Get yourselves the latest edition of Living etc, and flick to page 101, to see Kate’s work grabbing all the attention in the magazine’s ’shopping etc’ section.

‘I am a canvas’: how artists are reinventing body painting. The ancient art is being revisited by contemporary artists. An extract, featuring Emma Hack By Tom Lamont, writing in The Observer, Sunday 25 September 2011

…Using the human body as a canvas, agrees 38-year-old Australian artist Emma Hack, “is not for the fainthearted”. Though Bolin is not due to be exhibited in the UK in the immediate future, Hack makes gorgeous, camouflaging “skin illustrations”. Whereas Bolin puts his own body up for painting, Hack employs models, tasking them to stand still for between eight and 15 hours while she covers them in intricate patterns. “I trained as a make-up artist,” she explains, “so painting on skin is second nature to me. It’s a difficult process, but rewarding.”

Hack, a former children’s face painter, and one-time winner of the Professional World Body Painting Championships, was inspired to produce her new collection by a longstanding love for the wallpaper patterns of the Australian interior designer Florence Broadhurst. Hack chooses a model she thinks will fit with one of Broadhurst’s bright designs, strips them bare and gets painting. “There are 540 patterns in Broadhurst’s archive, so I’ve only scratched the surface in my work so far.”

Click here to read more – www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/25/body-painting-art-bolin-hack?intcmp=239

The show is called 5 Cent Life, a reference to the book 1c life, published in 1968. This was a book of poetry illustrated by contemporary artists at the time, Jasper johns, Warhol etc.

In this case it refers to the cheaply printed ephemeral nature of the images I have referenced and manipulated,

This show is a print show about printed matter, I have selected several images and redrawn them and cut them on different scales, so that they all look like the same print increased or decreased in size, when they are in fact, all individual prints.

I looked at RIchard Prince’s images from advertising whereby he re-photographed photographs from ad campaigns. I have made a series of woodcuts in a similar way making prints of printed images.

They include a mega series of Batman bubble gum wrappers from 1966, the year of the TV show starring Adam west and Burt Ward. A year where this sort of shameless merchandising was aimed at children in the form of toys games and collectable cards , such as the ones I have appropriated.

I have also used book covers, Bullwinkle and LP sleeves such as Magoo in Hi-fi. The sculptures of the police car and the huge Batmobile are an adjunct to these images, using packing crates and cardboard.

The emphasis of the show is on colour and how inks when printed tend to “have a life of their own” There is mis registration, opacity,translucence and smudging, reminding us perhaps in this age of digital printing that there is nothing quite so charming as the good old fashioned concept of…. The genuine mistake, created in the heat of the print workshop.

Andrew Mockett

The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery is currently exhibiting a visual feast of work at the Affordable Art Fair in New York.

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Shaking up the dusty model of art as an elite pastime, the Affordable Art Fair Fall 2011 will showcase new artists, galleries, programming, and installations!  Don’t miss a second!

Running currently up until Sunday

Friday September 23 1PM-8PM

Saturday September 24 11AM-8PM

Sunday September 25 11AM-6PM

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AFFORDABLE ART FAIR SINGAPORE 18 TO 20 NOVEMBER 2011 GET READY, WE ARE BACK! Affordable Art Fair Singapore tickets on sale now via SISTIC – put the date in your diary for the art world’s party of the year at the fabulous F1 Pit Building! Use your VISA card and receive 20% off the early bird prices before 10th October. The Affordable Art Fair is back and looking forward to welcoming you to join us for our second edition in Singapore where you can discover a selection of more than 70 international contemporary art galleries selling original art from $100 – $10,000 with 75% priced below $7,500. Come and enjoy the Fair’s relaxed and fun atmosphere whist browsing amongst thousands of original prints, photography, painting and sculpture on sale. With Affordable Art Fair collecting art is finally within everyone’s reach so don’t miss out on this art buying opportunity! 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Today, Emma, herself, was in our Conway street gallery to take some photos of her latest exhibition.

