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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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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.