- ANTHONY LISTER INFLATABLES
- ARTERY
- AUSTRALIAN STENCIL ART PRIZE
- C-ART DIGITAL ARTWORK INSTALLATION
- EVERFRESH STUDIO
- FOUNDATIONS
- IRONLAK BUS
- KID ZOOM: HOME
- MAY'S: THE MAY LANE STREET ART PROJECT
- MISO & NAILS INSTALLATION
- NEXT
- OI YOU! COLLECTION FEATURING BANKSY
- PASTE MODERNISM
- PROJECT UGLY
- TEMPLE: BY PHIBS, BEASTMAN & NUMSKULL
- THE ECOSYSTEM OF MOON TITAN BY GHOST PATROL AND TRISTAN JALLEH
- WILL COLES MERMAID & ARMCHAIR
ANTHONY LISTER INFLATABLES
Recently returned from his stint in Berlin's reknowned Project Room curated by Jaybo Monk, and his gallery tour of Los Angeles, Lister has bought with him an explorative ethic to the sculptural medium. The natural extension from his Bowser Oil drums, installed in guerilla fashion in an abandoned hospital in Berlin, Lister will be providing an ambitious installation to match the size of Outpost. Adorned on large-scale balloons throughout Cockatoo Island will be his trademark garish, grinning faces.
"My interest in the second dimension translates into the third, forth and fifth naturally as an adventure painter and constructionist. These pieces are based on an idea I have for a holographic series of artworks that I can't yet make due to lack of technological innovation. " - Anthony Lister
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ARTERY
Set foot on Cockatoo Island and experience the Dog Leg Tunnel which cuts through the centre monolith that crowns the Island. Lining the sandstone walls will be a rogue gallery of 30 hand picked Australian street artists serving as a welcome and initiation. Curated by aMBUSH Gallery, the passageway journeys towards the light and into the playground of street art that awaits beckoning on the other side.
Artists include Ears, Ghostpatrol, Ben Frost, Ha Ha, James Jirat Patradoon, Jumbo, Max Berry, Numskull, Vexta, Zap, Deb, Bennett, Mini Graff, Shannon Crees, Shida, Sprinkles, Lister, Itch, Makatron, Sync, Reka, Phibs, Prizm, Beastman, Dmote, Drewfunk, The Yok, SMC3, Meggs and Rone.
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AUSTRALIAN STENCIL ART PRIZE
Now in its 3rd year, the Australian Stencil Art Prize aims to recognise and reward Australian stencil artists. The Prize grew out of discussions about the calibre of stencil art in Sydney's Innerwest and a desire to see more of it. The Australian Stencil Art Prize attracts emerging and established stencil artists and receives international attention. The winner takes home a $2000 cash prize.
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C-ART DIGITAL ARTWORK INSTALLATION
The artists, Mandy Francis (an established sculptor and installation artist), Milos Obradovic (an environmentally sustainable Architect) and Momcilo Obradovic (an Electrical Engineer) will create a digital artwork installation that will address things they are all passionate about such as questioning social inequalities, commercialism versus public urban space, real versus manufactured cultural differences and the freedom of speech and expression.
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EVERFRESH STUDIO
The group known as Everfresh - artists Sync, Phibs, Reka, Rone, Wonderlust, Prizm, Meggs, Makatron and The Tooth - is an explosive hub of creation and activity, inconspicuously located in Melbourne's inner-city suburb of Collingwood. Behind an unmarked factory door, Everfresh artists conceive, develop and collaborate to produce their now internationally renowned work for the streets, as well as fine art for exhibition in galleries and to furnish the art market's growing appetite for street art. The Everfresh crew are key players that continue to shape Melbourne's dynamic and prolific street-art scene. The Everfresh Crew will be tackling the East Apron Cliff Face, a sheer cliff adorned with panels, to create a political remark on the NSW States Government's stance on graffiti - larger than life, unobscured and visible from the sea, it will be one of the many crown jewels to Outpost and a greeting to all upon first landing.
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FOUNDATIONS
Amidst decaying machinery and rusty beams, Cockatoo Island foundations have stood through generations of Sydney-siders, experiencing renewals with each change of function the island underwent. In similar fashion the Foundations project seeks to blend the Oldskool with the wave of upcoming, new graffiti artists.
Here, the original graffiti artists - the very first artists to ever start graffiti on the shores of Sydney will paint side by side with the Insomniaks (formerly Ignore Mainstream crew), Sydney's very own newschool delegates. Each Oldskool graffiti artist shaped the street art landscape, crafting it into what it has become today.
