HA HA paints Singapore /  by JoFF Rae

Regan Tamanui - aka HA Ha - installs an artwork with the assistance of students, staff, and parents at the Australian International School, Singapore. This project coincided with the Annual Art Exhibition, "stART here". The image of Ned Kelly remains as a famous icon of Australian history

 

The history and legend of infamous Australian outlaw Ned Kelly is being recognised with a stunning exhibition of art on display at the Australian High Commission in Singapore until the end of October.

The ‘LOADED’ exhibition, curated by Gabrielle Cummins from Australasian Arts Projects, includes a collection of pieces by six Australian artists, Sidney Nolan, Adam Cullen, Regan Tamanui, Camie Lyons, Melanie McCollin-Walker and Joanna Logue.

The High Commissioner Philip Green hosted an intimate gathering acknowledging the outstanding work of the artists, with work from the exhibition moved to the residence for the event.

In what is sure to be a very unique situation, Mr Green invited Tamanui (aka 'Ha Ha') to graffiti one of the walls in the dining room at the residence. The result is magnificent piece of artwork that had guests at the event captivated.

CLICK HERE to view the photo gallery of the event on Facebook >>

 

October 15 - 'Yeah Right' /  by JoFF Rae

Yeah Right

by Weston Frizzell 

Giclee Print

Size in millimetres: 500 x 500

Signed and individually numbered edition strictly limited to 180.

DrTuTu/ Guilty of ART!// is a concept that incorporates & elaborates on a body of work from Weston Frizzell & led by Mike Weston with ARTIVIST : creative selected artists & creatives as a media installation & series of actions that together make a symposium surrounding an exhibition event.

The glyphic logo formed by the inverted numerals 22, have been recurring motifs in Weston Frizzell’s work since 2004, first appearing in the DrTuTu featuring Tame Iti exhibition. Dr Tutu is the name Iti adopted when DJing on his various alternative radio slots. In Maori, (and most if not all Polynesian languages also) TuTu has a multiplicity of meanings such as ‘revolution’, ‘to meddle’, ‘arson’, sedition.

The print is an archival fine art pigment inkjet produced on Hahnemule bright white 100% rag stock. Signed, numbered and stamped with the genuine Weston Frizzell rubber stamp.

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Weston Frizzell - KUPU /  by JoFF Rae

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KUPU - a Weston Frizzell series of pop up exhibitions...

 

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Weston Frizzell is the collaborative identity of artists Otis Frizzell and Mike Weston.

KUPU is Maori for ‘word’ - used by Weston Frizzell with all the Hip Hop connotations & expression intended. 

Since 1999 their art production operation has evolved from that of a celebrity graffiti artist and his art dealer/producer, into an innovative multi media art brand.

Described by Art News NZ as “a high performance art partnership”, both artists have their roots deep in NZ’s counterculture. Their partnership acknowledges equally the contribution of ideas, craft, celebrity, management, and labour, in the production and marketing of art works.

Their output draws heavily and irreverently on appropriated imagery, style and content. Presented with satiric and ironic subtext, it often challenges notions of authorship and originality.  A Warhol influenced production line method has taken them from the street art and pop culture melting pot of Auckland’s Karangahape Rd into the fine art world.  They produce one off and editioned painted works and a range of hugely popular limited edition prints.

Applying sampling and cutup techniques to a creative process, a subversive commercialism guides the remixing of their appropriated subject matter, creating works that are accessible and edgy, equally informed by dada, hip hop, situationism, graffiti art and techno.  They create slick work with tight production values, seemingly oblivious to conventional notions of authorship or originality.

An experiment in the subversion of brand management theory has evolved a successful and frequently controversial art identity.  Weston Frizzell occupy a cleverly conceived niche that is now well established on the NZ fine art stage.

Their paintings are diverse and eclectic in influence, carefully planned and produced, applying combined spray paint and brush techniques. Savvy design, a mean eye for art and media history, and an intuitive awareness of pop culture dynamics position their work at the high end of the low brow.

