FREE-FALL is an exciting new exhibition starting in the Oxford Art Factory Cube mid-April. For more information about the artists who are performing, click here.
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Jim Beam's Rockography Photographic Exhibition
That’s Ken Taylor’s feet, working his way through the original piece he is currently painting on the Gallery Bar wall...
Make sure you head down to the launch of Jim Beam's Rockography photographic exhibition, to be held in the Gallery Bar Thursday 17th March 6-8pm. Curated by legendary rock photographer Bob King from 3000+ images submitted to Jim Beam’s music website TheLBLM.com, the exhibition showcases the top 20 captured at festivals and venues throughout 2010 by up and coming talent.
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TONY MOTT PHOTOGRAPHY RETROSPECTIVE - PRESENTED BY THE JD BIRTHDAY SET.
Jack Daniel’s are proud to be celebrating Mr. Jack’s 160th birthday by paying homage to a legendary name in music – photographer Tony Mott. In the same way that Jack’s world-famous Tennessee whiskey continues to be distilled in time honoured fashion, Tony continues to capture the essence of all that is great about live music with his photography. So, from 15th September (the night of The JD Birthday Set) through to early October Jack Daniel’s are hosting an exhibition of Tony’s finest work at the Oxford Art Factory, for all visitors to the venue to enjoy for gratis!
From humble beginnings, Tony Mott has become Australia’s leading Rock photographer. It was the seventies and Tony was working in legendary Kings Cross hotel, The Gazebo. Tony would often come across many famous guests, and with a passion for photography, he quickly made the most of these encounters and began stealthily snapping away. What started out as a hobby for Tony, quickly became more serious, when after snapping The Divinyls for the umpteenth time, their manager asked to see the photos, and was so impressed he went on to use Tony’s images for their upcoming tour poster.
Since then Tony’s career spiralled and he soon became the go to guy for the Australian music scene, his photo’s have now been published in 20 countries, appeared on over 450 album covers and more than 700 magazines and his portfolio views like a who’s who of Rock’n’Roll. Having toured with, amongst others, the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Fleetwood Mac, Silverchair and Bob Dylan, Tony Mott has a story or two to share, the same way Mr. Jack does after 160 years…
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The work
The workers’ lift, explores the hidden space occupied by workers in a large shopping centre in Cologne, Germany. The workers move between floors unseen by shoppers, using an exclusive private elevator that allows them to step on and step off different levels in the shopping centre. The lift offers a peaceful and quiet mode of transport; a moment of escape for the workers, in a hidden pocket of space away from the hectic noisy shopping environment that awaits them on the other side. The sleek lift moves rhythmically, seamlessly and silently between floors in a continuous loop, never stopping.
This work has recently been acquired by the Gold Coast City Art Gallery as part of the Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Award.
The artist
Sylvia Schwenk is an artist who was born in Germany and now lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Her practice is interdisciplinary and looks at the relationship between performance and the everyday, reflecting upon the significance and beauty of commonplace activities and spaces. Sometimes Sylvia simply captures a moment, and other times she creates socially based interventions that are performed in the urban landscape of different cities by local participants who do not usually go to art galleries.
Sylvia performs and exhibits her work internationally, with shows in Australia, Canada, Germany, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United States, and Vietnam. She is the recipient of numerous awards, grants and scholarships, and her work is held in public and private art collections.
Sylvia Schwenk is represented by Artereal Gallery.
http://www.schwenk.com.au/
The Details
Who: Sylvia Schwenk
What: Video work, The workers’ lift
Where: The Cube, Oxford Art Factory, 38-46 Oxford St, Darlinghurst
When: 27th August – 5th September, from 8pm (closed 29th and 30th August)
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Laura Hayter, an artist from General Pants Co's The Bubble project, painted the OAF Gallery in June 2010, with a mural inspired by her travels in Africa..
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Del Lumanta, an artist from General Pants Co's The Bubble project, painted the OAF Gallery wall for the launch of GP's Major Label.
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Beastman is an artist, designer and photographer based in Sydney, Australia.
Using acrylic, ink and aerosol he produces intricately detailed artworks depicting a parallel world of scaly skinned, bold outlined, beast-like characters gripped by fear, anger, stress, jealousy, lust, confusion and paranoia.
