Windspeed by Qin Yufen

The artist Qin Yufen lives and works in Beijing and Berlin, working with flowing fabrics and the Chinese tradition of organic art. Constructed in China, and shown here alongside Herzog + de Meuron’s totemic new Olympic Stadium, ‘Windspeed’ comprises large glassfibre forms, wrapped in thousands of brightly coloured, hand-cut pieces of silk.

Qin Yufen took the sycamore seed as her inspiration, as they rely on the wind to spread themselves far and wide.

Qin’s other celebrated installation, entitled Nomades, was set in a mountainous valley south west of Beijing and depicts the DB9 nestling among pyramids constructed of bamboo and brightly coloured silk panels.

Healing Being by Lawson Oyekan

Oyekan’s ‘Healing Being’, which has been awarded the Grand Prize at the first World Ceramics Biennale in Seoul, is a two-metre high hollow tower, carefully hand-fashioned from terracotta. The towers form ‘an expression of human endurance’, implying the possibility of healing human suffering.

Artist Lawson Oyekan grew up in Nigeria before studying fine art at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art. His visual language evolved through working with porcelain and terracotta, shaping the material into large, monolithic forms, frequently pierced and adorned with texts in both English and Yoruban.

Elements by Clint Strydom

South African photographer Clint Strydom has a remarkable affinity with form, detail and line. Strydom specialises in abstract and natural imagery and, thanks to his grounding in art, graphic design and photography, his work has a strong sense of form and texture.

The rugged and beautiful South African coast of his childhood is also a formative inspiration. Strydom’s ‘Elements’ is a photographic project that presents a new way of looking at the ‘landscape’ of car design. "An Aston Martin is a unique combination of pure lines restraining and holding down a flexed and powerful force," says Strydom.