In the gallery space her beautifully imagined paintings really come to life with their balanced tones and colours generating a radiant luminosity that truly captivates the viewer.

Emma’s exhibition runs until October 1st and is definitely not to be missed.

Liz Hoggard writes about ‘The New Body Art’ 19th September 2011.

At first you think the model is wearing a vibrant Fifties dress, then you realise it’s an illusion. The textile is actually painted on to her skin.

Artist – and skin illustrator -Emma Hack, who will be creating live body art installations at Art London next month, meticulously paints every last detail of the wallpaper backdrop onto the model’s body, so that it is almost imperceptibly disguised.

Last week Kelly Brook posed nude, body-painted in a snake print for a PETAanti-animal cruelty campaign, while skin illustration has also been the big summer trend at music festivals. Unlike tattooing, paint is temporary, so you can indulge your wilder side without regret. Rather than an all-over pattern, fans tend to have one small area of the body inked – a shoulder or arm perhaps, or a “belt” of flowers around the waist.

Boudicca Blue, a Wimbledon-based team of female body artists, has been doing a lot of ethereal floral designs and trailing vines. “In the past it’s been quite a niche market. But the World Bodypainting Festival has brought it to a mainstream audience,” says Fiona Patterson Fraser at Boudicca. The music industry is also interested in body art, she says, using it for video shoots (Lady Gaga’s Born this Way) and album covers.

“A lot of women are having it done for parties or special nights out. We can combine illustration with bespoke glitter tattoos across your neck or chest so it looks like you’re wearing a necklace or amulet.” To meet the popularity of the trend, they’ve just started workshops where Londoners can learn the art of body illustration.

Hack started out working as a children’s face painter and make-up artist, then moved into body art. When she discovered the late Australian interior designer Florence Broadhurst and her intricate hand-printed wallpaper designs featuring live animals and birds, she decided to use them as a backdrop for her body art.

Part of the new popularity of “inking” comes from the growing burlesque trend. And the line between art and beauty has blurred this season. At the Illamasqua store on Beak Street, creative director Alex Box takes inspiration for her designs from Dadaism and the Baroque era.
In the film industry make-up artists create skin effects using products such as Skin Illustrator – an alcohol-based make-up that’s water-resistant – and their designs can be kept intact for up to two weeks.

Hack has painted her art onto bodies for launches around the world (her clients include Tiffany & Co, Nokia, Sony and Mont Blanc). She created the stop-animation body artwork in musician Gotye’s hit Somebody I Used To Know (which has had more than five million YouTube hits since its launch). And she has just made a short body-art film for Estée Lauder.

Hack says the process of body painting can take eight to 15 hours and requires extraordinary eye and hand co-ordination. She uses a makeup-based body paint, similar to stage make-up, to prevent the paint from cracking on the skin. Once the design is complete, she photographs it.

London gallerist Rebecca Hossack is a fan and will also be exhibiting a selection of Hack’s photography and a new limited-edition book of her work at Art London.

“I like art that blurs boundaries – and Emma Hack’s work certainly does that!” says Hossack. “She is an extraordinarily skilful body-painter with a wonderful sensibility. Her images of naked models merging into vintage wallpapers are arresting, unexpected and very beautiful.”

Art London runs October 6-10, Royal Hospital Chelsea, SW3, artlondon.net

For more, visit:

www.emmahackartist.com
www.boudicca-blue-body-art.co.uk

The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery is currently exhibiting at 20/21 British Art Fair.

This visual splendour, showcasing a superb array of modern and contemporary British art, is housed within The Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore.

The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery are showing works from the likes of Peter Clark, Karen Nicol, Rebecca Jewell, Phil Shaw, David Whitaker, Helen Flockhart, David Farrer and Iain Nutting.

The Art Fair runs from the 14 – 18 September and with some of the country’s leading dealers exhibiting in the Fair’s 24th year, is not to be missed out on.