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Exhibition – Roa – Carrion – Backwoods Gallery – Melbourne

Exhibition – Roa – Carrion – Backwoods Gallery – Melbourne

This is the one that we’ve been looking forward to for years. After having discovered Roa a few years ago, we have been avidly following his work across the globe. Having had a chance to meet and watch the man paint up at Outpost Festival last year, we had always hoped that he would head down here to Melbourne to spend some time – and we got our wish!

For the past month, Roa has been working out of Backwoods on his new show, Carrion. We’ve heard a shitload about it, seen a few little previews and we can safely say that this is going to be one fucking hell of a show.

“His artwork has taken him across the world, and his massive and haunting murals featuring native fauna have made him one of this decade’s leading street artists.

ROA is an artist but at heart he’s also a zoologist and an explorer. His passion is derived from the study and the understanding of the animals he encounters.

ROA may be seen as the poetic conclusion to the nineteenth century explosion of scientific discovery – a time when Linnaeus, Darwin, et al entertained intellectual Europe with zoological discoveries, pristine environments and unimagined animals.

However, in the twenty first century, the message is a somber one. ROA’s work documents the tenuous cohabitation of animal and man within the new environment left in the the wake of discovery.

With subtle naivety, elegance and a style reminiscent of early natural history illustrations,ROA superimposes massive depictions of indigenous animals on walls, each one being a story of death and survival. Creatures perhaps acting as martyrs for the worlds which lay long forgotten at the foundations of our cities.

This friction between man, animal, civilisation and nature is the focal point for ROA’s latest exhibition at Backwoods Gallery titled; “Carrion”.”

Seriously, if you are in Melbourne and you like ANY kind of art, this is something that you have to see. Roa is, in our eyes, one of the foremost artists practicing either in the gallery, or up on the walls – in the world, and this is a very rare opportunity to view, and buy, his work.

We can’t fucking wait to see this.

Who: Roa
What: Carrion solo show
Where: Backwoods Gallery, 25 Easy St, Collingwood, VIC
When: Show opens Friday 30th November from 6pm til 9pm and runs until 16th December.

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