Working backwards from the answer, Weston Frizzell conceived print designs that combine letters of the painted series. The individual letters are realized as 800 x 1200 painted works, then images of the completed paintings were digitally captured, and the files assembled to create the final digital master files.

Weston Frizzell regard the final work as not derivative of the painting process. The inverse is true. The paintings are regarded and presented as artifacts of the creation of a digital concept artwork, and a social action.

Continuing an exploration and remix of the iconography of NZ fine art and popular culture, in early 2009 Weston Frizzell began a series of letter paintings, featuring individual letters appropriated from iconic NZ artworks and brands.  The intention was to create art prints montaging images of the letter paintings, to form a series of words, and to exhibit the works in variable and repeated configurations, creating words specific to the location of each destination of a touring show. 

The choice of letters was specifically restricted to those of the written Maori language, and visual subject matter limited to NZ only.

Over the course of successive exhibitions new letters are added to the lineup and individual letters replaced with new versions or variations, allowing the same conceptual format to be exhibited repeatedly in evolving configurations.

The first word prints produced were those perceived as the most prominent in the kiwiana genre of decorative art, Aotearoa, Aroha, Home.

KUPU EXIBITIONS : 

Thistle Hall  -  Wellington

Monday 29 July - Sunday 4 August

293 Cuba St, Te Aro, Wellington 6011

 

Augusto  -  Auckland

Tuesday 20 August - Sunday 25 August

Shed 8, Upper Deck Cityworks Depot,

90 Wellesley St W. Auckland 1010

 

International Visual Methods Conference  - Victoria University, Wellington

Monday 2 September - Friday 6 September

Rutherford House

Victoria University, Pipitea Campus, 23 Lambton Quay, Wellington

 

Melbourne Fringe

Monday 23 September - Friday 6 October

Second Edition

159 Sackville Street Collingwood VIC 3066

 

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BEHAVE - slap! /  by JoFF Rae

Melbourne FRINGE '13 /  by JoFF Rae

2013 MELBOURNE FRINGE FESTIVAL   18 SEPT - 6 OCT 

Melbourne Fringe is a not-for-profit organisation that presents the annual Melbourne Fringe Festival. They provide artists with the tools to develop, present and promote their work, creating a community of audiences and artists that together represent a National arts network.

The Melbourne Fringe Festival is an open-access event. Each year artists from a wide scope of art-form and experience join the Independent Arts Program to develop and present their work as part of the Festival. Through the Independent Arts Program they run the Festival Hub, a curated space that offers a cross-section of arts experiences throughout the Festival period including the Fringe Club.

Central to each year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival is our Creative Program, Melbourne Fringe produced projects which bring emerging and established artists together to explore new ways to engage audiences with free works in public spaces. In 2012, our Creative Program delivered Double Take and Fringe Furniture.

The Melbourne Fringe Artist Development Program supports Festival participants and the broader independent arts community. Year-round they deliver a range of programs across all aspects of building a successful and sustainable career in the arts.  The Artist Development Programs include mentorships, forums, training and awards.

To present the Festival and support year-round activities, Melbourne Fringe works with a range of committed and valued partners.

VISION


Melbourne Fringe will play a leading role in the support and presentation of the independent arts by facilitating the development of innovative and diverse arts practices that engage with both artists and audiences.

VALUES


Participation
As an open-access, multi-arts Festival, Melbourne Fringe actively encourages a diversity of artists and audiences to participate in the arts.

Collaboration
Melbourne Fringe is committed to providing opportunities for collaboration between artists and arts facilitators on a local and National level.

Creativity
Melbourne Fringe supports the creativity of our artists and audiences and continually strives to reflect and respond to this creativity in their own work.

Integrity
Melbourne Fringe values the trust that artists and audiences place in them and understand their responsibility to engage with our community with openness and integrity.

HISTORY

In 2012, Melbourne Fringe celebrated 30 years. For more information on the history, click here.

