Martin E. Wills
Martin E Wills is a painter and freelance illustrator. Fascinated with apocalyptic
imagery, Wills was brought up on a diet of Isaac Asimov, Star Trek and Terminator 2.
In his work, charismatic creatures inhabit science fiction landscapes, with gravity
defying hairstyles, wormholes and anufactured meats. Dramatic perspective,
atmospheric effects and cinematic lighting are used in these paintings to create
seductive visual andscapes, inviting the viewer into an unknown world
Andrew Frazer
Lost of Words Lost for Words is a celebration of the English alphabet, and the inventive power these familiar symbols give to us all. Letters become words, words put together become conversations and from conversation comes the shared understanding of all experience. Frazer personifies each letter as an animal accompanied by special little objects, carefully crafted with playful imagination. Just as collections of letters gesture toward ideas, these delightful illustrations gesture toward the variegated spectrum of emotion and experience.
Jed Henry
Jed Henry is an illustrator, lifelong gamer, Japanophile, and all-around nerd. This series, entitled Ukiyo-e Heroes refers to Japan’s iconic woodblock printing, an art genre emerging in the 17th century that has shaped the West’s understanding of Japanese aesthetics. The monsters, beautiful women and dramatic narrative scenes of Ukiyo-e have also contributed to contemporary gaming culture. Both worlds collide in Henry’s work, as popular gaming characters are rendered in classic Ukiyo-e line and compositions.
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Doug Anthony AllStars
Australia’s preeminent comedy trio, the Doug Anthony AllStars, dominated the artform of comedy in the 80s and 90s to become the first international comedy rock stars. Their distinctive style extended to books, comics, stickers, posters, singles, albums and more. This is a patchwork of the art DAAS members created at the height of DAASmania.
Thom Pastrano
Thom is an artist and illustrator living in the Bay Area. The enigmatic Thom Pastrano creates bold and colourful minimalist illustrations. Familiar childhood characters are radically deconstructed into formal compositions, with a striking use of colour that dances around the canvas. http://www.outregallery.com/collections/thom-pastrano
Kozyndan
Kozyndan are the much loved collaborative art team of Kozy n' Dan. Kozy left Japan to study art in California - where she met Dan - and they have been living and creating together ever since. The power duo are avid travellers whose artworks often feature a message of respect and attention to our natural world, with their passion for diving and love for marine environments also popping up consistently in their work.
Probably most well know for their bunny-filled wave inspired by Hokusai’s Great Wave, their work for indie magazine Giant Robot, band artwork, and their amazing panoramas of epic chaos and beauty - kozyndan gives us an inherent sense of fun, complimentary vision and love for each other, making them an exemplar of artistic collaboration.
Brad Serls.
Houses of 6006. The brainchild of North Perth local photographer Brad Serls. Brad has spent years exploring the streets of the area on his bike, always with his trusty Olympus in tow. Being an admirer of character homes, Brad started shooting them and hasn’t stopped! The project has struck a chord with Perth residents both past and present with people packing out The Bird on William Street to check out the images on show.
Peter Matulich
Matulich is primarily a photographer, and he uses his photographs of Perth buildings as the source imagery for his mixed media paintings.
The fidelity to detail comes from Matulich’s deep connection with Perth not only as a landscape but also the stories that these buildings represent.
Material sensitivity, urban landscapes and local histories converge in Matulich’s paintings, which are sure to stir up nostalgia for the gritty urban Perth of yesteryear.
Matulich’s work was recently featured on the cover of San Cisco’s 2015 album Graceland.
Ian Williams
Ian Williams is a visual artist based in Perth, Western Australia.
His practice revolves around relationships between the digital world and the physical.
Kozyndan
Kozyndan are the much admired collaborative art team of Kozy n' Dan. Probably most well known for their bunny-filled wave inspired by Hokusai’s Great Wave, as well as their work for indie magazine Giant Robot, band artwork, and their amazing panoramas of epic chaos and beauty. Kozyndan’s elaborate illustrations give a sense of fun, their artistic styles work seamless together, making their work a charming and harmonious example of artistic collaboration and love.
- Outre Gallery
Dawn Dedeaux
Allen & Ginters
Dudes and Dames
Allen & Ginter was a progressive and creative company who created and marketed the first cigarette cards for collecting and trading. Cigarette card collecting became a worldwide phenomena, the most well known was the collectable baseball cards.
Not only were the cards an example of clever marketing, they also act as charming artefacts of the popular culture and aesthetics of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. This exhibition explores the World’s Belles and World’s Dudes collections dating from the 1880’s.
Kim Kim Kim
Kim Kim Kim is a visual artist from South Korea who currently lives and works in Perth, Western Australia. Kim’s work focuses on portraiture, which she captures through drawing and oil painting.
Her raw and visceral style of painting creates vexing representations of her subjects; her young and beautiful friends. Her brave use of colour and gestural brushstrokes, reference abstract painting, but the fidelity to realism the paintings nod toward photography. The tension between photographic representation and sculptural brushstrokes, of flatness and form, is a key theme in Kim’s work.
Mike Bell
Born and raised in Jersey Shore. Mike Bell’s art oozes schlock and horror, drawing influence from across the smorgasbord of pop culture imagery.
Japanese cartoons, classic monsters, vintage toys, punk rock, horror images, MAD magazine and Big Daddy Roth are some of the cultural forces that have shaped his art. King of Kitsch, Bell unashamedly appropriates iconic kooky characters and makes them his own. The outcome is a world where the weird is wonderful and the inhuman is alive.
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