Years of skateboarding has strongly influenced Beastman's characters, concepts and unique style, developed over many years of drawing in sketchbooks and shooting photos. Heraldry, symmetry, family, friendship, nature, the ocean, violence, spirits, birth and the afterlife are all themes which are becoming more and more evident in his artwork.
Beastman has exhibited in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, London and Berlin, and he has designed skateboards and graphics for various brands including Element, Amnesia, Folklore and Mingo Lamberti.
http://www.beastman.com.au
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THE MOVEMENT FOR LEFTOVER FLAVOURS MAGAZINE. _________________________________________________________
MURAL ARTISTS: SPRINKLES, HAZZYB, SMC3, HOUL, VARS, SLIKOR, BIRDHAT, SLINKY, LIMIT, J.DOUGLAS & W.COOKE
BRETT CHAN.
Future primitive, film maker, skater and painter, the multi talented Brett Chan takes to the OAF wall for the second time since the venue opened.
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DRYPNZ.
Born in Portsmouth, England in 1987, Drypnz moved around with his loving family, stopping and living in places such as the Marshall Islands, Israel, Aruba, St. Croix in the USVI, and New Zealand in 2005. He was drawing and painting from an early age and hasn’t stopped. This has all affected what he is producing now under this pseudonym Drypnz. Since 2006 Drypnz has been in Wellington studying on and off for his Bachelor of Design while developing and creating these odd creatures called ‘Drypppls’.
Erratic, never ending change, development, inspiration with a common goal, similar with an obvious difference. Drypnz work mimics the human mind and it’s thought processes, it is interaction with one another and reactions to undetermined situations that humans find themselves in. As always a commentary on how you and I act in general life. Let yourself portray your own life onto the characters, the Drypppls, and realize this is a situation you have encountered before, and if not yet, be ready in the near future to understand what these creatures are going though in this snap shot of their lives.
-Enjoy Drypnz-
For more info please visit www.drypnz.com
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Originally from Sydney, Phibs has been painting graffiti for well over a decade. He is well known for his incredibly detailed cut-back technique and tribal influenced style. Now in Melbourne, he continues to push himself by bringing his style to new areas of design working not just on walls, but canvas, skateboards and clothing. He has recently toured Asia as part of K-spray and been commissioned to create artwork for Absolute Vodka.
http://www.phibs.com
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James was born in 1985 in Thailand and raised in Sydney, Australia on a super-diet of cartoons, comic books, and sci-fi movies.
Now he makes giant candy coloured screenprints/posters you can look at and adore but cannot eat. He has always dreamt of joining the X-men, or becoming Ultraman, or Dracula, or a Lucha Libre pro wrestler. These ambitions reflect themselves in his work.
He worries about alternate realities, the poor Hikikomoris, and cosplay supplies. One day he wants to publish a book about his research into parallel universes but until then he will stick to drawing pictures.
He has recently completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with First Class Honours at the UNSW' College of Fine Arts in Paddington - where he majored in Printmaking.
http://www.jiratpatradoon.com/
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OH REALLY.
A new artist run creative hub has burst open in Sydney's Inner-west. With a successful launch in September 2008, Oh Really Gallery opened to over three hundred people, and has since hosted a number of successful shows by icon Australian street artists.
Oh Really is one of the newest comers to the Gallery scene in the inner west. The ethos running through the veins of Oh Really is to inspire people, push them forward - to motivate individuals to take action and get busy creatively. With close ties to street artists from around Australia, Oh Really offers work a unique voice in Sydney, and provides an opportunity for artists to share work and meet with other creatives at their artist run studio and gallery.
Oh Really operates as an avenue to exhibit collectively, in between our monthly solo shows, and also holding regular Culture Jam events. Culture Jam Aims at bring musicians and painters together, to collaborate for an audience, and explore the possibilities of the relationship between music and art.
http://www.ohreallymagazine.com/
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Alex Knost and Ozzie Wright are surfers from opposite sides of the globe, drawn together by the urge to create, and some good mates at RVCA Australia.
When they're not shredding waves or painting stuff, you can find Al fronting Californian surf rock band the Japanese Motors, and Ozzie Wrong in the riotous Sydney band the Goons of Doom.
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Oh Really is a Newtown based gallery, magazine and arts collective.
In December 2008, the Oxford Art Factory featured works from Ears and Max Berry, of the Oh Really collective.
Born James Choules in London 1969, SheOne has been emptying spray cans and making graffiti for over 20 years.
