Street Artists on Show in Sydney's Centre
August 28th 2010 04:04
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Street Artists
Top Street Artists on Show in Sydney's Centre
This September, Sydneysiders are treated to a brilliantly colourful exhibition showcasing new work from cutting edge street artists Apeseven, Beastman, Ben Frost, Bennet, Bridge Stehli, Drewfunk, Ears, Jumbo, Max Berry, Meggs, Mini Graff, Numskull, Phibs, Roach, Sam Smith, Shannon Crees and Yok.
Popping up at 580 George, home to the HSBC Centre and CBD shopping hot spot; The Places in Between will be hard to miss, transforming the HSBC Tower Lobby, and 580 George Food Court and Ground Level into a gallery of top large-scale Aussie urban art.
Curated by street art advocates aMBUSH Gallery, The Places in Between follows from last year's In Full Bloom exhibit at the same site. The exhibition is open daily from Monday to Saturday all month, and all Sydneysiders are welcome to meet the artists at the Opening Night Event on 2 September from 6pm at the HSBC Centre.
aMBUSH's Bill Dimas says he's thrilled 580 George is behind yet another exciting community arts event, supporting great Aussie talent. "It's a real joy to hold an exhibition in such a publicly accessible place, in the middle of corporate Sydney - where you would least expect to see street art," he says.
"Each work has been carefully selected to showcase how each very different modern Australian artist interprets and expresses the world around them. The views of these contemporary commentators have a unique way of interoperating on how we see things, and I think many people will leave this exhibition with a sense of what each artist is contemplating or articulating," he says.
"I am personally thrilled about having the chance to transform the HSBC Centre into a vibrant and creative space, packed with visual art; and to enable passers-by to appreciate these new and emerging styles while going about their daily commute and tasks. We hope it encourages CBD workers and residents, visitors and shoppers to engage with the works and to think about art, and our society in new ways," he says.
The annual exhibit is part of aMBUSH Gallery in Waterloo and 580 George & HSBC Centre management's joint initiative to help local emerging artists gain a broader audience at home. The exhibit opens up the scope and diversity of Australia's flourishing street art culture, and world-class artists to the broader community.
The Project one of many of The Gallery's initiatives to find commercial platforms for Australian artists to showcase their work, in and out of the traditional gallery space. Over 200 Australian local artists, designers and photographers have exhibited with aMBUSH to date.
aMBUSH www.ambushgallery.com
Curated by Bill Dimas and John Wiltshire, aMBUSH is an evolving concept. Housed in an urban art space in Waterloo, aMBUSH is a guerrilla art concept at its heart, that brings together a wide cross section of established and emerging Australian and international artists to showcase their work in unique shows, pop up venues and live-art moments.
The idea is to ambush audiences by moving audiences beyond the traditional gallery space into some unexpected and fun locations, incorporating new ideas along the way.
Always exciting aMBUSH puts together creative events and projects that provide a commercial platform for Australian urban and contemporary artists to exhibit new work, bringing them into contact with international creative communities to encourage viability and development in our local industry. Over 200 Australian local artists, designers and photographers have exhibited with aMBUSH, and the gallery funds the majority of these progressive group shows and events. Collaborating with a wide cross section of industries to achieve creative and commercial results for Australian artists, aMBUSH also works with some of Australia's pioneering contemporary arts organisations such as Semi-Permanent, We Are The Image Makers, and T-World. aMBUSH's well-designed projects and events engage with the community, and support synergistic charity organisations.
The gallery's Project 5 undertaken on behalf of Cockle Bay Wharf saw great success with the first-ever Australian street art auction at Darling Park, Sydney by Leonard Joel auctioneers. The project raised A$10,000 - which was donated to Information and Cultural Exchange (I.C.E) - a charitable arts and media organisation doing dynamic work in the western suburbs of Sydney supporting young artists and emerging talent, as well as creative projects with disadvantaged communities. In their day jobs, John Wiltshire and Bill Dimas are the Directors of Wiltshire & Dimas Management, an innovative marketing, communications and management consultancy.
