Mould art

By Max Liboiron I love mould. It is invisible, yet suddenly visible if you let it take over parts of your fridge or bathroom; it can come back from the dead; it is neither animal nor plant. It is m…

Artist Kathleen Ryan creates a conversation between the beautiful and the grotesque in her oversized sculptures of mold-covered fruit. The New York-based artist uses precious and semi-precious stones like malachite, opal, and smoky quartz to form the simulacrum of common green rot on each fruit. Working at a larger-than-life scale, Ryan creates a foam base, rudimentarily painted to map out the fresh and rotten areas on the surface. She then individually places each gemstone, with varied…

Organisms

magical contamination: mould as art by antoine bridier-nahmias expresses the textural and colourful diversity of fungi, though an array of patterns.

Chakra Shield detail

Artist Elin Thomas pays homage to fuzzy fungus through crochet, needle felting, and embroidery.

Artist Dasha Plesen combines molds, bacteria, spores, and other objects in petri dishes to create these colorful abstract

Our planet is such an amazing place. There are so many wonders surrounding us, and yet still so much that remains unknown, just waiting to be discovered. Interestingly, some of the most fascinating things are right at our fingertips.

Lost Found Art on Instagram: "I’m a huge fan of the work of Kathleen Ryan. It is such a new and fresh approach. She uses semi precious stones like onyx, smokey quartz, lapis and garnets attached with stainless steel pins to a polystyrene and wood form. On average a 30” wide lemon can take two months and have 10,000 beads. #fruitsalad #fruitsalads #spoiled #rotted #contemporaryart #modernart #modernartists #modernsculpture #modernartist #fruitlover"

Inspired by the art of natural occurrence, Daria Fedorova is a multidisciplinary artist, developing a peculiar methodology of artistic cultivation of microorganisms. Using different supplements her work is no less than a science lab experimentation with each work being distinct and unique.