The Crowd
The amazing cupcakes
These photos courtesy of Andy Conlan
Bear Cat
Bear Cat
The last cupcake
Becky and her partner Frank
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
New paint job!!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Bruce Russell Book Launch and Performance
Come join us at The High Seas for the Auckland launching of Bruce Russell's new book, plus performances by Bruce Russell and Richard Francis (followed by Russell/Francis duo) later that evening.
Book Launch : 6pm - 7.30pm
Performance : from 8.30pm
Left-handed blows gathers together, for the first time, the writings of outstanding sound artist Bruce Russell.
Russell, member of the groups The Dead C. and Handful of Dust and founder of the renowned record-labels Corpus Hermeticum and Xpressway, is reputed to have driven a substantial wedge into New Zealand music.
Besides his acclaimed work as a performer, recording artist and producer, Russell is a respected as a writer who theorises improvisation from a leftist perspective. His collected writing, fluidly unequivocal, effectively tracks the thinking of the group of free music luminaries to which he belongs.
This book consists of essays written over the last 16 years, reflecting on sound and its role in culture. It compiles online essays, liner notes, catalogue contributions and most of the previously published contents of the Russell-produced Logopandocy: the journal of vain erudition.
Left-handed blows will be launched with events in Christchurch and in Auckland at which Russell will perform.
This publication was funded by Creative New Zealand and was supported by the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology.
For further information visit: http://www.clouds.co.nz/left-handed-blows
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Tigerbuttah!!
The High Seas is sooooper excited to be hosting Tigerbuttah! The Retro Art of Becky Dreistadt
with musical entertainment from the amazing BEAR CAT!
7pm on Friday the 5th of February at The High Seas!
7pm on Friday the 5th of February at The High Seas!
Exhibited in sequence are all the hand-painted pages from Becky & Frank's upcoming faux Golden Book tentatively entitled Tigerbuttah's Adventure.
Refreshments, cake and good times will be provided gratis!
Exhibit closes on 18th of February then tours to Wellington.
Check out Becky's excellent web comic Tiny Kitten Teeth with her partner frank for more visual delights!
ABOUT BECKY:Becky Dreistadt was raised in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. Her initial artistic training was as a caricature artist in Busch Gardens, the inspiration for Duff Gardens. After spending 4 years at Savannah College of Art & Design, she has spent the past year in New Zealand working on Tigerbuttah and her online comic Tiny Kitten Teeth, which boasts 5000 unique readers a day.
Her short comic works have been published by Top Shelf Comix, Image Comics, New Reliable Press and numerous others.
Her works have been exhibited in galleries across the USA. This is her second solo show and her first in New Zealand.
Waves-Veronica Manchego
Veronica Manchego (1983) is an installation and video artist based in Berlin.
Waves consists of portraits that she has made during her recent visit back to New Zealand. All portraits are charcoal on paper.
Caracus 1.
Cross Street
Victoria Ave
Kingsly Street
Caracus 2.
Surrey Cres
First Ave
Madrid
Caracus 3
A.U.S.A.
Mondrian Building
Fleet Waters
Stills from the video piece Waves
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Delaney Davidson/Marianne Dissard/Bond St Bridge gig
We were lucky enough to host a last minute gig with Delaney Davidson, Marianne Dissard and Bond St Bridge and also featuring Flip Grater. Thanks to everyone who came along!
Sam Prebble (Bond St Bridge)
Bond Street Bridge is the solo project of Sam Prebble, whose other projects include playing mandolin and twelve-string for the Broken Heartbreakers, and fiddle and keys in Reb Fountain's Bandits. He has recently been playing a bit of fiddle on releases by Dylan Storey and White Swan Black Swan as well, and has contributed strings to forthcoming released from Flip Grater and the Ghosts of Motat. He has been playing various instruments for as long as he can remember, and one of his favorite hobbies is learning to play more of them.
Bond Street Bridge is the solo project of Sam Prebble, whose other projects include playing mandolin and twelve-string for the Broken Heartbreakers, and fiddle and keys in Reb Fountain's Bandits. He has recently been playing a bit of fiddle on releases by Dylan Storey and White Swan Black Swan as well, and has contributed strings to forthcoming released from Flip Grater and the Ghosts of Motat. He has been playing various instruments for as long as he can remember, and one of his favorite hobbies is learning to play more of them.