OPENING NIGHT EVENT
Where: HSBC Tower Lobby, 580 George, Sydney CBD NSW
When: September 2, 2010
Time: Thursday 6pm to 9pm
Price: Free public event
Web: www.placesinbetween.com.au
DAILY EXHIBITION
Where: HSBC Tower Lobby and 580 George Food Court and Ground Level, 580 George, Sydney CBD NSW
When: September 1 - 30, 2010
Time: Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm (Thursday
until 7pm) Saturday 9am to 4pm
Price: Free public event
Apeseven www.apeseven.com
Apeseven aka George Hambov grew up in the 80's Sydney skateboard scene. Spending most of his time exploring industrial areas of the lower northern beaches, he is influenced by skateboard art and street graffiti. With commissions for companies like Belvedere Vodka and recent works selling at 12x12 Exhibition Australia and in Vinyl Killerz 6 in the USA; Apeseven's work is something to look out for. Works can also be seen in 'Stencil Pirates' by Josh Mcphee, published by Soft Skull Press 2004. Many of his works are held in private collections in Europe, USA and in Australia. Apeseven predominantly approaches work with a street art perspective utilising stencil, freehand aerosol and traditional brush techniques. Works primarily incorporate mixed media, acrylics, aerosol, inks, found paper and found objects. Influences are drawn from the urban industrial landscapes, comic books, technology and social corruption. Apeseven's works currently focus on fictitious character development and their relationship to forces both seen and invisible.
Beastman
Beastman is an artist based in Sydney. Influenced by the beauty and symbolism behind nature's repetitive geometric patterns and its eternal struggle against man-made adversities, Beastman's tightly detailed, symmetrical paintings depict a parallel world of hope and survival inhabited by his scaly-skinned, beastlike yet beautiful and emotive characters. These instantly recognisable and loveable creatures reflect human nature and the everyday burdens and struggles of life that mankind so easily and continuously finds itself lost in. Beastman has exhibited extensively throughout Australia, as well as London, Berlin and New Zealand. Beastman is an Element Advocate and is also the founder and editor of the Australian online art publication [weAREtheIMAGEmakers].
Ben Frost www.benfrostisdead.com
Australian artist Ben Frost is known for his kaleidoscopic Pop Art, mash-up paintings that take inspiration from areas as diverse as graffiti, collage, photorealism and sign-writing. Subverting mainstream iconography from the worlds of advertising, entertainment and politics, he creates a visual framework that is bold, confrontational and often controversial. With a blatant disrespect for the signifiers of our visual culture, Ben Frost creates multi-layered surfaces of refreshing intensity.
Bennett
Bennett is an artist from Sydney who is influenced by urban geography and general city activity. He is always exploring these types of environments looking for inspiration to create his bold, conflicting and sometimes shocking images. These artworks are usually created through stenciling and painting using and combination of aerosol and acrylic paints. Images are mash ups of different objects and features usually not commonly associated. Currently he is exploring the theme of one man's trash being another's treasure and the 'values' of mass produced everyday objects and how they can be twisted and reconfigured or adjusted to create an alternate meaning or impression. Produced on canvas or board most of the pieces involve layering and textured backgrounds contrasted with clean and bold vocal point.
Bridge Stehil www.bridgestehli.com
Bridge Stehli lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Drawing inspiration from her origins in graffiti art, Bridge's works, applied with acrylic paint in layers to timber; embrace the themes of personification of animals in classical and contemporary culture. Often Bridge's objective is to capture a particular atmosphere or awkward social situation. Taking inspiration from popular iconography present in animated films, cartoons, comic books, classic literature and childhood picture books, she also explores the parallels between the social hierarchies of humans and animals and the similarities between the two that are often ignored.