Foundations is curated by Phibs in association with aMBUSH Gallery and will include artists such as Paze, Spice, Styles, Scram, Kerupt, Prins, Mare, Kade, Rexy, Gane 2, Mystery, Houster, Kode 2, Poser, Yzer, Oricks, Oke, Joshuar, Dax, Opens, Ouch, Hulez, Roter, Loks, Jota and Sam Owell.
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IRONLAK BUS
A 1976 classic school bus will be painted throughout the festival by artists sponsored by Ironlak. The bus represents traditional graffiti culture and is a homage to the art form's origins. The artists will demonstrate the evolution of aerosol art and its phenomenal voyage into the future.
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KID ZOOM: HOME
The Kid Zoom : Home project represents a multilayered homecoming for Australian born artist Kid Zoom. Having not returned to exhibit in Australia since early 2009. This secret project will see Kid Zoom come home to Australia for the first time in 2 years to build a monumental installation reflecting on his home-land and origins as an artist.
"I am very much the product of Australia and the Australian suburbs and have always wanted to create an installation work reflecting on that. This is an exciting way to return to Australia." - KID ZOOM
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MAY'S: THE MAY LANE STREET ART PROJECT
“Aerosol is a medium like any other, valid and there as a vehicle to express oneself, whether that be through realism, expressionism, cubism, or whatever the artists chooses. As long as aerosol and graffiti are used to pigeon-hole and keep legitimate artists down, I will keep blowing your minds.”
- Omen
MAY'S: The May Lane Street Art Project is a survey of the artworks created at May Lane between 2005 and 2010 by celebrated Australian and international street artists. The works in the exhibition give a comprehensive overview of what is happening nationally and internationally in street art. The works span a broad range of street art styles: New York graffiti, spray paint, paste ups, stencils and sculpture.
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery developed MAY’S: The May Lane Street Art Project in conjunction with the May Lane Arts Association Inc., an incorporated not for profit organisation. The May’s Lane Project is an outdoor gallery space located in St Peters in Sydney's inner west. It’s Director, Tugi Balog, a local businessman who turned the exterior walls of his business premises into a site-specific gallery for street artists, has been documenting the May Lane Street Art Project since its inception in 2004. As a result, May’s has a collection of over 100 panels spanning the life of the project and incorporating all the artists who have created work in May Lane.
MAY’S: The May Lane Street Art Project focuses on the artistic merit of the work, and the high calibre of the artists. The history and evolution of the international and Australian street art movement will be explored. Bringing street art into a gallery is paradoxical in that it takes the artwork away from its intended context, but it also serves to educate and inform by making it accessible to wide variety of audiences. The exhibition seeks to ask questions about high art and street art and explore issues that arise from this juncture.
This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia.
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MISO & NAILS INSTALLATION
Miso's work sways between hand-drawn portraits pasted illegally to city streets, to built installations in gallery spaces, to delicate paper-cuts and home made tattoos. Her work is made to be ephemeral - for paper to decay in reaction to the city, to weather and pollution, as well as to reflect the portraits of people who pass through the streets. She is inspired by folk and utilitarian art - such as the stories from her upbringing in the Ukraine, as well as Vienna Secession and Constructivist artists.
For The Outpost, Miso will be collaborating on a built installation project with Niels Oeltjen, inspired by clotheslines, collected objects and lights from Eastern Europe.
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NEXT
Deep within the steep steel structure and brick walled confines of the Heavy Machine Shop lies NEXT, nestled in a core of cotton. Throughout it's evolution, street art has taken on many forms and mediums, however, it is arguably street fashion in which it finds its most natural progression from the static streets, into walking works of art. NEXT is an excision and examination into the heart and soul of one of the most influential and vibrant subcultures - T-shirt culture. Many reformed train-slayers and wall-painters have used the humble T-shirt as a platform and staple in their arsenal to achieving design fame. NEXT will be inviting 20 local and international artists/designers from powerhouse institutions of street wear to give their view on what the future of T-shirt graphics has in store by creating a one-off design to reflect the designer's vision, and explore potential graphic trends. These will be housed on site, along with approximately 1,500 T-shirts from premiere brands in street fashion - ultimately achieving Australia's most comprehensive display of street-inspired T-shirts.
On the outskirts of this display, the brick walls will be lined with a 30 panel display complete with portraits of 30 leading owners and creatives active in T-shirt culture. Accompanying the portraits will be a profile and the origin story behind the brands we wear and love. Accompanying Australia's largest T-shirt exhibition will be Australia's largest T-shirt, proudly towering over the exhibition. On its chest will be the national premiere of the French documentary 'T-shirt stories: Cotton, Art & Fun'.
