Illustration - Look - Melbourne Art Galleries
People who say that there is no such thing as bad art are lying. LOOK takes an objective view of the subjective world and, with a free drink in our hand, guides you through Melbourne's best galleries and art exhibitions. From institutions to artist-run initiatives, installation to illustration, photography to painting, LOOK is an ongoing document of Melbourne's ever engaging and growing arts culture.
'Skull Gully', by Martin Bell
The funny thing about Marty's work is that initially, it seems like a big mess. Shit is everywhere, it's hard to make out what is what, and, although it is indisputably impressive, you wonder if it is anything more than the unedited spewings of a crazy person with a lifetime subscription to Mad Magazine.
Risographica!
Lamington Drive opens a group show of Risograph prints tonight and, if everyone who's talking about going actually turns up, Jeremy Wortsman will be very glad he bought these Dharma overalls because he'll be sneaking bottles into other people's bins all weekend. He is very busy talking into his Madonna headset today, so we emailed Stuart Geddes, the guy who printed the whole exhibition on his Risograph.
Oslo Davis, This Annoying Life
Oslo Davis and I have developed an acrimonious working relationship over the years, which I will not attempt to conceal in this interview marking the opening of his first solo exhibition at Lamington Drive. Oslo is the straight-talking everyman. The guy who is watching when you are kind of being a dick, the chap who tells the truth about life when no-one else will.
The Tower of Babble On
It is not easy making a comic. Here, Chris Ware gave us some advice in that regard. "RUIN: Your Life. DRAW: Cartoons! And doom yourself to: decades of grinding isolation, solipsism, and utter social disregard." I know one person who won't be talking at Semi Permanent. Anyway, brushing aside Ware's words like so many emos at a pep rally, Jeremy Ley and Abe de Bruyn have made a comic.
Bookworms Never Go to Bed Alone
Q: How many nerdy girls does it take to change a light-bulb?
A: Don't know, don't care.
Just kidding. A few people care. More importantly, when nerdy girls grow up and blossom into cluey, weirdly intimidating alterna-hotties with amazing taste in music, I care. When you think about it, who doesn't love a girl who is equally comfortable talking about Studio Ghibli movies as she is scoring pingers at four in the morning?
Gorker Gallery presents Bookworms Never Go to Bed Alone, a new body of work by NZ artist Kelly Thompson.
Ry Haskings, 'Backtrack (aka Catchfire)'
The genesis for some of the work in Ry Hasking's new show was a conversation about postmodernism with his father during half-time break at the footy. Now, I've been to the footy and seen all the fathers and sons getting about, doing their bonding thing. It's a wonderful thing to witness, but I wonder how many of them are discussing Nietzsche.
Desiring Machines, James Gulliver Hancock
I can't wait to see James Gulliver Hancock's new exhibition at Lamington Drive. Desiring Machines zeros in on James Gulliver Hancock's fascination with things mechanical, through a series prints, drawings, collages and installations. James Gulliver Hancock (a name you must say a few times, in full, just for fun) is a Sydney-born artist currently living in Los Angeles, the city of cars that has fuelled the ideas behind this show, his first in Melbourne.
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