Ivan Ushkov has had his images confiscated by the police, compared shooting notes with Dennis Hopper, and been fired from a casino for insobriety. One of the least predictable creatives we’ve seen this side of the Balkans.

“Got wood?” asks Nicola Barnes in our latest poster. Well, Michael T Rea does. The Chicagoan carves space shuttles, time machines, and machine guns from humble timber. His work appears to be an odd mixture of devotion and revulsion towards modern technology, which he interprets in great detail without reference to photos or models.

Ron English has recently created gallery-sized canvases, which are being displayed in the UK for the first time this week at Elms Lester Painting Rooms in a show called Lazarus Rising. See also the video about his Abraham Obama

Read full interview on Don’t Panic Online