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.
Evergreen Terrace for Unsheltered Workshops
The talented duo behind Evergreen Terrace, Liv Barrett and James Deutsher, have a lateral approach to everything they touch. Treading the line between fashion and art, everything they produce from books to clothing is skewed in a practical, funny way that makes ‘normal’ seem a bit silly.
Melbourne, and Other Myths
Melbourne, and Other Myths examines the mysterious charm of this city in a way that is altogether more interesting and less embarrassing than the ads with the giant balls of wool.
The work on display is inspired by three anonymous rants found by concept curator Martyn Pedler* at various locations around the city: on platform 4 of Flinders St Station, recorded midway through a tape from a garage sale and discarded photocopies from a publishing house.
Replay Marclay
Anyone remember Pop Will Eat Itself? No? Probably for the best, but their name and their slogan "Sample it, Loop it, Fuck it and Eat it" pinpoints artist Christian Marclay's attitudes to art, noise, music and film. Marclay's been sampling and recombining things for almost as long as Grandmaster Flash.
Rise and Fall
Some people go to galleries to meet people. But with all those wide-open spaces it can be awkward approaching your quarry casually. This scenario would play out differently, for instance, if you were in a lift. Swivel to the right and... eye contact assured!
This city has a history of putting art in unexpected places.
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.
Panter Cluster Rimbone, by Dylan Martorell
Someone once said, writing about art is like dancing about architecture. Or something like that... Of course we could regurgitate the press release, and regale you with million-dollar art-world terms such as 'magpie junkyard aesthetic', 'psych-exotica', and 'Monash University', but that’s not really our style.
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