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Moving images documenting work & play at The Alex Diamond Mining Company. You can also check my reels on instagram for some shorter and often fun video documentation of my art.
Les Arbres de Max (2025)
Water Lilies and Agapanthus (2025)
Water Lilies and Agapanthus (2025)
Acrylic paint, carved wood. 50 x 70 x 3 cm
Here’s something new I am currently exploring. I mentioned in my last newsletter that I usually reserve the time around Christmas and the New Year to calm down, read books about famous artists (this year it’s Monet all the way), admiring and analyzing their work, wandering in their shoes and in their times for a bit, feeling how they might’ve felt – and contemplating what I (the artist) want (need!) to be doing next. There all all these ideas, thoughts, rough concepts, the nonsense and the rage, swirling around in my head. Nothing really to hold on to, but that is anyway not what I am aiming for – I try to be as free as I can in this phase. No restraints. And no pressure.
So for my first time spent in the studio this year I approached a painting from impressionist Claude Monet from 1923, called „Water Lilies and Agapanthus“, painted in his famous garden in Giverny.
I carved and painted this in my famous old farmhouse house in the countryside, middle of nowhere, up North. I hope it gives you joy.
My artwork is terrible and i am a very bad person (December 2024)
I talked about this here and in my last newsletter: The sketchbook my son Melvin gave me for Christmas, a Museum-Gift-Shop-product of questionable quality with an insulting title by one of my favorite artists (David Shrigley, don’t worry I got the irony, love it), which I grabbed one Winter morning and ‚drew through‘ all 74 pages in just one day. So now - here’s the full book. Which I returned to Melvin in January 2025 on his birthday as a present back to him.
On a cloudless summer night - the romantic drawings
How f***in romantic! I know time is an issue in today’s hectic world but if you need 90 seconds to lean back and relax a bit: I made this short clip with some of my more romantic drawings and added impressions from our summer in the countryside, as well as a rendition of Noeline Hofman‘s „Purple Gas“, just roughly recorded on the phone on my porch; listen closely and you can hear the birds sing.
For available drawings check alexdiamond.de/contact
”GONAKADET” - Work in progress, 2024
TAKEDOWN of Exhibition “They all must be slaughtered”, Feb 2024
(see also next video below)
“THEY ALL MUST BE SLAUGHTERED” - EXHIBITION AT THE MISSION, Dec 23-Feb 24
Ok. Got four minutes and your speakers on? Above is a walkthrough of my 2023/24 exhibition, including sound. You really should watch till the end (surprise awaits). This is how my new show „They all must be slaughtered“ was presented at The MISSION by heliumcowboy.
The song „They all must be slaughtered“ by the Melvins runs on constant repeat (from Vinyl), and together with the light setting it creates the unique, dark and apocalyptic athmosphere I wanted for this exhibition, which is more like a play on a stage than just a show of artworks.
Continue reading (and view more images from the exhibition and the opening)
This is all I came to do here for, Nov-Dez 2022
Making-of from my painting “This is all I came to do here for” which I painted in 2022 for the 20 year anniversary exhibition of heliumcowboy. YOu can find out more about the work and the exhibition here.
“It’s all good” - Exhibition at barlach halle k, june 2022
Film about the opening of my exibition at Barlach Halle K with the heliumcowboy gallery in June, 2022.
Film by Sebastian Etmer. Music by Duo Sabiar
Find more info and images from the exhibition here and an overview of the artwork at heliumcowboy.
The catalogue is available online in the heliumcowboy shop or directly at the gallery.
One minute fast forward video from carving a work of Alex Diamond with a composition by classical guitarist Pablo Villafuerte. Play it loud!
EINBLICK #3 VERNISSAGE | ZOOM TALK WITH GALERIST MELVIN WIEBIGKE | FEBRUARY 2021
From heliumcowboy: “Our third edition of the lockdown-exhibition series called "einblick" was be with Alex Diamond aka Jörg Heikhaus. "einblick" are one-week-exhibitions in our gallery windows. Every week heliumcowboy opened a small exhibition on two wooden walls built especially for this occasion. We invited one artist who will show his artworks on these walls for one week only, and they were be visible through our windows so you can see them from the outside, day and night, as the current regulations didn't allow visitors inside the gallery.”
INTO THE SUN | WOODCUT FOR GEBERIT | Timelapse
Flam van kreuzen | catalogue vol.1
Print Edition “ü.NN” / Kehrwieder Kreativbrauerei
WE'RE HERE TO STAY | DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Short film about the work of artist Jörg Heikhaus aka Alex Diamond, documenting the creation of the artwork "We're here to stay" in 2017.
Alex Diamond is know for his distinctive trademark woodwork: multi-layered, meticulously and highly detailed sculptural woodcuts, blended with diverse painting and pigmenting styles.
A Film by Kai Klinke
WEAPONS OF MASS SEDUCTION 2 - OPENING | NOVEMBER 11, 2017
FEATURE IN NDR TELEVISION | NOVEMBER 2017
COWBOYLAND | OPENING (2017)
WEAPONS OF MASS SEDUCTION | VICTOR CASTILLO & ALEX DIAMOND (2014)
Video from the exhibition WEAPONS OF MASS SEDUCTION by Victor Castillo & Alex Diamond, September 13–27, 2014.
A million Thank You's for the exceptional work goes out to master filmmaker Tobias Sundermann and Kool Motion Pictures!!!
And another very big thank you of course to Nitro 17 & Jo Fischer for the Soundtrack!