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Swoon in Melbourne

Posted in News, Street Art, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 17, 2011| 5 Comments »

A night on the town…

If you haven’t already heard the buzz new york based street art star Swoon is in Melbourne for an exhibition at Metro Gallery. I was lucky enough to meet her this week and got to go on a little run around melb on thursday night with her and a few others.

No Frills Toxic Mickey meet Swoon – Hosier Lane

This one above was the first one i came across before i got to meet her. Looks like Mickey has seen better days!

Swoon unrolling the goodness…massive woodcuts with intricate handcut backgrounds designed to really make the pieces become one with the environment.

Getting messy wheatpaste style.

On the wall…AC/DC lane Melbourne

There were a few people getting up or helping out including HAHA, Vexta, Drab, Junky and Tonez.

HAHA getting down with the wheatpaste.

Drab doing what he does so well – Tatterstalls Lane

And finally a small one of mine going up in AC/DC  lane…

Thanks Ms Tonez for the above pic.

Subtle Stealth Bomber pasted to the wall.

All up it was a really good session, Swoon was really nice btw…and we all got to change the walls of melbourne for a little while. And if your in melbs drop in to Until Never Gallery and see Shida’s first Melb Exhibition…it is awesome and well worth visiting.

Until next time….enjoy!

NF

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The Silent Scream

Posted in books, News, tagged , , , , , , on February 16, 2011| Leave a Comment »

I just recieved news confirming that i have my artist books/zines being included in an exhibition this September at Monash University in Melbourne. The exhibition and and the accompanying publication is going to be called, The Silent Scream: political and social comment in books by artists. The exhibition is a joint project between Monash University Rare Books Library (http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/rare/) and the Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem (http://www.bibliotheca.org.au) a private collection of precious books based in New South Wales by Monica Oppen.

It’s pretty exciting news, and it feels good to have the books considered within a conceptual context…so stay tuned for further information later in the year.

ps- Below is my latest artist book just out.


 

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I am Typewriter

Posted in books, News, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on February 14, 2011| 2 Comments »

This weekend was the “I am Typewriter” festival and zine fair. The fair presented by Sticky Institute was in the degraves street underground and saw a large number of both stall holders(Over 40 tables!) and audience. I shared a table with David of Field Study, and combined we moved a descent amount of alternative and small press publications. The day saw the first outing for my new sticker packs, Sample/New World Order/Dismay zines and a bunch of new badge designs. The audience were great, i met a bunch of great new crew and overall the day was a huge success.

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2010 in review

Posted in News on January 31, 2011| 2 Comments »

Well, looking back at 2010 it was a good year art wise for me. I started the year with work up in the $10,000 BSG Art Prize in Melbourne (Unfortunately, I didn’t take home the prize money!), I was in a further seven exhibitions over the year and finished up the year with work in the Fit to Print Exhibition at No Vacancy Gallery, where I sold seven prints. Another highlight for the year was being selected for the Sweet Streets – street art exhibition at 1000pound bend, where I also sold my painting along with five more prints. In the course of the year I managed to see some of my stickers get used on the cabinets at the National Gallery of Australia for their Space Invaders – Australian Street Art Exhibition, which was pretty nice!

Two thousand and ten also saw me really get back into the swing of painting again, completing over 30 paintings for the year. And in the later half I was invited by two new galleries starting in 2011 to show work with them (One in Melbourne and one in Geelong). Commercially, I undertook a few projects including doing all the design work for the Click Clack project, a sound and performance project doing shows at Footscray Community Arts and Fortyfive Downstairs. This resulted in two runs of rock posters around Melb, a further folding poster/booklet and a CD using my images. I also coordinated the Street Salon project for the Geelong Arts Alliance with David Dellafiora, presenting an exhibition of around 150 works during the UCI bike trials in a shop front in Geelong.

I continued creating my No Frills zines with a further 4 or 5 getting made over the year. I also sold a back catalogue of these to an archive in Sydney…which always helps fund further publications. I slowed down a bit on the T-Shirt designing which I enjoy, but still managed to shift more than 200 tees through my online store. Two hundred more minions spreading my messages on their chests sound pretty damn good to me! 😉

Health wise was probably the biggest downer for the year, my immune system played up and I also managed to tear a muscle about 70% of the way through in my calf keeping me out of action for a fair bit. This all paled into insignificance though, when I found out that my mum would be battling cancer and going through chemo. But things are looking up across the board and fingers crossed they will continue too!

