Strike me a ray! It’s Alf, from Home and Away!
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Strike me a ray! It’s Alf, from Home and Away!
(via Joel Rea)
Gnarly surf-art by Andy Davis.
Maz Dixon is a prize-winning Australian artist with a unique view of her world. These images are from her rather inspired Atlas Project:
“Over the next few years I will be building an atlas of the world based entirely on hearsay.
I hit on the idea while reading about 16th century maps depicting the continent Jave la Grande – a place that, if you look at it from a certain angle, may or may not look a bit like the coast of Australia.
Such documents were pieced together by cartographers based on second- or third-hand information. The results were often less than accurate.
I wondered how, in this age of information overload, could I replicate this process of piecing the world together. The answer I came up with was simple – use information from random strangers and virtual friends on Facebook, Twitter, and visitors to the blog and this website. Eventually this information will be compiled into a new and unique atlas of the world.”
“Born in Lismore NSW, and growing up in Brisbane, Fintan Magee began drawing as a young child. Exposed to Brisbane’s graffiti culture in his teens Magee began to scrawl his name across the city in large vibrant letter forms.
Moving away from traditional graffiti in recent years, Magee has started to explore new ideas and imagery within his painting. In the last year he has created some of the largest and most striking street pieces in Australia. His bold guerilla mural works often combine still life painting of found objects with installation elements. Magee’s works explore themes of waste, consumption, loss and transition.”
~ When I was in Brisbane a few weeks ago, I was intrigued by Fintan Magee’s collaboration exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery.
I especially like his street art, so I decided to ‘virtually’ collect and collage some more of his work, all of which can be seen on his flickr page and website.
When you see it, you will smile.
Art from the quirky and talented Loui Jover
The various elements of p-l-e-a-s-u-r-e.
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American Caustic.
Cannot wait for Season 5 to start, yo.
Stroop has some cute art and animations to enjoy, PLUS he’s a Melbourne lad, so GO Aussie!
‘Shearing The Rams’, by Tom Roberts, was the inspiration for a more recent advertising campaign for ‘aussieBum’ underwear.
In the advertisement, Roberts’s muscular male shearers are still hard at work – but in their undies. The designer, Sean Ashby, described his advertisement as ‘promoting what it means to be Australian today’ – an aim very close to Roberts’s own when he made Shearing the rams.
Ashby explained further, ‘more of our iconic businesses and traditions like shearing are either being sold overseas or dying off … we wanted to remind people to value their heritage and buy Australian, in a cheeky way’.
We can only speculate what Tom Roberts would think.
Brett Whiteley is one of Australia’s most revered artists. His lyrical expressionism and lack of inhibition placed him at the forefront of Australia’s avant-garde art movement. He won many prizes and awards and his work hangs in numerous galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the Tate Gallery in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In the last years of his life Whiteley travelled far and wide, taking in England, Bali, Tokyo, and spending two months in Paris in an apartment on Rue de Tournon.
On 15 June 1992 he was found dead from a heroin overdose in a motel room in Thirroul on the NSW coast. The coroner’s verdict was ‘death due to self-administered substances’. He was 53 years old.
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