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Mr Penfold is an artist from London that has a very unique and recognizable style. We currently have a couple of projects in the works with Penfold, so stay tuned. In the meantime, here are a few snaps of some recent outdoor fun he’s been having. More on Mr Penfold here.
When you see people you know producing something insanely big and incredibly supportive of our creative community, we get both inspired and proud. It’s not an easy thing to take a giant leap into the conference world, but it makes it easier when you are doing it for the right reasons, and have some of the most talented people in the world as your speakers.
Timba Smits, Greg Beer and Gordon Shaw are the super team that have created Kaleidoscope Festival in London.
They need your help to kick start the project and are on the lookout for anything from $10 to $10,000. Every little bit counts. Even if’s just to spread the word. This will be a great event and something we are 100% behind.
Get involved here and find out more on their website here.
Always innovative and inspiring, Los Angeles based artist Geoff McFetridge recently opened his latest solo exhibition titled ‘Around Us & Between Us’ at Ivory and Black in London.
Geoff created a series of 10 new acrylic paintings on canvas in his distinctive and reductive style, giving each different subject the same treatment and refinery. In the artist’s own words: “Images are central to my painting. The images are varied, while my treatment of them is very consistent. The imagery is refined to a point of anonymous functionality. The paintings are meant to feel as if they were pulled directly from the lexicon. I paint some things because they are things that I have seen, but more importantly, I believe they are things that the viewer has seen. I am painting from life, but not life purely found in the landscape, but the also psychological, mediated, and transcendental world that infects our consciousness.”
Images and text courtesy of the gallery, more info here.
Zero Cool Gallery definitely has a taste for Australian talent and it seems that they’re not slowing down. Having previously presented shows by Meggs, Ben Frost and Numskull, this month Zero Cool London are showcasing one of Australia’s most exciting artists, Rone (alongside Tom French). More details below.
Zero Cool Gallery presents
RONE (AUS) & Tom French (UK)
‘Don’t Look Back’
Joint London Exhibition
Preview: 6:30pm – 9:30pm, 26th April 2012
Open: April 27th – May 1st 2012
RBHQ, 155-171 Tooley St
London Bridge, London
April 2012 will see two of the most exciting artist to emerge in recent year’s RONE (AUS) and Tom French (UK) link up to put on a joint show with Zero Cool Gallery.
Rone’s posters are some of the most iconic in Australia, hiding under overpasses throughout Melbourne. He is renowned for the stylised images of ‘girls’ faces – it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that he has had more posters in Melbourne’s streets than any other artist in the city’s history.
Tom French progresses his distinctive skull images, with the addition of previously unseen oil paintings, to be shown alongside his characteristic charcoal pieces. These new works combine photorealism, abstraction and surrealism with a suggestive narrative, treading the fine line between the beautiful and the unsettling, focusing on the reflection of the conscious and subconscious mind.
For catalogue requests or to RSVP please email zerocool@zerocoolgallery.com
Melbourne based Meggs is having his next solo show. But this time he’s shipping a new body of work over to London, where he’ll open his show ‘Inner Demons’ with Zero Cool Gallery at a pop-up spot.
Meggs’ first UK solo exhibition ‘Inner Demons’, with ZeroCoolGallery UK, opens in London on Thursday 23rd of June.
Its a short time pop-up style exhibition at Londons Red Bull Studio space.
OPENING NIGHT THURSDAY 23 JUNE 2011, 6.30 – 9.30pm
RED BULL STUDIOS, 155 – 171 TOOLEY ST, LONDON BRIDGE, LONDON
FRI 23 – MON 27 JUNE, 10am – 5pm (11am – 4pm Sun)
Images taken from http://nb574.com/
Whilst the weather here is keeping everyone in-doors at the moment, one of Sydney’s finest, Beastman is in London getting busy with Mr & Mrs Penfold.
The second verse of the Lyrics and Type exhibition opened in London recently and there were a couple of talented Aussies in the mix (Timba, Numskull, Nate Holmes Trapnell). Check out the opening night photos here, and purchase a print here at Wooden Toy here. The prints are crazy good quality, 3 colour hand pulled screenprints, editions of 30 and ONLY $80!!!
NUMSKULL
TIMBA
NATE TRAPNELL