Marianne Dissard
Marianne Dissard:
Calexico fans will recognize Marianne as Madame to Joey Burns' lovestruck gold digger on Calexico's hit single, "Ballad of Cable Hogue" from their 2000 album "Hot Rail". Marianne’s debut album L’Entredeux (produced by Calexico’s Joey Burns) has been voted one of the Top Ten French albums of the Decade by a world jury of Francophile music writers and DJs and now New Zealand audiences will be able to hear Marianne performing live for the very first time.
Calexico fans will recognize Marianne as Madame to Joey Burns' lovestruck gold digger on Calexico's hit single, "Ballad of Cable Hogue" from their 2000 album "Hot Rail". Marianne’s debut album L’Entredeux (produced by Calexico’s Joey Burns) has been voted one of the Top Ten French albums of the Decade by a world jury of Francophile music writers and DJs and now New Zealand audiences will be able to hear Marianne performing live for the very first time.
Delaney Davidson
Marianne, Delaney and Flip playing an excellent rendition of House Of The Rising Sun.
Delaney Davisdon and Bond St Bridge CDs are now available at The High Seas. Photos courtesy of Emily Cater.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
100 Clams artworks
These are the artworks from the 100 Clams exhibition. Apologies for the poor image quality, we need a better camera (and photographer).
Karl Wills
Thank You Card Idea
Pen, pencil and correction fluid on paper
Karl Wills is an Auckland based gag writer, commercial illustrator and animation director. His personal comic book work very rarely goes on sale and is sought after by collectors around the globe. He has been published in VICE magazine and a few Fantagraphic anthologies. This piece was created for the self published mini comic Uncle Charlies Cartoon Revue, a collection of single panel gag cartoons. He is NZ's favourite cartoonist and his work is normally very expensive.
Imogen Kerr
Down and Out Pigeon
Watercolour on paper
Imogen is an Auckland based artist and writer who gladly continues to examine the figure and portrait in traditional media. Imogen will leap into the abyss of London in January to begin life as an expat. Recent exhibitions include Above Ground, 6-31 October 2009, Achilles House and the Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award finalist exhibition 2009 curated by Charlotte Huddleston.
Down and Out Pigeon
Watercolour on paper
Imogen is an Auckland based artist and writer who gladly continues to examine the figure and portrait in traditional media. Imogen will leap into the abyss of London in January to begin life as an expat. Recent exhibitions include Above Ground, 6-31 October 2009, Achilles House and the Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award finalist exhibition 2009 curated by Charlotte Huddleston.
Still life with knives
Watercolour on paper
Anya Henis works and lives in Auckland and practices predominantly in painting. Recent exhibitions include Raw feels at Room gallery, Vibes at High St Project and Cool water woman at The Physics room, Christchurch.
Untitled
Oil and Scratch Ticket on Board
Sam Thomas is a 20 year old artist from Mt Eden. He has completed two yearsof Elam School of Finance studting painting. Sam is interested in the occult and tries to make his art function in the same way as a curse.
Miaowhawha
Pen and pencil on paper
Eonmwn Josca Fynnon Briant Craig Smith was raised by wild kittens* in a small scaley 8 sided onion shaped house hidden in the trees with no road access.
Formally trained as an interactive machine artist** at Elam, he helped establish Cross St Studios near K rd and has also modified and recreated many old pushbikes in his spare time. He has always enjoyed old stuff and drawing pictures from his head.
* Not to mention two talented parents, one who is captivated with vintage cars and pregnant nude sculpture and the other with drawing, watercolour, painting and texting her offspring.
** A controversial affair in which he was accused of being an anti- fruitist. For the record, he holds nothing personal against produce, they just don't run away very much when you devise mutilation devices for them.
Mascus 2009
Paper Collage
Veronica Manchego(1983) is an installation and video artist based in Berlin.
She was born in Venezuela but grew up in New Zealand where she completed a Fine Arts Degree at Elam (University of Auckland).
Veronicas Work mostly deals with issues in commercial media; exploring autonomy in a media driven society. She will be exhibiting at The High Seas in January 2010.
Felix Harris
Trapped Octopussy
Oil Paint Pens, Marker, Metallic Pen on wood
Felix Harris has been painting for several years as well as making videos and music. He completed studies at Elam School of Fine Arts in 2006 and moved to Seattle for two years.
