardian, Uniqlo, Coke Cola and Starbucks.
She also works at Jealous Gallery where many of her prints can be seen and bought.
She’s also exhibited at the RA Summer Exhibition
Alicja Kozlowska
Alicja Kozlowska, born in Warsaw, creates and lives in Poland. Fascinated with Pop Art from an early age, deals with textile art. Alicja creates 3D embroidered felt sculptures of everyday objects drawing inspiration from the reality that surrounds us, consumerism and everyday objects.
Despite her young age, she can boast of a permanent exhibition in the LAM museum in Lisse, Netherlands.
Her passion is broadly understood textile art and handicraft. Starting from crochet, through embroidery, fashion, accessories and ending with artquilt.
Her performances created in public places shows the coherence of art with mass production and consumerism. She draws inspiration from everyday life, trying to popularize Fiber Art and embroidery.
Barbara Shaw
Barbara creates art using textiles - layering many carefully selected scraps of fabric and hand-stitching them together to create unique collage pictures. Patterned and tactile materials in vibrant or subtle colours are useful as well as chiffon ribbons for shading, sparkly fabric for light, lace for intricate detail and tweed for texture.
Her style is impressionistic and she’s constantly experimenting to stretch the range of subjects which I tackle in order to engage the viewer in looking afresh at familiar images.
She has been Artist-in-Residence at two National Trust properties (Chastleton House, Oxfordshire and Claydon House, Buckinghamshire) and her work has been exhibited in the Oxford Museum of Natural History, Corinium Museum Cirencester and Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury and in the Houses of Parliament; Barbara’’s work is in the collection in the Oxfordshire County Museum and the Buckinghamshire County Museum.
Juan Manuel Gomez
Juan Manuel Gomez is a Colombian (from Medellin) painter with and often goes by the name De Ver Azul. He currently lives in Italy.
Juan worked for many years in the denim laundry process where he learned his blue skills. That’s also how he came up with the idea to do something different, something really outstanding.
Using dyes and recycled denim he makes beautifully textures and layered oak with indigo shades. He still works in the denim industry and is at the forefront of sustainable techniques,
Elliott Berry
Swedish/British artist Elliott has been making art for six years. His main medium is crayon, pencil, cardboard, and tape. He’s exhibited in Sweden and London. He’s now been written about in national and international press.
Would you like to add your hands?
Get in touch at mail@ianberry.art we’d love for you to join us.
You can also download the template here if you would like to base it off the original hands.
Terry Aske
An award-winning Canadian textile artist, Terry creates her art with fabric, thread, and a sewing machine. Primarily self-taught, Terry has been designing and creating contemporary quilts since 1998 in her home studio in New Westminster, BC, Canada.
Using a variety of techniques, she creates both realistic and abstract pieces. Terry's art quilts have been juried into many national and international shows and exhibits, and published in textile art magazines. Terry has won awards in both the artistic and modern categories.
Terry is a member of several textile art organizations, including Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), Fibre Art Network (FAN) and Vancouver Guild of Fibre Arts (VGFA).
Béatrice Beraud
Béatrice Beraud is a french textile artist living in Paris. She works with embroidery on fabric, photography, paper and canvas A lot of her inspiration comes from her relation with my son and our discussions.
Everyday life, global events also resonate in her creation. She discovered embroidery 5 years ago after creating with crochet to make a hat, now embroidery is a means of expression for her that compensates for her inability to draw without a model.
When she was at school, the art teacher designated the place at the back of the class because she didn't know how to draw. It's a good revenge! Recently named by the Saatchi Gallery in top 10 artists in embroidery.
Cas Holmes
Artist and author Cas Holmes trained in fine art and combines mixed media with found materials and stitch in works which have been described as ‘painting with cloth’.
Cas works on private and public commissions and is represented in international collections (including the Museum of Art and Design in New York, Arts Council England, The Embroiderer’s Guild UK and the Garden Museum London. Her work and projects are reflected in her books for Batsford the most recent is Textile Landscape (2018).
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Holly Brown
Clockworks Press was founded in 2016 by Brooklyn-based artist and printmaker Holly E. Brown. Holly’s hand carved collagraph prints are inspired by architecture, and balance the rhythm between the rawness of reality and the abstract. Using a reductive approach to printmaking she juxtaposes a positive and negative environment where space, form, and perspective are carefully interwoven.
Holly has a passion for sustainability and prints on upcycled denim using pigments derived from textile waste.
Zariha Rachadi
Zariha Rachadi is from a small city called AZEMMOUR about 80km south CASABLANCA/MOROCCO.
She has loved loved cross stitching since she was child, but it's only since 2016 that she started on making larger scale artworks.
Here she cross stitched Ian Berry’s Clapping Hands and they came out great.
She is a nurse so we clap for her!
Duncan Osborne
Duncan Osborne's career as a professional artist has spanned over 40 years. He studied at Manchester Art college in the 70's and has worked as a Designer/Illustrator.
The technique that Duncan specialises in is pointillism. Drawing thousands of dots in ink allows the flexibility to create intricate surfaces and textures in a variety of subtle tones, which would normally only be possible by using pencil or paint. By varying tonal values he creates a sculptured three dimensional presence to his subjects.
His art is figurative and has been influenced by artists such as Escher, David Shepherd, Atkinson Grimshaw and admires the pointillist work of Pissarro.
Here are some of the locations the other artists were projected.
Coal Drops Yard
Newcastle - The Great North Children’s Hospital
photo drone works north east
Angel of the North
Ian with Elliott
photo - Drone Works North East
