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Exhibition – Jacinta Kyam – House Of Bricks – Melbourne

We love finding out about new artists, and Jacinta Kyam sure is one that we’re pretty keen on finding out even more about! We have covered a fair bit of collage in the past (obviously, one of our favourites, Phoenix, makes an appearance on here often) and we’re damn glad to see even more coming out to put on shows – this show looks fkn splendid indeed!

"Exhibition One explores the process between instinct and fine art through collage making.
Jacinta has become a collage artist, in her words, ‘by accident’. It all started as a teenager when instead of plastering her walls with posters of her favourite celebrities she would create elaborate collages on her walls with cut up magazines and bluetak (much to her mother’s delight!).

Kyam’s original collages take up to 2 months to complete. These collages are photographed, blown up and printed on metallic photographic paper. The effect is stunning. The viewer can observe the meticulous hand cut detail of the collages, viewing their sculptural detail and lucid, contrasting imagery as a photographic whole. Kyam’s works are inspired, contemporary and a refreshing take on collage. The inspiration for the collection has come from Kyam’s background in fashion and art magazines. The process of creating the imagery evolves as the pictures ‘speak’ to her.

Renowned photographer Rob Little has photographed each work. The resulting original prints are simply beautiful. The size, colour and detail – awe-inspiring.
Jacinta recalls stapling one of her teenage bedrooms together with a staple gun until it resembled somewhat of an installation with fabric billowing from the ceiling, textural fabric ‘art’ on the walls and of course, her collage which resulted in a rather unpleasant phone call from her mother when she took apart the room after Jacinta left home. It looked like someone had gone over the walls and ceiling with a sewing machine.

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These instinctual beginnings have flourished into mature surrounds, where approach to the medium is the only thing that has shifted over time. From childhood to adolescence we take in an entire life, reflected through the care and detail of the assembled images. Jacinta’s work is original and like nothing else. Jacinta prefers not to see what other collage artists are doing as she feels it may taint the purity of her work which is her own and not inspired by any other artist. The inspiration comes when the pictures start coming together.

“It’s like an infant growing to full maturity, evolving and changing every step of the way”.

Yeah, we’re really liking the look of this one, so get yourself down to House Of Bricks this
Friday night to see this mad collage artist in action – colour and depth, oh my.

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Who: Jacinta Kyam
What: Exhibition One solo show
Where: House Of Bricks, Budd St, Collingwood
When: Show opens Friday 12th April 6-9pm and runs til 28th April.

Check out the facebook event page and www.houseofbricks.net for more info on the show!!!

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Exhibition – RAWHIDE- C R E W / C U T S – Adelaide

 

Alas, we missed getting this up in time for the opening of the show (welcoem to the world of Guatemalan internet – or the lack thereof!), but it looks like a great one! Crew / Cuts will be on for two weeks and you should get down to see it – RAWHIDE is one mad collaboration between two talented artists, acting as one!

"Adelaide staunch and fertile duo, Ankles and Smile, of the rollin’ Rawhide crew, return to the gallery in a follow up to their debut exhibition ‘Frontier’ last November (editor, see my website for pics). Friday, 29th March, sees Rawhide present their second show, ‘Crew Cuts’ featuring new work in cut paper.

Ankles and Smile’s own collage work predate their collaborative vandalism as Rawhide, so they’ve put our paint rollers down for the moment to combined forces in paper collage, the least popular artform known to man.

The work aims to be the visual equivalent of sample-heavy scratch DJs such as Cut Chemist, Kid Koala and The Avalanches. It is a time-consuming, yet therapeutic process digging through crates of pre-1970s magazines and books, removing type and image from their original context and rearranging it to form some self-referential narrative."

Check out the video for the show below!

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Who: Rawhide (Ankles & Smile)
What: CREW / CUTS
Where: Magazine Gallery, 83a Hindley St, Adelaide
When: Show opened last Friday 29th of March, and runs for two weeks – head down and see it before its over!

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Snapshots – Lush – Evolution Of A Graffiti Shit Cunt – Backwoods Gallery – Melbourne

If it’s one artist who never fails to make an impression, its Lush. We’ve interviewed him not once, but twice over the years, and followed his escapades across the globe and there hasn’t been much from him that we haven’t loved.

Evolution Of A Graffiti Shit Cunt (sorry to those who are so easily offended, we don’t censor shit haha!) sounds like it was a total blast – and, just one of those "you had to be there to believe it" shows.