Melbourne born, T-shirt messiah, Eddie Zammit, curated the NEXT exhibition. With the impressive credentials of being founder, owner and editor of the world's ONLY T-shirt journal, along with a devout passion to the T-shirt medium (owning 2,200 T-shirts personally), the exhibition is in capable hands. This is the physical culmination of the subculture he loves. "Let's not dismiss street wear as a T-shirt category, let's explore its evolution," Zammit says. This exhibition seeks to balance both it's position as a retrospective and a responsive - a time capsule for the humble T-shirt and it's marriage to the form of street art.
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OI YOU! COLLECTION FEATURING BANKSY
It will be the first time the Oi You! Collection, which includes 23 works by Banksy, the world's most famous street artist, has been seen outside New Zealand. Altogether it contains more than 70 rare and original pieces by the world's leading street artists.
The auction record for a Banksy is $1.87million at Sotheby's New York in 2008 for Keep it Spotless - a Damien Hirst spot painting defaced with the image of a chambermaid apparently lifting up the bottom of the canvas. Other works in the Oi You! Collection are by leading international street artists including Faile, Swoon, Micallef and Os Gemeos.
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PASTE MODERNISM
Paste Modernism is the largest celebration of the medium of 'paste-ups' in Australia, and is now presented again for the 3rd time at OUTPOST PROJECT on Cockatoo Island. Throughout its inception it has found residence in staples of the Sydney art scene, starting initially with the artist run residence Hibernia House in a guerilla exhibition, and finally graduating to the heritage walls of Cockatoo Island. Every available inch of over 300 square meters of wall space will be covered with the pasted artworks of over 100 local and international artists.
The 'Paste-Up' is an ever-expanding and innovative form of street art, that involves an artist making their work onto varying sizes of paper and then applying it to walls and surfaces within their urban environment using wheat-paste or wallpaper glue. Whether as black and white multiplied photocopies, colourful hand painted murals or thought provoking text pieces, the 'Paste-Up' is an immediate and bold contemporary art-form.
The medium explores not only aesthetic values, but is often politically and socially motivated - which allows experimentation both by accomplished artists as well as people with little or no artistic training. With all other street art genres, a hierarchy is in place based usually on the skill and years of training and practice of each artist (aerosol-can control/complexity of a stencil etc). Most 'Paste-Up' artists also have years of experience, creating intricate and well-planned artworks - however anybody right now, could find a photograph or jpeg that resonates with them, take it to a digital printer and with relatively little expense, print it out in wallpaper width paper sheets and put it up on the streets.
Curated by Ben Frost, Paste Modernism 3 includes artists such as: Pure Evil, Copyright, Dan Baldwin, Anthony Lister, Drab, Urban Cake Lady, Heesco, Bei Badgirl, Houl, Creon, John Doe, Simon Lovelace, RJ, Mats?!, Bridge Stehli, Esjay, Anton Benois, Numskull, Bennett, Vexta, Tez, Bunkwaa, Jumbo, Zap, Skel, HA-HA, SMC, 1337, Felix, Konsume Terror, Pigeonboy, Vars, Aelhra, Qwux and more.
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PROJECT UGLY
Project Ugly is the collaboration of big business (Look Print) and small business (a grass roots art gallery called 'Oh Really Gallery'). The Project is curated by Daniel O'Toole, also known as 'Ears', renowned Sydney street artist and one of the founders/owners of Oh Really Gallery. Oh Really was one of the few artist run spaces in Sydney to support the street art culture and connected with many of the most talented street artists from around Australia. When such artists come to town, Project Ugly is one of the few accessible platforms on offer for such artists to paint at no expense to themselves.
Curated by Dan O'Toole in association with aMBUSH Gallery.
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TEMPLE: BY PHIBS, BEASTMAN & NUMSKULL
Born from complimenting tribal styles, Phibs and Beastman, two Sydney based heavyweights in the street art scene will be collaborating to fabricate an installation. A functional relic of an otherworldly culture, from a world filled with beasts and bizarre animals, the duo will be creating a teepee in their whimsical dreamlike character.
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THE ECOSYSTEM OF MOON TITAN BY GHOST PATROL AND TRISTAN JALLEH
Hundreds of hours of intense friendship go into Ghostpatrol and Tristan Jalleh's bi-locational installation titled 'The Ecosystem of Moon Titan'. From working together closely they have developed fantasies that are fully formed, coherent in their design, a densely interwoven convergence of folklore and science. The discovery of atmospheric environments on the moon Titan of Saturn provide a fantastic new investigation of the interconnectedness of everything around us and how humans fit into that picture. Built on the impulse to dismantle our surroundings and reassemble them in the context of a new planetoid with an alien ecosystem, video art and a few kilometres of coloured wool is used to create three dimensional geodesigns that will interact with the existing architecture, creating a new layer of reality to interact with.
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WILL COLES MERMAID & ARMCHAIR
Will Coles will create cast concrete works that are poignant and clever.
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