Relentless

Performance art taken to yet another extreme.

Many a times we have extolled the riveting highs achieved by our Relentless artists. We are suitably proud of them.

'Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.' said the ever-wise Churchill and we couldn't agree more. Understandably, an indelible part of all of these dramatic stories of success is, of course the struggle in getting there.

This most spirited of principles best describes the work of Kerry Skarbakka. The performance artist's portfolio consists of blood-curdling moments of inertia, midway between peril and success. The daredevil artist has made an entire study of ordinary and not-so-ordinary situations of physical collapse, and has somehow managed to create some truly pertrifying photographic work.

For more info see: http://www.skarbakka.com/

We never thought china got as exciting as this.

If there was one and only time when we would write about china, this is it.

We feel very appropriately excited by these tableware designs. An ambitious start up company called The New English will definitely convert a lot of people into china connoseurs - it feels like The Pistols finally reconciled their gripe with the Queen. Or could it be the other way around?

The New English have created a collection of tableware which is truly uniqe - ranging from skull and bone designs, through anatomical print and caterpillars - otherwise unappetising subjects turned in the perfect accompaniment for a roast beef.

This modern take on tableware feels horribly right - it has distilled 19-century British design and topped it off with a heavy serving of Damien Hirst. Something that we can truly stand by.

More Info: http://www.thenewenglish.co.uk

Michael Paulus gets to the heart of the matter.

The brilliant work of Oregonian artist Michael Paulus has a fabulous darkness to it.

He takes famous cartoon characters and adds a rather surreal dimension to their often exaggerated proportions. While quite grim sounding, his autopsycal drawings of Betty Boop, Hello Kitty and the Power Puff girls are more humorous than they are unnerving.

Another element of surprise is how recognizable these characters are even in skeletal form. You can actually own these unique pieces of pop art for some not unreasonable prices, right from the artists' website.

www.michaelpaulus.com