Bennelong Lawn - Andrew Pommier - Canada
Andrew lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. His artworks have a great appeal through his clean drawing style and unique representation of characters that are “funny because they are sad”. From his smoking rabbits to the hypnotic and unsettling stares of his masked boys and girls, a unified comic message is achieved. Andrew released the book ‘Things I Don’t Remember”, which is a selection of his artworks from 1997 to 2004 and encompasses many styles from sketches to full oil on canvas pieces. Through the book there is a sense of dark humor that emerges.
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Powerhouse Museum - Reg Mombassa - Sydney
A prolific artist, Reg's work is included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, to name just two.
While he is famous for his ambivalence toward sport, Reg was nonetheless invited to design the Heroes segment of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony. Several of his Mambo "characters", including Beer Monster and Australian Jesus were also transformed into six metre high inflatables and 20 metre high dirigibles and played a luminous role in the closing ceremony.
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SH Ervin Gallery - Deanne Cheuk – New York
Australian born, New York based, graphic designer Deanne Cheuk has been labelled one of the top 50 creatives in the world by The Face magazine, and "The fashion world's darling of the moment" by the Canadian National Post. Deanne’s work has been exhibited in London, Tokyo, Spain, Australia, Philadelphia, and New York. Deanne won her first art competition at the age of 10. She has art directed and designed 12 magazines, including her self published Mu, Big, and Tokion.
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Arthur Phillips Memorial - Beci Orpin - Melbourne
Visual artist, street fashion designer, owner of Princess Tina and Baby PT label, and mother. Beci also has an impressive roster of local and international clients who for some reason thought they shouldn’t have been required to pay us to have their name mentioned here. When not drawing, Beci enjoys walking barefoot along the beach and watching men wrestle in jelly. She hates insincere people and pants with one leg shorter than the other.
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Aqua Bumps - Paul McNeil - Byron
Painter, author, surfer, lover and friend of people who know models. Paul has been a mambo artist for nearly 20 years and he still gets lost trying to find the studio. He is a musical snob who will only listen to guitarists who play their own signature model. In 2006 Paul wrote and illustrated a heavy metal book for kids “M is for Metal”. He surfs the most easterly point of Australia on principle.
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Chinese Gardens - Eric Elms – New York
Eric Elms hails from San Diego where he spent his youth pulling screens in fellow San Diegan, Shephard Fairey’s printing studio. After relocating to Brooklyn his creative skills were further nurtured by working with the likes of Kaws and Kevin Lyons.
His work has had a major presence in Japan through the covers of monthly style magazine HUGE and representation in the SK8 On The Wall exhibition at Rocket gallery. So when we heard he likes to holiday in Australia, we couldn’t resist the urge to roll up to his towel at Bondi, and ask him for a couple of t-shirt prints.
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Power House Museum - Artemio Rodriguez - Mexico
Artemio Rodríguez is an artist from Michoacán, Mexico, born in 1972. He moved to LA where he began the work that would ultimately become the Lotería series. Artemio uses a mixture of traditional iconography and modern images to produce beautiful Linocuts for the images of the Loteria Cards. They look both traditional Mexican and old, yet contemporary and modern at the same time. Each is distinct and unique. They live and they breathe, they laugh and cajole, they poke fun and they pull at your heart, and they just dare you to look harder at this American dream.
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Australian Museum - Robert Moore - Grafton
Visual artist, musician, and producer. In 1988, Robert played bass with Neil Finn during his tour of Australia, US, Britain and Europe. In 1999 he designed and painted a double life size inflatable Holden Monaro (now parked at the Ipswich Global Art Link in Brisbane). He regularly exhibits in Brisbane and Sydney. Bob lives on a farm in the northern NSW town of Grafton with his wife and 2 dogs. He is currently building a fourth hole to add to the 3-hole golf course that he has already built.
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Books Kinokuniya - Harold David - Sydney
American born photographer Harold David has earned a reputation for being one of Australia’s premier fashion and portraiture photographers. He has worked extensively with some of Australia’s leading magazines such as Vogue Australia, Harpers Bazaar, Marie Claire, Sunday Magazine and Russh.
Due to his unique style Harold is regularly commissioned to photograph celebrities such as, Hugo Weaving, Sam Worthington, Sarah Wynter, Vince Colosimo, Claudia Karvan, Roy & HG, Grant Hackett and Rove.
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Somedays Gallery - Ainslie Fletcher - Sydney
The 28 year old graphic designer and illustrator, Ainslie Fletcher, likes to keep herself busy. This year she has been focus on the exhibition China heights, which featured Ainslie’s voodoo-inspired illustrations. She also enjoys designing bright, bold and busy lampshades “I’ve always loved decorating my houses and making them colourful nests of craziness” . Ainslie has had an ongoing association with Yen (the smart, stylish, alternative magazine aimed at an informed 20-something market) over recent years, through her work illustrating articles for the publication.
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Paddington Markets - Tristan Ceddia – Melbourne ~ Sydney
Bio Coming Soon!
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Glebe Markets - Numskull – Sydney
NUMBSKULL is probably not the name on his tax return but it would be dead funny if it were. Numskull was born in Japan and now lives in Sydney. He is “never not working”. He discovered art while at school and used tagging and other forms of “pictorial vandalism” to cheer up local streets and parks whether they wanted cheering up or not. He also paints and screenprints. Numbskull has shared wall space at China Heights, Blank Space and Galleries Victoria. He had his first solo show, ‘Child’s Play’ in 2006 at the Blank Space gallery in Sydney. More to come.
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Harry Cafe de Wheels - Cupco - Sydney
The many areas of the Cupco! world include illustration, painting, character design, doll-making and big-game hunting. The artist - also a graphic designer, animator, website designer and skateboarder – started his Cupco collection in Tokyo, and is said to be guilty of creating the most disturbing plush dolls in the world. He chose the name because it was "the dumbest, least-meaningful name I could think of". The artist says he draws inspiration from watching The Simpsons and the news.
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Bondi Pavillion - David McKay - Sydney
David is a painter, production designer and director of short films, music videos and television commercials. While working on the film, The Delinquents, David was asked by its star Kylie Minogue to hold her ice-cream while she adjusted her bosom. He has recently had two solo exhibitions in NYC and in 2006 won an AFI award for his production design for the Australian film, Macbeth. David also ‘does lunch’ and takes phone calls during sex.
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Sydney Tower - Ben Frost - Sydney
Ben is a visual performing artist whose work challenges the contemporary values of Western culture and society. He places common iconic images from advertising, entertaining and politics into startling juxtapositions that are both confrontational and conversational. Ben is continually surprised that he is paid to do what monkeys do for free. He would one day like to see ducks and other recreational targets armed with semi-automatic weapons.
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