We are ecstatic to announce the inclusion of ReFace in the 2009 Perth International Arts Festival.

ReFace is one of the inaugural recipients of the iArts grant, made possible by the ABC, ScreenWest and DCA. The project focuses on creating dialogue between traditional art going folk and practitioners of emerging disciplines of street art.

ololo and WBMC are teaming up to bring Perth a 4 night, multi site projection installation on the buildings of the CBD. Works submitted by users through the ReFace website, and curated by well respected members of the arts community, will be projected on the biggest surfaces we can find!

So start collecting all those photos and get them ready to upload in the new year.

Keep visiting www.abc.net.au/reface to stay upto date.

The City of Perth commissioned us to paint the temporary hoarding surrounding the construction site of the soon-to-be Northbridge Piazza. We took our inspiration from photographs of glowstick sculptures.

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We were commissioned to paint the front wall of Capitol nightclub for the McKenna Bourbon launch. Lets just say that this project was an important lesson learned shall we?

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“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.

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Shensing successfully found a remarkable ‘grey area’ between graffiti and art with his simple but clever pigeons. Pasted in groups and always on a ledge they (mostly) lasted until the weather naturally eroded them away.

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The visual shock tactics employed by the engulfing media inspire us to create simple, bold and effective messages. using only black, white and few words we challenge ourselves to comment on our surrounding social environment and hope to communicate the way we feel to the immersed public. They will make you laugh, shake, scratch your head and gasp.

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We accept the constant flooding of advertising as being a part of everyday life. Numbers, however are so ingrained into our visual environment that we hardly even notice them. We thought we’d experiment with this concept and put up numbers of our own. The best thing about our numbers, is that they don’t get removed (in most cases) People just accept them as being part of their environment. It’s as if they have some kind of authority.

There’s a door in North Perth (Just near the Commonwealth Bank ATM) that in the phot below, has a ’4′ on it, a year later we changed it to an ’8′, it’s still there in 2009, that’s seven years!

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