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Some write, some print, and others sell. Now Melbourne based sculptor, Nicholas Jones, does it a bit differently.

Bruno Muff, Markus Freitag and Daniel Freitag risked their lives dangling from ropes over hours just so the audience could view the mother of all oversized football portraits at the Freitag tower in Zurich.

Of today’s supposed new greats of the Art world, I see more similarities than I do with individualities. Odd how everyone wants to be unique, and yet appear like Xerox copies of each other. Can Individuality not be preserved?

Cat Bishop is a self-taught assemblage artist and have been lucky enough to make it without a “real” job since the birth of her son in 1996.

A butcher’s daughter struck a chord in me with her ethereal dance of free flowing thoughts, dressed with such cynical innocence. Her name’s Angie Seah. Those words in the title are hers. And she has an exhibition at Night and Day from now until 19 June 2008. A must-visit for the weary soul.

A bed of beautiful paintings by New York based artist, Olena Shamahalo.

By Italian graphic artist Mario Mariotti (1937 - 1997), as documented in a book called Hanimations. Excuse me for the double puns.

There is a certain way to which he draws that I adore. Perhaps it is his unpredictable and inconsistent lines which ironically, appear consistent when the drawing is viewed as a whole. Life’s a bit like that, I suppose.

Yuka Yamaguchi, an artist of extraordinary imagination, and unique grasp of understanding who people are, and what people do.

I suppose, even superheroes age too. Hmmph.