So on that note let’s hope 2011 holds positive things ahead, good health for all and creativity aplenty.

G

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Click Clack Project update

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »

I got my hands on one of the CD’s recently that they used my artwork on for the Click Clack Project. Below is a few pix of it…and further down are some photos of the posters for The Mountain which is a part of the click clack project. BTW…if your into your experimental and found sound get along to The Mountain at 45 downstairs next week (15-18 Dec 2010). Further info available here>>

Above: Click Clack Cd         

Below: The poster i designed for The Mountain (Spencer Street Melbourne)

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The Click Clack Project

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Recently i did some graphic design for Melbourne sound company JOLT. They create experimental and found sound combined with orchestral music. There recent project over the weekend at Footscray Community Arts Centre was a free gig where the sound was made with Jolt artists as well as the Amplified Elephants, a disability sound group from melb as well as Noise Scavengers a youth based group founded at the Cloverdale Community Centre in Geelong. Those who follow my work may recognise my elephant in the gas mask…as i was told to do my thing and use my artwork within the design…which is always the best kind of graphic design!

So if your out and about in melb keep your eyes peeled for my elephant billposters, there should be 500 round town. There will also be a cool poster coming out soon with a vulture on a pile of electrical and white goods…also featuring a TV with a mash up of Charles Manson and a Buddha! So keep your eyes peeled!

There is also another gig coming up in december at 45 downstairs, in Melbourne.

Visit there site for further details on times, dates and prices >>

Above is one of the A5 catalogue/books that folds out into a poster.

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National Gallery showcases street art – ABC Canberra – Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Posted in Exhibition, News, Street Art, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 10, 2010| 3 Comments »

Space Invaders is an exhibition now open at the NGA in Canberra. It is probably one of the most important exhibitions relating to street art that has been seen in Australia. It gives the artform some real respect and places it into a serious art context. So if this is your thing and you can get up there it will be well worth the effort.

Below is a link to a story about the exhibition off the ABC…in it you can see one of my ‘Think Tank’ stickers on display up there.

National Gallery showcases street art – ABC Canberra – Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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15% Sale on No Frills Art T-Shirts over at Redbubble

Posted in News, t-shirt, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »

From  now until the 14th November you can get my T-Shirts over at Redbubble at a discount price drop of 15%.

 So now is the time to stock up for christmas!

When going through the checkout process just enter: nofrillsart_is_on_sale_6492

Visit my T-Shirt site here: http://www.redbubble.com/people/nofrillsart

 

 

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New Zine

Posted in books, News, tagged , , , , on September 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »

This is my latest zine/artist’s book…That’s all she wrote. Keeping it lofi on this one, 24 pages…4 in colour with a heavyweight card stock cover. Should be hitting the stores real soon so keep your eyes peeled.

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Street Salon

Posted in Exhibition, News, workshop, tagged , , , , , , , on September 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »

The Street Salon installation that I was coordinating with David Dellafiora for the Geelong Arts Alliance is now up in central Geelong. Street Salon is a community art project where the elite salon exhibitions of the past are turned on their head by allowing access to all and displaying every artwork submitted in a shop front with 24hr access for the general public to easily view. Street Salon is a democratic artwork about participating in the arts, while also renewing the streetscape and filling one of the empty shops affecteted by ecconomic impacts such as the global financial crisis. Artworks were created by untrained artists, school students, people with disabilities, local artists as well as artists from interstate and overseas. All works are shown together as equals!

The display can be found in the Lt Malop St Mall (Shop 110).

This project was funded by the City of Greater Geelong.

 

There will also be a workshop running on Wednesday if people want to drop in and make some art, and a closing with a few drinks on the Sunday 10th Oct. (Time TBC)

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Sweet Streets Exhibition

Posted in Exhibition, News, Street Art, tagged , , , , , on September 22, 2010| 1 Comment »

If you haven’t heard about Sweet Streets, its melbourne’s premier Street Art festival…formerly Melbourne Stencil Festival. Anyway, if your around old melbourne town between Oct 8 – 24 there will be a bunch of stuff on. I have a work in the Award Show over at 1000 Pound Bend opening on 8th Oct  – 6pm.

So if your about and looking for something to do get on down to the show!

