Ryanboyle

Ryan Boyle

Words by Jez Burrows, Monday 29 October 2007

We got a nice email from Carson (our most recent It’s Not Us guest) telling us she’d meant to mention her friend Ryan Boyle and his paper-based sculptures. It’s impressive, precise work that touches on mass production, waste and architecture.

Twin brothers V/A/B on their “difficultly simple” approach to design 21 July 2017
The people’s choice, it’s Best of the Web! 21 July 2017
Larry Hallegua captures sun worshippers on Pattaya Beach in Thailand 21 July 2017
Lukas Korshan photographs Dulwich Hamlet FC, where you can “drink beer, stand up, and let loose" 21 July 2017
“The field is stretching itself bigger and bigger” - Jurgen Bey on design education and infinite possibility 21 July 2017
Peter Judson messes with depth perception in new personal project, Infection 21 July 2017

Work / Art Laurent Eisler draws playful figures in “precariously balanced compositions”

Illustrator Laurent Eisler’s paintings are childlike in their execution with absurd and humorous characters inhabiting the paper in funny guises and positions. “In my drawings there’s a lightness and delicacy, I’m very attentive to details,” says Marseille-based Laurent. “There’s a lot of empty space in which objects or people float in precariously balanced compositions.”

Rebecca Fulleylove — 20 July 2017
Work / Art Cynthia Alfonso’s “need to experiment” with figurative comics and graphics

Cynthia Alfonso is a visual artist and illustrator who dabbles in multidisciplinary techniques. Accounting for her most recent endeavours, which are a huge contrast to her previous risograph printed illustrations, she now explores all-things digital with a bold and surrealist approach.

Ayla Angelos — 19 July 2017
Work / Publication Chris Johanson and Jo Jackson's collaborative project explores colour, pattern and form

American artists Chris Johanson and Jo Jackson have created Peaceable Kingdom, their first collaborative work as “partners in life and art”. Published by Nieves, the book contains a series of paintings that features elements of both of the artists’ styles.

Rebecca Fulleylove — 19 July 2017
Work / Art Exploring physical and digital binaries with Austin Lee’s exuberantly animated paintings

As an American artist who marks his signature in airbrushed acrylics, Austin Lee combines technology with traditional techniques to create bold and playful images. “There is no specific message I am trying to convey, although I’m happy to share my thoughts,” Austin explains when discussing the inspiration behind his work. “I don’t want others to think the same way but I do want others to think.”

Ayla Angelos — 14 July 2017
Work / Art Dieter Ashton is making art from recycled video tape

Aged 22, half-German, half-English Londoner Dieter Ashton is fresh from a BA in Illustration and Visual Media at the London College of Communication and about to embark on a masters print course at The Royal College.

Bryony Stone — 14 July 2017
Features / Art Eduardo Paolozzi: on a singular teacher and his devil-may-care philosophy

“It’s the one with the red motorcycle outside” said David Queensberry as he gave directions to his west London home. The former head of ceramics at the Royal College of Art, and trustee of The Paolozzi Foundation had agreed to meet to reminisce on Paolozzi’s time as a tutor at the RCA, after we were introduced by Neil Parkinson, the college’s archivist.

Billie Muraben — 11 July 2017