Mister Finch
Living in a Fairytale World
Mister Finch author Justine Hand author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Glitterati Inc
Published:27th Aug '14
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The first book by the U.K.'s hottest young art star, Mister Finch: Living in a Fairytale World is a wild and wonderful collection of the artist's one-of-a-kind masterpieces. This first book by famous textile artist Mister Finch is a gorgeous collection of the artist's fantastical, one-of-a-kind creatures. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, as well as British folklore, Finch mingles fairytales and reality to create a magical world all his own. Peek inside Finch's Yorkshire studio, a place brimming with buttons and scraps of fabric, where spindly-legged spiders keep watch over mischievous hares and carpet-winged moths perch majestically atop bookshelves. Finch's critters have been called "wonderfully peculiar and completely charming", "a joy for the eye and the soul". Many of these pieces were born of treasures lost and forgotten: velvet curtains from an old hotel, a threadbare wedding dress and a vintage apron become birds and beasts, looking for new owners and adventures. The pages of this book are strewn with creatures who prove that anything is possible in the fairytale world of Mister Finch.
"Sumptuously illustrated, Living in a Fairytale World offers the reader a gander inside the mythic world of Mister Finch. His creations are mostly `upcycled,’ a curiously esoteric term meaning repurposed from oddments and junk shop finds...The book rather neatly divides into motifs and fixtures. Here be uncanny hares and foxes, meticulously brocaded songbirds and insects, troops of dysmorphic mushrooms – all the shadowy imaginings of childhood dreams. The effect is mesmerising and faintly unsettling," Neil Mudd at Culture Vulture
ISBN: 9780991341979
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Weight: unknown
224 pages