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Morning all – firstly theres been a bit of a lack of updates in the last week or two, its been a really busy time for me, and theres a lot on that I’ll get around to after tonight is over, so firstly many apolgioes for that.

So I’ve been working my ass off the past few months to get my first solo show up and running – everything is now hung and its looking great – so if you’d like to come check it out, pop down!  Lots of illustrations, prints, drawings and other mixed media works, some dresses as well as custom toys – I wanted to do a whole range of stuff for my first solo, and its all really come together, and I’ve had some mad help along the way too.

I wont give too much away, but heres a couple of photos from setting up and the At Large gallery, the finished hanging looks awesome and I’m really, really happy with it!

Also opening last night was Jae Copps exhibition My Illusion Architect at Gorker Gallery, hoping to get down there tomorrow to check it out, it looks amazing!

And, to cap off a big weekend, as you all probably know (unless you live under a rock), Everfresh are also launching their Black Book at 1000 pound bend tonight! (I can never figure out how to get that pound sign!)

All in all, a huge weekend ahead, and I hope you all have a good one – back to regular scheduling next week, hope to see you all either at my show or afterwards at the launch … ez.

This has been up at a few places for a while, and flyers and facebook page have been out, but I held off posting here or promo-ing on here for a little bit – I try to keep this blog separate from any personal stuff I have going on – but its an exhibition, and its coming up, so here it is.

My first solo exhibition, Inhabited Times, will be showing at At Large Gallery in Northcote on September 3rd – its something I’ve been working on for, well, almost a decade or so of writing and drawing, so it has a fair bit of a back story to it – and you can find more details on at www.irikanji.com. The show burrows heavily from my love of scifi concepts, as well as a lot of research and my interest in the last few years on Singularity Theory.

This is, I think, the same night as the EF Book launch (alas for minor clashes), which is going to be grand, and I’ll be heading to that straight afterwards – so you should all make a night of it as well!

I’m pretty excited to be able to show a range of my work for the first time, outside of a few group shows here and there, and, of course, looking forward to getting my beer on on the night.

"Inhabited Times" is the first solo exhibition from Fletcher Andersen, presenting both new and unexhibited works from a vast, conceptual world building project over a decade in the making.

Fletcher, out of Perth and now Melbourne-based, has steadily built the dark, solar system spanning demesne of The Known. Adrift with the remnants of a technologically-rich past, wandered by the disparate remains of a xenophobic humanity; the remnants of the failed Singularity struggles to discover a route with which to rebuild life, albeit hyper-evolved.

Shining a light on humanity and its absorption of technology, Fletcher marks our vicissitudes in bionics, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence. He draws upon Singularity Theory, the concept that the pace of technological development approaches a crescendo whereat life inevitably transforms to accommodate advances in science – irrevocably altering civilisation, society and the biosystem.

Presenting a wide range of illustrations, prints and visuals, Inhabited Times is the first exploration into the vagaries, alternatives and deviations of a future civilisation in which the concept of humanity is a lost, idiosyncratic aberrative.”

Who: Fletcher Andersen   
What: Inhabited Times solo exhibition
Where: At Large Gallery, 208 High Street, Northcote
When: Friday 3rd September, opening 6pm – 9pm. Show runs to September 16th

So please check out the facebook page, as well as the website for more details and background to the concept behind the show (and to make sense of that nerd-speak haha).

So after having been online for a year, and having only posted articles up from all the archives, I’ve decided its time to start writing new material in this blog, and actually using it for the purpose it was originally intended – to act as a conduit for looking at music and art here in Australia and around the world ..

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Some friends of mine, Brian Simms and Jaz Miu are opening a gallery in Northcote this Saturday, so please feel free to come and check it out – the following is from their facebook invitation:

“AFTER MONTHS OF SLAVERY HARD WORK AND HELP FROM SOME OF YOU BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, OUR PROJECT, AT LARGE GALLERY IS FINALLY OPENING ITS DOORS TO THE PUBLIC!
Kicks off with a huge group show of 25 street and illustrative melbourne artists, 4 live graffers painting our massive brick wall outside, dope dj’s spinning dub, hiphop and specially crafted beats, and a visual montage projection of the city we know and love from 6-9.

Official Opening 6-9pm Saturday 20th June.
After party closed to public.
The group show is up for 3 weeks till 11 JULY.

free wine and nibblies, and cupcakes courtesy of anita and cheap beer at the bar.

come git. it. on. and help us celebrate this awesome thing to support beats and art.”

… yes, I will be showing a piece in the exhibition and theres some really amazing work in it from a diverse range of street artists

Welcome to my new website, I’m still fairly well just testing a lot of functionality on this site so far, but its at the very least up and running!

Bare with me whilst I get it all sorted. I’ll be starting to post up a large amount o back-dated articles and such online as well as getting the gallery working properly, so hopefully there will be a lot more to see here soon

I’m hoping to keep this blog as a general news feed on all the work I am doing, as well as a repository for all the articles that I write, and a few other things like projects I am working on and a store, as well as all the relevant contact information etc etc … I’ll also be posting up news on other artists and exhibitions that are coming up in both Perth, Melbourne and around the world … and maybe a few little tirades here and there hahaha

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