While in Seattle Felix switched from painting on road signs/ aluminum to hardboard surfaces which were fairly inexpensive and began using oil based paint pens. He developed more of a drawing style with these pens as opposed to spray-painted characters. Felix is influenced by Mexican mural painting, surrealism, graffiti art, comic art and tattoo art.
Miss Mica Still
Roar on my behalf
Acrylic on board
Miss Mica Still grew up in small town USA. She left home at an early age where she found herself attending art school, travelling Europe, then some how ended up in New Zealand 11 years ago for love. She now mentors promising artist to supplement her art career and ditched the love. Mica dreams in colour, a people enthusiast with shy tendencies but in contrast her work never shy's away form telling you like it is. Mica plays with symbols, real or imaginary which are the keys to the world she creates.
Robin Charles
Roach
Enamel paint on vinyl
La cucaracha, la cucaracha,
ya no puede caminar
porque no tiene, porque le falta
las dos patitas de atrás.
Would look best stretched around a frame.
The Underwater Collective
Untitled
Acrylic and Spray paint on wood.
Equipped with an array of mark making mechanisms, in a sea of popular signs, Underwater Collective work simultaneously, navigating between impulse and intuition to explore the chasms of the collective mind. Without fixed compositional or thematic structures, each collaborator draws from their own visual library and produces offerings (marks, symbols or suggestions) in reaction and contribution to others. The process of the painting’s growth is best described as a series of negotiations and collisions; it is an exercise in coexistence.
The Underwater Collective are having an exhibition at The High Seas from February the 14th-March 4th 2010.
Ryan Monro
Bridge over the Stream
Digital Print, correction fluid
Ryan Monro has recently graduated from Elam with an honours degree. With a particular interest in the past, his work focuses on the theme of failed ideals. The appropriation of historical images is not used to simply construct a single representation, but to acknowledge possible alternative histories, or alternative future predictions.
Erin Forsyth
Untitled
Acryllic and Pencil on Paper
Haley Williams
Yesss
Acrylic on Board
Haley Williams graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University in 2006. A co-founder of artist run space Cross Street Studios, she has exhibited throughout New Zealand. She as recently returned from living in Berlin, where she focused on percussion and film.
This is perhaps the last piece of Haley Williams. Having just been opened up to world of Guitar Hero, she has entered hibernation and may never be seen again.
Elena Wenn
A Tiger!?! In Africa!?!
Watercolour on Paper
Paper Collage
Veronica Manchego(1983) is an installation and video artist based in Berlin.
She was born in Venezuela but grew up in New Zealand where she completed a Fine Arts Degree at Elam (University of Auckland).
Veronicas Work mostly deals with issues in commercial media; exploring autonomy in a media driven society. She will be exhibiting at The High Seas in January 2010.
Trapped Octopussy
Oil Paint Pens, Marker, Metallic Pen on wood
Felix Harris has been painting for several years as well as making videos and music. He completed studies at Elam School of Fine Arts in 2006 and moved to Seattle for two years.
While in Seattle Felix switched from painting on road signs/ aluminum to hardboard surfaces which were fairly inexpensive and began using oil based paint pens. He developed more of a drawing style with these pens as opposed to spray-painted characters. Felix is influenced by Mexican mural painting, surrealism, graffiti art, comic art and tattoo art.
Roar on my behalf
Acrylic on board
Miss Mica Still grew up in small town USA. She left home at an early age where she found herself attending art school, travelling Europe, then some how ended up in New Zealand 11 years ago for love. She now mentors promising artist to supplement her art career and ditched the love. Mica dreams in colour, a people enthusiast with shy tendencies but in contrast her work never shy's away form telling you like it is. Mica plays with symbols, real or imaginary which are the keys to the world she creates.
Roach
Enamel paint on vinyl
La cucaracha, la cucaracha,
ya no puede caminar
porque no tiene, porque le falta
las dos patitas de atrás.
Would look best stretched around a frame.
Untitled
Acrylic and Spray paint on wood.
Equipped with an array of mark making mechanisms, in a sea of popular signs, Underwater Collective work simultaneously, navigating between impulse and intuition to explore the chasms of the collective mind. Without fixed compositional or thematic structures, each collaborator draws from their own visual library and produces offerings (marks, symbols or suggestions) in reaction and contribution to others. The process of the painting’s growth is best described as a series of negotiations and collisions; it is an exercise in coexistence.
