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Kim Winter

@kimwinterartist.bsky.social

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Artist specialising in basketry techniques. Editor of Basketmakers' Association Journal. Loves raspberries, hates Brussels sprouts. kimwinter.co.uk

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Kim Winter @kimwinterartist.bsky.social · Dec 1

My first #artAdventCalendar post, explaining my avatar. Limpet pot, 2021. Coiled vessel, linen, hemp and wire. #contemporarybasketry #coiledbasketry #sculpturalbasketry

Lidded pot coiled in cream and teal linen thread. Lid has 7 peaks that look like limpets. Interior base has similar star pattern.

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Kim Winter @kimwinterartist.bsky.social · Sep 8

Lice in Wonderland

Kim Winter @kimwinterartist.bsky.social · Jun 29

Urban fox decided that our bag filled with soil was the ideal place for a nap.
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Young fox lying on top of a green bag filled with soil in a London garden

Young fox waking from a nap on top of a green bag filled with soil in a London garden

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Kim Winter @kimwinterartist.bsky.social · May 22

#urbangaze

Row of yellow penguin sculptures on a platform by a river with Charles Bridge and buildings of Prague in the background.

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Kim Winter @kimwinterartist.bsky.social · May 15

#urbangaze

Grey squirrel lying on a wall beside the Thames in London with modern blocks on the other side of the river

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · May 14

*crab-walked

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Jessica Rosenkrantz @nervousjessica.bsky.social · May 14

For years, we've been making Hyphae lamps that fit in your hand. Now we're working on something a bit bigger #sciart

I’m sitting next to a 4 foot tall Hyphae lamp outside in the night with tree like shadows cast all around

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Lisa Stevens @lisaseaurchin.bsky.social · May 13

POLONIA-Coral Comet, work in progress.

#SciArt #MarineLife #comet
#ceramic #porcelain #coral #reef #sculpture

A coral-like ceramic sculpture in the shape of a comet with a short tail. It is made of porcelain and is currently unfired. There are lots of textural and sculptural motifs, the tail is mostly made of fans, with the body of the comet covered in large rosette-like craters.
The piece has the look of a messy goldfish, somehow!

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Kim Winter @kimwinterartist.bsky.social · May 9

Pope Duck Confit III. Ooh, get me 🙄

TheGentYYC 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP @thegentyyc.bsky.social · May 9

Your Pope name is: Last thing you ate + number of letters in your first name.

Pope Hot and Sour Soup V

Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · May 9

[P] Your Pope name is: Last thing you ate + number of letters in your first name.

Pope Snickers IV.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · May 5

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of visiting the amazing Archaeological State Museum in Chemnitz. One of its many stunning objects is this Neolithic well bucket made of lime bast with a willow handle. Lime bast fibre is a flexible inner bark of a lime (linden) tree that was, for ...🧵1/2

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A display of a well preserved bast object resembling a bucket, with a triangular handle and rough, decayed texture. The object is mounted upright in a glass case within a modern museum setting.

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · Apr 27

As promised, here are some nudibranchs I saw yesterday on the docks. The first one is Dendronotus venustus, the second and third are Hermissenda crassicornis and the last one, which I had to hang half off the dock to reach, is Coryphella verrucosa.

#InverteFest

a reddish nudibranch sea slug with yellowing spots and branching spikey cerata covering its back

a translucent nudibranch sea slug with ice blue and orange racing stripes, the cerata covering the back are lined with brown and white and tipped with orange

a translucent nudibranch with more sparse cerata which are pinkish and tipped in white

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Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery @rammuseum.bsky.social · Apr 3

#Opencall for artists!

We're looking to commission a Devon/Cornwall-based artist to run a series of 7 workshops with a selection of community groups, working with diverse communities to create textile artworks exploring stories of place.

Find out more + apply >>> rammuseum.org.uk/jobs/#artist...

a young girl drawing at a table in one of RAMM's meeting rooms

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · Apr 1

Leading 20th century textile artist Itchiku Kubota reinvented ancient dye techniques for use on modern kimono, creating panoramas of colour and light ~ here are some of his beautiful works thekubotacollection.com

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pardalote @pardalotemakes.com · Mar 31

I've been away for a few days, so here are some embroidered stones from 2023.

