Posts by Emma Taggart

Emma Taggart

Emma Taggart is a Staff Writer and Video Editor at My Modern Met. She earned a BA in Fashion and Textile Design at the University of Ulster in Belfast. Originally from Northern Ireland, she lived in Berlin for many years, where she fostered a career in the arts, dabbling in everything from illustration and animation to music and ceramics. She now calls Edinburgh home, where she continues to work as a writer, illustrator, and ceramicist. Her ceramics, often combined with hand-painted animation frames, capture playful scenes that celebrate freedom and movement, and blend her passion for art with storytelling. Her illustrations have been featured in The Berliner Magazine as well as other print magazines and a poetry book.
Sculpture
August 5, 2019

Artist Crafts Miniature Ceramic Vases Small Enough to Sit on Your Fingertip

Hand-throwing perfectly formed vessels on a pottery wheel is an impressive skill in itself, but Japanese ceramicist Yuta Segawa takes the art form a step further by crafting vases in miniature scale. His growing collection of over 1,000 tiny vessels features an array of tiny, colorful vases—all of which have been made with the same attention to detail as a full-sized piece would.

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Animals
August 1, 2019

Surreal Photo Mash-Ups Cleverly Merge Animals with Food

Photo manipulation artist Ronald Ong creates surreal image mashups that cleverly merge animals with food and other unexpected items. From a zebra mixed with a stack of Oreos (aptly titled “ZEBREO”) to a fox with a loaf of bread for a body (“LOAFOX”), Ong’s portfolio of strange, animal hybrids look like they’re straight out of a delicious dream.

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Art
July 25, 2019

Interview: This Artist is Giving 10,000 Artworks Away for Free After His Exhibition

Denver-based artist Jonathan Saiz believes everyone should have art in their life, so he decided to give 10,000 of his own pieces away for free. He spent an intense 5 months creating his collection of two-by-two-inch drawings, paintings, and sculptures—all of which explore the idea of utopia. All 10,000 works are currently on display at the Eyes On exhibition at the Denver Art Museum on a single 33-foot-wide pillar called #WhatIsUtopia.

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Sculpture
July 12, 2019

Paper Artist Engineers Incredible Relief Sculptures Entirely by Hand

Artist Matthew Shlian describes himself as a “paper engineer,” and it’s clear to see why—his impressive relief sculptures look as though they’ve been formed using a machine, but they’re actually meticulously hand-made from paper. Shlian is clearly a master of paper art, but he also has an eye for color, giving his three-dimensional, mosaic-like forms a whole new level of interest and depth.

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My Modern Met

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