The Underwater Collective are having an exhibition at The High Seas from February the 14th-March 4th 2010.
Bridge over the Stream
Digital Print, correction fluid
Ryan Monro has recently graduated from Elam with an honours degree. With a particular interest in the past, his work focuses on the theme of failed ideals. The appropriation of historical images is not used to simply construct a single representation, but to acknowledge possible alternative histories, or alternative future predictions.
Untitled
Acryllic and Pencil on Paper
Yesss
Acrylic on Board
Haley Williams graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University in 2006. A co-founder of artist run space Cross Street Studios, she has exhibited throughout New Zealand. She as recently returned from living in Berlin, where she focused on percussion and film.
This is perhaps the last piece of Haley Williams. Having just been opened up to world of Guitar Hero, she has entered hibernation and may never be seen again.
A Tiger!?! In Africa!?!
Watercolour on Paper
Elena Wenn is finishing her BFA Honours course at Elam art school. Alot of her work is centered within naiive desires and nostalgia. She has mainly done paintings and drawings in her time there, with a tendency of choosing to do portrait works of famous people she admires, and of animals. She is a great believer in painting what makes her happy, and finds animals to be very soothing to paint. As she is unable to have a pet for years yet, she fills this hole in her life by collecting cute pictures of animals, and painting from the pictures. If she can't have a pet in person, she can at least fantasise about a life with pets, by painting them, which may soothe, or exacibate the desire.
Genista Jergens
Dream Baby
Acrylic and glitter on wood
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
- ROY ORBISON
Melanie Bell
Untitled
Acrylic on Card
Gouache and watercolour on paper
Emily Cater
Grannie’s Bonnet
Gocco print on paper
“I am inspired by derelict buildings, abandoned towns, rambling gardens and Nineteenth Century photos, and often make art relating to these things. I work in a range of media: gocco printing, screenprinting, lino cut printing, painting and drawing. I had a solo show called Ghost Towns last year at The Depot Artspace and in this exhibition I explored my fascination with spooky relics. I also design band posters and album art.”
Antonio Parsons
Grrrrrrrr
Oil paint on paper
Antonio was born and is not yet dead. He went to art school for a few years. Recently he spent too much time painting zombies and making bicycles. He plays bass guitar in Swampy Tonk and watches Dr Who.
Andy Conlan
Untitled
Pen on Paper
Andy Conlan is an award winning filmmaker with a background in theatre, comics and illustration. His artwork has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Zealand Herald, Pulp Magazine, New Zealand Musician, his own underground comic book, Strumming Teeth and Pro Design, in which he had a regular cartoon strip critiquing contemporary art and design. He is currently working on a series of children’s illustrated books while developing the script for his next feature film.
Sophie Bannan
Be Bold With Bananas
Screenprint
Sophie Bannan is currently a student at Elam School of Fine Arts. "Be Bold With Bananas" is a 1970s cookery book, from which she served tasty phalluses at a women's dinner party.
Chris Cudby
Small Island
Ink on paper, xanita board, pins, wood, glue
Chris Cudby recently completed an MFA at Elam School of Fine Arts and is a member of Golden Axe. He’s just released a book of drawings named Passages.
Aleksandra Petrovic
Trumpet Workshop
Pen, ink and pencil on paper
Bruno Bettelheim has argued that the narratives we tell ourselves are constructed out of multiple smaller stories that are inherent in our vocabulary of experience.
We, as the storytellers, pull-apart, reconstruct, juggle, twist, condense, expand, chop into little pieces and mix up these stories to create our narratives.
These narratives come to mean something; a record of experience, a fiction of some kind, a way to communicate what can’t be communicated.
One of the most archetypal of these stories concerns adolescence and being lost. Little boys get lost in the forest…..and little girls wander around dark castles being lost as well. Being lost encapsulates a feeling of headlessness, of all logic being gone, and experiences going awry.
This sense of being lost is what I’m interested in. In my own practice, I’ve always been interested in the gaps in narratives, or the little stories that don’t make sense and can’t be utilised in the articulation of a coherent narrative. They are like the acts of decapitation themselves; without sense or logic, or reason, and without any conclusion or resolution.
