Room to Live Again
A couch, sleeping bag, lamp, guitar, laptop and a hermit crab tank. These are Ian Wadley's belongings furnishing Bus Gallery's tiniest nook. After a three-year world trip, Ian will be living in the gallery for the next three weeks. He isn't just installing his personal life into the space, however.
Motivational Bunker, Dan Arps
Dan Arps buys psychedelic fantasy pop art posters from a bong shop near his house in Auckland, known as 'Sharpies', and paints or sticks things on them, and exhibits them. He is a very well known New Zealand artist and a dude.
Alongside this exhibition, you can buy his monograph, Gestapo Pussy Ranch.
The Monobrow Show
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Hell presents artist self portraits with monobrows, all works for sale. Background: Synophrys, also known as a unibrow or monobrow refers to a ‘confluence of eyebrows'; ie: the presence of abundant hair between the eyebrows, so that they seem to converge to form one long eyebrow.
David Rosetzky, One in Five
The art and fashion worlds have been in cahoots ever since the first sentient being glimpsed their own reflection in a murky pool and decided to do something about their hair. Things have moved along since and the way we decorate our bodies is now a highly complex ritual loaded with symbolism, whether we like it or not.
Do you remember what it was? - Conor O'Brien, Amanda Maxwell and Thomas Jeppe
When friends focus their energy into something, great things inevitably occur. Melissa Loughnan's Utopian Slumps gallery in Collingwood is testament to this theory, hosting shows from some of Melbourne's most memorable and progressive artists over its first 12 months in existence.
A fitting punctuation to mark the occasion of this first anniversary, Do you remember what it was? is a collection of photographs from three friends whose work shares a celebrative spirit in spontaneous moments, which are often in fact made special by the presence of friends.
Yolk - The Works graduate show
For god's sake, Mrs. Robinson. Here we are. You got me into your house. You give me a drink. You... put on music. Now you start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband won't be home for hours.
With all the graduate shows on around town at the moment, who could blame us for being, you know, like, in the mood.
Nathan Gray - Love, Purity, Accuracy
Let us say this much: Nathan Gray's work will blow your tiny mind. Much like a page of LSD tabs you mistook for a sheet of lasagne and cooked and ate with bolognaise and a creamy white sauce.
In Love, Purity, Accuracy, Nathan presents an installation that combines his perfect, minutely-detailed drawing, woodwork, collage, paper marbling, silk screening, weaving and ceramics into a giant continuum.Random Entries:
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