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We recently held our first creative showcase featuring the creations of the controversial Scottish artist, Kevin Harman. ‘Mesomorphic’ was a collection of his old and new artworks which were on display at the Old Ambulance Depot in Edinburgh from 4 – 14 March.
You can view a selection of the works from the show below.
‘Editions of 100′ is a beautiful new online gallery curated by Daniel Freytag. The idea is simple, to make original limited edition design objects available for sale by selected designers, photographers and artists. As the name suggests, each work is hand numbered and strictly limited to 100 editions.
In the coming weeks you will find a growing selection of works from the likes of Andy Altmann (Why Not Associates), Greig Anderson (Effektive), Kelvyn Smith (Mr Smith Letterpress Workshop), Daniel Freytag (Berg) and our very own Ross Colquhoun (Human Resources).
So that’s us for this year. With the snow kicking in and our urge to drink and be merry taking over, we’re taking a festive break, ready to come back fresh in the New Year. And we mean fresh.
Have a great one and remember to follow us on Twitter here, you never know what we might be announcing.
We are delighted to announce that Human Resources™ are now working in partnership with Scotland’s fresh Axolotl Gallery. This means that over the next few months we will be revealing the latest competitions, exhibitions and general happenings that will be taking place at their beautiful space on Dundas Street, set in the heart of Edinburgh’s vibrant art scene.
An exciting new gallery, Axolotl focuses on figurative and narrative work in various media including painting, drawing, limited edition prints, sculpture and photography. Axolotl aims to showcase the work of emerging artists working in these genres, providing them with a suitable platform to establish themselves with a wider audience and promote their work. Although based in Scotland, Axolotl is not a ‘Scottish gallery’ in the sense of showing work of predominantly Scottish themes. While they work with many Scottish artists, the themes explored are universal in nature. The gallery will also be showing work from other emerging artists from Europe and beyond. If you would like to submit your artwork to the gallery for possible inclusion in future exhibitions, please get in touch with gallery owner Derek Butter by visiting their website.
They are about to hold their Spring Exhibition from April 3 – April 24 2010, featuring groups of work from five main artists including; Michael Wildman, Steven Hendry, Sarah Wilson, Philomena Pretsell and Jill Farquhar. As a Human Resources™ reader, we would like to invite you to attend the private view of their Spring Exhibition, which is taking place this coming Friday 2nd April. To attend, all you have to do is RSVP or accept their Facebook event invitation.
Neil Milton is a Scottish musician, composer, DJ, photographer and blogger, who is currently living in Warsaw, Poland.
As a musician, he composes and records under the name ‘Beneath us, the waves’. His sound is glacial, shimmering and drifts haphazardly between ambient soundscapes and minimalist classical compositions.
Starting out as a DJ during the first act of his record label ‘Too Many Fireworks’, he held a club night at Glasgow’s Barfly for two years. As if that was not keeping him busy enough, he is also one half of the photography collaboration and podcasting duo ‘We Sink Ships’. Through which, he creates and curates photographic exhibitions and presents a weekly podcast on Radio Magnetic.
Human Resources™ Mixtape 01 / Konx-om-pax – In The Beginning by welcometohr
As part of the evolution of the Human Resources™ project, in 2010 we are releasing a series of mixtapes created for us by selected artists, creatives and musicians.
First to be released is this dark, experimental and stellar mix, aurally crafted by Konx-om-pax (a.k.a. Tom Scholefield). He is the talented animator, director and illustrator who used to run Techno and Acid nights at the legendary Club 69 in Paisley, Scotland.
After a little over a year of existence, today we are celebrating the milestone of notching up our 1,000th post. To mark the occasion, we would like to take this opportunity to thank you, alongside all of our featured artists, for helping to make Human Resources™ the place it is.
You could say that the last twelve months have been eventful for us. We now receive around 500,000 hits per month from every corner of Planet Earth, and recently we were nominated by style bible Dazed & Confused magazine, for their ‘Arts & Culture Website of the Year’ award.
We hope that you will remain with us for the next 1,000 and you can rest assured that our project will continue to evolve over the coming months, with some exciting new developments.
I’ve been out of action for a while, but if there was ever a way to return, this would be it. I’m delighted and excited to announce that we have just received the accolade of being shortlisted by Dazed & Confused for Arts & Culture blog of the year.
If you enjoy what we do and have a spare couple of seconds, we would love and greatly appreciate if you would vote for us by clicking here and looking for our listing (no registration required).
The ever talented Matthew Dent got in touch with us towards the end of last week with some nice updates to his growing pool of great illustrative work. Interestingly, it would appear that he was also involved in the latest Glug event.
Matt was last featured on Human Resources after he created this super illustration for us.
At Human Resources we support the promotion of top creative talent globally. In particular, we love giving unknown accomplished creatives the much needed exposure they deserve. As such, we are delighted to announce any opportunities that we come across that we feel could be worth while entering. Swatch MTV Playground is one such opening, as they are currently searching for the next generation of creative talent. Check out their website for more details and to get involved.
An Unnatural Obsession is a beautifully captured photographic series of an immaculate collection of old school Nintendo technology. The collection is the possession of a certain Mr. B of DixonBaxi, and it made it’s way to Human Resources after it was submitted to our ever flowing Flickr Stream.
Photography by Jason Tozer.
Keep up to date with our website updates and everyday ramblings by following us on the Human Resources Twitter.
Dropular is the latest image bookmarking site to hit the internet created by the nice folks at Suprb. It’s well worth checking out and dare I say it, but so far I think I prefer it to the likes of ffffound and Digg.
You can become a follower of the Human Resources Dropular feed by clicking here.
Human Resources would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and the best of luck for 2009.
For us personally, it has been quite an amazing first six months and of course this would not have been possible without you. But the fun does not stop there, I’m delighted to inform you that 2009 will be an even more exciting year as our project evolves, and we hope to see you there with us.
As we say in Scotland, slange var!