Aaron Coles
Space Grave
Ink, Silverpoint and Pen on Paper
Aaron Cole, born 1984, grew up on Auckland's North Shore and graduated Elam School of Fine Arts in 2008.
He has been exhibiting and regularly participating in group shows since 2002, typically working in a variety of drawing media, although his first solo show in 2007 @ Butterfly Net was a selection of cross-stitches and sonic sculpture.
Cole's subject matter often incorporates aspects of pattern/symmetry, antique furniture, suburban landscapes and domestic lasers.
Imogen Taylor
Sea Monsters Fighting
Ink, Acrylic and Oil Stick on Paper
Imogen Taylor is an artist/waitress living and working in Auckland. Her works are usually large scale drawings on paper that are of a perverse, abjective nature. Imogen is currently working on illustrating a children's book which will be published and released in mid 2010 and hopes to begin a Masters of Fine Arts degree next year too.
Nicola Farquhar
Night Nose
Glow in the dark Fimo and Glass Marble
Nicola completed a MFA at Elam School of Fine Arts this year. She paints portraits that are partly factual and partly fictional, and most recently exhibited one of these paintings as part of a group show at Window gallery. Her contribution to 100 Clams makes light reference to her interest in the possibilities in representing the face in portraiture. It is also a bit of a homage to Meret Oppenheim's strange jewelry pieces.
Rebecca Busch
There’s plenty of daft desires
Mixed media on paper
Boe is interested in people’s stories - both ordinary and extraordinary, real and make believe; mostly she is interested in cutting and pasting pieces of these stories to create curious, ordinary and hyper real new narratives. She Draws inspiration from 1970’s national geographic magazines, snippets of overheard conversations, old holiday snap shots, poetic novels and the colours of nature.
Sophie Oiseau
Batframe
Woodcut print
Sophie Oiseau paints, draws, prints and runs The High Seas. In her spare time she works on illustrating two childrens books and material for a solo show.
Johl Dwyer
Untitled
Oil on Canvas
Anna Rankin
Apocalypse #2
Oil and Watercolour on board
Anna Rankin is an Auckland based artist who works within portraiture and still life, romantic realism and the everyday.
She is interested in creating representational work that discusses reality and grandeur, memory, loss, absence and desire
Louise Evans
Do I Look Fat in This?
Pen and Pencil on Paper
Louise Evans was formally trained in NZ to make zombies, vampires and werewolves. In Sweden she was formally trained in skinning and tanning elks, foxes, reindeers and 1 x beaver, and medieval blacksmithing, weaving and woodworking.
Her work is mainly inspired by her vivid dreams. For the furthering of her art, she ensures she eats some good cheddar before going to bed each night.
Nikolai Zhivago-Clark
Untitled
Dream Baby
Acrylic and glitter on wood
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
- ROY ORBISON
Untitled
Acrylic on Card
Becky Dreistadt
Golden PheasantGouache and watercolour on paper
Emily Cater
Grannie’s Bonnet
Gocco print on paper
“I am inspired by derelict buildings, abandoned towns, rambling gardens and Nineteenth Century photos, and often make art relating to these things. I work in a range of media: gocco printing, screenprinting, lino cut printing, painting and drawing. I had a solo show called Ghost Towns last year at The Depot Artspace and in this exhibition I explored my fascination with spooky relics. I also design band posters and album art.”
Grrrrrrrr
Oil paint on paper
Antonio was born and is not yet dead. He went to art school for a few years. Recently he spent too much time painting zombies and making bicycles. He plays bass guitar in Swampy Tonk and watches Dr Who.
Untitled
Pen on Paper
Andy Conlan is an award winning filmmaker with a background in theatre, comics and illustration. His artwork has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Zealand Herald, Pulp Magazine, New Zealand Musician, his own underground comic book, Strumming Teeth and Pro Design, in which he had a regular cartoon strip critiquing contemporary art and design. He is currently working on a series of children’s illustrated books while developing the script for his next feature film.
Be Bold With Bananas
Screenprint
Sophie Bannan is currently a student at Elam School of Fine Arts. "Be Bold With Bananas" is a 1970s cookery book, from which she served tasty phalluses at a women's dinner party.