Thankfully for us, after a bit of a hiatus, our good friend Lachlan Curtin-Corr was at the show to grab a whole bunch of photos for us – and we think you’ll agree with us, it’s always great to see Lachlans camera work here (theres just something about film!) – muchos gracias man!

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Event – Invurt & Silent Army + Much More @ Blender Lane Artists Market – Melbourne

In just over a week, I’ll be heading off for more distant shores (more on this later!), but, in the meantime, I’ve decided its high time to do something down at the amazing Blender Lane Artists Market . We’ve got a new shipment of stickers through, some tests of the new shirts we’re about to release on Redbubble (again, more on that soon) and a few other cool things as well – we’ll be giving out stickers and selling sticker packs on the night to visitors to the market.

As you know I’m not usually one for self promotion here on Invurt, but I’ll be selling a bunch of my own artwork on the night - I’d love to try to get rid of as many of my drawings as I can to happy buyers before I leave Melbourne. We’ll be joined by a few friends as well, so you never know what might turn up on the table of loot! We’ll be camped out just inside the studio entrance itself down the back of the Blender laneway.

Also on the night, Silent Army will be releasing some new fanzines as a part of their ongoing mission to provide you all with grand art and comic treasures in tidy, zinely format. This latest iteration is another version of Who Is Ha-Ha – one of our favourites. Plus, the Silent Army have an entire zine workshop set up in the back of Blender studios, with a heap of zines and other cool shit, which you should really check out if you haven’t seen it yet!!

Blender Lane artists market is hands down, our favourite mid-week activity in the past few weeks it has been absolutely pumping. With more and more stalls all the time, and a huge variety of cool, creative art and other eclectica on sale, oh, and not to mention all of the live entertainment – well, it’s a grand night out. If you’re interested in having a stall at the market, just email them – market@theblenderstudios.com

Seeya all there!

 

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Who: Melbourne artists, artisans, Craftspeople
What: Blender Lane Artists Market
Where: Blender Laneway & Studios, 110 Franklin St, Melbourne
When: Event starts at 5pm this Wednesday January 23rd – runs til 10pm – Night Market runs every Wednesday night!

Check out the Blender Lane Artists Market facebook page for more info, or head over to the Blender Studios facebook page.

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Exhibition – Cardboard City – Soldiers Rd Gallery – Sydney

Soldiers Rd, which opened earlier this year, has already had some of our favourite shows and put some damn fine artwork up on the walls. Now, in the leadup to Xmas, the gallery gathers together a whole bunch of exciting artists to transform the simple cardboard medium into works of art – at an amazingly affordable price, as well!

“Cardboard city offers up 25 Australian artists, from the up and coming to the super experienced, practicing photography, fine art, street art and everything in between in one room for one night only.

Each artist will exhibit 10 pieces, on cardboard at $100 a pop. With those the only restrictions expect diversity, ingenuity, and a whole load of cardboard in the explosion of works set to fill every nook and cranny of Soldiers Rd on Thursday December 13th.

Works are expected to fly off the walls so get in early to grab a piece from your favourite artist without having to pawn your bike to pay the bills!”

We love cardboard!! Twenty five by ten – thats two hundred and fifty works of art all for under a hundred bucks each – and damn if we dont want some of that!

It only runs for the night, so theres only one chance to see it all. Head down to Soliders Rd Gallery this Thursday to see it all for yourself, and grab yourself some work from these awesome artists.

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Who: Ears, Bennet, Mark Alsweiler, Max Berry, Numskull, Phibs, Jumbo, Bridge Stehli, Tom Ferson, SMC, Houl, Bafcat, Birdhat, Joe Wilson, Chanelle Collier, Ella Condon, Syke, Benjamin Reeve, Claire Nakazawa, Choq, Tim Andrew, Kaffeine, Michael Hazel, Mim Fluhrer, Sid Tapia
What: Cardboard City group show
Where: Soldiers Rd Gallery, Suite 405, 342 Elizabeth St, Surry Hills, Sydney
When: Show opens Thursday 13th December from 6pm til 9pm, for ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Check out the facebook event page for more info on this show, as well as the Soldiers Rd Gallery website.

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Exhibition – Alterations, Disturbances & Rips – RTIST Gallery – Melbourne

So much great shit on this week, and we apologise for being a bit behind on our events – we’ve missed a couple, alas – the crazy season has truly come, that’s for sure.

Not to miss tomorrow night, however, is the next awesome show out of RTIST Gallery – and this time, its the kings of Australian collage and cut will making themselves known as Alterations, Disturbances & Rips makes its way onto the walls of one of our favourite galleries.

