Darren Wigley, Rebecca Murphy, Todd Fuller and a whole host of incredible artists from Sydney and beyond, set the walls on fire with their provocative / beautiful / weird approaches to the age-old genre of portraiture. Among them there's a giant rabbit, a furry woman, a spider/woman, a woman covered in ash and tar, a futuristic caveman, a man with a box for a head, and chairs as well. Open 10 - 6 every day except Tuesday.
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Until 26th June
Vernon Treweek - UV:3D @ CarriageWorks
Avatar hasn't got shit on this amazing LSD style 3D trippy art by Vernon Treweeke.
Abducted Teddybears' Picnic @ Monstrosity, entry by donation of plush toy
A picnic on the floor of the gallery for you and your beloved teddy or fluffy creature.
Selected artists featured in the PORTRAITS exhibition will give a floor talk about their work, and finally, all applicable fluffy toys will be ABDUCTED and imprisoned inside a perspex lightbox, becoming part of our permanent collection, on the front of the Gallery!
Picnic foods and rugs are provided.Entry is by donation of plush toy/s (Old, new or handmade!)Children are welcome, and must be accompanied by an adult.Bookings essential. Please email info@monstrosity.com.au Subject: Teddybear. Numbers are limited!
Believe You/Me - Philip Soliman @ Monstrosity, free, 6-9pm
On Friday June 25, from 6-9pm, Monstrosity Director Philip Soliman launches his solo exhibition of photography, video and installation entitled Believe You/Me.
Philip Soliman uses the traditional "documentary" media of video and photography, combined with immersive installations, to ask questions about human beings, and our fundamental beliefs about ourselves, each other and the world.
His solo show Believe You/Me brings together three of his current projects.
The Throw Shapes webzine has relaunched as a blog, but the thrust (if we may) is still the same: to support the local and independent arts, music and grassroots projects that aren't getting the attention they deserve.Sydney's creative scene isn't as small as it seems - we just need to tug on the waistband of her jeans to fit a bit more talent in.
At least 80% of our content is about things happening in and around Sydney, and 80% pushes creative work existing on an independent or grassroots level. The rest is here because it represents something new; an idea to take home with us, a subculture or movement missing from our lives, or simply a demystification of success. Either that or it's here because we think it's funny and we have a blog. Mostly, we just want to get as many inspiring people together in one place as we possibly can.
If you want to know more, contribute, or get your stuff on our pages, email us:
We wouldn’t be around if it weren’t for the World Bar who have housed, nourished and nurtured us and countless other creative tangents over the years. We probably owe them a drink or two as well.
Naked Creative @ the Village Hotel: Minstrels and visionaries playing in the raw.
It’s all stripped back at Naked Creative.
Every Wednesday, Sydney is turned on to something new at the [...]
Pansy Crack: Good Clean Fun by Caravan of Dooom arrives in Sydney very soon! Don't miss these motorcycle carnies as they tear up and down the east [...]
The Gate: Our backyard venue that was featured on Throw Shapes recently will be hosting GUINEAFOWL, ALPS and KAROSHI this Saturday! Info via www.thegatepresents.com
Underbelly Arts: Last chance to see the Underbelly Arts Lab before the Festival this Saturday - tonight & tomorrow 6pm & 7.30pm. Come and get involved in [...]
Underbelly Arts: FREE talks program, public tours of the Underbelly Arts Lab + project participation sessions at Kensington Street, Chippendale on Saturday 10 July from 2pm!
gailpriestess: July 3 Superdeluxe@Artspace - a night of heavy ecstasy with Machine Death, Mandala Trap (Jeff Burch - Songs & Paul Gough - Pimmon), Gail Priest. [...]
Performance Space: Sydney’s cult live storytelling series returns to the Performance Space ClubHouse. Real people tell true stories of their own lives, live. Hot on the tail [...]
ccMo: YourSpace @ the Townie ~ every Wednesday night
10+ bands/solos/duos. FREe ENTRY. 7pm. jam from midnight
YU: check out 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art tonight for a 24 hour embrace performance by NZ based korean artist Young Sun Han, previously staged [...]
V Energy Green Room: We're now an official stage at Future Music Sydney! Get down to the big green tent & party to Disco Punx, Cassian, Little Bambalam & [...]
The key to consuming sonic cheese without waking up jaded the next day (the worst kind of hangover, right?) is to lose the irony, embrace the cheese that is actually good, and be completely shameless. Or even better, be atShameless – the new monthly party where all the smoothest, creamiest, tastiest vintage cheese can be washed down “all night long”with $5 Pina Coladas and Blue Lagoons. Saturday night at Iguana Bar in Kings Cross, $10.
+ To get you in the mood, have a listen to the Shameless Mixtape made by Levins! Hot!
++ We’ve got some door spots to give away… email info@throwshapes.com.au with your best shameful/shameless story if you want in!
So, now that we’re well into the second half of 2010, that annoying little question is going to start popping up in conversation: have you got your New Year’s Eve celebrations sorted yet? Sigh – it’s August! And yes – it might seem a little far off to be thinking about your plans for what is probably the most annoying and expensive night of the year to do anything in this city. Or maybe you don’t want to be making any early decisions, in case you meet some celebrity between now and then who has a house with harbour views and is going to invite you to their amazing party full of A-listers and fancy catering. But seeing as that’s unlikely, and from experience it is no fun to leave it to the last second and be all dressed up with nowhere to go on NYE (no matter how much you insist you don’t care about one stupid night and would rather stay at home and watch a dvd with your cat), let me propose to you that Peats Ridge Festival is the solution!