Sidelining the usual multicoloured pictorial approach to graffiti painting he instead to focuses on the visual language of writing and the expressive possibilities of the name as a subject. His approach to image making is to re-render abstracted hand drawn typography. Hip, data injected splats, overspray and accurate spills relay an emotional slang mapped out in highly personal shorthand.
In recent years he has managed to successfully translate the energy and scale of illegal street paintings into the well lit confines of the gallery, creating international site specific installations and exhibitions and having recently performed a live painting show at the Tate Modern, while simultaneously forging a subtle invasion into the fashion world through collaboration, self branded products and one-off pieces.
The Oxford Art Factory hosted a live painting show by SheOne in November 2008.
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KILL PIXIE
Kill Pixie has had several solo shows in Sydney and Melbourne and has exhibited in group shows worldwide including London, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Embedded with symbols and life experiences, the work is often a suggestion what could have been. His strong graphic characters and patterns are delicate, unorthodox, at times absurd and humorous. Kill Pixie presents a prophecy for an abstracted, urban version of folk art.
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EDWARD WOODLEY
Edward Woodley is a
Sydney based artist, known for working across a variety of mediums - from
dynamic sculpture, to canvas, steel and brick, to graphics.
He has been exhibited world wide, and his pieces have become highly collectable.
Woodley is the co-founder and director of the Surry Hills China
Heights gallery, and curates the Oxford Art Factory in Darlinghurst.
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ANDY UPROCK
Vice & Mooks present
Cuprocking, a graffiti revolution by Andy Uprock. From bboying to painting,
revolutionising the streets and bumping into galleries, the freshest kid in
town has unveiled more of his skills with Cuprocking. This exhibition is the
first of many he will showcase around the world starting in July as part of
a Mooks & Vice global campaign.
Uprock used 10,000 recycled cups on the wall at the Oxford Art Factory.
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MARK DREW – HIGHSCHOOL CLASSICS
"Mark Drew manages and co-directs the China Heights gallery in Surry Hills, as well as producing freelance graphic art and design under the name Making Ends. This wall of 150 tape cassettes was hand painted by him and Luka du Chateau, from Marks collection as a teen."
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MINT & SERF
SERF born in 1979 in Brooklyn, and MINT, born in 1978 in Moscow, have combined their passion for graffiti to create a marketing company that comprises a collective of artists and designers, working together to establish an understanding of graffiti through a series of projects with cutting-edge companies including Mass Appeal magazine, Neverstop records, ALIFE, Stuck on Earth Productions, The London Police, MissBehave, Warp Magazine, and Beautiful Decay magazine, among others. From product placement and guerrilla marketing to art exhibitions and editorial photo shoot’s. 1134nyc aims to rebrand graffiti and challenge the public’s (mis)perception of it.
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STEVE GORROW FOR INSIGHT
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NUMSKULL – THE
AMAZING TREND
NUMSKULL
is probably not the name on his tax return but it would be dead funny if it
were. Numskull was born in Japan and considers himself an all-round painter
& decorator who currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia.
The characterisation or delination of his work is not something he likes to
do. Nor is using big words to describe this process. Imagine a world where your
favourite childhood memories are ripped to shreds and discarded to come full
circle as something you wouldn't normally expect. This gives you a small glimpse
into the absurd and sometimes contraversial concepts that Numskull portrays
through pop and street art styles.
His work has been exhibited in galleries up & down the east coast of Australia
including China Heights, The Galeries Victoria, Blank Space and in numerous
publications such as YEN, Witout Reason and more...
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BRETT CHAN - SHAKA
BRAH
Brett Chan is a future primitive, and an artist in the classic sense – working
with a palette broad enough to encompass not just painting, but also poetry,
skateboarding, photography and design.
'Shaka Brah', Chan's 2007 work at Oxford Art Factory, is a 25 metre long installation
featuring collaborations with Lee Ralph, Dustin Dollin, Trent 'Burger' Whitehead,
Swayzack, and Ainslie Fletcher.
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Sydney artist Ben Frost is most well known for his confronting and often controversial Pop Art paintings. Using a ‘collage’ style of unlikely juxtapositions, his dynamic paintings are complex mash-ups of popular culture that savagely critique our media and advertising obsessed society. He’s faked his own death, copped critique on Channel 7’s Sunrise program, gotten heat from Police for his paintings and even had a painting slashed by an aggravated viewer.
For more work by Ben, check out Ben Frost is Dead.
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