The Art of Installations

You don’t need a history lesson to be aware of the symbiotic relationship between fashion and art. Think YSL & Mondrian, Vuitton & Murakami, Schiaparelli & Dada. But the relationship is not strictly limited to designer and artist. From a retail point of view, the sensory experience of an art installation, within a boutique environment, can add a whole lot of style cred to a store. Via Alley, in Sydney’s Surry Hills, is a store devoted to directional design, be it fashion, graphic or art. Regularly host to pop-ups and presentations, this month they’re celebrating their first birthday with a special sculptural installation from artist Kim Songhe. Songhe’s style of work is self-described as “One child’s junk can be another eccentric adult’s pleasure”. Inspired by the recycling of garbage, Songhe’s idea is to bring new life to dying objects by crafting natural materials with reusable wastes. Her chandeliers, which are a romantic nod to nostalgia and Disney characters, are on show in the shop front of Via Alley. 

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Monday, May 24th, 2010

For The Boys

Occasionally we neglect our male readers with a lack of substantial mens fashion posts. It's not that we don't care or forget, but sometimes with mens fashion it takes a little longer to find something to pique our interest. So in the interest of our readers we have found something for the boys, and for the ladies

Posted in Artist, Fashion by Canvas
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Jesus Help Me Find My Proper Place

Don’t worry, we’re not turning to Christ, it’s just the title to Lucas Price’s solo show at Black Rat Press. The title’s appropriated from a Velvet Underground track and has been reinterpreted by Price as a direct reference to his past (which includes homelessness, drug addiction and jail time). Speaking on street art is quite foreign to us but his politically-loaded satire and social commentary is thought provoking, even to the amateur voyeur. This exhibition is a series of installations, in collaboration with Sweet Toof who seems to be known as the ‘dentist to the streets’. On show between October and November.

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Friday, September 25th, 2009

Gordon Magnin

Don’t categorise Gordon Magnin’s work as collage.  The artist prefers to refer to his surrealist digital images as ‘altered found image’. Each piece is created through an transformative process that uses geometric shapes and operations to form an abstract pattern of a single image that kind of references the work of Duchamp and Dadaism, without the political undertones.  What’s interesting about Gordon is that his background is in engineering and architecture so his work is primarily self taught.    

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Thursday, June 18th, 2009

When Music and Art Collide

Kitty Horton’s art drawings and dioramas have become highly covetable within the local Australian art industry. Having exhibited in over 60 galleries and worked extensively with art rock band The Red Paintings her signature quirky style infuses melodrama with whimsy, drawing parallels to early surrealist artists.

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Sunday, December 7th, 2008

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The Infinite Shape of Rainbows

Beci Orpin, kooky creator of Princess Tina and Tiny Mammoth, brings her folk narratives and nostalgia to another solo exhibition. The Infinite Shape of Rainbows, on show at Lamington Drive, will feature new prints, collages, and painted wooden dolls in that kind of whimsy and dreamscape style we’ve come to expect from a Beci Orpin idea.

Posted in Artist, Design, Exhibition by Canvas
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Vexta

So this is what happens when you make things with paintbrushes, spraycans, acrylics and pens. If only it were that easy. Melbourne artist Vexta has been working on her self-taught stencils and paste ups since the early 2000s. Her work often conveys social and political messages but, at least from my own perspective, they’re not obvious at first. Perhaps it’s because of the way in which she uses bold colours, textures and pattern.

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Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Dustin Yellin

Dustin Yellin's works are a unique process of painting 3D forms in resin.

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Monday, July 6th, 2009

Shepard Fairey

Lost at E Minor have coerced Shepard Fairey into curating a special issue featuring Fairey’s favourite street artists, photographers and musicians of 2008. Fairey’s distinctive silkscreens and subversive sticker and poster designs have been popular since the 90s but his work really came into the greater public’s awareness last year, courtesy of his Time Magazine cover of Barack Obama.

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Sunday, January 18th, 2009

Humble Voice

Humble Voice once again have selected a group of amazing artists across the spectrums of music, video, photography, art and word.

Posted in Artist, Photography by Canvas Magazine
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008