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TWOONE EDWARD BAUERIS FINTAN MAGEE
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INTERVIEWED ARTISTS
FEATURED ARTISTS: TWOONE EDWARD BAUERIS FINTAN MAGEE
EXHIBITIONS REVIEW: SIXTOEIGHT
‘TO WRITE OR NOT TO WRITE THAT IS THE QUESTION’ POEM BY JENNIFER O’ROURKE
Artist - TWOONE
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Tell us about your childhood in Yokohama?
Where are you It was a pretty typical Japanese kid childhood, lived near the center city, middle class family, one brother, one sister, parents, and grand parents were living with us. The onlu thing which made me not being a typical Japanese kid was we never got video games, my parents didn't like them, so when I was at home I was always drawing or making cardboard robots and stuff. then as I get older I started skating and meeting people out side off the school. it was much more ffun ffor me.
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What made you decided to move to Melbourne? And how is it different from Japan?
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I just wanted to explore out side of my Town. Just before I left Japan, I was skating with older guys, and one of them have ve been elbourne to Melbourne. and the experience he told us was exiting. I never heard of Melbourne Until I herd from him, but I liked the idea of going somewhere I never knew. Artist - TWOONE
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Artist - TWOONE
Tell us more about your art....
ur inspirations coming from?
This is hard question for me. I think If I can explain this answer well then I'm not doing what I'm doing. because it will not be fun anymore. To be creating is one way of absorbing this world, life, and my self. I'm trying to absorb as much as possible, I believe the more you absorb, the more you see things you couldn't see before, I think that's why I like playing with different material, format, technics, and themes.
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We love the way you interpret found objects and installations with your paintings, could you tell us more about this practice?
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As mentioned before I like to play with lots different things. So play with found objects, and installation all come naturally. Found objects are things created by my surroundings, where I live this moment. If I can get inspired by objects like that I feel I'm absorbing something from now. I don't know what that means or anything but that's how I feel any ways. Installations are just another outlet for me, when you see a vision, and trying to recreate that, sometimes painting is just not the right output.
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I have more shows coming up. one solo show in Melbourne. one group show in NY. and I think will try some award and stuff this year.
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It all began in spontaneous agreement between Visual Artists Fleur MacDonald and James P Gilmour while they were at Tim Olsen Gallery in June 2009. They agreed there was room for a blog to cover openings without the art speak and 209 posts later they are still going strong... They try not to review BUT they do have opinions... Fleur
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2011 is finally here, we’ve been waiting patiently for 2010 to kick the bucket so we could move on... But just before everyone gets excited about what shows we covered so far this year, just a quick mention that our Jimmy has taken some time off to make some Art and we have invited another artist to join us at sixtoeight.net...
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We introduce the wonderfully talented Bernadette Trela, landscape painter and Art teacher!!!
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Fleur MacDonald has been exhibiting since 1985 with 11 Solos and over 50 Group shows under her belt, has work in private and commercial collections all over the world... Hung in the Gallipoli Art Prize, (3 times), Mosman Art Prize, BBC and the Churchie Emerging Art Award... Working mainly in oils as a landscape painter, her last show in August 2010 was of objects in Gouache... A passionate art collector and considers herself to be an Ambassador to the Arts...
James P Gilmour is a Sydney based artist making artists books, watercolours, encaustic paintings and plotting large scale projects that sometimes get off the ground... His work is in many collections including Monash University, Mitchell Library, British Art Library, Fremantle City Council and the Art Gallery of NSW (just to name a few). He's been hung in the Archibald and the Wynne and at one point had paintings on every continent in the world, including Antarctica..
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@ Roslyn Oxley9
First cab off the rank was actually the last show of 2010 that officially
didn’t close till February... True Story - Roslyn Oxley9 had works by 9 artists from the stable including beautiful etchings by Fiona Hall, 3 ready to be planted bronze trees by Michael Parekowhai... Fantastic 3 dimensional movie posters by Rohan Wealleans just to name a few...
@ King Street Gallery
Our first invitation for the year was at King Street Gallery on William - On The Island, 9 Artists in New Zealand - Jan Senbergs, Euan Mcleod, Idris Murphy, Ann Thomson, Julie Harris, Judith Van Heeren, Peter Simpson, Steve Lopes and David Keeling... A beautiful, beautiful show curated by Owen Craven and inspired by the diverse landscape of New Zealand. Next up was Pat Larter at Watters Gallery, found ourselves in dire need of a history lesson and we got to meet the legendary Richard Larter... Simon Blau gave us a lesson in abstraction at Gallery 9, that was a truely wonderful show!!!
