Magda Antoniuk is a Polish based illustrator who turns fashion imagery into vivid hand-drawn creations. After graduating from university where she studied sociology, Antoniuk turned her attention towards illustration, becoming a freelance illustrator last year. Since then, her work has featured in various publications around the world, and she has worked with various photographers including Eric Martin and Antonella Arismendi.

Antoniuk is currently working in collaboration with stylist Magda Nawrocka on Dolphins Were Monkeys, an art initiative which brings together photographers, artists and writers with the aim of exploring the relationship between art and fashion.

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German artist Jan Vormann has devised a novel and creative method for repairing crumbling and damaged walls - filling the space with Lego bricks. Vormann first began his 'Dispatchwork' project as part of 2007's 20 Eventi, an annual contemporary arts festival which takes place in Italy, and came up with the idea after becoming intrigued by the often makeshift nature of repairs made to crumbling walls, an element of which reminded the artist of the kinds of objects children create using Lego.

'Dispatchwork' has since inspired people across the world, with the idea put into practice in Europe, the US and South America, and Vormann is keen for everyone to fish out their old Lego bricks and get involved themselves.

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Currently on show at The Tramshed in East London, Jonathan Wateridge's exhibition 'Another Place' is epic in a number of ways. Each of the seven photo-realistic oil paintings which make up the exhibition measures three metres by four metres, and combine to narrate a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a large-scale disaster movie. Within the works themselves, the lines between reality and fiction are blurred, each beautifully rendered scene is presented in such a way as to invite the viewer to explore for their own questions, decipher what is happening and try to find their own answers.

Born in Zambia, Jonathan Wateridge currently lives and works in London and has featured in various solo and group exhibitions, most notably being championed by art czar Charles Saatchi...
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Mothership Group, Central Illustration Agency and Pop-Up Pirates have collaborated to create what is possibly the first ever pop-up bar/art installation in London. The project is located on Clerkenwell Road and Pop-Up Pirates have taken the area's connection to printing as the main theme for the bar, with words and letters adorning the interior in all kinds of shape, size, colour and font. The interior will also include interactive blackboards in the toilets and mock printing presses.



The bar will be open until August 2010. For full details and listings of upcoming events, visit the Pop-Up Pirates web page.



Philip Goodfellow

Selfridges in London is currently playing host to Art Stars, a showcase of 50 young, upcoming artists presented by Polo Jeans. Taking the Star Spangled Banner as its inspiration (which is apt given our current issue theme), the project challenges each artist to customize a canvas into a three dimensional star using an assortment of unique materials in combination with their practice to create their designs, including a variation of denim, replicas of the American flag, dyes, collage, bleach and embroidery. Beyond the shapes and sizes of the art-stars, artists are only limited by their own imaginations in transforming the star and denim into a work of art that symbolizes their visio

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