Art news
To drop it like it’s hot, it’s gotta pop… up. Whether it’s a bar, boutique or art gallery, you gotta catch-it-while-you-can or be content with the fact that it will soon be gone forever.
Getting into the spirit of pop up, appearing through a torrential thunderstorm, whilst walking down Oxford Street in Paddington at the weekend, Yen spied a pop up art exhibition featuring the works of Gavin Murphy (artist/designer) and Jonathan Cooper (photographer) through the downpour and checked in to scope the art on display.
Gavin Murphy was showing a collection of edgy art prints including a gorgeous burnished gold print of Kate Moss and bucking the current trend of sixties mania were prints including 60’s super-icon Twiggy and rock n’ roll legend Blondie.
If you are in the hood, check it out at 2/188 Oxford Street.
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So whether you’ve always had a burning desire to be on stage, feel the need to take a risk and invigorate your spirit, want to be more effective with your people skills, or just want some creative stress release, Darlo Drama is a great place to start.
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Spencer Tunick's art challenges the
preconceived notions of nudity and the culturally charged, often
negative, connotations that are associated with it. In his work, it is
the beauty inherent in all human beings that prevails.
Be part of Spencer
Tunick's first large-scale installation in Sydney at the Sydney Opera House Forecourt.
In exchange for taking part, you will receive a limited edition print of the installation. You will only be nude for a short period of time.
To participate in this art event, and for time and specific instructions, register here.
Under the moniker of Little Gonzales, Sydney-based hoodlum Dan Gray delivers a bunch of delightful illustrations to music makers like The Boat People and The Seabellies, as well as ordinary Joes like you and me. As a freelancing artist, the self-taught illustrator has dipped his hand in just about every bucket (including that of the rad art collective Gloop), or whatever the hell that saying is.
Costan Rican artist Alejandra Diaz’s latest exhibition of whimsical watercolours, The Lion & the Lamb, envisages a brave new world where video games are about how many people you can kiss. Where money is only used to play monopoly; where there are no zoos or prisons, and a leader can walk the streets unguarded.
Pocket rocket party girl Diaz has called Melbourne home for three years now, and we’re benefitting from her multifarious talents. She has a clutch of internationally recognised art and design prizes in her purse; most recently Adobe’s Online Design Festival prize 2009.
Get thee to St Kilda’s Wabi Sabi Garden – where, a la Diaz - we’ll choose dignity over greed, love over lust, truth over media hype. Where you don't love your neighbour as yourself, because there is no neighbour and there is no self. On from December 10-30 2009.
Dear Reader. I might as well admit this before you delve and dig and furry, only to discover the fact triumphantly for yourself (assuming you have a lot of time and exceptional furrowing skills). The blog I intend to unashamedly shout the praises of is the brainchild of none other than my very own little brother. That’s right – call it favouritism, hell, call it nepotism, but the thing is too good to keep quiet. Faking Handmade is the virgin blog of the young graphic design student, and the entire feel of it captures that self congratulatory brand of sarcasm that so typifies the university undergrad (he describes himself as a 'hip' and 'with-it' youth). Riddled with all things French - blogging genius Sacha Dumain and his companion Adeline Rapon, with their softly-focused, dreamy photography are favourites - as well as an obsession with typography, Herman Miller chairs and Akina illustrations, it’s a clean, crisp read that’s perfect for your daily design fix. What’s more, it showcases thick lined, hand drawn images completed on sunny afternoons in city cafes, carefully attached to a clipboard and painstakingly photographed at the perfect distance against the grainy cream paint of his bedroom wall. Nothing sets my heart beating like some raw art with a bit of omph, and if you’ve got a set of functioning eyeballs, you’re probably the same.
Tania Wursig is a Sydney artist, best known for her flamboyant palette and exploration of the sensual. Tania's paintings are a celebration of the feminine and About Face - inspired by the life of Marie Antionette, is her latest exhibition showing now at the Gallery Aloft in Balmain.http://www.taniawursig.com/