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Tiny Peeks

Posted in Exhibition, News, tagged , , , , , , on September 18, 2010| Leave a Comment »

I have a small piece in the Tiny Peeks exhibition at Hand Held Gallery Coming up. The idea was to do a comic about your day.  This was then to be made into a small book that will be available at the gallery. The brains behind the exhibition and publication is the one and only M P Fikaris.

There are also some really cool other artists in the show.

Artists:

Athonk, Jerome Bihan,  Richard Butler-Bowden, Amber Carvan, Toni  Dowd, M P Fikaris,  Ghostpatrol,  Ha – Ha,  Jase Harper, Michael Hawkins, James James, Anna Kearey, Rena Littleson, Kirsty Madden, Tim McEwan, Tim Molloy, No Frills Art,  Tom O’Hern, Mandy Ord , Phoenix, Rachel Jesse – Rae, Mel Roswell, Kirrily Schell, Pip Stafford, Brendan Tolley, Jo Waite, Anthony Woodward.

So if your around on Thurs 30th Sept 6- 8 pm

get on down to Hand Held Gallery – Suite 18, 108 Bourke street (Upstairs Paramount Arcade)

The show runs till Oct 27.

Further details at www.silentarmy.org

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Dismay, Everfresh launch and crazy kids on the tram

Posted in books, News, Street Art, tagged , , , , , , on September 11, 2010| Leave a Comment »

I have been busy, busy…busy over the last week or so.

I have not had much time for making art due to my day job being at its busiest peak and having a big design project on taking up most nights till late. I will reveal further details on this a bit closer to time as it is a cool gig. I have however made a new zine called Dismay as part of the research i was doing into making a book/poster for the design project i just mentioned…so that was fun.

 

Also my other zine End Game is now in stock and available at Sticky Institute!

I did manage to find the time to make it to the Everfresh launch and collect my copy of their new book. It’s very cool so if Melbourne street art is your thing, do yourself a favour and head on over to their site and check it out.

 Everfresh >>

Image: Oversized Everfresh Milk Carton as part of the book launch

And finally just for fun, here is a pic of some crazy kids i came across on the tram the other night.

Oh…and i also found a spare few hours to get to the Mike Parr talk at ACCA. Interesting talk…different to what i a was expecting but enjoyable all the same…and btw the dude is very smart. Later days…

Enjoy!

NF

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Exhibition, Zine, Mail, Old Friends and Copyright Issues.

Posted in books, News, Street Art, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 30, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Well, its been an interesting few days. I have made a new small Mash Up Zine playing with the idea of reintroducing the artists hand into a photocopied zine to embody it with a bit more ownership and value…Think the Artist’s mark versus Art in the age of mechanical reproduction.

Zine – End Game available soon from Sticky Institute in Melbourne.

Small hand sprayed edition of 20

…so keep your eyes peeled as they will go quick!

Exhibition – I also was lucky enough to get one of my paintings selected for the Sweet Streets street art exhibition coming up in Melbourne this October. It wasn’t the work I was hoping was selected, but getting a work on the wall is all the same at the end of the day. Anyway, to find out more about whats on during the festival follow the sweet streets link above.

Mail – Today I received a few awesome paste ups from the crew over at UK based Prefab77. The pasters will be hitting the streets of Melbourne soon, maybe during Sweet Streets…so keep your eyes peeled.

Or go visit their site and see their awesome art >>

Old Friends – I caught up with Mel Kerr, a Melbourne artist and an old friend of mine this week at her studio. Her work inspired by suburban interiors and urban exteriors blends fine art beautifully with inspiration from street art.

 So go check her art out here >>

 

Copyright Breach – And the final bit… not as fun as the rest above, is today when I went to log into ebay I found one of my t-shirt designs for sale on ebays front page from a seller/company over in Thailand. The funny thing is, that its not even a particularly good design of mine. They had also ripped a few from mechline, and a few others designers also. I guess if you look at it one way its flattering. But if you look at it another way it just pisses you off.

Anyway, at least I can say things are never boring!

Enjoy,

No Frills

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New work by HA HA

Posted in News, Street Art, tagged , , , , , , on August 15, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Here are a few images of some of the awesome new stencils by Melbourne based street artists HaHa. I have sat on these pics for a few weeks to avoid being a spoiler…as they were taken in his studio and were for an exhibition in Brisbane. Its now opened, so i thought i would throw them up here now. They are pretty impressive being about 2.5 metres high and using up to 40 layers.

So keep your eyes peeled for his work, its well worth it!

 

Visit HaHa’s work at the Gallery >>

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