Snapshots – Outpost Project – Art & Paint

outpost thumb Snapshots Outpost Project Art & Paint
Here we go with our Outpost photos – we’ve been sorting through them all week looking for nuggets of goodness, and there are a whole heap. After posting up our last one of the iphone photos (that 4s does a nice job, hey?) this is another random assortment – we’ll have some feature sets coming up over the weekend.

Enjoy – we did!

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For the past ten years, Fletcher Andersen (Facter) has cut his teeth writing for a variety of street press and music magazines. Drawing on his years of writing experience, and as an artist himself, Facter founded Invurt with the aim of promoting artistic events, and the established and emerging Australasian urban, street, illustrative, underground and low brow artists that partake in them. Follow him on Instagram @facter, or go like his facebook page, and check out his website, Irikanji.

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November 11, 2011
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  • http://NA Mina Watt

    For twenty years in the lanes and byways of our cities Phib’s work has been enjoyed and instantly recognized by his fans.

    Not everyone approves of graffiti but they know quality when they see it.

    Now comes a usurper who takes that distinctive style and makes it his own — well-executed maybe, but none the less poached.

    We know that imitation is the purest sort of flattery and that Phibs has influenced a whole generation of graf writers — but this is something else.

    One could add a rat and call it a “Banksie” or include a horseman with an iron mask and give it a “Nolan” tag, but there are several “pieces” on Cockatoo Island at the moment which could only be called plagiarism. They are definitely “Phaux Phibs”.

    Signed: Phibs Phan

  • http://www.invurt.com Facter

    We’re confused by your comment here. We have been to every corner of Outpost, several times, and we see nothing like what you are talking about – can you post an image so that we can see what you mean, or indicate which pieces you mean?

    Phibs work is amazing – it has many influences to it. Sometimes artists influences run parallel and they have similar themes. Artists that also work heavily with line work, the flow can often be similar – but that’s all it is – flow. I have never seen any artists that utilise linework heavily who have styles that are the same, nor have I ever seen another line oriented successfully “rip off” another, because of the stylisation, its practically impossible to do. Too many stylistic flares, too many ways in which the patterning and portions fit together.

    Also, just because one artist is more prominent than others, doesn’t mean the efforts of those artists are derived from the prominent artists work. Many artists who have never been aware of another for years and years often discover an artist whose work resembles theirs – and, all of these guys are cool with it, in fact, many of them love these others guys work exactly for that reason, and then go off and do collabs together resulting in even more amazing work … yes there is sometimes blatant stealing, but its *hard* to steal a style and nail it, it’d take years and years of devoted, purposeful “Oh hell yeah, Im going to steal this style!” ,… what you’ve probably seen are images who have similar influences and similar ways in which they express those influences, whilst making them their own. As we said, we don’t know who you’re talking about as we havent seen anyones work on that island that is the same as anothers. I could group all kinds of artists together and play that game – but at the end of the day, each of them are getting out there, doing their own thing, and “making it their own” –

    Maybe instead of taking the “usurper” route and talking of biting and stealing work – why not go “god damn, I’d love to see those two guys paint together!!”

    Thats the kind of shit we think is cool – not throwing out words like “plagiarism” with little thought, and creating faux-beef where none should be.