Drewfunk
Graduating with a Bachelor in Multimedia & Design from RMIT University, Malaysian born Illustrator/Artist Drewfunk now resides in Melbourne after deciding to quit his full-time job as a designer to live his passion. He draws his inspirations from the city streets whilst staying true to his oriental heritage and has been known to have an aerosol addiction.
Ears www.earstotheground.net
With a combination of traditional training at the National Art School and a deep seeded passion for street art, Daniel OÃÂÃÂToole or 'Ears' as he is known in both the studio and on the streets is a Sydney born painter who has a distinctive and whimsical approach to portraiture. The flowing lines and rich tones of his self-portraits lend heavily to the influences he draws from music, life and the city. Ears, along with established Artists Max Berry and Jammie Nimmo have recently opened "Oh Really!?" gallery in Newtown. Since its opening, "Oh Really!?" has become host to artists from all walks of life, offering many the chance to display their work in a unique and exceptional space. He also runs two-day street art workshops to teach young people about legal ways to survive as a street artist, and how to use mediums like spray paint and make paste-ups and stickers.
The subtle hints of realism and abstracted street art style have seen this young artist steadily making a name for himself in both the public and artistic world. Upcoming solo shows include the Gorker in Melbourne next April which includes showcasing EarsÃÂÃÂs instrumental hip-hop music with an installation involving 100 CD cases made from wood with his album inside; a solo show of large scale paintings at aMBUSH gallery mid next year; and a group show called Sweet Streets Festival in Melbourne in October.
Jumbo
Jumboism is a celebration of free art. Freestyle expression and exploration of experimental ideas in public art. The research continues
Max Berry
Max Berry's work creates a world where every object has a life of its own. A daydream land where houses talk to clouds and characters float playfully in abstracted space. Influenced by comics cartoons, he conducts his research eating cereal in front of the TV, admiring the breakfast cartoons of a super-flat 2d world. Max is interested in the duality of things, emerging you in a state of Utopia and Dystopia - good bad, big and small, often taking a very literal form, manifesting itself in textures, raw splashes and drips vs clean and super bold lines. His characters appear in many forms, as paste ups, stickers, canvas, walls, live painting sessions, and on cardboard busking. With multiple gallery opportunities and large mural installations, Max has become part of the cultural landscape of inner Sydney.
Meggs www.houseofmeggs.com
Hailing from the dense cultural labyrinth of Melbourne's laneways, Meggs has become one of Australia's most easily recognised street artists with his unique vivid work taking him to the streets of Paris, London, LA, San Francisco, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
Having completed his Bachelor of Design in 2000, Meggs began experimenting with the stencil images, paste ups and character art that he has become well-renowned for, using the streets as his canvas.In 2004, Meggs joined forces with artists Sync, Rone, Phibs, Reka, Wondalust & Meek to become a vital contributor of the 'Everfresh' studio, a unique collective of street/graffiti/studio artists who are known as one of Australia's most progressive street art collectives. Meggs work developed so much notoriety in the few short years of his career as a street artist that it has been sold through 'Artcurial Auctioneers' in Paris and has even had an acquisition from the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. In October 2010 Meggs' work will also be exhibited At 'The National Gallery of Australia', in Canberra, for their first-ever street art exhibition. Meggs work is influenced heavily by 1980's cartoons, comics and sci-fi film, which has translated into energetic stencil and paste up works of super heroes and villains and subverted collages of pop culture symbology.
A feature of Meggs' work is his focus on the 'duality' of society and its individuals and his exploration of his own personal life experiences combined with exploring themes of rights, authorities and morals within our society. Upcoming projects include 'Sons of Privilege' solo installation & artworks at 'Lo-Fi' artspace, Surrey Hills, Sydney 26th August; 'Everfresh: Blackbook' Book launches globally - a full colour book documenting the history, artworks and artists of the 'Everfresh' Studio from Melbourne; an artwork collaboration with Burton for their 2010-2011 Snowboard range soon to be released; and a first solo exhibition in London, early 2011.