"Collage” originally a French word, derived from the word coller, meaning “to paste” is an art form very much reflective of our omnipresent consumer culture and a compelling medium in the contemporary art practice that seeks to interrogate it.

The cut-up aesthetic, the chopping up of found imagery and the reshuffling of the fragments, invests new meaning in familiar imagery. Themes of anarchy, instability and heterogeneity emerge as everyday images are deconstructed and reassembled.

Sampling and tapping into the ubiquitous scraps of modern life the exhibition suggests an investigation around the Collage medium and the various techniques employed by the 4 participating artists.

With each artist engaging with the medium from a different perspective the resulting assemblage of artworks will present as a complex tapestry of investigations – joined in the gallery space to become an extensive and multifaceted collage in itself."

This is something a little different, but really fkn awesome. We’re big fans of collage work, its a challenging medium for most – but these guys are real masters of their game, and their techniques for producing their work is phenomenal.

Definitely go and check it out for yourselves.

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Who: Kareem Rizk, Mauro Palmieri, Danilo Brandao and Phoenix
What: Alterations, Disturbances & Rips group show
Where: RTIST Gallery, 29 St Edmonds Rd, Prahran
When: Show opens 7PM Friday the 16th of November, 2012.

Check out RTIST Gallery, and the facebook event page for more info.

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Snapshots & Review – AWOL – Fabric – Melbourne

I try hard not to use too many “buzz words” on here – its inevitable, really … but, having had a chance to get to two opening of AWOL Fabric exhibition, all I can really say about this is “next fucking level” – argh, there, I said it.

On the private opening night last Thursday, I was rendered speechless  All the hard work and effort that the crew had put in to create something unique had paid off; enormously so. This was a collaborative show that outstrips most other collaborative shows I have seen, and easily ranks in probably the top 10 exhibitions I have seen in my life. I’m not just saying that because  I count the AWOL guys as mates (I mean, they’re all just a damn great bunch of people), I’m saying that because it is very rare that I can walk into a show and find it hard to vocalise how I feel about it. I’m saying it because it was, for me, an epiphany and a vision of what can be done with a tight, solid and experienced collaborative team.

The second night, I arrived all ready for another go at it all again – hilariously, there was a booze bus set up right outside the show. It just added to the whole momentum of the night, having that presence right outside the door – you just can’t plan that kind of shit. The venue itself, an old pump house, was gorgeous – how the hell they managed this, who knows, but there was no more fitting venue for their work. High arches reaching up, a piece from each artist framed within. Then downstairs, almost an entirely different show from above, yet without losing the synergy that the main room had already set up the stage for. It was as if upstairs was the first act, downstairs was the second act, and, the final act … well, the final act was the opening itself, and the meanderings of conversation and talk about the images upon the walls – the artists themselves, each of them a frazzled frenzy as they tried to speak to everyone at once – you could see the past few weeks burnt into their eyes, an irascible glow mitigated between joy and exhaustion.

Even now, trying to encapsulate this show in words really just doesnt do it justice. Was it the 10m mural, created by all of the crew in one brilliant montage of style? Was it the installation downstairs, jagged and edged, and yet feeling as it was merely a natural extension of the room? Was it the collaborative works, that made me feel as if I had been introduced to a whole swath of new, unique artists, “ghost” artists whose only existence in upon a canvas of work created by two or more of the artists? Was it one of my favourite pieces, a small image of a guy laying down with text by Li-Hill, which didn’t grab me immediately … until I looked closer, and saw the beautiful solar panels of a fucking soviet era inspired space station emerging from a etched mist of lines? Fuck yeah.

Was it the fact that every AWOL artist contributed to the show, and the only time I had been able to see how they worked together had been back at the NGV – which, frankly, was a great piece, but nothing next to this?

Slicers impressionistic-abstract letterforms, Adnates soulful eyes and laconic, colourful women,  Lucy Lucys patterned and evocative girls, Itchs sublime surrealistic assaults, Li-Hills lines – those fkn lines! and Deams amazing geometric directions I hadn’t seen before. It was all of the above – it was fucking AWOL.

Anyways, I could probably ramble on about this show for a long time – others probably will. So, in lieu of my espousing even more shit in an attempt to annunciate how I felt about it all, and failing dismally, check out the video they’ve just put out, and then check out all the photos we got on the night … massive thanks to Dave Russell for grabbing all of these for us!

