The ‘digital handmade’: how 3D printing became a new craft technology
The work of Australian designer Berto Pandolfo shows how 3D printing can be claimed as a craft technology.
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Five reminders of how visual artists can invoke and stir deep emotions
In an image-saturated world, it can feel like we are beyond being moved. But five exhibitions in South Africa's Eastern Cape province in 2016 managed to capture memory and ego in exactly the right proportions.
Under the Influence of … Paul Stopforth’s Biko painting called ‘Elegy’
Works like "Elegy" are ciphers for what it means to be human and vulnerable within a social and political regime in which not all bodies are considered equal
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