October 25, 2010 by No Frills Art
Well its been a few weeks since i have updated here. So it has been interesting times…I have been busy with work stuff but was also out of action for a bit with a torn calf muscle…yes painful, and it went pop…out loud!
The Sweet Streets festival has finally come to a close. It proved to be sucessful for me with my painting in the award show selling, as well as four prints i had in the folio on the mech desk. My piece created in the collingwood underground art park also found a home as part of the charity auction. There were a few serious bargins to be had at the auction, so if you missed it be sure to get along to next years one if you want to take home some seriously cool art at great prices, and help a charity in the process.
Anyway, I will be updating a bit more over the coming week, but here are a few cool shots from the collingwood underground. I only had time to get some pasties together…but its all good!
Head to head with HaHa…mine is the skull stencil. You can also see the magnifying glass by phoenix the street artist, and some little men by Civil. (Not sure who did the quote piece or the pyramid one)
Sexy Scissors…
My little terrorist…
No Frills Mickey vs HaHa…pretty sure he’s going to get smashed!
Peace Out!
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October 12, 2010 by No Frills Art
I only had little to do with this piece, but a bunch of my images made it into a cool installation over at a new space in North Melbourne called Urban Plot Projects. The large wall collage was part of an exhibition for the Melbourne Fringe festival titled Archeologies of the Future, and to officially open the space. Others with work on the wall include Pheelix, Ha Ha, Phoenix the Street Artist, Breakdown Press…plus a bunch of others. If you get over there be sure also to check out the cool over sized paper cranes made from billposters by Ben Millar in the gallery section!
And below a bit of an overview shot of the work, plus Ha Ha hard at work on it.
Posted in Exhibition, Street Art | Tagged collage, HA HA, no frills art, pheelix, pheonix, Street Art, urban plot | Leave a Comment »
October 6, 2010 by No Frills Art
Here is my first serious high quality digital print release. It’s a large archival pigment print on beautiful heavy weight Canson Paper. I have three other prints also about to be released over the next week so stay tuned. These will all be available on the Mechandise Desk at Sweet Streets HQ.
So from the Sweet Streets Award Show (8/10/2010) and over the sixteen days of the festival these will be available from 1000 Pound Bend in Melbourne for $90.
These are signed and numbered and in a small edition of only 25!
So get your hands on one quickly. If you can’t make it to the festival email me to get your hands on one. (email on my about page!)
Posted in Artworks, print | Tagged 1000 pound bend melbourne, banksy, graffiti, inspired, melbourne, no frills art, nofrillsart, pictures on walls, print, Stealth Bomber, stencil, Street Art, sweet streets, sweet streets melbourne | Leave a Comment »
September 28, 2010 by No Frills Art
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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September 28, 2010 by No Frills Art
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)
Posted in Exhibition, News, workshop | Tagged art, geelong, malop street, retro, street, street salon, UCI, workshop | Leave a Comment »
September 22, 2010 by No Frills Art
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!
Posted in Exhibition, News, Street Art | Tagged 1000 pound bend, exhibition, melbourne, no frills art, Street Art, sweet streets | 1 Comment »
September 19, 2010 by No Frills Art
Latest tee design. Pretty happy with this one…it is a goodbye to A T-Shirt Revolution group over at Redbubble that i have moderated with some other good people for the last few years.
Get it here >>
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September 18, 2010 by No Frills Art
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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September 18, 2010 by No Frills Art
I got my ‘Terrorists often wear suits’ image back from the framers yesterday. It’s the version pasted on the billposters that were taken down from Hosier lane recently. It one of my favs for a while as it looks really precious the way it has been framed, while still remaining very street in my opinion.
I also got some tees this week for a friend, one of which was the same image.
The mailbox was actually pretty full this week as i also got a pile of new stickers too.
What else…hmm…I also managed to drop into the semi-permanent show this week in melbs, well worth a look especially the piece by Beastman on the wall. Ghostpatrol has a new one on at No Vacancy QV which is awesome…go see his bizarre/tent thing…you feel like a kid again. And i spent friday night at 1000 pound bend seeing the ‘just another group show’…and then having a few…way too many over at the blender studios. Oh and went for a wander on the street art tour today which was fun times. I actually got to see a heap of art this week considering i have been super busy and up to 2am every night doing graphic design on the side. Anywho…
Peace out!
NF
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September 11, 2010 by No Frills Art
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
Posted in books, News, Street Art | Tagged book launch, everfresh, no frills, no frills art, Street Art, tram, zine | Leave a Comment »
August 30, 2010 by No Frills Art
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
Posted in books, News, Street Art | Tagged art in the age of mechanical reproduction, artist copyright, artist's mark, artists books, geelong, mel kerr, melbourne, no frills art, paste up, paster, prefab 77, spray paint, sticky institute, Street Art, streets of melbourne, studio, sweet streets, zine | Leave a Comment »
August 22, 2010 by No Frills Art
Little painting/paster done this week.
We are the real pests – Mixed Media on Canvas 30 x 30cm, 2010. G.Smith
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August 15, 2010 by No Frills Art
Here is my latest artwork, a paster based canvas tribute to Edgar Allan Poe and his poem, ‘The Raven’.
Enjoy!
NF
Posted in Artworks | Tagged canvas, edgar allan poe, no frills art, nofrillsart, painting, paste up, paster, poe, poem, Street Art, the raven | Leave a Comment »
August 15, 2010 by No Frills Art
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 >>
Posted in News, Street Art | Tagged blender, canvas, HA HA, melbourne, REGAN TAMANUI, Street Art, studio | Leave a Comment »
August 3, 2010 by No Frills Art
Here are my new paintings based on my ‘Terrorists often wear suits’ image that just recently went up in Rutledge/Hosier Lane. The terrorists wear a range of abstracted multinational logos on their suits. These are a bit experimental, being digital prints on a heavy weight canson watercolour paper with spray paint…and the odd bit of ink over top. Then a matt varnish top coat. I’m having a bit of fun with them…fun enough to drag me out to the workshop in this cold weather. Enjoy!
Nine images from a set of twelve paintings
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