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Snapshots – Matthew Dunn VS Kaitlin Beckett – ArtBoy Gallery

As you all know we a had a massive night Friday with four big openings in the one night.

VS was our second stop of the evening after TwoOnes show, and both Marc Huntington and Matt Griffith of ArtBoy Gallery did a great job in helping to put these two artists together in the same room!

With battle lines drawn, maps of the conflict and each section of the wall dedicated to a part of the ongoing struggle, the war of art was, we can say for a certainty, definitely a draw – or at least, a good dose of M.A.D.!! Kaitlin Becketts creatures, and Matt Stewarts urban warriors continue the ultimate struggle ….

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Exhibition – Back & Forth – Brisbane

Tonight brings more cool shit! As a part of Semi-Permanent in Brisbane, Benjamin Reeve  has curated a side show of fairly grand proportions – taking music laden talent and combining it with visual creatives.

"BACK AND FORTH is an ART exhibition that pitches a number of Australian visual artists alongside some of Australia’s most exciting DJs in a collaboration that celebrates the culture and tradition of the mix-tape."

ARTISTS:

Big THANKS to the guys from Laced and Ironlak. Curated by Benjamin Reeve for The Bureau."

We’ve also been seeing some work in progress shots of the stuff that Gimiks Born and Beastman have been doing – and its fkn rad.

Head down tomorrow night to see it all!

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Who: BEN ELY (Regurgitator, Pangaea… etc, Mark Drew -(SYD/TOKYO, Slurpee Slug (SYD, Amy Longworth (BRIS, Jesse Olsen (BRIS, Drew Bickford (SYD) – Installation piece:
BEASTMAN (SYD) and GIMIKS BORN (BRIS)
DJ’s: SAMPOLOGY, DJ KATCH (Resin Dogs, CUTLOOSE, SLYNK, DJ BACON, DJ BUTCHER
What: Back & Forth Semi Permanent group show
Where: Blake House, 35 Adelaide Street, Brisbane
When: Thursday 30th August from 8pm til late!

Check out the facebook event page and Semi Permanent for more info on the show!!

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International – Magazine Launch – King Brown #8 – NYC

For every issue of Kingbrown magazine that comes out, there is always that period of anticipation – but finally the next issue is here, and we’re gleefully rubbing our hands in anticipation of seeing all the shots and work that will be in their official launch party in NYC.

"NEW YORK, NY, Klughaus Gallery is pleased to present: Australia’s “Kingbrown Magazine” / Launch and Opening Exhibition.

We are thrilled to announce the official launch and exhibition of Kingbrown Magazine, Edition #8, co-curated by Morning Breath on July 26th, 2012 at Klughaus Gallery/47 Monroe Street NYC, NY from 6:00pm – 11:00pm.
Kingbrown and Morning Breath have collaborated with curators, John Leo and Melissa McCaig-Welles to bring you a dynamic collection of skateboard inspired artwork. The exhibition will showcase some of the world’s most influential artists from members of the infamous Girl/Chocolate Art Dump, pioneers in NYC graffiti, talented illustrators, animators, art stars from Australia, sculptors, and that guy living in the NY green diamond.

Kingbrown is a distinctively designed magazine, sitting somewhere between a book, a magazine and an art zine. As a super limited edition periodical, delivered inside a hand silkscreened brown bag, sewn closed with artist stickers and posters included, Kingbrown remains different from any other publication.

Conceived in 2006 by co-creators Yok and Ian Mutch in Perth, Australia, Kingbrown’s mission was to produce a limited edition work of art, which would reach a wider audience, allowing accessibility to the public and its entirety. Each “magazine” is handcrafted and designed by some of the world’s leading innovators of photography, illustration and urban and skateboard art and design. Produced on museum quality paper, each page is a collectable item, individually sealed and packaged. Now in its 8th edition, Kingbrown has achieved worldwide success and is now launching for the first time in the US.
The term “Kingbrown” is Australian slang for a 40oz, and the magazine’s slogan “wrapped in a brown bag, just like a good 40 should”, is just as original as the artists it represents. This latest 8th edition, co-curated by the renowned collaborative, “Morning Breath”, focuses it’s topic on the visually rich artists who have influenced the world of skateboarding."

Grab a copy of King Brown issue #8 here, you won’t regret it! Man, wish we were in NYC this weekend.

