We’ve had a Twitter account since we launched the site back in September, but not a lot has been going on there since. We’ve been enjoying the interactions on our Facebook page, and now Gabriel and I are determined to give Twitter a go too. Hope you will be joining us there! ( @UpYourWall )
My favourite blog posts are the ones when we get to visit our artist’s studios. No different with this one! Today Yuki Mori welcomes us to her studio in Berlin, and we get to see her work in progress, her colors and her leopard slippers! View all studio visits here and shop Yuki’s art here
Yuki Mori – Welcome to Up Your Wall! The Tale of The Miraculous Sound of Wonderland 50×50 cm , 720 SEK (ca 72 Eur) Inner Space 30×30 cm, 450 SEK (Ca 45 EUR) Inner Space 30×30 cm, 450 SEK (ca 45 EUR) Dolls of House 50×50 cm, 720 SEK (ca 72 EUR) Read more about Yuki Mori and … Continue reading
April 2011 – Yuki Mori is a Berlin-based artist born in Japan and our latest artist at Up Your Wall. Part of the revenues from the first week of the sales of her artwork will be donated to the Red Cross in order to support the emergency aid in Japan.
I don’t know if a lot of you have the same problem I do? I have more art than I have walls and a lot of pieces that deserve better end up in a corner leaned against the wall. And still I keep wanting more! I heard it’s the same thing with tatoos. I guess … Continue reading
Not that I really need a holiday, but right now I can’t stop thinking about Marfa. Have any of you been there? When I first heard of it it was described as “something like a gritty West Texas cowboy art colony”, who wouldn’t want to go? Marfa was first introduced to me by Texan fashion … Continue reading
New day, new week, new projects. As our facebook friends already now we started a big project last week. We are very excited and I’m sure you will be happy too when you get to see the result on the site later this spring. Today I’ll spend some time at one of my favourite places … Continue reading
Anyone who knows me will tell you I’m not into technical stuff. My computer is old, cheap and heavy with a broken battery. I suffered through a long series of inherited cell phones before I finally got my iphone about a year ago. I’ve lived without a TV since I moved away from home and … Continue reading
From contemporary George Condo and his grotesque, twisted faces, let’s look back in time to 20th century artist Francis Bacon – also featuring twisted faces in his works. Bacon is one of Britain’s greatest modernists and he truly created some of the last century’s most notable figurative paintings. When Francis Bacon (1909-1992) got his first … Continue reading
Have you ever heard of George Condo? One of the world’s most famous rap-artists – Kanye West – has. And he liked what he saw so much, to the point that he called Condo and asked him to paint the cover art for his latest album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, an album that got … Continue reading
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