WED 02 . MAY . 2012 6PM
‘LOVED BUT NOT LOST’
AN EXHIBITION OF RARE T-SHIRT GRAPHICS
As far back as the early 50’s, Miami based Tropix Togs used aquired lisencing rights from Disney to screen print graphic adorned garments featuring Mickey Mouse and Davey Crocket. This moment in fashion history paved the way for a desire to use T-shirt graphics to express Individuality.
T-shirt’s are a part of our everyday, their graphics are reflections of certain periods in time and have power to unlock lost memories. For These contributors discarding a stained, shredded moth eaten piece of fabric with a cracked graphic is an emotional parting. For them it is often easier to ignore its age by preserving it in a bottom drawer, than potentially lose the memories it holds.
‘Loved But Not Lost’ will show case over 50 rare t-shirts loaned for display from some of sydney’s most enthusiastic collectors.
THE TATE @ THE TOXTETH, 345 GLEBE PT ROAD, GLEBE, SYDNEY CITY
EXHIBITION RUNS UNTIL SUN 06 . MAY . 2012 WWW.THETATE.WORDPRESS.COM
TONIGHT 7.30PM: Over the next month a curated line up by Marty Routledge including artists Beastman, Numskull, Phibs, Roachy, Thomas Jackson, Will Lynes, Esjay, Brent Smith, Well Dressed Vandals, Kerupt and Peque will be turning the humble Red Bull cooler into a work of art, using their assigned bar’s look and feel as inspiration. Venues include Oxford Art Factory, Upstairs Beresford, Hunky Dory Social Club, Bucket List, Lo Fi, El Loco, The Standard, The Flinders Hotel, The Norfolk Hotel, Cargo Lounge and Sugarmill.
March 14th: National call for entries – The Lightbulb Lounge Room is excited to announce its artist call for entries to showcase the next instalment of creative inspiration at the gallery’s upcoming exhibition, titled ‘The Beautiful and the Damned’, opening to industry on May 3rd, 2012 and to the public on May 4th, 2012.
Artists of all creeds, including illustrators, typographers, painters & designers, are encouraged to enter work, which best represents the exhibition theme: ‘The Beautiful and the Damned.’
“The name is originally known from the classic novel by F. Scott. Fitzgerald but now it’s passed on to you to do whatever you please, pull it apart, interpret it in any context and express it in any visual way. Entries using any variety of materials and mediums are welcomed and encouraged,” explains creative director and founder Claire Perini.
Artists can enter a maximum of three artworks and each piece must be presented in a brown wooden frame, to coincide with the exhibition theme and to also match with the eclectic aesthetics of the gallery space. The maximum artwork size is A3. Small, bespoke and handcrafted artworks are warmly welcome.
Launching alongside the third exhibition is an incentive called ‘Community Counts,’ which supports those artists who submit their works on time. The community driven incentive encourages artists to deliver their work to the gallery prior to the submission close date of April 13th (closing submission date to be considered for this incentive), and each piece received will be uploaded onto the LLR facebook page for peer-to-peer voting. The piece with the most ‘likes’ will earn the artist one of many creative prizes.
The Lightbulb Lounge Room has also introduced the ‘Battle of the Bulb’ in which 3 artists will be asked to shine their light and execute a piece of artwork on the night.
Each month’s exhibition brief can be found on the website: http://the-llr.com/
The selection process is first in best dressed so don’t delay sending in your submission. The call for entry deadline closes April 20th. The opening night will take place on May 3rd for industry and then open to the public on May 4th for one month.
Please email your submission enquiries and a one-page pdf sample of shots of your artwork to: info@lightbulbloungeroom.com
‘It felt like all of a sudden, there were 11 of us stocked hard with IRONLAK stomping huge pieces over a few hundred metres of hording on the racecourse. The demolition zone gave the whole experience this post apocalyptic feel.
Big thanks to Ironlak for ‘attempted ambush marketing’, courtesy of yours truly.
PHIBS, BEASTMAN, AMUSE, RETRO, MARSH, OMAS, ROACH, NUMKULL, CHE, RUSTO, MOUSE. TGS DRS KGB DHR’
22 artists from all over australia were sent 7” vinyl bunnies to customize. now, these bunnies will be attached to our walls, so you can look at them, purchase them and love them forever!
vinyl is better than chocolate, or so i’ve been told.
while you are here, enjoy a nice cold Moritz beer, from spain, have a look at the fine publications on offer, and grab youself some Damp tshirts!
Damp Store – Studio 4/31, Brighton St, Curl Curl
alex lehours, barek, ben brown, helen mycroft, jacque prior, johnny steiner, josh kid 9 thorsen, kate mccarthy, kinyobi, kirst ohh, laura chong, lucinda hayden, luke burcher, matt dampney, noisy kid, ox, qwux, rebecca murphy, rob buckley, steph tsimbourlas, thom bransdon, yewot
I thought whilst BOB is away id share my obsession with American graffiti couple UTAH & ETHER & their recent disputes with notorious NYC ‘Legend’ COPE 2 and his lady INDIE. Beef comes naturally in this ego-centric art form being more like a competitive sport sometimes than an art movement. Seemingly ridiculous, once reading everything around the argument and the speculation as to who did what when its so public it is hypnotic…. its kinda like when you see people getting violent on a reality tv show, its REALLY entertaining.
ahhhh … The power of the internet.
Basically from what i can tell is that cope 2 was accused of snitching to the vandal squad by Utah and ether after a yard raid some years ago. Utah and Ether released censored government documents on their site supposedly proving cope was in bed with the police. Cope claims Utah to have snitched ‘FIRST’… chance lead them to cross paths in union square (nyc), a dispute occurred, a punch was thrown, there were some emails sent, a bunch of hilarious memes were created about COPE 2 being a snitch and circulated around the web by somebody, and now there are ‘COPE’ throw ups over most of Utah and Ethers efforts from their last escapades in Asia.
Somebody is lying, and somebody snitched somewhere about someone along the way, but whatever the case, this right here is why the term ‘graffiti’ is different to the term ‘Street Art’.
read on if it interests you…
Watch: Utah and Ether (mul) in Asia
‘Cope’ Throw ups over Utah and Ether in Asia
More of cope’s ‘operation God Of Destruction (GOD)’ and a description of their encounter on valentines day, on his 12 Oz blog
The an article with twitter enquiries from the people at THE LONDON VANDAL
