ART CRUSH SPECIAL
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This week we bring you a bumper Add-to-Cart special, spotlighting some of our favourite inclusions from our last three Art Crush columns for Elephant mag!
Check out our March, April and May columns, here, and keep your eyes peeled for June’s array of delights, published soon!
Keep Your Shirt On
The new Aircrush clothing collection by artist Inez Valentine has just dropped, delivering whimsical and punchy designs that we have coveted since the brand’s launch in 2020. Highlights include a shirt emblazoned with Ed Ruscha’s Face It (1967) and a spiral tee with the lucky number 3. Hand-painted in the artist’s distinctive and raffish style, these are bound to fly off the shelves.
My Beloved with their Thorns
We have our eye on a new suite of gorgeous prints available from Emantes, a charitable social cooperative international enterprise that provides psychosocial support to LGBTQIA+ refugees and migrants. The Details of Love prints are organised by SECCMA Trade in Greece and curated by the Serpentine’s Kostas Stasinopoulos. We’re big fans of this print portrait of my beloved with their thorns by Chioma Ebinama, but the selection also includes new works by Adham Faramawy, Sin Wai Kin, P. Staff and Bones Tan Jones.
Portrait of my beloved with their thorns, £126
Last Orders at the Bar
Ever since Adam Jones was discovered on Instagram by Judy Blame, the Manchester art school graduate has been producing one of a kind ready-to-wear pieces that we *yearn* for. Using actual pub cast offs (including branded tea towels and carpety beer mats) to make everything from bonnets to tank tops, his designs are not only made entirely from up-cycled materials, but pay tribute to fading British cultural touch points. Instantly iconic.
Adam Jones collection, from £65
I Want a Boyfriend
We’ve been following artist Leo Costelloe closely since his romantic and mysterious exhibition, And if this is the end I want a boyfriend, at London’s Ridley Road Project Space. His hard-to-define practice (incorporating birthday cakes, blown-glass combs and synthetic hair) is irresistibly creative and breaches categories of fashion and art. We’re particularly keen on his jewellery, including a carved abalone shell necklace with a silver shooting star – advertised for £70 via his Instagram Stories.
Contact Leo Costelloe via Instagram to purchase
Exorcise is The Worst
Artist Jacob Haupt has recently released a book of photographs taken in his ‘haunted apartment’. Riffing on the childish desire to dress up, scare and be scared, Haupt’s book is a kitsch, whimsical take on horror movies tropes, with recognisable references to classics such as The Exorcist. The result is a heartfelt ode to the comedic absurdity of horror.
Did I Scare You? by Jacob Haupt, £33
Speak of the Devil…
As seen in Coperini’s ethereal Paris Fashion week show, glassware brand Heven have created a collection of devilishly cheeky homewares. While Gigi sauntered down the catwalk with a bulbous solid-glass handbag, the brand’s usual offerings are a little more functional. Handblown in Brooklyn, Heven creates one-off carafes, glasses, and vases, pairing organic, loose forms with pastel tones, topped off with some Lucifer-esque horns.
Aural Goodness
Emulsion Magazine’s podcast series Vinyl Glossalalia features an interview with one emerging artist or writer per episode. Presented by curator-to-watch Rose Easton (mother of Moarain House), the series uses each subject’s taste in music as a vehicle to explore their practice. Conversations to date have touched on such tantalising topics as latex, fantasy, prolonged climactic chaos and the violence of the archive, with guests including Issy Wood, Charlie Fox and RIP Germain. Tune in!
Vinyl Glossalalia, free to listen on Soundcloud
Paul’s Mum’s Kettle
Established in 1982, Bernstock Speirs is a millinery born from the friendship struck up at Middlesex University between Paul Bernstock and Thelma Speirs. Their first hats were made from felt, steamed over Paul’s mum’s kettle and moulded into shape over their knees. Inspired by club culture and London’s underground scene, the pair elevate classic, ubiquitous styles such as the beanie and cap into playful, surprising designs. We’re obsessed with the ring bucket hats and check berets.
Bernstock Speirs hats, from £86
Knife on the Cutting Edge
James Shaw’s distinctive and surrealist furniture and design pieces have been appearing everywhere: from eclectic pop up shows to the V&A’s seismic Waste Age exhibition. Now, in a departure from his signature extruded polyethylene works, Shaw has produced a fun stainless steel cutlery set, hand formed in his London studio. His Confusion Cutlery dining set is a must have for this summer’s impending table-dressing mania.
Confusion Cutlery Dining Set, £150
& Finally… Fatale Attraction
Tschabalala Self has just released a long-awaited collaboration with Ugg. First seen as part of her play Sounding Board for Performa New York last October (which the artist not only wrote and produced but also designed the set and costumes for) it’s the first project of its kind that Self has embarked on and she’s nailed it. Taking on the Ugg boot’s classic low boot style, and embracing some new styles, such as these incredible heeled red boots as seen on actress of the moment Julia Fox, the designs are form-focused and playful celebrations of the body, just like Self’s paintings xo
Ugg x Tschabala Self Fatale Heel Boot, £350
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