After designing all the various printwork necessary (Flyers, postcards, symbols.. etc) We were asked to come to Geraldton and paint a huge wall with the local kids while Artrage put on a kick-ass party.. all for the opening of Audiosity, an interactive art exhibition dubbed as a ‘sound map’ of Geraldton.
Working with sound artists Josh McAuliffe and Tomàs Ford, the kids edited their recordings into loops and sound compositions making for some unique soundscapes.
In 2005, Hurben went on a rampage and adhered his abstract paintings to the streets of Perth. The name ‘rorschach’ only came about in the second wave of paintings which were all symmetrical. The paintings have been described as flora and fauna which have been technologically modified. If you were lucky enough to be one of the few people to have been taken on a late-night tour of the artworks by Hurben himself, you know his incentive wasn’t vandalism, but to conjur thought and imagination in the general public.
If there is that much room for advertising, why can’t a portion of it be for artwork?
The guys from Deuce were putting on a New Years Party at The Bakery, Artrage Complex for the 2006 New Year. They asked us to come along and do some painting.
We roped Creepy in and after 2 fun-filled afternoons we had completed our unique portrayal of a massacre. That core-flute(?) stuff was really nice to work with and brought out a bit of the poet in all of us.
In 2005 ololo was given the hot job of garnishing Curtin University’s much loved and wickedly wacky GROK magazine with an assortment of pretty covers. Editor, Matt Giles, doses the lads with themes and the freedom to create whatever madness floats boats.
The team, both individually and collectively, have availed every asset around in order to produce a diverse set of covers. Photography, stencils, poster art, vector art and 3D are among the techniques included in creating the 8 unique designs. Each lapping at GROK’s theme like panting chihuahas.
“A street arts program building us a new kingdom for salvation – an escape from the reserve of the suburban babel banal.
THE SALVATION SHOW applies street styles / forms & logics to the interior of a secret city site and will be an exhibition where existing artworks can be submitted for display and sale or works can be created onsite.
Works will respond to the culture and thematics of the suburban experience utilising: installation / painting / graffiti / paste-ups / drawing / photography / sculpture / print making & more, and will feature young and emerging artists (26 years or under, or in their first five years of practice.”
Our work involved the installation of a ‘police carousel’, we stenciled policemen and police vehicles onto tin cut-outs and erected a fence wrapped with pololice tape. Also in the slightly-less-than-life-size diorama, there was a policeman urinating (using cellophane to describe the urinal stream), a policeman poking a stick at another policeman’s legs who has found himself stuck in the ceiling somehow (he hasn’t hung himself btw) and another who has passed-out after a completing a sloppy ‘Yo Nes Maybe’ tag and has had a quick binge on Fosters.
Hurben said it was fun painting the large ololo on the floor outside.
A collaborative exhibition with Creepy and Joshua Weeks. We painted the walls of the Projection Lounge and had a free-vodka infused opening party. A massive thankyou to Christie Clements-Shepherd.
As part of the Artrage festival, Ian Cocaran (http://iancorcoran.com/) came over and with a massive projector, more overhead than digital, projected sourced artwork onto the Telstra building and the State Library. Hurben helped put the slides together, each one had to be keystoned and sent to the other side of the country so a huge transparent slide could be sent back. Largest projections in Perth, the ones on the Telstra building could be viewed from Mt Lawley. Great stuff!
