Pastemodernism Interview.....

I'm busy busting out some fresh paste up's for Pastemodernism 3, part of the upcoming Outpost Project on Cockatoo Island, Sydney...Ben Frost contacted me recently for an interview, go here to check it.

BUYE paste.....

IMG_8322, a photo by konsumterra on Flickr.

Thanks to konsumterra for this snap taken at Uncontainable, Verge festival 2011 Sydney Uni.

Red Taped Truth.....

New "TRUTH" (Red Tape) installation piece, the first from a new series. More to follow soon...

Sidewayz Stoolz.....

Well here's my contribution to the Sidewayz 2011 charity event. I had these perfectly good chrome stool bases sitting around, so I decided to get out the trusty angle grinder and chop a perfectly good Ride snowboard into four pieces to make these functional artworks...One stool auctioned for $250 and the other for $150, with proceeds going towards the Christchurch and Japan earthquake/tsunami benefits. Special thanks to John @ Westsyde Connection, Balmoral Boards, The National Grid and all the punters who attended this great cause...especially the lucky winners of my stoolz, muchly appreciated!

Sidewayz 2011.....

I am part of the Sidewayz charity art auction/exhibition opening this Saturday night, with a huge lineup of talent leaving their marks on skate decks and snowboards with all proceeds going to the Christchurch and Japan Earthquake benefits. I was stoked to be given a snowboard...you'll have to wait to opening night to see what I made of it, all I'm gonna say I was a tad nervous chopping into the board with the old angle grinder! If you can't make it along to the show I'm sure there will be plenty of pics circulating post event and also there will be an online auction too. I will post deets when they come to hand ok.
Sidewayz 2011 contributers include; Scott Marr, PigeonBoy, Konsumterra, Kalen, Sarah Scully, RJ Williams, Esjay, Vars, SMC[3], Stylo, E.L.K, Teem, Bennett, Anton Benois, Tim Andrew, Brandon Els, Qwux, Willem Van Stom, Tez, Phibs, Lise Pod, Jimmy Neilly, KON, Ellie Schroeder, Dave Kaziro, Benny Haz, Reka, Ben Goad, Ben Frost, Pinky, Lucas McGrath, kulk, Zoe Young, Wade Burkitt, Robert Bates, Rick Swaine, Beastman, Ollie Lucas, Mia Taninaka, Luke Taaffe, Julie Doye, Dina Raus, Deb, Cameron Wall, Bridge, Beth Josey, Barrett, Jeremy Shaw, Dave Smith, Kane Stamp, Liz Laughton, Jon Jones, Andrew Fawcet…plus heaps more!

The World Is Your Monster.....

Last Saturday I was up in Newcastle and in between the showers I painted the stencil piece below titled "The World Is Your Monster" It Stands at nearly 3m tall and is by far my biggest stencil to date. So stoked I finally managed to get this up...this was the plan for the TINA 2o1o festival but due to some issues I was only able to do a paste up of the piece. The stencil is located in Keightley St (off Hunter St Mall) for those who wish to check it. A big thanks to Simone from SAW (Street Art Walking) for the opportunity! Also got a great write up over at the Metro Gallery blog and to see more pics go to my flickr.

Paul Baines.....

Artist Paul Baines from the UK recently gave me a nice plug over at his site. Be sure to check his amazing works filled with great social commentary, plenty of satire and wit. Thanks Paul! enjoy.
www.paulbaines.co.uk

19XX.....

So here is my piece "19XX" that featured in the FanBoy vs. ArtBoy show recently. It is inspired by the classic WW2 "shoot 'em up" series 19XX released by Capcom – which included the games 1942 (1984), 1943-The Battle Of Midway (1987),1943 Kai-Midway Kaisen (1988), 1941-Counter Attack (1990), 19XX-The War Against Destiny (1995) and 1944-The Loop Master (2000).