 

TREE T - Weston Frizzell 2009 /  by JoFF Rae

800mm x 1200mm

mixed media on hardboard

It is a letter from the Weston Frizzell "WORD" series of prints that appropriate iconic images of letters from prominent New Zealand artworks & artists & other images, further referencing the hip hop phrase "word" as an exclamation or positive expression.

TREE T has featured in the prints AOTEAROA & TAUPO.

Other letters have included the AA A & O GORDON with appropriated image from the Automobile Association & Gordon Walters; &P was taken lifted from the classic L&P logo & other letters are from shoe polish, other McCahon paintings & familiar imagery.

TREE T References the McCahon's Urewera mural, 1975.

By no chance the original mural was the controversial McCahon stolen from the Waikaremoana Visitor Centre at Aniwaniwa in 1997 but subsequently recovered.  The Tutu or 22 is a direct reference to Tame Iti as his DJ name of Dr Tutu.

The Word series of Weston Frizzell letter paintings and prints can be exhibited in flexible configurations, in sequential locations.

As they sell, we add  other new letters to the lineup and individual letters can be replaced with new versions or ideas, to allow the same show to be exhibited in many evolving configurations. Its an idea format designed to be shown repeatedly.

Individual letters realised as paintings are 1200 x 800,  acrylic lacquer, enamel, 2 pack clear, very sophisticated paint technology on wooden box frames. In NZ $4500 (negotiable less 10% for combinations). Before being sold the works are photographed to a very high spec, recombined to produce a range of Word ideas produced as limited edition prints.  

Prints are up to 1000mm x 500mm archival pigment inkjets on Hahnemule 310 gsm rag (there is no better paper); stamped, signed and numbered by both artists; editions between 50 and 180 with price point between $450 and $900 NZ.

To date we have sampled the key NZ historic superbrands, and appropriated many from Colin McCahon & Gordon Walters paralleling his graphic vocabulary with product brands, to evolve a remixed montage of art/pop culture identities, configured into an alphabet, encapsulating the Kiwi psyche.

 

Weston Frizzell - the BLOCKBUSTERS series /  by JoFF Rae

Blurb

Nama Malarky

Couched

Us and Them

Thonglines

Blockbusters by Weston Frizzell

Edition of 50, archival pigment print on Hahnemulle 308 gsm Cotton Rag. Signed by Mike Weston and Otis Frizzell (Weston Frizzell)

Weston Frizzell first conceived the Blockbusters design as an illustration of the title in abstract block typography. A digital mock-up was divided into six equal segments. The six segments are collage style mashup of famous art and brand details. The segments (from left to right) are titled "Blurb", "Nama Malarky", "Couched", "Us and Them", "Thonglines" and "Grocer with Moko Erased". The names of the segments are further clues to the identity of artists being remixed by Weston Frizzell in this piece! Intriguingly the six individual Blockbuster paintings exhibited at the Blockbusters show were simply byproducts of the printmaking process, described by Weston Frizzell as "ancillary artifacts" remaining after the digital artwork was completed. In the vocabulary of street art the term Blockbuster refers to a piece where one word occupies the entire wall. The outlined text is predominantly defined by the blacking out of the gaps and negative space. Parasitic of the underlying work, a BLOCKBUSTER envelopes and consumes the surface. A Blockbuster is also the biggest thing of the summer, the thing everyone has to see.

Blockbusters screenprinted poster

Print size in millimetres: Full A1 Sheet

Edition of 100 large A1 screenprints on Hibrite art stock. Numbered, then signed by all three artists who exhibited - Dick Frizzell, Otis Frizzell and Mike Weston below image.

Unique edition of 100 screenprints to promote the recent Blockbusters exhibition at Saatchi & Saatchi Gallery. Featured new work from Frizzell & Son (Dick Frizzell and Otis Frizzell) and Weston Frizzell (Mike Weston and Otis Frizzell collaboration). This is a screen printed version of the exhibition poster. 

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