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Who: Mike Giant ,Grotesk, Andy Jenkins,Jay Howell, Dave Kinsey, Kevin Lyons, Greg Lamarche, Tommy Guerrero, Cycle, Pontus Alv, Razauno, Stefan Marx, Steve Gourlay, Zach Malfa-Kowalski ,Ben Horton.
What: King Brown Magazine #8 launch party
Where: Klughaus Gallery, NYC
When: Show opens Thursday July 26th at 6pm

Check out the Kingbrown website and the facebook event page for more info.

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Snapshots – Paperape – Melbourne

Last Friday night we helped to put on a show with a whole bunch of amazing artists, Paperápe, and we had a hell of a lot of fun! All the works were done on paper, and we wanted to imbue the walls with a little bit of each of us, and impart some of the fun that we have when we’re out painting together.

The art here in Melbourne is grand, but it is nothing without the amazing community of people that support it. We’d like to thank everyone that has come to check it out so far. Great to see so many familiar faces and friends, and a lot of new ones too!

Big thanks also to Doss Blockos and Redbull who kept all of our guests lubricated throughout the evening, their support was hugely appreciated.

The show is still running until Sunday, so if you’re in Melbourne head down to Egg Gallery in Collingwood and check it out for yourself. In the meantime, we have a shitload of photos from the setup, the opening and all the work to share with you …

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Event & Exhibition – Pop M’art Grand Finale – Melbourne

Finale? Damn! Pop M’art is so cool, and it’s gained a lot of attention and fans over the past few months. It’s a great concept, and we’re sad to see that this will be the last one –
but what a finale it’s going to be!

"Pop M’art is a pop up art studio. We can appear anywhere and anybody can come along. It’s what we call ‘social creativity’. In just 3 months, we have popped up in 16 different locations and have painted with more than 344 people in total.

We are showcasing 200 of these artworks, which will be silent auctioned and the top 10 works, curated by renowned artist Matthew Quick, will be available in the main auction. All proceeds donated to The Starlight Children’s Foundation. All starting bid are as low as $20 and we promise you it will be an evening of drinks, film screening, art talk, auctions and live music performances and maybe even a cat-fight or two over the paintings!

There will be a mobile bar serving drinks and a booth selling hot fresh pizza, delicious soup and hot chocolate from The Convent’s Bakery!

Come along and if you like an artwork you see, then write down your bid on the sheet next to the artwork. The silent auction will conclude at 8.30pm and the winning bidder will make payment and be able to take their prize home with them. Please kindly arrive on time.

Payment on the night – Cash preferred as payment. All bidding, beer and macrons proceeds donated to The Starlight Children’s Foundation."

if you’re keen on something unique and different, and entirely social, head down to Abbotsford this Saturday to check it all out!

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Who: Could be anyone, that’s the fun of it!
What: Pop M’Art – social creativity event
Where: Abbotsford Convent, Abbotsford, VIC
When: Saturday 7th July from 6pm til 9:30pm

Check out the Pop M’art facebook page, their website and and the facebook event page

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Exhibition – Miso – Tokyo From Memory – Adelaide

Melbourne artist Miso has a new show coming up tomorrow night at Hugo Mitchell Gallery in Adelaide.

Pushing further into her cut out paper phase, Misos latest work is an absolute delight. Intricate, fragile and beautiful, her new pieces look to be an absolute labour of love and cutting. Some of the details on these works are so fine that we have a hard time imagining exactly how time and effort has gone into them – and we love them for it!

There are a whole bunch of photos of the works in the show on the Tokyo From Memory tumblr site, head over there and see what we mean!

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Who: Miso
What: Tokyo From Memory
Where: Hugo Mitchell Gallery, 260 Portrush Rd, Beulah Park, Adelaide
When: Show opens Thursday 28th June from 6pm til 9pm and runs til July 21st.

Check out Miso here and the Tokyo From Memory website.

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Snapshots & Review – Art Melbourne

Last Saturday, we took ourselves down to Art Melbourne – like many of you probably did, if you’re here in the ‘burn.

Total artgasm. There was so much work on display, of such variety, that it was almost a little overwhelming – it was as if we’d gone to twenty, thirty, or more different shows in the one day. Throughout it though, there was some amazing work.

A lot of our favourites and friends were there – RTIST Gallery, Just Another Agency, Blender, ArtSeries, Metro, Edwina Corlette, and then there were some great names that we didn’t expect or were new to us – Coates and Scarry in particular blew us away upon entry, US stencil artists Zerosix, Upraw, Will & Caro and many more. There was some live painting from Adnate and others, and several talks throughout the whole thing including ELK up on stage with a bunch of other "younger" artists in Young Guns III.

