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

When You’re a Boy

Super stylist Simon Foxton, a relative unknown in the industry if you don’t subscribe to i-D, is the first to be profiled in a series dedicated to male image-makers in the mens fashion industry. The Photographers Gallery will host Simon’s work, the bulk coming from his twenty-odd year tenure at i-D. What we love about Simon’s work with menswear is his ability to push boundaries and break rules, mixing classic menswear and sportswear in an offbeat, unexpected way that just…works.   

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Monday, June 29th, 2009

Freakscape

B Store presents Freakscape, an installation exhibition by illustrator Philip Smiley.  While he is more well known for detailed Victorian etchings and toiles, Freakscape draws inspiration from Smiley’s rural upbringing in Virginia.  This exhibition shows the versatility of Smiley and incorporates a variety of mixed media, from sculpture and found object to a more delicate form of illustration.

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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Season Of The Witch

We posted a blog on London based artist Danny Sangra way back in 2007.  Quick recap: Central St. Martins graduate (graphic design), has collaborated with streetwear label Gravis, worked on side project A Minute Silence with Lyn Cockburn, all the while living a penniless but creative lifestyle.  Now, after nearly an eighteen month hiatus Danny is back with a new exhibition, Season Of The Witch.  Flashy colours, poppy motivs and detailed paintings are his trademark but his new work is slightly more monochromatic, still keeping with that original punk aesthetic of appropriation and manipulation.

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Thursday, May 28th, 2009

With love…

Melbourne’s art scene is showing its generous spirit with a fundraising exhibition and raffle for the bushfire victims at Outre Gallery, presented by Kaotic Kraft Kuties. Contributing artists include Beci Orpin, Iggy & Loulou and Ghostpatrol.

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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

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Dustin Yellin

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

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Monday, July 6th, 2009

I Used To Skate Once

The I Used To Skate Once exhibition, presented by The Outpost, surfaced in Brisbane nearly five years ago. An annual event, it brings together a lineup of local and international artists, and musicians. For me, this year’s biggest drawcard is Jonathan Zawada. We recently waxed lyrical about his side project Taste Fun! and now he’s turned his pen to a skateboard deck.  No mean feat to be our favourite, considering he’s joined by French and Claudio Kirac. I think what makes this exhibition so successful is the personal connection The Outpost has with each artist involved. The list of collaborators literally reads like a personal address book, with everyone involved either friends, customers or people working in the fashion and design industry. Plus the art is pretty cool. 

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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Take A Look At Me Now

Take a Look at Me Now, a contemporary art exhibition, features 15 artists, who bring to Norwich some of the most exciting work being made in Poland today.  No single theme unites the exhibition, but an interest in architecture as a political and social record, the inheritance of the 20th-century avant-garde, an exploration of private passions, and a playful, performative approach provide some common ground between the works on show.

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Monday, June 1st, 2009

Pipe Work

London’s b store will present an exhibition of furniture designer Dean Edmonds. There’s not a lot to find yet about Dean but b store has described his work as’ make shift’, with his designs unfolding and often having an unfussy aesthetic.  Dean creates pieces that on the surface look ordinary but by adding new materials he puts them in an unfamiliar context.

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Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

To Destroy Something Beautiful

Phone Booth Gallery will present To Destroy Something Beautiful, a solo exhibition of acrylic paintings by San Diego based artist Nathan Deyoung, until November 28. Deyoung’s working techniques include a combination of meticulous brush rendering and explosions of abstract colour, comparing and contrasting beauty with destruction.

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Thursday, October 30th, 2008