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@ Index Space
@ Kudos Our first visit to an artist run gallery in awhile was at Index Space at St Peters with ‘Small works for a Large Universe’, Brilliant we loved it and was quickly followed by a short trip up the road to The Vanishing Point on King St, another artist run space and neither of us had been to before, this show comprised of wall, floor and video works that packed a punch... Kudos Gallery - Peter Nelson... His ‘Mountain Drawing’ (the first time I felt at home) is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC and you would be mad to miss it!!! On the same night and after Kudos we slipped up to Flinders Street Gallery for the ‘Composite’ group show, showcasing some really great young artists and a few established ones including Vilma Bader, Peter Nelson, Kurt Schranzer, Floria Tosca,Wayde Owen, Mike Roddy,Tom Langlands, Mat de Moiser, James Powditch, Andrew Sullivan, Luke Crouch, Luis Martinez, Max Lieberman, Caz Haswell, Wenmin Li, Terry Burrows, Matt Huttlestone, Josh Honeyman, Halinka Orzsulok, Soma Garner, Michael Kempson and Alex Lawler...
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@ The Vanishing Point
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A trip to Watters Gallery for Leo Loomans, Roger Crawford and Rod McRae... Leo’s welded sculptures are engaging and beautiful, while Roger’s small mixed media wall works were really quite lovely and interspersed with Rod’s abstract paintings... And straight after Watters and walkings distance was The Arkaba Station Exhibition and Leo Robba at King Street Gallery on William...Arkaba Station in the Flinders Rangers held a commanding landscape for 3 artists from the King Street Gallery stable... Leo Robba and his soft muted paintings of many trees and cliff faces... Joanna Logue and her misty blurry images of the dark green landscape and Wendy Sharpe with her ‘to die for’ tiny gouaches!!!
Hanks... These Linocuts are nothing if not astonishing in their technical beauty and scale and the content is engaging too!!! Phew!! It’s not even March yet and this new year packs a punch with so many outstanding exhibitions... Oh and 1 small thing, Fleur managed to get her ‘Your Name in Lights’ up on top of the Australian Museum during the Sydney Festival which we were both chuffed about!!! <<
The Gallery was split in 2 to also hold Leo Robba’s fist solo with this gallery, Humanising the Landscape is a collection of amusing architectural shaped hedge paintings... @ King Street Gallery
And to end a hectic week we went to The Redbox Gallery, situated within the Royal Botanical Gardens here in Sydney for the marvelous show of truely gigantic linocuts by last years Artist in Residence Rew
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Artist - Fintan Magee
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Tell us something about your hometown...
Brisbane.....sunshine, rednecks and a massive police force, what else can I say. Sometimes I hate this city sometimes I love this city, but its probably treated me better than I deserve or give it credit for.
Did you read loads of comics in your childhood? any favourite superhero? Artist - Fintan Magee
Wasn't huge on comic books as a kid I was really into reading fantasy though, I am pretty interested in the mythology sorrounding certain superhero's but i never had a favourite in particular. I remember reading a comic as a kid called cyberswine I cant remember who made it but I am pretty sure it was Australian, issues are hard to come by but if anyone has any let me know.
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Tell us more about your art...
We've seen a lot of cityscape on your work, do they have any implicit meaning behind each of them?
I spend a lot of time in abandoned buildings painting and taking photographs, Most of the abandoned I buildings in Brisbane have been spend a lot of time knocked down recently and everyin abandoned buildings thing is becoming so over develpainting and taking photooped up here. I like empty buildgraphs, Most of the abandoned ings they tell so many forgotten buildings in Brisbane have been stories and remind us of knocked down recently and everything human fragility. is becoming so over developed up here. I like empty buildings they tell so many forgotten stories and remind us of human fragility. Artist - Fintan Magee
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What is the biggest challenge of being an artist these days? How did your artist career start? It's hard to say, my first commision was 4 years ago and I sold my first painting around the same time, but I am still not sure if my art career really has started. I think I am still developing my work and probably always will be.
Artist - Fintan Magee
Staying positive, its hard building a career from nothing and I have seen so many get discouraged and slowly start to move on to other things. That and staying away from the various vices that we all enjoy and love.
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Five things you cannot ve without ...
What are your upcoming plans for your artist career?
1.water 2.air 3.food 4.rapid transit. 5.good friends, good family, good times.
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Keep grinding. I am working on a few mural projects at the moment but I want to focus more on my own work, its always a balancing act between making the money to survive and making the most of the pleasures in life. Hopefully I can keep making a living off what I love doing.
I would rather be a ninja than a superhero.