Oh, and can we make a special mention and congrats to our friend Kristen McIver – who was the very first winner of the inaugural Melbourne Sculpture Prize which was announced as part of the event? If you haven’t seen her work, its fantastic, and well deserved of winning this award!

All in all, there was only a small fraction of work that we had seen bits and pieces of in shows before, a lot of work from specific artists was brand new for the event, thankfully. We were constantly surveying the walls, spotting shit that we loved, shit that we didn’t really care for, and shit that we never actually knew we cared for until we saw it.

Of course, everyone has their own aesthetic when it comes to art, and that’s the great thing about these events – every taste is almost guaranteed to be catered for in one respect or another. Even when we arrived we could see people walking out, canvases in hands.

It was a great day, and we probably could have spent longer here, but our brains were exploding from too much visual stimulation after only a few hours – but all in all, it was a fantastic event. Here’s hoping that a whole bunch of artists made some cash from their passion over the course of the event.

Check out the pics below, and click through the pages … we’re not kidding when we say that there was a lot of shit on display!

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Snapshots – Ryan McGennisken & Hollie M Kelly – Sleep & Wake @ Egg Gallery – Melbourne

Friday night before heading over to Tom Civils show Long Story, we stopped in at Egg Gallery to see Ryan McGennisken and Hollie M Kellys show, Sleep & Wake.

Cutouts, illustrations, girls, strange dreamlike scenery and elements of the fantastical pervaded both artists works, and though they both have very different illustrative techniques, common elements (particularly an array of several notational strokes) carried over between all of their pieces. The work on either side of the gallery was in harmony, bonded together by a gorgeous, hat catching installation in the centre of the room. Wonderful.

After having followed their work for so long, it was also really nice to finally get the chance to meet both of the artists! Check out all the pics from the show below, and head down to Egg Gallery over the next week or so to see it all for yourself!

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Exhibition – Tim Shepheard – ArtBoy Gallery – Melbourne

Prahran continues to go from strength to strength, shrugging off its gentrification stigmas with galleries, shows and art popping up all over the place. One of our favourite galleries, ArtBoy, continues to bring new an cool art to the area, and this next show from Tim Shepheard looks to be another fine addition to what can be seen in the area in the weeks to come.

Tim Shepheard is a multitalented artist, who eschews a wonderful pop sensibility with his artistic output, taking timeless images and iconic figures and enlivening them with modern edge.

"From his small town beginnings to jet setting around the world, Tim Shepheard’s first exhibition in 5 years celebrates the fame and glamour of the ‘International Icon’ with a quiet nod to his country town ‘kitschy’ roots.

Exhibiting professionally since 2000, it’s the merging of Tim’s eye for detail together with his perception of visual imagery that has led his artwork to evolve into such a unique and detailed style. Tim’s collection of portraits of 20th century icons including the likes of Liz Taylor and Marilyn Monroe, are meticulously created dot by dot from vintage magazines. 

“The image itself is entirely created with dots similar to the way old newspaper pictures were printed. By applying this same principal, an image emerges made from tiny 5 cent piece-sized pictures and words. It is sort of like turning pre-digital printing back on itself.”

With magazine headlines like “Can Liza Really Love Two Men?” and “What Really Killed Marilyn? ”, Tim has been able to pay homage to both the Icon and the gossip tabloid press of the day. Hunting down magazines relating to the subject is paramount.

“The portrait of Marilyn Monroe is comprised from an original 1962 LIFE magazine where she graced the cover, sprinkled with some 1960’s Woman’s Weekly for good measure!”

Tim gained his Diploma in Theatre Crafts at NIDA in 2001 and jumped straight into the film industry. His career as a fabricator for a Melbourne-based creature workshop has seen him apply his talents to various TV, Film and international Arena spectaculars including:

Star Wars – Episode III, Charlotte’s Web, Rogue,Farscape, Walking With Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular and How To Train Your Dragon – The Arena Spectacular. Having sold work both locally and internationally, Tim’s dedication to his unique style of work never ceases to captivate and amaze."

See, the things you learn – we had no idea that he was involved creating creatures for some of our favourite movies and shows – Walking with Dinosaurs! Awesome!

Can’t wait to get down to ArtBoy to see this one – cool as!

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Who: Tim Shepheard
What: Tim Shepheard solo show
Where: ArtBoy Gallery, 99 Greville Street, Prahran, VIC
When: Show opens Friday 18th May, from 6pm til 9pm and runs until the 27th of May.

Check out the Artboy Gallery website, the facebook event page, as well as Tim Shepheards website for more info.

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