creepy x daek x island limits from Chad & Malena Peacock on Vimeo.
creepy x daek x island limits
october 2011
music used with permission from
Ólafur Arnalds
www.olafurarnalds.com
By LIFE photographer, Gjon Mili.
Street Art London have a nice interview with James Cochran, the painter of one of my favourite’s pieces along Bricklane.
“Humans are in constant search for a shape, a colour, a message, in a constant lost state, in exile. In its own pilgrimage, fantasy torments them. This is a search that will not end in findings, there will always be monsters that we create, to deviate us.
It´s al about “un-learning”, letting go and not knowing.”
I love finding Pablo’s when I’m walking along the street. Visit his site here.
Meggs for Endeavor from Endeavor Snowboard Design on Vimeo.
Australian Street Artist Dave “Meggs” Hooke came up to the Endeavor Snowboards’ design office in September to paint some custom installations, including the largest wall mural he has ever done. Meggs’ also offers up insights into the art scene and his inspirations.
The first in a series of content films Endeavor will be releasing this fall, Meggs captures the dedication of Endeavor Snowboards bringing art to snowboard design.
I’ve updated and loaded the complete BAD zine issue #1 to Issuu. Have a look…
Storm Thorgerson’s BIG & SMALL illustrates the vast diversity of format now facing music designers, from billboards to digital downloads and postage stamps. In particular the show features enormous high quality fine art prints at 5 foot square of album covers from Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Muse, The Mars Volta et al derived from original art and individually supervised. BIG & SMALL also displays more manageable sized prints of recent work including Pendulum, The Wombats, Younger Brothers plus more familiar works from Black Sabbath, Peter Gabriel, Steve Miller, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin etc.
BIG & SMALL is on at Idea Generation Gallery until 13th Nov 2011.
‘Borough & Lane’ New Works On Paper By Evan Hecox on show at Stolen Space gallery, Bricklane until November 27th.
In his newest body of work Evan Hecox has concentrated, for the first time, on the city of London. The city makes for deep and appropriate subject matter for the artist, with it’s intricate network of neighborhoods, streets, canals and old buildings that form the backdrop for it’s bustling population. He has sought out areas that are less traveled by tourists and has focused instead on parts of former industrial and working-class London, going east to Shoreditch and Hoxton, to the side-streets of Camden Town, along Regent’s Canal and south to Brixton and Battersea, as well as traversing the streets and underground of the city center.
The Qallery is in essence a new take on an urban gallery. It aims to encourage viewers to embrace the technology at their fingertips and explore and learn about new artists. QR codes will be pasted up throughout laneways and along the street, snap a shot and find yourself at the QR gallery!
Further details
QR codes will be pasted up as the ‘art’ in the outdoor setting. Once users shoot the codes on their phones they will then be directed to the qallery web site where the images can be viewed, detailed and downloaded. Launched at the 2011 Beaufort Street Festival, The Qallery will continue indefinitely encouraging artists from here, there and anywhere to get involved!
Artist callout
The Qallery would love you to submit a piece of work – newly designed or one from the vault.
“Mandy Shadforth is an Australian Contemporary Artist based on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. With an earlier background in Sign Writing her work displays explicit control and depth which she uses to create her super realistic figurative and subjective pieces. Mandy paints in a super realistic style to get closer to her subject matter. Through painting in this style she is able to draw in the viewer ininitimately to her images sharing with them the detailed beauty that would normally be overlooked. Her flawless figurative oil paintings are often mistaken as being airbrushed as her attention to detail is a signature feature of Mandy’s work. Her subject matter often references images from pop culture combining her interest in fashion, art and the mysterious. However the underlying essence of Mandy’s concepts revolve around her love of nature, beauty, travel and culture.”
“In an increasingly digital world, painting perseveres as a low-tech but engaging art form. Through colour, scale and gesture, my most recent work celebrates painting’s physicality, both in terms of its application and its dependence on space in the real world. The images are bright and playful, but also macabre and grotesque. Form and space lack clear boundaries. The images rest between creation and destruction. They convey a kind of mortality, a symptom of the organic and non-digital.”
-Nick Lepard, September 2011
Bill Jackson was born in 1953 in the West Midlands somewhere near Wolverhampton.
The Burning Man phenomenon started 25 years ago with an eight-foot structure burning on a beach in California around the summer solstice.
It has now morphed into a sophisticated community, with year-round projects including solar energy development and a crisis response network.
And the pinnacle is, each year for one week, self-styled ‘burners’ that head into the desert and build a working city from the ground up – including an airport, a post office, and a security team – that tries to be devoid of money and consumerism.
Participants then aim to leave the desert with no trace that they were there.
Máximo Riera has been a practicing artist for over thirty years. Whilst predominantly working in photography, painting and sculpture, he has also published a collection of poetry. Inspired by his travel and experiences through Europe and the Caribbean Islands, Máximo’s vibrant use of colour and evocative attention to detail have been an inspiration which convey the meaning of his creations. His work also demonstrates a predominant influence from abstract expressionism and the Pop Art movements.
“In 1992 I began to combine stencils with my freehand work, which allowed me to juxtapose almost photographic imagery with the rawness which evolved from conventional graffiti styles. Stencils introduce an impact element to my work. The appeal of stencils is that they allow me to take an image from anywhere – dissect any part of life – and recreate it on any surface.
I try to add an element of humour or irony to some paintings to add a little light relief to the walls. Painting is a form of escapism for me and if my work allows the spectator to do the same thing, then I’ve achieved more than I set out to do.”
Nick Walker is one of the world’s best known street artists. Born in 1969, he emerged from the infamous and ground-breaking Bristol graffiti scene of the early 1980s.
Immagical Thought Museum is an exhibition of new photographic and installation works by Jackson Eaton. The show runs 26 August – 30 September at VENN Gallery in Perth.
In this highly personal show, Jackson presents an unflinching look at everyday existence, focusing in particular on modern relationships and how these are navigated. He accesses his background in psychology to do so and uses a distinctive range of source materials and objects in his work, including family photographs, treasured objects and stained tissues.