This September, Sydneysiders are treated to a brilliantly colourful exhibition showcasing new work from cutting edge street artists Apeseven, Beastman, Ben Frost, Bennet, Bridge Stehli, Drewfunk, Ears, Jumbo, Max Berry, Meggs, Mini Graff, Numskull, Phibs, Roach, Sam Smith, Shannon Crees and Yok.
Popping up at 580 George, home to the HSBC Centre and CBD shopping hot spot; The Places in Between will be hard to miss, transforming the HSBC Tower Lobby, and 580 George Food Court and Ground Level into a gallery of top large-scale Aussie urban art.
Curated by street art advocates aMBUSH Gallery, The Places in Between follows from last year's In Full Bloom exhibit at the same site. The exhibition is open daily from Monday to Saturday all month, and all Sydneysiders are welcome to meet the artists at the Opening Night Event on 2 September from 6pm at the HSBC Centre.
aMBUSH's Bill Dimas says he's thrilled 580 George is behind yet another exciting community arts event, supporting great Aussie talent. "It's a real joy to hold an exhibition in such a publicly accessible place, in the middle of corporate Sydney - where you would least expect to see street art," he says.
"Each work has been carefully selected to showcase how each very different modern Australian artist interprets and expresses the world around them. The views of these contemporary commentators have a unique way of interoperating on how we see things, and I think many people will leave this exhibition with a sense of what each artist is contemplating or articulating," he says.
"I am personally thrilled about having the chance to transform the HSBC Centre into a vibrant and creative space, packed with visual art; and to enable passers-by to appreciate these new and emerging styles while going about their daily commute and tasks. We hope it encourages CBD workers and residents, visitors and shoppers to engage with the works and to think about art, and our society in new ways," he says.
The annual exhibit is part of aMBUSH Gallery in Waterloo and 580 George & HSBC Centre management's joint initiative to help local emerging artists gain a broader audience at home. The exhibit opens up the scope and diversity of Australia's flourishing street art culture, and world-class artists to the broader community.
The Project one of many of The Gallery's initiatives to find commercial platforms for Australian artists to showcase their work, in and out of the traditional gallery space. Over 200 Australian local artists, designers and photographers have exhibited with aMBUSH to date.
aMBUSH www.ambushgallery.com
Curated by Bill Dimas and John Wiltshire, aMBUSH is an evolving concept. Housed in an urban art space in Waterloo, aMBUSH is a guerrilla art concept at its heart, that brings together a wide cross section of established and emerging Australian and international artists to showcase their work in unique shows, pop up venues and live-art moments.
The idea is to ambush audiences by moving audiences beyond the traditional gallery space into some unexpected and fun locations, incorporating new ideas along the way.
Always exciting aMBUSH puts together creative events and projects that provide a commercial platform for Australian urban and contemporary artists to exhibit new work, bringing them into contact with international creative communities to encourage viability and development in our local industry. Over 200 Australian local artists, designers and photographers have exhibited with aMBUSH, and the gallery funds the majority of these progressive group shows and events. Collaborating with a wide cross section of industries to achieve creative and commercial results for Australian artists, aMBUSH also works with some of Australia's pioneering contemporary arts organisations such as Semi-Permanent, We Are The Image Makers, and T-World. aMBUSH's well-designed projects and events engage with the community, and support synergistic charity organisations.
The gallery's Project 5 undertaken on behalf of Cockle Bay Wharf saw great success with the first-ever Australian street art auction at Darling Park, Sydney by Leonard Joel auctioneers. The project raised A$10,000 - which was donated to Information and Cultural Exchange (I.C.E) - a charitable arts and media organisation doing dynamic work in the western suburbs of Sydney supporting young artists and emerging talent, as well as creative projects with disadvantaged communities. In their day jobs, John Wiltshire and Bill Dimas are the Directors of Wiltshire & Dimas Management, an innovative marketing, communications and management consultancy.
