August 26th, 2010
New Season Spring/Summer Preview
Brand Book Spring/Summer 2010 – 2011
L/S Button Down Shirt
- Emerald, Sky Blue, White, Black
L/S Harmon Shirt
- Blue Harmon Check
L/S Harwood Shirt
- Bottle Green Harwood Check, Navy Harwood Check
S/S Parker Shirt
- Bottle Green Garment Washed, Asphalt Garment Washed
Playoff Cardigan
- Blue, Dark Grey Heather
New Season arriving in stores this week.
August 13th, 2010
Monster Children Gallery presents DRAW
Monster Children Gallery presents DRAW
AN EXHIBITION BY FRENCH, STEFAN MARX & MARCUS OAKLEY
Opening Night: THURSDAY 19TH AUGUST 6.00PM
Continues: 20TH AUGUST – 9TH SEPTEMBER, 2010.
About the Show:
Three similarly different drawing styles meet in Draw with French, Stefan Marx and Marcus Oakley at Monster Children Gallery. Collectively, their work conjures earlier established themes and imagery mined from a myriad of sources. Interestingly, musical tastes come through in each of the artists work. Each has their own specific way of presenting this in their work. Whether it’s a portrait of a folk musician, a scrawled lyric from a favourite song, or a goat’s head.
MC Gallery supported by Asahi and Resolution.
August 6th, 2010
Disorder Disorder
Disorder Disorder will present a range of new and existing works from artists generally seen as ‘outsiders’, ‘independents’ or ‘dissidents’. Working with a fierce DIY direction, and often with little formal or academic training, the artists come from areas of urban street culture including graffiti, commercial art, skateboarding, tattooing, surfing, punk rock, hip-hop, heavy metal, computer programming and gang-life – speaking to their peers in their own language rather than the art world. This is the ‘art’ of the disengaged, suspicious and justifiably cynical which creates a remarkably fresh approach to visual arts not created simply to please the existing art audience.
The exhibition features work from 10 renegade Australian artists, 6 artists from the USA, Stefan Marx from Germany, French and Marcus Oakley from the UK and Tomoo Gokita from Japan. Acclaimed international artists Stephen Powers from the USA and Stefan Marx from Germany will both be travelling to Sydney to create site-specific works and to be present at the exhibition opening.
The artworks will be presented in and around the gallery space, outdoor sculpture and installation in the garden and foyers as well as a public art signwriting project in St Mary’s created by US graffiti artist Stephen Powers.The exhibition includes painting, text, works on paper, video, sound, installation, photography and a room of ephemeral works of art and paraphernalia including films and documentaries, Zines, books, toys, skateboards, surfboards, T-shirts, shoes and clothing designed by the artists. A range of events, education and public programs will also be implemented including a film program, lectures and workshops. The exhibition will be accompanied by a 120 page hardcover catalogue designed by Jonathan Zawada featuring essays by leading authorities and the exhibition curator Joseph Allen Shea.
The exhibition curator, Joseph Allen Shea has curated and managed over 60 exhibitions at Monster Children Gallery (Sydney) as well as other galleries and institutions in Sydney, Melbourne and London. Most recently he mounted the lauded group exhibition Batteries Not Included, which presented Installation, performance, sound and kinetic sculpture in photo media at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. Joseph works primarily with self-taught artists and those working outside the art world establishment. His exhibitions tread the line between high and low art to bring fresh and exciting ideas and aesthetics to larger audiences without exclusivity. To read Joseph’s blog of the exhibition please click here.
August 1st, 2010
Westside Alley cat
July 31st, 2010
Heritage
Found archives from Japanese Magazines.
July 27th, 2010
Strange Brew
July 26th, 2010
Bojangles
One of Fred Astaire’s best dances – Bojangles of Harlem from Swing Time. This and many other great films are playing at the Art Gallery of NSW as part of the “Paths to Abstraction” film series.
If you are in town Wednesdays and/or Sundays, you have to check it out.
July 21st, 2010
THE THINNEST OF BETWEENS by TRENT WHITEHEAD
Monster Children Gallery presents THE THINNEST OF BETWEENS
AN EXHIBITION BY TRENT WHITEHEAD
Opening Night: THURSDAY 22ND JULY 6.00PM
Continues: 23RD JULY – 7TH AUGUST, 2010.
About the Show:
Self-taught Sydney artist, Trent Whitehead will present a new body of work at Monster Children Gallery. With this series, Whitehead attempts to represent a disparate and essentially unusual view of past and future.
Just like a dream is the mere sorting and cataloguing of a day’s events by our subconscious, Whitehead’s paintings on wooden panels are subtly filled with experiences of his own existence. The wondrous and often humorous paintings make up one half of the exhibition. The other half consists of his distinctive masks, which have become a significant component of his artist practice. The masks, lending themselves to the life-giving process of construction, are three dimensional embodiments of the delinquents from his paintings. Pieced together from geometric shapes and painted with the same Memphis-like colour palette and omnipresent patterning as the paintings, a certain intensity and vitality is introduced.
July 17th, 2010
Project Space presents “Archive of Attitude,” a collection of works by Janette Beckman.
August 13 through to September 5
“Janette Beckman’s photography exhibition marks the third artist installment at Project Space. Beckman culls works from her time in London during the punk era through the hip-hop decade in New York and Los Angeles. The show will feature artifacts and photographs of musicians, their fans and youth culture.”
To find out more click here.
July 16th, 2010
The Carhartt Heritage Line Collection Preview
” As the third collection from the Heritage line, the styles are as you’d imagine derived from Carhartt’s rich workwear history. The result is a collection featuring tees, fleeces, jackets and denim. To further accentuate the range, a collection of a exhibition pieces were also on display showcasing Carhartt’s past. “
Edward Chiu, 2010
Photography: Hypebeast
