As many of you may already know I’m quite a big fan of the filming style of Mark and Angela Walley, I’m just glad they’re equally adept at sourcing out some really innovative artists like Yasuaki Onishi who features in this film of theirs that I’m sharing today. I’ve not come across Yasuaki before but I was taken aback by his installation in Houston’s Rice Gallery which explores the idea of gravity in a visual form, I just wish this was being shown in …
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The Wonder Object by Mark & Angela Walley
Good friends of ours here on the site are Mark & Angela Walley, who’s work we are returning to today. The filmmaking duo introduce us to an unorthodox metal worker and designer named Gary Schott, currently the chair of the metals department at the Southwest School of Art. Having trained as a traditional metal worker Gary has all the skills required to construct beautifully engineered kinetic contraptions …
Read MoreRevisiting Ryan Takaba with Mark & Angela Walley
If you’ve been on the site before you may not only remember previous work by filmmakers Mark and Angela Walley but also the craft of Ryan Takaba, an individual that we are revisiting in this short film presented below. The dynamic duo met up with Ryan again to probe a little further into the profile of the creative ceramicist and to see a little more of the …
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