Dazed Arts & Culture Feature
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator Writer Sirin Kale has recently published an article for Dazed entitled Why Do We Love Unicorns So...
View ArticleFrank Hurley’s Photographs
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator Frank Hurley worked as the photographer documenting Shackleton’s expeditions to the Antarctic. The...
View ArticleSalt Ice Embroidery
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator Creating embroidered works in ice has thrown up a number of interesting challenges. One such...
View ArticleNuclear Submarine Breaks Through Arctic Ice
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator Los Angeles-class submarine USS Hartford (SSN-768) breaking through several feet of solid ice in...
View ArticleRural Photography
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator I’ve recently been working on a photographic project focusing on the Village of St Hilary in the Vale...
View ArticleHow To Be An Explorer of the World
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator This list was written by Canadian artist Keri Smith in 2007 which resulted in the book How to Be an...
View ArticleIce Melt, Sea Level Rise, and Super Storms
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator Dr James Hansen is a world renowned climate scientist. He recently published the paper ‘Ice melt, sea...
View ArticleSave the Arctic Poster
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator Greenpeace are hosting a poster contest as a part of their Save the Arctic campaign. You can help...
View ArticlePolar Bear Sampler
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator I created this cross stitch polar bear whilst conducting my research for my Arctic residency. It has...
View ArticleInuit Wall Hangings
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator An Inuit hand-stitched seal skin and carved ivory pictorial wall hanging, mid 20th century, depicting...
View ArticleThe Wife Who Lied
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator NAVARÁNÂPALUK, men say, came of a tribe of man-eaters, but when she grew up, she was taken to wife by...
View ArticleGreenpeace + Rebobinart Urban Art Campaign
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator In April 2016 Greenpeace and Rebobinart invited artists to apply to take part in a urban art campaign...
View ArticleMedium Format Photography with a Yashica Mat 124G
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator Following my recent adventures in photography I have been keen to explore the realms of analogue...
View ArticlePolar Bear Hugs
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator In assimilating all the information that I’ve been consuming in the lead up to my Arctic Residency...
View ArticlePirates Encountering Polar Bears
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator This illustration of pirates encountering a polar bear in the arctic regions is taken from page 54 of...
View ArticlePolar Bear Mask
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator As I prepare for my Arctic artist residency I have started to develop new ideas for work inspired by...
View ArticleArctic Expedition Crew
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator My fellow shipmates for the Autumn 2016 Arctic Residency Programme have been announced and include a...
View ArticleArduino Controlled Peltier Element
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator Following my foray into embroidery with ice I’ve been examing ways to prolong, or even halt, the...
View ArticlePuppetry Workshop with Rene Baker
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator Photographs by Andy Catlin for Puppet Animation Scotland I travelled up to Edinburgh recently to take...
View ArticleThe Scientist in the Polar Bear Costume
From Spikeworld. | Spikeworld - The blog of Spike Dennis | Artist, Maker, Curator and Colloaborator If you’ve seen some of my earlier posts then you will have noticed that I have been working on a new...
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