OPENING NIGHT EVENT
Where: HSBC Tower Lobby, 580 George, Sydney CBD NSW
When: September 2, 2010
Time: Thursday 6pm to 9pm
Price: Free public event
Web: www.placesinbetween.com.au
DAILY EXHIBITION
Where: HSBC Tower Lobby and 580 George Food Court and Ground Level, 580 George, Sydney CBD NSW
When: September 1 - 30, 2010
Time: Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm (Thursday
until 7pm) Saturday 9am to 4pm
Price: Free public event
Apeseven www.apeseven.com
Apeseven aka George Hambov grew up in the 80's Sydney skateboard scene. Spending most of his time exploring industrial areas of the lower northern beaches, he is influenced by skateboard art and street graffiti. With commissions for companies like Belvedere Vodka and recent works selling at 12x12 Exhibition Australia and in Vinyl Killerz 6 in the USA; Apeseven's work is something to look out for. Works can also be seen in 'Stencil Pirates' by Josh Mcphee, published by Soft Skull Press 2004. Many of his works are held in private collections in Europe, USA and in Australia. Apeseven predominantly approaches work with a street art perspective utilising stencil, freehand aerosol and traditional brush techniques. Works primarily incorporate mixed media, acrylics, aerosol, inks, found paper and found objects. Influences are drawn from the urban industrial landscapes, comic books, technology and social corruption. Apeseven's works currently focus on fictitious character development and their relationship to forces both seen and invisible.
Beastman
Beastman is an artist based in Sydney. Influenced by the beauty and symbolism behind nature's repetitive geometric patterns and its eternal struggle against man-made adversities, Beastman's tightly detailed, symmetrical paintings depict a parallel world of hope and survival inhabited by his scaly-skinned, beastlike yet beautiful and emotive characters. These instantly recognisable and loveable creatures reflect human nature and the everyday burdens and struggles of life that mankind so easily and continuously finds itself lost in. Beastman has exhibited extensively throughout Australia, as well as London, Berlin and New Zealand. Beastman is an Element Advocate and is also the founder and editor of the Australian online art publication [weAREtheIMAGEmakers].
Ben Frost www.benfrostisdead.com
Australian artist Ben Frost is known for his kaleidoscopic Pop Art, mash-up paintings that take inspiration from areas as diverse as graffiti, collage, photorealism and sign-writing. Subverting mainstream iconography from the worlds of advertising, entertainment and politics, he creates a visual framework that is bold, confrontational and often controversial. With a blatant disrespect for the signifiers of our visual culture, Ben Frost creates multi-layered surfaces of refreshing intensity.
Bennett
Bennett is an artist from Sydney who is influenced by urban geography and general city activity. He is always exploring these types of environments looking for inspiration to create his bold, conflicting and sometimes shocking images. These artworks are usually created through stenciling and painting using and combination of aerosol and acrylic paints. Images are mash ups of different objects and features usually not commonly associated. Currently he is exploring the theme of one man's trash being another's treasure and the 'values' of mass produced everyday objects and how they can be twisted and reconfigured or adjusted to create an alternate meaning or impression. Produced on canvas or board most of the pieces involve layering and textured backgrounds contrasted with clean and bold vocal point.
Bridge Stehil www.bridgestehli.com
Bridge Stehli lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Drawing inspiration from her origins in graffiti art, Bridge's works, applied with acrylic paint in layers to timber; embrace the themes of personification of animals in classical and contemporary culture. Often Bridge's objective is to capture a particular atmosphere or awkward social situation. Taking inspiration from popular iconography present in animated films, cartoons, comic books, classic literature and childhood picture books, she also explores the parallels between the social hierarchies of humans and animals and the similarities between the two that are often ignored.
