Body tattooing and piercing are as old as the human civilization? Many cultures have been practicing body piercing and tattooing for centuries.

When it comes to modeling, many people have the notion that they either have to live in California or in New York or Toronto. After all, that?s where most of the big modeling agencies are. Granted, if you lived in Los Angeles, California or New York City, you?d probably have an easier time getting into the modeling industry.

This article is a brief description of the evolution of Chinese art and its influences.

Enrico David?s large-scale canvases explore personal identity within the public domain. Dealing with issues of queer politics, David appropriates elements from modernist design and contemporary culture to develop an intimate platform of fantasy and revelation. Created in embroidery on tie-dyed fabric, Stick of Rock presents a quirky sexuality based equally in high fashion, subculture, and home craft.

Molly Larkey?s The Revolutionary playfully incorporates elements of formalist abstraction with its symbolic subject matter. Constructed from a variety of materials, Larkey gives her sculpture a rainbow treatment of brightly coloured paint, each rough hewn component compiling as a topsy-turvy monument, inciting both Modernist art history and hippie psychedelia.

Peter Peri. View art work,selected exhibitions and paintings of artist Peter Peri at The Saatchi Gallery - London contemporary art gallery.

Stef Driesen draws inspiration from the compositions, colour palettes, and themes explored by these Old Masters View art work,selected exhibitions and paintings of artist Stef Driesen at The Saatchi Gallery - London contemporary art gallery.

A more satisfying relationship between text and objects is "staged" right now with the works of Tom Burr.Tom Burr. View art work,selected exhibitions and paintings of artist Tom Burr at The Saatchi Gallery - London contemporary art gallery.

Thomas Houseago, Matthew Monahan and Lara Schnitger will each be presenting new sculpture and Amy Bessone will show new paintings. Amy Bessone had a solo exhibition (with Thomas Houseago) at Gallery Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium and was in the group show b.a.-ba, un choix dans la collection du Frac Bretagne, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France.

There is a huge difference between a great craftsman and a true artist. Neither is better than the other of course, but artistry is certainly a world unto itself. It is not about emulating heroes, it is about reaching deep inside and communicating art in the most personal and often vulnerable way.