Slow Work On A Bright Screen
Daniel Askill. High profile filmaker. High profile clients. A pared down aesthetic that is austere and stark. A portfolio of work that moves from commercial to creative. Dance, video installations, advertising, short films and music videos.
Posted in Artist, Books, Exhibition by Canvas
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Fragmented Anxiety
Brisbane artist Andy Harwood is opening up his gallery space, Love Love Studio, and sharing his artwork with a new exhibition, Fragmented Anxiety. Set against a framework of layered, multi-coloured geometric shapes and loose brush strokes, it’s a puzzling and personal perception of the struggles of human emotion.
Posted in Artist, Exhibition by Canvas
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Fashion Fix
With excitement growing over next month’s fashion week, especially given the number of esteemed international guests, including the effervescent Susie Bubble and street blogging cohort Tommy Ton, we thought we would remind you of some inspiring fashion exhibitions happening around the country. We’ve mentioned Brisbane’s coup in hosting the Stephen Jones retrospective, and the National Gallery of Victoria is also host to an interesting sartorial spectacle. Drape features fashion, photography and other visual mediums to explore the relationship between the manipulation of fabric on the body. Tracing an historical line from Cristobal Balenciaga to present-day modernist designers like Hussein Chalayan, the exhibition focuses on the practice of drape while extending the boundaries of fashion.
Posted in Exhibition, Fashion by Canvas
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
The Lovely Lamija
We're taking our readers on a cross-country fashion trip this week. There are a lot of designers whose respective winter collections still haven't sought our praise on this blog and we must make mention before the frenzy that becomes Australian Fashion Week. Just over a month away, but you know that proverbial about flying. First destination: Stockholm and a fresh name, and aesthetic, for you to remember. Lamija Suljevic.
Posted in Exhibition, Fashion by Canvas
Monday, March 29th, 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.
Posted in Artist, Exhibition by Canvas Magazine
Friday, September 25th, 2009
East Meets West
Echo Morgan. An artist. An enigma. A creative, Confucius type under the guise of a little china doll. A future start of the London art scene. With a style that pays respect to the past but looks to the future, Echo Morgan creates a world of whimsy and wonder with every brush stroke and burst of colour.
Posted in Artist, Exhibition, Illustration by Canvas
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
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.
Posted in Artist, Exhibition, Fashion by Canvas
Monday, May 24th, 2010
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
A Coup For Brisbane
Norman Rosenthal, former chief director of the Royal Academy of Arts, once commented that a fashion exhibition would be staged over his "dead body".
Posted in Exhibition, Fashion, Millinery by Catherine McPhee
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Dustin Yellin
Dustin Yellin's works are a unique process of painting 3D forms in resin.
Posted in Artist, Exhibition by Canvas Magazine
Monday, July 6th, 2009