I am told the opening night was awesome with many punters commenting on how diverse all the artist representations were of their video game inspired art. Some other great news to also arise from the show is this week the ABC2 program Good Game dropped into ArtBoy Gallery to film the show! So there will be an upcoming feature on the popular gaming show...more deets soon. For now you can see more snaps of my sculpture here.

FanBoy vs. ArtBoy.....

I have just finished my piece for the FanBoy vs. ArtBoy show. Here are a couple of sneek peeks, without giving too much away!

Traffic Jam Launch.....

Official opening launch Thursday 17th Feb, click on flyer below to see more deets....

Swoon @ Metro.....

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Sean Irving from Metro Gallery in Melbourne recently forwarded me details on the upcoming show from Swoon, as follows, and if you are around this part of the world I recommend you get on down and take a peek!.....

This will be her first visit to Australia and she's taking the opportunity to create a site specific installation within the gallery.

We're incredibly excited to be holding this event, Swoon is highly regarded within the international street art community and her works can be found on walls all over the world. She has also had work acquired by major cultural institutions including MOMA and the Tate Modern, and she's widely recognised as a master of contemporary printmaking.

Swoon is a Brooklyn-based artist whose life-sized woodblock and cut-paper portraits hang on walls in various states of decay in cities around the world. She has designed and built several large-scale installations, most notably the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea at Deitch Projects in 2008. Her pieces have been collected by of The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art , and the Tate Modern. Major pieces have appeared at PS1, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Black Rat Press. Swoon has been traveling for the past several years creating exhibitions and workshops in the United States and abroad.

Swoon is also an instigator and a collaborator. She founded the Toyshop collective and the Miss Rockaway Armada, and is a member of Just Seeds and the Transformazium. Since 2006 she has organized four large-scale raft projects and floated down the Mississippi and Hudson rivers with them. Most recently, she and her collaborators designed a flotilla of sea-going rafts that invaded the 2009 Venice Biennale.

Her artistic process is predicated on the belief that art is an immersive, provocative, and transformative experience for its participants. Although Swoon’s aesthetics can be seen as an outgrowth of street art, her engagement with ethical living and making art share a close kinship with the idealism of off-grid, barter-based cultures and economies based on sharing. She uses scavenged and local materials and embraces print media as a potent means of action for social change.

Everfresh wins @ NGVstudio.....

*The below text is from Ghostpatrol/Everfresh taken from the Niceproduce blog, so follow the links, join the facebook page & if you are on twitter be a champ & tag the shit outta it to help these fellas score a show at the NGV studio!.....

Everfresh was invited by the National Gallery of Victoria to be part of the new space soon to open at Fed Square called the NGVSTUDIO. The space will be something new for the NGV and we are looking forward to what’s going to be happening there when it opens up this year.

We also have melbourne girl MISO coming along to help out which will be the first time we have worked with her on a wall.

You can also check out the NGV FACEBOOK & NGV TWITTER

We need your help in promoting this online to convince the NGV that they should give us a exhibtion later in the year in the new NGVstudio space
So hit up the NGV Facebook or If you have a twitter please use the #ngvstudio tag

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Stuck in a Traffic Jam (and that's a good thing!).....

In the last post there was talk about Sydney representation, well I can now say it is official...I am now represented by Traffic Jam Galleries in Neutral Bay! Iam privileged to be part of this fantastic new space, surrounded by amazing artists and people. If you are on the North Shore anytime soon be sure to drop by. Address and other details on their site here. There will also be an official opening sometime in early February, I'll keep you posted ok.

Sayonara 2010 & hello 2011.....

Well 2010 was a busy year with a whole heap of group shows and other happenings going on. The new year is already shaping up to be just as busy with some exciting exhibitions in the pipeline, a couple of new limited edition print releases, some commissioned street pieces and some great news regarding Sydney representation in a unique new gallery space opening shortly...I'll keep you posted.

Thank you all for following this blog in 2010 and
wishing you all the best for this new year! :)

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