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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

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.

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/

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.

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.

Kill Pixie cut his teeth publishing his mural art on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Growing rapidly in maturity by working with no respect for slumber, Kill Pixie, uncompromised by the establishment, is an uninhibited and original figure in contemporary art. In the studio, his work on hand-made wooden boxes in ink, watercolour, acrylic and resin coating has attained much attention, his mediums recently have included works on paper and sculpture. Currently, much of the work is influenced by indigenous cultures and informed by the folk art they create.

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.

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.

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, and is currently accepting commissions to Cuprock a wall near you - feel free to contact OAF to grab Andy's contact details.

"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."

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.

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...

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.

BEN FROST – CASH FROM CHAOS

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.