Creative Spaces and the Melbourne City Council have organised the visit of Canadian based organisation Artscape.

“Artscape is Canada’s leader in multi-tenant space development for the arts and culture sector. It is a not-for-profit enterprise that has been engaged in culture-led regeneration efforts since 1986 and has consulted world wide on projects that have made positive cultural, economic, social, and environmental impacts. Artscape has developed a unique capability to work effectively across disciplines to align values, leadership, policy and infrastructure that enable innovation and creativity on the ground.”

We were asked to produce a series of electronic invitations target to different demographics.

We have some work in the upcoming edition of Wooden Toy Quarterly - we also have a piece in the launch exhibition to be held at Gorker Gallery.  Here is the full blurb:

Gorker Gallery and Wooden Toy Publishing Co. are proud to present ‘Hand Made Edtn.’ the official launch exhibition of the much anticipated and long awaited 6th edition of Wooden Toy Quarterly, the ‘award winning’ and everybody’s favorite artist  publication. Featuring original artworks by the same creative people featured and interviewed inside the publication, this exhibition celebrated all that is art and all that is independent from mainstream culture. Long live the Wooden Toy!

ACORN - BEC WINNEL - BIDDY MARONEY - BIG GAV - CAT RABBIT - CLEMENS HABICHT - CRAIG SPARK - DAVE COLLINSON - GHOST PATROL - JAE COPP - JAMES LOOKER - JUSTIN LEE WILLIAMS - KARL KWASNY - KELLY THOMPSON (NZ) - LILLI PIRI - MICHAEL PERRY (USA) - NATE HOLMES TRAPNELL - NAWLZ - NIOR - RIK LEE - ROHAN HUTCHINSON - SANTHA KING - SEAN MORRIS - THE CONTEXTUAL VILLAINS - TIMBA - TRISTAN JALLAH - TWOONE

1 page poster we produced to promote the Engaging Visions Exhibition, Riverland.

The work of Ghostpatrol was recently featured on the ABC program Artscape -  Paper Cuts: The Art Of Ghostpatrol And Miso.  However he has also just completed a feature interview with InFrame.tv which is really worth checking out - they have interviewed a couple of my other favourite artists in the past - Julia DeVille and Shaun Tan.  See below for a selection of Ghostpatrols work.

We also just rebuilt the Ghostpatrol website which you can read about here.

A short film we love by Blu - “An ambiguous animation painted on public walls.”  Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)

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blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm

Music by Andrea Martignoni

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I stumbled across The Light Surgeons the other day… I first saw these guys at a masterclass at the This Is Not Art festival in Newcastle 2002 and was instantly struck be their dedication beautiful (often complex) narrative video, most often performed live using a multitude of various projectors (super 8, digital, slide etc).

From their website:  A collective of pioneering multimedia artists founded in 1995 by creative director Christopher Thomas Allen, TLS functions as an experimental production company which seeks to develop new forms of audio visual experiments outside the established art and design institutions. TLS’ work spans many diverse mediums; print, photography, motion graphics, digital film production, exhibitions, installations and ground breaking live audio visual performances.

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We have spent the last two days installing the show over at IMP in .  The install went smooth enough… but we are still knackered, the two big shows one week apart was always going to be a stretch.  But anyway, tis all up - and looks like it should.  If you are in Prahran tomorrow you are more than welcome to come to the opening and say hello (we will be the tired ones chasing our son around)…  Here are the details:

OUR OWN PARTICULAR TRUTH
The Contextual Villains (Rachel Peachey and Paul Mosig)
IMP Gallery
25th October - 16th November
145 Greville St Prahran VIC 3181

Opening, Saturday 25th October, 2 - 4pm

Nesting & Dying

Metro 5 Gallery, 1214 High Street Armadale Melbourne.
October 22nd - November 9th
Artist Q & A November 2nd, 2pm.

‘Nesting & Dying’ is a new collection of works on paper (and paper cuts) by Melbourne based artists Miso and Ghostpatrol - exhibistion & artist talk early November.

We have a solo show coming up at IMP gallery in Prahran, Melbourne.  More details to come (as we are frantically finishing off the works) - but here is the invite produced for the show.

Thomas Schostok (aka ths.nu) has made a book - in his own words:

Mr. Trash reproduces the extravagant work of Thomas Schostok {ths}. Raw, dirty, irreverent, uncensored, Mr. Trash spares no cliche, no absurdity in bringing you what the book’s publisher called “world’s strangest ejaculation of graphic design”.

Mr Trash.