The creative director, Anna Burns and the photographer, Thomas Brown have done some weird and wonderful installation and painting work. Together, they have laced a set of familiar images on umbrellas, and made them into funky works of art in picturesque, public places, before, of course, blowing them up. Why not, right?

Coming across the photographer and technician Clément Briend was a pleasant surprise. His image projections give presence to something imaginary and have it visibly cooperate with reality.

Morgan Herrin is a sculptor phenom that was born with a knife and pick in his hands. With them, he hand-carves cryptic characters out of 2x4 grade wood, morphing his subjects to such fine details concluded in an evolved mutation. Herrin is currently showcased by ADA Gallery in his hometown Richmond, Virginia.

Spanish artist Alicia Martin has recently created a monumental installation for the 2012 Paper Biennial at the Meermanno Museum in The Netherlands. The public can view this sculpture pouring thousands of books onto the streets till the 25th of November.

Neil Dawson is a prominent sculptor from Christchurch, New Zealand, well-known for his suspended sculptures.

Previously featured in February 2011, we bring Daniel Arsham back for an update on his newest pieces. Arsham is an artist currently based out of both New York and Florida who creates everything from installations, sculptures, and paintings using a very diverse range of mediums and materials.

Leticia Bajuyo is an installation artist from Indiana, USA, who has put together great gaping tunnels comprised from a store-load of Compact Discs. Sort of like a musical warp-hole. I wonder whose albums they are...

Jessica Drenk is a sculptor who was raised in Montana, where she grew to appreciate her natural surroundings. Her upbringing inspired her to create organic and obscure sculptures made out of pencils resembling landscapes of her hometown.

The derelict houses you see before you are constructions from the marvellous mind of Daniel Del Nero. Daniel's miniature Metropolis was built from nothing but the simple components of black paper and flour which arequite literally "moulded" together.

Choi Xoo Ang is an emerging mixed media artist based out of Seoul, South Korea who creates figurative sculptures out of clay and resin that examines human rights, society’s pathological state, and sex and gender politics among other themes.

Unmask Beijing is an art collective founded on three core artists Liu Zhan, Kuang Jun and Tan Tiawei. They produce incomplete sculptures that allow the viewers to fulfill the rest with their own imagination. Majority of their work is constructed out of stainless steel and marble leaving a modern approach with a classical touch.

Michael Thomas Hill's installation was completed in 2011 and is located in an alleyway next to Angel Place, a recital hall in Sydney, Australia. Forgotten Songs commemorates the birds once heard in Central Sydney before they were gradually forced out by European settlement. "Some of these birds can still be heard on the city margins where they find food and shelter in thick native vegetation. Others have retracted still further." The installation plays the songs of the daytime birds during the day and the songs of the nocturnal birds into the late eventing.

Lucy Glendinning is a Swedish artist who, inspired by contemporary British sculpture traditions, has created a range of human related installations and sculptures which explore the concepts of paradoxical qualities and visions of future society.

Sainer, aka Przemek Blejzyk was featured on May 17th 2010. He makes his return on EK  along with Etam Cru, a collaborative project that combines the monstrous talents of polish of street artists Sainer and Bezt as well as other amazing occasional collaborators . The enormous pieces are a mind trip indeed.

Zaha Hadid's architecture firm was recently commissioned by Russian billionaire Vladislav Doronin to design (girlfriend) Naomi Campbell's modern spaceship-like house. The structure is currently being built in Moscow, Russia, where the tower approximately reaches 22 meters high in a secluded residential area of Barvikha. After the break, features conceptual designs, and actual snap shots of the enterprise.

Hirotoshi Itoh is a wonder with stone.  His sense of humor is nice and subdued but right on the button, and the more you look the more you smile.

Naoko Ito is a Japanese born, New-york dwelling installation artist who explores the capture of the concept of nature within the artificial. By putting branches within jars, with careful consideration to make sure they still link to each other in view and touch each other in essence and spirit, Naoko produces an installation that shows the natural being incarcarated by the man-made.

Sayuri Sasaki Hemann creates artificially metropolitan installations of segments of her own “world”.

Eric Daigh is back with another batch of his mindblowing pinworks. Using 5 colors of pushpins, he crafts these meticulous and cunning portraits. A modern pointillism that reveals more and more the closer you let him draw you in.

Jake & Dinos Chapman are British artists who creates prints, installations, miniature scenes, and most obviously sculptures examining contemporary politics, religion, morality, and sexuality with searing wit. The Chapman duo combines humor and horror, the sublime and perverse, in ways that shock and confront viewers with their voyeuristic style of art.