Art news

25 year old artist and illustrator Alicia Rosam was creative from the moment she could walk, but stopped it all to concentrate on a career in the Police Force. In May 2007, after extreme fitness training and studying she was informed that her application for the Police Force was denied, and as a form of recovery Alicia started to draw again, displaying her craft on the internet.
Since that moment her life has not stopped. She now has her art and illustrations in private collections in over 16 countries worldwide and is due to exhibit at 8 art exhibitions in the coming months with a solo gallery show at the end of the year. At her first gallery show, her artwork was the first to sell on opening night within five minutes. She's been featured on various websites including V-Raw, and has a bunch of commercials, print advertising and illustrations in the works.
"I am honoured and a little overwhelmed by my success to date but I'm having so much fun
doing what I love. I'm looking forward to what tomorrow will bring."
Brings a tear to the eye.

Sydney girl Ainslie Fletcher's art is an explosion of vivid colour, intricate geometry and mind boggling sqiggle and snake obsessions. Some work from her recent China Heights, Sydney exhibtion.

Peeked into this amazing show in Berlin last week. A group of mostly American artists working with paint, illustration, sculpture and collage, presenting a new trend in figuration- broken, decaying, fractured and monstrous! Fran Spiegel paints soupy sloppy women engulfed by slime piles. Rapper's hoes, socialties, and pin-up girls are all thrown into the stew of mylar, goo, glitter and chewing gum.

Unnervingly uncertain in its voyeuristic gloom, Ashlee Laing’s Night Time is for the Boy Who Can Fly places its audience in a position of passivity in what appears to be an essentially intrusive situation. Three large wooden water tubs are posited within the centre of a darkened space, each featuring video projections of shirtless, confined males, gazing helplessly up towards the viewer. A sombre investigation of social and psychological states of confinement, the work of Ashlee Laing invokes disparate thoughts from sexuality through to thriller-film iconography.

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Animator, brand buff and design devotee Giuseppe Demaio has got so many projects on the go it makes the rest of us look like we're swinging in hammocks. Shortly winging his way to Paris for the Rock en Seine music festival where he'll assemble an installation at Levi EU's behest, he'll also be launching the tee shirt range he's designed for said label.
Add to that a trip to South America and impending fly by night meetings with the crème of Europe's brand creatives (an undisclosed global giant) and you¹'e only getting a whiff of what this wunderkind's got cooking.

Dreams, slumberous states, and their innumerable related trajectories and
associations are quirkily explored in
Dead to the World, an exhibition of artworks by Melbourne's Adam Cruickshank and
Dell Stewart (working collectively under
the guise of Sleep Club).
Delightfully eccentric and curious, Dead
to the World is a colourfully cozy display of drawings, sculpture and installation that
serves to intrigue its audience with an
amiable aesthetic, and furthermore
perpetuate musing regarding the enigmatic, enfolding and escapist phenomenon of sleep.
JD