Graphic Design, Illustration, Animation, Stop Motion, Twins, Sydney
Photographer Chuck Bradley
Wet Plate Collidion, Sydney, Pennsylvania, Jelly Study, Stealth
Illustrator Patrick Brown
Tasmania, GTA, Patrick Brown, Avatar, Illustrator, Comics, Launceston, Grand Theft Auto, Rockstar, Games, Humberto Ramos
Illustrator Rhys Cooper
Poster, Music, Art Prints, Alamo Drafthouse, Rhys Cooper, Rage Against the Machine, Melbourne, Queens of the stone age, Beyond the Pale, Them Crooked Vultures, Tyler Stout
by Art Director Hannes, Ciatti
This poster campaign is part of the Wear it with Pride campaign – a national education campaign for the recent 85 same-sex law reforms in Australia. To give each poster an individual story and character I briefed typographers from all over the world. When you see these posters together they form the rainbow and with that the LGBT community.
Photography by Julia Schauenburg
Coinciding with the 2010 Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, Story of a Secret State takes aim at the human rights violations currently taking place in North Korea. The group art exhibition, incorporating the works of nine internationally regarded artists, follows the story of thousands of suffering North Koreans, plotted from childhood through to adulthood, as they ultimately risk their lives by seeking refuge in neighbouring countries.
Free exhibition
April 26th – May 9th
Opening Night: April 29th 7pm – 10pm
Guildford Lane Gallery
20-24 Guildford Lane, Melbourne
Tue – Fri 12pm – 9pm
Sat – Sun 12pm – 5pm
The Artists:
Andrea Innocent – Australia
Lisa Golightly – USA
Cat MacInnes – Australia
Courtney Kim – Australia / South Korea
Darwin Tan – Indonesia
Hajin Bae – South Korea
Paul Ikin – Australia
Yiyi Wang – Australia / China
Yunjin Lee – South Korea
This post was submitted by courtney Kim.
“This show is about coming-of-age in a society that’s not quite right. Graduating from art school and being forced to face the real world, dealing with drug use, alcoholism and petty violence. “I seek to escape my own personal dilemmas through the image-making process.” Feeling the urge to draw attention to the degradations in standards of living, the everyday Australian’s general contempt for each other and fearing things that are different. These “low life’s” each bear their own interesting stories, it is through his art that Jack attempts to portray them as a means for public discourse. Drawing on several influences (including pop surrealism, tattoo art, skateboard graphics, psychedelic music posters etc.), Jack has created a body of work that will act as a single piece of art through the process of installation that will hopefully make people stop and think about what is wrong with the world we live in.”
This post was submitted by Just Another Agency.
If you’re over in London make sure you check out the second installment of Lyrics and Type, with some great Aussie and International Artists on board.
16 INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS VERSUS FAMOUS SONG LYRICS
It’s come around again all you music and type lovers! Welcome to LYRICS AND TYPE: VERSE 2 – another international typographic screen-print exhibition from the creator of the award winning arts culture publication WOODEN TOY QUARTERLY (AUS) with support from the good folks at VNA MAGAZINE (UK).
Following on from the success of the LYRICS AND TYPE: VERSE 1 zine project at Gorker Gallery (Oct 2009), comes the exciting second installment in the series of LYRICS AND TYPE projects at London’s East Gallery. Combined with an all new formula and a ‘bass dropping’ array of artists, LYRICS AND TYPE: VERSE 2 aims to feature interpretations of both famous, past and present song Lyrics by 16 leading international typographers, designers and illustrators.
One half of Dutch-based duo Birds of Lidingö is Janice, cellist from Melbourne, and performer of The Stompstone Song. The tiles, designed by Dutchman Alfons van Leggelo is primarily a children’s playground thing, but intended really for creating art in a public space.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exwStqF6hqg
This post was submitted by Janneke.
Beautiful paintings by Alberto Santiago.
“Alberto Santiago, CG animator and designer has contributed to the works of animated sequences such as Mafia 2, Dawn of war II, Justice league heroes, MTV, Discovery Channel and MSN. After much dedication to producing work only in the digital setting he has now come full circle, removing himself from the wired world, picking up the paintbrush creating art of his own.”
Congratulations to Sam Leach for winning the Archibald prize for his portrait of Comedian Tim Minchin.
“Sam Leach has joined august company, becoming only the third artist after William Dobell and Brett Whitely to win the Archibald portrait prize and the Wynne landscape prize in the same year.”
You can read a recent interview we did with Sam Leach here.
“Drawing from the traditions of film noir, the familiar scene becomes the unfamiliar. Suburbia, seen from the car window, what we see everyday passes through our awareness, becoming swiftly invisible and unnoticed. Yet glimpses of these shadowed corners can spark the imagination for a fleeting moment, causing the birth of a brief fable, shortly lived, yet lingering.”
I am a photo artist based in Canberra. I draw my inspiration from the landscape and explore the emotional boundaries of our imagination and the spaces around us.
A new website dedicated to the work of the contemporary Australian artist, David Russ.
Image: “The Magic Circle Club” David Russ 2010. Acrylic on linen. 107 x 107 cm.
This post was submitted by David Russ.
This is very interesting, and great to see an overview of exactly how many different indigenous languages there are in Australia. This indiginous language map was created by David R Horton and can be found over on the abc website. Originally created by AIATSIS (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies)
Found via the twitter feed of dotcommob, a charity helping to introduce technology into remote aboriginal communities.
They also need a graphic designer to help out with a bit of work, so get involved if you are interested.
Seven Hundred Photos -Darlo Bar, April 15, 7pm – 10pm.
Seven artists, seven designers, seven hotel rooms of interactive and live photo shoots. Bring your cameras.
