Allanngorpoq by Sébastien Tixier
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator French photographer Sébastien Tixier undertook an journey to Greenland in 2013 in order to photograph...
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From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator Olaus Magnus was a Swedish writer born in the fifteenth century. In 1555 he published the earliest...
View ArticleThe Man Who Became a Star
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator “Venus Pacific Levelled” by Brocken Inaglory – . Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons There was...
View ArticleConsidering the Temporal Nature of Embroidery
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator I’ve recently been experimenting with a radical new approach to embroidery within my practice – that...
View ArticleHow to Make Slow Melting Ice
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator Creating my embroideries in ice has thrown up a number of challenges. One of the biggest challenges...
View ArticleCrocker Land Expedition Footage
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator . x https://youtu.be/AAmWMOUebKw In 1913 a small group of explorers from New York set sail towards...
View ArticleCreatures made from old VHS tapes wander through frozen landscapes
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator Philip Ob Rey’s V-HS Project Philip Ob Rey is a French artist based in Reykjavik, Iceland. His ‘V’HS...
View ArticleIce and the Sky
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator x https://youtu.be/ZpZYkNkkiTg Ice and The Sky tells the story of a man who encountered his destiny,...
View ArticleIcy Organics in Planet-Forming Disks
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator x https://youtu.be/6E2hKe3tVUs Using the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers are probing the...
View ArticlePlanets of Fire and Ice
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator x https://youtu.be/4rEs7XEVUrc This artist’s animation shows a blistering world revolving around its...
View ArticleStitch Fetish 4 Exhibition, Los Angeles
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator Exhibition Opens 6 February 2016, 8:00 – 11:00PM Exhibition continues until the 27 February 2016 I’m...
View ArticleUnicorn Embroidered in Ice
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator My previous embroideries in ice have been constructed from individually embroidered cubes of ice that...
View ArticlePyramiden
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator Pyramiden (named for the pyramid-shaped mountain looming over the valley settlement) is a coal mining...
View ArticleCryosat Spacecraft Tracks Arctic Winter Sea Ice
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator The European CryoSat spacecraft is used by the Center for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) to...
View ArticleHeat Loss In A Snowstorm
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator Using a military grade Selex Merlin thermal imaging camera, BBC Earth team vividly show how the human...
View ArticleTraditional Arctic Footwear
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator Aiddejavre, Norway (All Photos: © 2016 Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Canada/Ron Wood) Traditionally,...
View ArticlePainter Uses Climate Change Data to Produce Watercolours
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator These watercolour paintings by Jill Pelto are created using graphs of data on the environmental...
View ArticleThe Disemboweller
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator An excerpt from Eskimo Life by Fridtjof Nanse (1894). “Hoeg’e ae den Gjallarbrui, ho tisst ‘punde...
View ArticleStitch Fetish Panel Discussion
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator To mark the closing of the Stitch Fetish 4 exhibition at the Hive Gallery, Curator Ellen Schinderman...
View ArticleMariele Neudecker and Klaus Thymann’s Greenland Glaciers
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator I’m not the first artist with an interest in the North to set out on an artistic expedition into the...
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