Showing posts with label stencil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stencil. Show all posts

November 22, 2011

TENNANT CREEK MURAL WORKSHOPS VID

Here's a little vid from the last part of my recent Top End tour...

November 21, 2011

TOP END TOUR 2011 - PART 10

The final stage of my Top End work was two and a half week stint working in Tennant Creek. This was organised by Barkly Regional Arts, with funding from the Coca Cola Foundation. During my stay I worked primarily with groups from the Tennant Creek High School as well as sessions with STEPS training and Youthlinx. I worked closely with Tristan Duggie, a young local teacher and artist to train him in stencil and mural processes. Together with the other participants we were able to complete a number of murals in the town, adding a whole bunch of colour and vibrancy.

The project also included Adelaide artist Nish Cash working in the community for a similar period of time. Here are some shots of an impromptu collaborative wall that we painted together. Big thanks goes out to George and Efsta from the Tennant Creek Emporium who donated wall space to the project.



TOP END TOUR 2011 - PART 8

Here are some shots of the completed snake mural..





TOP END TOUR 2011 - PART 7

One of the major outcomes for the Tennant Creek High School Group was a mural for the exterior of the local swimming pool. The underwater theme was an easy choice. We also completed a smaller scale version of this mural at the High School as a bit of a warm up.
Here are some action shots.




October 27, 2011

TOP END TOUR 2011 - PART 3

I added a little parrotfish added to the Angurugu school grounds...


September 19, 2011

August 24, 2011

SAIL PAINTING VIDEO

Here is a little video that shows the making of some work that will appear in my upcoming show.
PACIFIC RIFF opens Friday the 2nd of September at Lindberg Galleries, Melbourne.


JAMES DODD – SEPTEMBER NEWS 2011

I will be sharing some artwork soon via a couple of exhibitions. Some of the work is old, some of it recent and some of it hot off the press! If you’re in Melbourne or Adelaide you can see some work in the flesh…

SPACE INVADERS
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Opens Thu 1st of September, until 5th of November
Curated by the National Gallery of Australia, Space Invaders presents a collection of examples of early stencils, stickers and zines representative of the developing stages of Australia’s fine street art culture. Having been presented in Canberra and Brisbane, the exhibition continues its tour in Melbourne.

SPACE INVADERS @ RMIT LINK

PACIFIC RIFF
Lindberg Contemporary, Melbourne
Opens Fri 2nd of September, until 1st of October
This solo exhibition is my second with Lindberg Contemporary. The work that I have produced represents a return to stencil driven outcomes. Encompassing experiments that link the work to ongoing investigations, the show consists of a number of installed and painted works executed over the last 6 months. Shots will be online here after the show has opened.

LINDBERG GALLERY LINK




HUGO MICHELL GROUP SHOW
Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
Opens Thu 15th of September, until 20th October
I will be presenting a suite of works completed last year during my residency at Fremantle Art Centre. I am quite excited to give the works their first showing outside of W.A. Paul Sloan and Matthys Gerber will also be exhibiting in this show.

HUGO MICHELL GALLERY LINK

HUGO MICHELL GROUP SHOW INSTALL SHOTS



April 30, 2011

ADELAIDE CITY COUNCIL MURAL COMMISSION

Officially the largest thing I have tried to paint.
The Adelaide City Council has recently commissioned a number of murals around the CBD.
This new push from the Council is sure to change the nature of street in Adelaide.

Here are a few quick snaps.





March 20, 2011

TRAM

My mate Simon and I were invited by a beer company to make an ad for them.
It's been printed really big and slapped on a tram that's running in Melbourne and a bus in Sydney. We had fun - it was a great opportunity to experiment with something of this scale. Here's a little trailer...

#86 from James on Vimeo.

KING ADZ - STREET KNOWLEDGE

My pommie mate King Adz has been up to his usual business.
His latest publication is a bible of all things street culture from across the globe.
It features a number of Australian artists, myself included.





You can buy it here...

April 28, 2008

NEW PRINT



New Limited Editioin Print - Stencilled aerosol on coloured stock

Aussies contact Ryan Renshaw Gallery

UK types contact Pure Evil Gallery

April 1, 2008

EUROPEAN PROJECT

AMAZE FESTIVAL
During April I will travel to Belgium to attend an international street art festival. I will be exhibiting a version of Blue Dwelling and will present a paper as part of a panel discussion.
Click below for more details.

Amaze 2008

My attendance at this festival has been made possible through the generosity of the South Australian Government, via Arts SA.

February 18, 2008

ADELAIDE FESTIVAL PROJECTS & NEWS

BLUE DWELLING

Blue Dwelling is a large, site-specific installation work that is inspired by Japanese homeless dwellings and produced in direct reaction to a found environment within Adelaide’s abandoned Balfours pie factory. The work reflects my ongoing exploration into alternative uses of urban space.

This project is presented as a component of the Fringe festival’s Format event.
Format will bring together alternative formats for writing, information sharing and story telling in a celebration of contemporary alternative ways of writing that are high quality, well written and artistically clever.

Format festival






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DARWINISM

I am presenting a small solo exhibition of recent work featuring paintings and studies produced in response to specific and unique urban scrawl of Australia’s Top End region. Developed as part of my continuing research into the use of individually applied outlaw text in visual arts practice, some of this body of work will be included in a group exhibition at Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane, in June 2008.

Friday 29th of February & Saturday 1st of March, Liverpool St Gallery, Liverpool St, Adelaide

As reviewed by Warren Veljanovski


Scratch Surface #2, Acrylic on Linen, 460 x 460mm, 2008


Scratch Surface #1, Acrylic on Linen, 460 x 760mm, 2008


Palm Tree Scrawl #2, Acrylic on Linen, 760 x 460mm, 2008


Palm Tree Scrawl #1, Acrylic on Linen, 760 x 460mm, 2008

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ADELAIDE FESTIVAL LIVING WINDOW PROJECT

For a period of two and a half hours, I will listen only to the Mars Volta’s Cicatriz Esp 12 minute opus played loud and on repeat. Fuelling myself via excessive consumption of energy drinks, my aim is to reach a heightened state of frenetic creativity. I will attempt to create enough text and imagery in response to the epic track to compile an animated film clip.

Thursday 13th of March, 10:30am – 2pm, Harris Scarfe, Rundle Mall

Living Window Project







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FILTER MAGAZINE

During the last 3 months I have been busy working as guest editor, in association with Australian Network for Art and Technology’s Filter magazine team. This latest issue of Filter magazine addresses the theme of Graffiti and Technology and has been produced to accompany the visit of international street art superstars, the Graffiti Research Lab.

GRL Masterclass

To be launched

Sunday 2nd of March, 5:30pm, Artspace Foyer, Festival Centre, Adelaide

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DISARMING THE GATEKEEPERS: REVOLUTION OR BACKWARDS STEP?

Artists’ Week Panel Discussion
I will join a group of artists and industry professionals to discuss the past and potential ways in which regulation has and could have an effect on the arts industry.

Thursday 6th of March, 10am – 1pm, Elder Hall, Adelaide

NAVA Artists' Week Discussions

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ARTISTS IN SCHOOLS

I am currently involved with Carclew’s Artists in Schools program and will be working with kids at Kaurna Plains High School in Elizabeth. I am teaching skills in stencil making via weekly sessions during first term, with the final outcome being two murals within the school.

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HELPMANN MENTORSHIP

Adelaide's Helpmann Academy generously supports mentorship schemes between emerging and established artists. I have recently been appointed mentor to Logan MacDonald, a recent graduate of the South Australian School of Art, UniSA. During the next six months we will be working together towards a collaborative exhibition.

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