Stephan Goodwin - colourful and geometrically-intriguing sculptures with cool glazes, possibly some ancient Chinese influence?? Also watercolourist/musician/linocut artist
Installation
Caitlin Hazell - one of the coolest people I looked up to on Tumblr back in the day, nobody else had such a big impact on my taste in film/art/etc. Now does exciting and funny installation work and also metalsmithing/casting with inspo from early Christianity. Based in London
Alan Poma - LA-based Peruvian multi-disciplinary artist (opera, visual art, writing, etc), working to establish cross-cultural links between contemporary 'Andean Futurism' (see manifesto) and early 20th c. Russian Futurists.
Kristyna Kulikova - Czech graphic designer and art director with incredible maximalist ‘found imagery’ style.
Painters & draughtsmen
Sidia Atabales-Schnitzler - in Toronto. Enigmatic pastel work. I love the lighting and the chandelier motifs
Gil Batle - ex-convict carving prison scenes from ostrich eggs
Birdmelt - glyphic charcoal drawings with incredible sense of rhythm
Tom Cubitt - London-based artist working in coloured pencil. Great at depicted movement
Gitte Maria Moller - Cape Town-based painter - lots of symmetry, pastels and medieval dungeon landscapes, reminds me of late 19th-c German children’s book illustrations
Ron Regé Jr. - LA-based comic artist. I love the intricacy of his work, but am linking to a particular interview with The Comics Journal because of his interesting takes on spiritualism and Theosophy
Oda Iselin Sonderland - based in Oslo. Intricate, surreal fairytale illustrations in watercolour - and wood carvings (!!!)
Papercraft
A.T. Pratt - NYC-based artist making pop-up papercraft mechanisms and comics. Incredibly-conceived and very impressive inking style
Printmakers
Film
Film blogs you should check out
The Best of Everything - Joan Crawford archive, with rare scans and vintage merchandising details
Idyllopus Press - shot-by-shot film analyses (specialising in Kubrick) by writer and artist Juli Kearns
Matte Shot - all about matte paintings and other Classic Hollywood SFX
James Agee's Cinema, a syllabus for the Syllabus Project by Zoe Beloff. A guide to major twentieth-century films and directors through the work of documentarian James Agee
That Crafty Feeling - Zadie Smith (The Believer) - personal advice re. planning and writing a novel
The Creative Independent - a huge blog with interviews from all sorts of working creatives (not just writers). Very well-designed website and good source of useful advice!
Criticism & reviews
Hit Me, Baby - Namwali Serpell on the millennial sex novel
NTS Radio - huge online alternative radio station with live programming for most of the day (BST/GMT), a large searchable archive, and lots of interesting people doing sets