I’ve never been to Peats Ridge, but from all reports it is pretty much a guaranteed super fun way to spend your New Year’s Eve. And seeing as I’d already (!) decided in the past week that I’m going there this year, getting the first lineup announcement today was pretty exciting. Usually a more low-key and locally-flavoured affair, some big international indie names like Built to Spill, Shout Out Louds, Born Ruffians and Lightspeed Champion alongside all our local faves will make this year’s festival even more worth the effort.
Luckily for all of us left behind in Sydney this weekend, Splendour has not created a good times vacuum. There’s plenty of gigs, parties, arts events and other fun stuff to go to – and I’ve compiled a list of activities that will deliver you a truly splendid weekend for $460 or (very) under.
I think we’re all getting a little bored of going to the same venues all the time in Sydney. Oxford Art Factory, The Annandale, World Bar, you guys are really great but when your doorstaff all know me so well I start to feel like maybe I should stop going out to these venues and take up a hobby like macrame or something.
Enter: Joe Hardy, who seems to have felt the same way, and who solved the problem by turning his North Shore back yard into a venue. It’s called The Gate, and I asked him some questions about it, because what a rad idea, and what a cool guy for making it happen, right?
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+ What are the biggest problems with venues in Sydney?
> This is an interesting question to ponder. First, let me say I’ve got a lot of respect for the operators of conventional venues, and I’ve spent a lot of time enjoying their hard work!
Obviously venues in Sydney come in all shapes and sizes, so their problems vary depending on the scale of their operation. I do think financial viability is one of the biggest concerns for nearly all small-to-medium size live music outlets at the moment. Whatever you might attribute this to, I think now is probably a good time as ever to be experimenting with different approaches to running viable music venues, especially seeing the primary income model the live music industry relies on at the moment (sale of alcohol) seems to be biting us in the bum right now.
+ What other cities have solved these problems and how?
> I’m not entirely sure there’s one “big” solution I’ve seen for these problems! For some venues, the answer is to cut costs, but that just means that quality is lowered and less risks are taken, which probably also means that less people turn up to shows and so on….
I think every city is different, both in terms of problems faced and solutions invented – I think even across different parts of Sydney we’ve seen different reactions and counter-reactions to the challenges the live music scene faces. The warehouse scene in the inner west is one key example – that whole DIY culture has thrived as emerging bands have struggled to find gigs in normal venues, but then it also seems to be facing its own new wave of challenges as well. Read more for the full interview…
Surfing on the crest of the reverberations from his last hilariously named single, ‘Bindi Irwin Apocalypse Jam’, Dan Kelly cruises back to our shores with the release of a brand new single ‘Hold On, I’m Coming On’ and with the promise of a new album Dan Kelly’s Dream coming out Jul 16th. Natives rejoice! To calm our minds from islander hysteria Dan himself agreed to talk with us about the new album and the method behind his tropical madness.
After the much deserved hype behind his last album Drowning In the Fountain of Youth, it is fair to say that critics and fans alike are eagerly awaiting Dan’s third installment Dan Kelly’s Dream. His jangled guitar has the most hardened drug dealers dancing recklessly outside their meth labs and his lyrics could even bring a smile to Vladimir Putin’s face. The density of each verse alone warrants several listenings, as you trawl the insert wondering, Did he really just say ‘stole an Indonesian General’s waterproof humvee’? Of course he did. “When you’ve only got three verses of what is a quite involved story then you can’t really waste a word otherwise you’ll make it drag or you’ll stuff it up. And plus it’s got to rhyme too… That’s a bastard.” Read more for the full feature…
Just a little reminder that Guineafowl are residing at Oxford Art Factory (almost) every Friday in July – that’s the 2nd, 9th, and 16th with various wonderful and colourful supports - Sooners, The Preachers and Yae Tiger respectively.
You can also hear them on the 4th of July on FBi radio - a live recording from Studios 301, not singing the American anthem, as I may have hoped for on independence day.
Guinefowl have three guitarists in their band and have exploded into existence over the last five months or so.
Catch them in the gallery bar this coming Friday! Meanwhile, here’s the new clip by Ella Carey for their song ‘Mothr’.
Sixteen :: Oliver Bryce Yates
Volta :: Switch
Bridge Stehli :: Animal Graff
Matt Huynh :: Asperatus
Sound Series :: Crab Smasher
Penguin Plays Rough Gatecrash :: Harry Wynter
Cabins Showcase @ Mitchell Rd Auction Centre :: 02.06.10
The Peel @ Name This Bar :: 27.05.10
Yelling At Stars DVD Launch @ The Clubhouse :: 27.05.10
Sound Series 2 @ Hardware Gallery :: 15.04.10
700 Photos @ The Darlo Bar :: 15.04.10
Arkestra Residency @ OAF :: 05.10
Tiger Lillies @ Cockatoo Island :: 20.05.10
Survey Show @ 231 Wilson St :: 21.05.10