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Kim Winter @kimwinterartist.bsky.social · Mar 31

Fabulous! 😍

Kim Winter @kimwinterartist.bsky.social · Mar 23

Thank you 🙏 And your beaded pieces are gorgeous 😍

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · Feb 19

19/20C biologist/artist Ernst Haeckel, coiner of the term “ecology”, created these vivid depictions of sea anemones, jellyfish and hummingbirds (1904, from his book ‘Art Forms in Nature’)

Multiple species of colourful natural creatures

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Zandek @snugasabugbear.bsky.social · Jan 31

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

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Saskia W. @saskiaw.bsky.social · Jan 25

Yu Chengyou is one of China’s most prominent contemporary printmakers. Chengyou's favorite subjects often reflect traditional elements of Chinese art, including fans, tea bowls, and musical instruments. He is particularly skilled in calligraphy, a recurring feature in the background of his prints.

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Kim Winter @kimwinterartist.bsky.social · Jan 25

Hi Kelly - welcome to Bluesky! Great to see you here! 😘

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yd glass art @yd-glass.bsky.social · Oct 11

glass feather
Flameworked; bolosilicate glass

#glassart #ガラス #glass

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Dave Awl @daveawl.bsky.social · Jan 15

One of my new resolutions is to avoid buying print books from Amazon—so I finally set up an account on Bookshop.org, which benefits indie bookstores. I should have done this sooner. They had the book I wanted in stock and I was able to choose Women and Children First as beneficiary of the sale. Win!

Screenshot of the beneficiary page for Women & Children First bookstore on Bookshop dot org. Tagline says, your local feminist bookstore since 1979! Along the top it says, $35,498,084.53 raised for local bookstores.

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · Dec 28

A favorite commission this year, a dividing cell with an extra detail. Colleagues of a retiring researcher commissioned me to add the specific structure she worked on—the spindle pole body—to the sculpture. Here it is close up, in sterling silver embedded in the bronze nuclear membrane. 🔬#SciArt

A dividing budding yeast cell in steel, bronze, and silver, with apatite gemstones for the chromosomes. The sculpture rests in my hand, a physical cutaway view with many cellular structures visible.

Closeup of the sculpture, centered on the spindle pole body, a tiny structure looking like a stack of pancakes from the side, embedded in the long curved nuclear membrane, tethering the spindle (a splayed bundle of silver branches each terminating in a jewel chromosome). The spindle structure is polished silver, lodged in the polished bronze of the membranes and surrounded by bronze endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, and other structures.

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LR Cross @lcross.bsky.social · Dec 21

Another improvised leaf wrap-around on a tiny cup. Could possibly be used as an egg cup, or shot glass…. really a glaze test, but a lovely one, if I do say so myself.

#ArtAdventCalendar

Tiny thrown and carved cup in dark brown clay, much narrower at the bottom than the top, carved with leaves somewhat resembling ferns, but improvised, that appear to wrap around the cup. Glazed in a deep blue glaze that was wiped off the raised areas of the carving before firing, revealing the brown clay.

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Gabriel Jensen @shallowseasgallery.com · Dec 20

A duo of amphipods have made this radiolarian their home. Radiolarians are part of the marine #plankton. Individual radiolarians are normally hundredths to tenths of millimeters in size, but some species amass into colonies like this one which may reach size of a whole centimeter! #marinelife 🦑

Two bug like amphipods rest on either side of a cylindrical shaped radiolarian colony. The colony appears to be a series of 8 polka dot yellow spheres smushed into a line surrounded by a halo of blue dots representing a mucus layer.

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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · Dec 20

Day 20 #ArtAdventCalendar • This #MECFS #symptomatology #embroidery, paresthesia (face) (2016), looks abstract at first glance, but is a visualization of the tingling I felt on my face at the time. #MedSky 🐡🧪🧶

paresthesia (face) 2016

An embroidery of the outline of a face in bone coloured thread on bone coloured linen. The forehead, cheeks, jaws, and temples are covered in filigree lines in dark blues, greens, and yellows. There are French knots spaced out along the lips. Lines of beige strands of thread are strung from the knots across the face in a geometric formation.

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