Small Island
Ink on paper, xanita board, pins, wood, glue
Chris Cudby recently completed an MFA at Elam School of Fine Arts and is a member of Golden Axe. He’s just released a book of drawings named Passages.
Trumpet Workshop
Pen, ink and pencil on paper
Bruno Bettelheim has argued that the narratives we tell ourselves are constructed out of multiple smaller stories that are inherent in our vocabulary of experience.
We, as the storytellers, pull-apart, reconstruct, juggle, twist, condense, expand, chop into little pieces and mix up these stories to create our narratives.
These narratives come to mean something; a record of experience, a fiction of some kind, a way to communicate what can’t be communicated.
One of the most archetypal of these stories concerns adolescence and being lost. Little boys get lost in the forest…..and little girls wander around dark castles being lost as well. Being lost encapsulates a feeling of headlessness, of all logic being gone, and experiences going awry.
This sense of being lost is what I’m interested in. In my own practice, I’ve always been interested in the gaps in narratives, or the little stories that don’t make sense and can’t be utilised in the articulation of a coherent narrative. They are like the acts of decapitation themselves; without sense or logic, or reason, and without any conclusion or resolution.
Space Grave
Ink, Silverpoint and Pen on Paper
Aaron Cole, born 1984, grew up on Auckland's North Shore and graduated Elam School of Fine Arts in 2008.
He has been exhibiting and regularly participating in group shows since 2002, typically working in a variety of drawing media, although his first solo show in 2007 @ Butterfly Net was a selection of cross-stitches and sonic sculpture.
Cole's subject matter often incorporates aspects of pattern/symmetry, antique furniture, suburban landscapes and domestic lasers.
Sea Monsters Fighting
Ink, Acrylic and Oil Stick on Paper
Imogen Taylor is an artist/waitress living and working in Auckland. Her works are usually large scale drawings on paper that are of a perverse, abjective nature. Imogen is currently working on illustrating a children's book which will be published and released in mid 2010 and hopes to begin a Masters of Fine Arts degree next year too.
Night Nose
Glow in the dark Fimo and Glass Marble
Nicola completed a MFA at Elam School of Fine Arts this year. She paints portraits that are partly factual and partly fictional, and most recently exhibited one of these paintings as part of a group show at Window gallery. Her contribution to 100 Clams makes light reference to her interest in the possibilities in representing the face in portraiture. It is also a bit of a homage to Meret Oppenheim's strange jewelry pieces.
There’s plenty of daft desires
Mixed media on paper
Boe is interested in people’s stories - both ordinary and extraordinary, real and make believe; mostly she is interested in cutting and pasting pieces of these stories to create curious, ordinary and hyper real new narratives. She Draws inspiration from 1970’s national geographic magazines, snippets of overheard conversations, old holiday snap shots, poetic novels and the colours of nature.
Batframe
Woodcut print
Sophie Oiseau paints, draws, prints and runs The High Seas. In her spare time she works on illustrating two childrens books and material for a solo show.
Untitled
Oil on Canvas
Apocalypse #2
Oil and Watercolour on board
Anna Rankin is an Auckland based artist who works within portraiture and still life, romantic realism and the everyday.
She is interested in creating representational work that discusses reality and grandeur, memory, loss, absence and desire
Do I Look Fat in This?
Pen and Pencil on Paper
Louise Evans was formally trained in NZ to make zombies, vampires and werewolves. In Sweden she was formally trained in skinning and tanning elks, foxes, reindeers and 1 x beaver, and medieval blacksmithing, weaving and woodworking.
Her work is mainly inspired by her vivid dreams. For the furthering of her art, she ensures she eats some good cheddar before going to bed each night.
Untitled
Pen on Paper
Nikolai Zhivago-Clark has just finished a giant obstacle course made of nylon pantyhose and the finest Dwarven metal forged in this galaxy. The course was littered with both radioactive glam rockers, and snooty art critics. Unfortunatley, the course has now been closed for demolition, due to structural damage and the amount of lewd artworks inscribed at its most difficult areas.
Taking inspiration from both his former jobs as a moustache trimmer and guitar tuner for various metal bands around the Auckland CBD, his work is overflowing with risque innuendo. Or is it?
