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 & [...]
When was the last time you sent a fax? Ever? The fax machine is like the puppy at the RSPCA that nobody wants for Christmas. It just sits there in the office, year after year, looking like a refugee from the 80s classic Tron, casting a geriatric Evil Eye on your new iPhone and generally not sending faxes.
Well, that’s all about to change. Artist Jimmy Tranter (who incidentally designed the artwork for World Bar’s The Wall) and colleagues from Modular’s creative hothouse The Groopare bringing back the thermal fax machine for a special event at Surry Hills’ China Heights gallery – the Faxhibition. ‘20 artists, one fax machine, one brief – “the fax of life.”‘
“The brief was to create artworks that address our “clever” pun of “The fax of life” and have them sent through our 800 year old thermal paper fax machine that we bought off eBay for 20 bucks,” explains Jimmy. Read more for the full feature…
As we’ve alluded to already, Sydney’s third ever Bicycle Film Festivalis kicking off on November 11thand we’re kind of totally excited. The BFF idea started in New York in 2001, and has since ridden its way through 39 cities – the films have been curated by the festival founding father Brendt Barbur in New York, and the ones we’re being treated to this year look prettymuchgreat. Add to that thebest launch lineup ever, the art shows, the goldsprints, the Babes n’ Bikes Polo BBQ (bike polo!) and the online bespoke beauty pageant, and you’ve kind of got yourself an instant win.
But what we love most about this festival – the reason we’ve been so keen to buddy up with them – is not only the perfectly sexy merging of bike, film and drinking, but the amount of local creative types who’ve been asked to get involved. (That and the fact that the team of producers behind it called their company ‘Best Friends Forever Incorporated’ which is the cutest ever.) These peeps know how to do a marketing. If you pre-ordered issue two of Happenstance, you may have been somewhat surprised to have it hand-delivered by bike. That was them. They’ve also asked the folks at Oh Really to customise their very own Crumpler bags to be given away at the festival. And the one we like best is the handful of local artists they’ve picked – people like Greedy Hen, Design Is Kinky’s Nick Rudenno, Happenstance’s Daniel Dittmar, Eirlie Chislom from Freidrich Gray, Yimmy Yayo andDoubleOhTwo – to juice up a pair of Onitsuka trainers. The shoes will be exhibited throughout the fest, as will photos of the artists and their bikes. Where the commercial world meets up with the grassroots and gives them a big hug and a pair of shoes. Love.
The Sydney Bicycle Film Festival is launching at the Factory Theatre on November 11 with Bridezilla, Jonathan Boulet, Deep Sea Arcade and Lions at Your Door (tickets here.) It runs until November 15, with events at the Chauvel Cinema, Monster Children, Lucky & Wolf Gallery, small bars everywhere, and wherever it is they end up holding that BBQ.
Those rare moments when your favourite things collide are always so mysterious, but always so beautiful. Like the first time you added cheese to your Vegemite toast, or an icecream cone to the withered hand of an desperately old man, or streaming video to your blog, and it was like BAM! Perfection! It’s what happens when Max meets Dave and Spike, or when Gabe Delahaye meets This American Life, or when Bjork meets Ratatat. It feels like the random, unpredictable chaos that misgoverns the every day ceases in its explosive entropy for just one moment, and that moment exists specifically for and in response to YOU, and without even knowing it, the happy old man with icecream dripping down his shirt sleeves has finally tied together what seems like everything you ever believed in. Sometimes that moment looks a little bit like this:
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Sweet, huh? Yep, it’s a Greedy Hen. And also, while we’re on the subject of Way To Do A Film Clip Sydney, Sherlock’s Daughter released an extremely watchable video for ‘Song for Old People’ over the weekend, and you can find it after the jump.
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We were basically 85% sure that no-one was going to come to our party. We figured that everyone had said yes just to be polite but were actually going to go do more important things, like knit a tiny jumper for the tiny cat they knitted for their real cat. So when we got numbers the next day of the ridiculously large amount of people who came, we were pretty surprised. And hugely delighted…
We’re having a party this Wednesday night to launch this here blog. It’s another Ears Vs Eyes shindig – the first was a fundraiser art auction last year, where we nabbed $3000+ for Heaps Decent by selling art from people like EAMO, Beastman, We Buy Your Kids, Greedy Hen, and Simon Degroot. This one is a digital techy audiovisual extravaganza, because blogs are for nerds. That’s right, we’re calling you names already.
Anyway, the party is being held at our BFF’s house. Our BFF is The Wall, every Wednesday at the World Bar. For all you arty farty party types, the Wall let you exhibit your work for free in a delightful room upstairs, while a party happens around you and below you. They don’t take commission, they help you promote it, and goddamn do they know how to party.
But this Wednesday it’s all about us, because It’s Our Birthday – and you’re invited too. More info, and an uncharacteristically oversized image, after the jump.
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
