Sherrie Wilson Projects just finished working on a killer new large-scale mural project with Dutch Art dream team, TELMOMIEL. The street art duo spent a week in Western Australia in the city of Perth creating the piece of what appears to be a young boy reading with his grandfather.
Mark Whalen is an Australian born, Los Angeles based artist. Whalen expresses satirical social narratives in seemingly universal situations. The most recent series of sculptural works continues his study into the complexities of displacement and positioning that we, as both individuals and a species, experience through our evolutionary trajectory. Construction netting captures, cordons and compartmentalizes our distinctive characteristics as they shift under the weight of societal pressure through this ever-changing global economy.
Jonny Niesche is an Australian born artist currently living and working in Sydney, Australia. Niesche creates breath taking abstract painting works that play with shapes and sizes and beautifully blend vibrant colours that stimulate the viewer.
Dutch artist Amok Island recently completed one of Australia’s largest murals, spanning 25m high x 162m long, on three grain silos in Ravensthorpe, Western Australia. The mural entitled ‘Six stages of Banksia baxteri’ took 31 days to paint and each side of a silo depicts the different stages of the flowering cycle of this iconic Australian Banksia flower, only found in this area of Western Australia. From flower buds, to full bloom; to seedpods developing, drying out and opening. The animals portrayed in the mural are the species’ main pollinators; the Honey Possum and New Holland Honey eater.
The artwork encircles the three silo’s infinitely; the final silo marks the beginning once again, of the first, making a connection with the cycle of the seasons and grain farming processes the area is known for.
Commissioned by FORM and CBH Group.
Aussie muralist Fintan Magee has been traveling around the world crushing walls for as long as we can remember, but don’t forget he also takes the time to create beautiful paintings and exhibit in galleries. Here’s a selection of some recent painting we pulled of his Instagram.
Georgia Hill is an illustrator and artist, specialising in hand drawn type based artworks that combine bold, monochromatic textures and lettering within experimental compositions.
Using a range of mediums, her focus lies in generating deliberately open ended letter based artworks that can be read in terms of connections and relationships, time, place and community. These impressions are all shaped by the viewers own personal experiences, creating a moment of reflection in these heavily detailed, often excessive compositions.
Muralist Smug One recently completed a brilliant new piece in Melbourne entitled “Otters.” The Aussie street artist used his incredible rendering techniques to create a hyperrealistic image that “cleaned up” a wall underneath which was disrespected and created much online controversy.
Louise Zhang creates objects that are designed to allure and repel. Depending on your proclivities, her paintings and sculptures could have either or both effects simultaneously. Zhang’s paintings and painted sculptures are blob-like in form, slippery in texture and lurid in colour. Their brightness and playfulness are striking and their ambivalent forms can be unnerving, in the same way that the wobble of jelly evokes terror in some.
A recent video presented by graffiti artist Sofles features the Aussie writer followed in one continuous shot as he wanders through the streets of Melbourne.
This video was made possible to an amazing group of people, who came together to help us celebrate and pay homage to the Collingwood and Fitzroy area of Melbourne. Our goal was to create one continuous drone shot, captured in one take. The amazing team from Swarm UAV pulled it off.
Here you have the result, along with words by the brilliant poet and author Omar Musa.
Original soundtrack by Erin McKimm.
Thanks to all the artists who came down to be a part of this video, the support team of assistants, Easey’s, Everfresh Studio and everyone else who makes Collingwood such an amazing place.
Directed by Selina Miles selinamiles.com
Featuring Sofles sofles.com
Aerial Cinematography by Swarm UAV swarmuav.com.au
Music by Erin McKimm erinmckimm.com/
Spoken Word by Omar Musa facebook.com/omarmusaqbn/
Muralist Fintan Magee is back with another amazing figure based mural, this time around on the streets of Melbourne. The Australia street artist worked for a number of days on a giant lift creating a giant character spanning a number of stories for the MARCS Festival.
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