Drewfunk
Graduating with a Bachelor in Multimedia & Design from RMIT University, Malaysian born Illustrator/Artist Drewfunk now resides in Melbourne after deciding to quit his full-time job as a designer to live his passion. He draws his inspirations from the city streets whilst staying true to his oriental heritage and has been known to have an aerosol addiction.
Ears www.earstotheground.net
With a combination of traditional training at the National Art School and a deep seeded passion for street art, Daniel OÃÂÃÂToole or 'Ears' as he is known in both the studio and on the streets is a Sydney born painter who has a distinctive and whimsical approach to portraiture. The flowing lines and rich tones of his self-portraits lend heavily to the influences he draws from music, life and the city. Ears, along with established Artists Max Berry and Jammie Nimmo have recently opened "Oh Really!?" gallery in Newtown. Since its opening, "Oh Really!?" has become host to artists from all walks of life, offering many the chance to display their work in a unique and exceptional space. He also runs two-day street art workshops to teach young people about legal ways to survive as a street artist, and how to use mediums like spray paint and make paste-ups and stickers.
The subtle hints of realism and abstracted street art style have seen this young artist steadily making a name for himself in both the public and artistic world. Upcoming solo shows include the Gorker in Melbourne next April which includes showcasing EarsÃÂÃÂs instrumental hip-hop music with an installation involving 100 CD cases made from wood with his album inside; a solo show of large scale paintings at aMBUSH gallery mid next year; and a group show called Sweet Streets Festival in Melbourne in October.
Jumbo
Jumboism is a celebration of free art. Freestyle expression and exploration of experimental ideas in public art. The research continues
Max Berry
Max Berry's work creates a world where every object has a life of its own. A daydream land where houses talk to clouds and characters float playfully in abstracted space. Influenced by comics cartoons, he conducts his research eating cereal in front of the TV, admiring the breakfast cartoons of a super-flat 2d world. Max is interested in the duality of things, emerging you in a state of Utopia and Dystopia - good bad, big and small, often taking a very literal form, manifesting itself in textures, raw splashes and drips vs clean and super bold lines. His characters appear in many forms, as paste ups, stickers, canvas, walls, live painting sessions, and on cardboard busking. With multiple gallery opportunities and large mural installations, Max has become part of the cultural landscape of inner Sydney.
Meggs www.houseofmeggs.com
Hailing from the dense cultural labyrinth of Melbourne's laneways, Meggs has become one of Australia's most easily recognised street artists with his unique vivid work taking him to the streets of Paris, London, LA, San Francisco, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
Having completed his Bachelor of Design in 2000, Meggs began experimenting with the stencil images, paste ups and character art that he has become well-renowned for, using the streets as his canvas.In 2004, Meggs joined forces with artists Sync, Rone, Phibs, Reka, Wondalust & Meek to become a vital contributor of the 'Everfresh' studio, a unique collective of street/graffiti/studio artists who are known as one of Australia's most progressive street art collectives. Meggs work developed so much notoriety in the few short years of his career as a street artist that it has been sold through 'Artcurial Auctioneers' in Paris and has even had an acquisition from the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. In October 2010 Meggs' work will also be exhibited At 'The National Gallery of Australia', in Canberra, for their first-ever street art exhibition. Meggs work is influenced heavily by 1980's cartoons, comics and sci-fi film, which has translated into energetic stencil and paste up works of super heroes and villains and subverted collages of pop culture symbology.
A feature of Meggs' work is his focus on the 'duality' of society and its individuals and his exploration of his own personal life experiences combined with exploring themes of rights, authorities and morals within our society. Upcoming projects include 'Sons of Privilege' solo installation & artworks at 'Lo-Fi' artspace, Surrey Hills, Sydney 26th August; 'Everfresh: Blackbook' Book launches globally - a full colour book documenting the history, artworks and artists of the 'Everfresh' Studio from Melbourne; an artwork collaboration with Burton for their 2010-2011 Snowboard range soon to be released; and a first solo exhibition in London, early 2011.
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