Beck Wheeler
Its Not Over Till The Phat Bunny Sings
Alex Mitcalfe
The Holy Ridge Is Steep and Perilous
Paper collage on board
This picture is the fourth part of a series named "The Holy Ridge is Steep and Perilous". The sequence constructs idealised vistas from elements of the New Zealand landscape and explores my own attachment to the natural world, in a society characterised by mobility and atomisation.
Nikolai Zhivago-Clark has just finished a giant obstacle course made of nylon pantyhose and the finest Dwarven metal forged in this galaxy. The course was littered with both radioactive glam rockers, and snooty art critics. Unfortunatley, the course has now been closed for demolition, due to structural damage and the amount of lewd artworks inscribed at its most difficult areas.
Taking inspiration from both his former jobs as a moustache trimmer and guitar tuner for various metal bands around the Auckland CBD, his work is overflowing with risque innuendo. Or is it?
Cinzah Merkens
The Floating Houseboat
Pen on Paper
Cinzah Merkens is a Auckland based artist/mess maker.
He enjoys getting crafty with anything he can get his hands on. He draws, sketches, scribbles, paints, builds and creates all sorts of useless objects which he hopes will appeal to a couple of kids somewhere for something of use.
Over the past 4 years he has exhibited in about 30 odd exhibitions and expeditions throughout Australasia, South East Asia and the U.S. Cinzah often draws directly from his own imagination and past experiences, exploring reoccurring day dreams which often consist of Childhood Nostalgia, nature, travel, and studies of slightly deranged city folk.
To view more of Cinzah's work check out www.flickr.com/photos/seekayem
The Floating Houseboat
Pen on Paper
Cinzah Merkens is a Auckland based artist/mess maker.
He enjoys getting crafty with anything he can get his hands on. He draws, sketches, scribbles, paints, builds and creates all sorts of useless objects which he hopes will appeal to a couple of kids somewhere for something of use.
Over the past 4 years he has exhibited in about 30 odd exhibitions and expeditions throughout Australasia, South East Asia and the U.S. Cinzah often draws directly from his own imagination and past experiences, exploring reoccurring day dreams which often consist of Childhood Nostalgia, nature, travel, and studies of slightly deranged city folk.
To view more of Cinzah's work check out www.flickr.com/photos/seekayem
Its Not Over Till The Phat Bunny Sings
Acrylic and Varnish on Plywood
Beck Wheeler studied Sculpture and Painting in Auckland/NewZealand before moving to Australia in 2000. Since setting up an arts practise in Melbourne, Beck has established herself as a multi-disciplinary artist. She combines toy making, textile and woodworking techniques to produce sculptures. Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited in Melbourne, Spain, UK, USA and Canada. Her illustrations have made it into the 2009 Best of British Illustration AOI annual touring exhibition and publication. And her toy range Kissy Kissy Toys has seen her design toys for musician Beck (for The Information album).
Beck Wheeler studied Sculpture and Painting in Auckland/NewZealand before moving to Australia in 2000. Since setting up an arts practise in Melbourne, Beck has established herself as a multi-disciplinary artist. She combines toy making, textile and woodworking techniques to produce sculptures. Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited in Melbourne, Spain, UK, USA and Canada. Her illustrations have made it into the 2009 Best of British Illustration AOI annual touring exhibition and publication. And her toy range Kissy Kissy Toys has seen her design toys for musician Beck (for The Information album).
The Holy Ridge Is Steep and Perilous
Paper collage on board
This picture is the fourth part of a series named "The Holy Ridge is Steep and Perilous". The sequence constructs idealised vistas from elements of the New Zealand landscape and explores my own attachment to the natural world, in a society characterised by mobility and atomisation.
Untitled
Digital Print
3D Google Sketch Up Forts.
I am useless at computers, and architecture. The only thing I am really any good at is making memories and dredging them up again and again. This work is an experiment at making forts in a realm that is perhaps as foreign and unknown to me as a clean sheet hanging on the back of the couch is to a 6 year old.
Untitled
Gouache and pen on paper
Born and raised in the fruit bowl of New Zealand, Hawkes Bay, now living in Melbourne. Have been making comics since the early 90's. Creator of many popular works including, Gay Gay Kill Kill, Stupid Slut Stories, Everything Ends in Tears, and White People are Dangerous.
Interests: Doughnuts, coffee, running, cycling, op-shopping, fighting, nature walks and eating red and black liquorish at the same time.
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