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Poem by Jennifer O'rourke What of the deep blue sea, this not what I have explored? What of the sting of a bee, this pain that I have never endured? What of plagues of locusts, sickness and disease? Only the pollen in the air and animals could make me sneeze. What of war, starvation and the great depression? The only sadness I feel is self-inflicted and that of obsession. What to write about that’s not yet written? Stories about love although I’ve never been smitten? Biographies about historians I’ve never had the pleasure to meet? A tale of a loved one I never got to keep? It seems one said all that had to be said. Instead of reiterating I’d rather speak of him instead. He changed the world of literature with one swift movement of a pen. If only I had the power to change the world once again. Despite his style of writing now being outdated. And all of his words have now been translated. His amazing words, intelligence and his name, As well as his complete works is all that remain.
He was taken away so early in life, a genius at his prime. But as the years passed by, he became a legend in time. Now a tourist attraction; Stratford Upon-Avon, We can only hope, his magical words still live on. His writing dates back to the fifteenth Century, Back to when lives were less fast-paced and more sedentary. Now as I write in the year two thousand and ten, It’s all about operating technology and less about pen. If William lived in this world today, Would he be able to deliver his messages in the same way? It’s hard to tell so many centuries on, This I can tell you, ‘oh how we’ve got it wrong’. We’ve forgotten the true meaning of writing and of its words. Our translations, our slang; it sounds so absurd.
I don’t want to preach and write like a pessimist. But the origins of writing no longer exist. Like time, it changes, so must we. You’re in a new generation, just like me. With the millennium in our midst, we’ve come leaps and bounds. Everything so available to us, this I have found. So going forward, not backwards, is the only bargaining price. Joining them, or beating, is the only ultimatum in life. So as I begin my passion, and my journey through writing, I hope my words come across to you as nothing but enlightening. And following Shakespeare, but in a different year, I hope my messages and words are concise and clear.
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How would you describe your childhood?
A time spent drawing, reading comics and watching television when I was very young, and then days spent with my brothers and sisters as they came onto the scene. What was your favorite thing to draw when you were young?
Artist - Edward Baueris
Without a doubt it was superhero's, most often Spiderman. Also I tended to draw elaborate side on views of strange spaceships/hideouts with many rooms and features...a lot of the time they were festooned with different weapons and turrets to protect against some unknown threat.
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From all the characters you've created, which one is your favourite.. and why?
I have always been very curious bout almost everything, and often my /subject matter varies quite a bit, but it to be quite figurative at it's core, mostly black hite, and often with lots of line work as opposed e. I love the crisp feeling and look of black and and though I am always experimenting with colour nd to go back to pen and pencil work quite freuently. My work also tends to illustrative and lean towards science-fiction/fantasy in subject matter these days but I like to break out of that mould once in a while.
Artist - Edward Baueris
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is a tough one! Can't I love all my children equally? But if I have to
choose I would say most recently I have a soft spot for the two figures sitting on a branch in the forest, sheltering from the rain. The are in silhouette, but it is of a father and daughter, with the daughter reaching out to her dad. There is a sense of calm and contemplation about the scene and I like the stories that you could imagine around them
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We heard you've been to Japan for 6 months, did the Japanese culture changed the way you think of your art?
It did, but long before I actually arrived in the country. During high school I discovered Japanese animation and comics, and they changed the way I made images quite dramatically. Before I had been influenced by the styles of American comics but now I saw a very different way of doing things. The style that I draw today is a bit of a fusion of the two. When I was living there I really enjoyed living as to close as possible (for a foreigner) a Japanese lifestyle, and since I had already been saturated in the culture from their media it was quite affirming to be in the place that is the source of their stories. It was amazing to discover how much of their animation and comics draw very strongly from their everyday life, as well as their national history and mythology.
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What is the ggest chale of being an ese days?
I will take a stab in the dark and say a large amount of quality paid work? That is always the challenge if you are trying live off your art. Monetary issues aside one of the big challenges for me personally is an overload of inspiration. There is so much amazing work being made and so much in the world to inspire I sometimes need to block some of it out so I can focus. There is so much good stuff I want to see/read/experience it all!
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Your favourite cartoon/ anime of all time?
Quite an impossible question to answer! But enduring favourites are "Princess Mononoke" by Hayao Miyazaki because it is so epic and has wonderful and complex characters, themes and imagery and the Disney version of "Aladdin" because it is one of the movies that defined my childhood and still stands up today as being a great adventure, incredible fun and having awesome tunes that I am sure I will still be singing when I am old and decrepit.
Artist - Edward Baueris
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What pcoming plans for career?
A renewed focus on illustration and the development of some more complex projects like comics or books. I worked on a short comic last year and really enjoyed the experience so I am keen to build upon that.
Artist - Edward Baueris
If you were a superhuman, what power would you rather have? Why?
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can't go past the ability to fly (Superman style). Apart from the thrill I get from being up high and looking out over vast spaces where everything is so small, I think it would be amazing to not be restricted by gravity, and doing crazy stunts like flying fast and low to the ground/water. Plus I would save heaps on public transport!
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