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Exhibitions

August 1, 2010

Show Us Your Politics
3 – 14 August 2010
Kudos Gallery, 9 Napier St, Paddington

With a last minute entry, I was accepted into this exhibition which opens on Tuesday and runs for two weeks in Paddo. This is actually the first time I’ve been part of a proper exhibit – crazy, I know. Here’s what landed in my facebook inbox a week or so ago:

Art Revolt! Dare to make a work that’s a response to the oppressive world you live in! A call out for dangerous and insightful work! Comment on sexism, racism, homophobia, patriarchy, institutions, capitalism, corporations and environmental destruction! Art to inspire, annoy, educate, and empower!

“To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.”

So, I promptly sent something across and found out Friday that I was in! Queue mad scramble to actually get the thing…

…printed. Just picked it up on the bike from King St today en route to door-knocking the lovely residents of Stanmore asking their views on climate change and renewable energy. Anyway, it looks pretty great so I’m exciting about hanging it on Monday.

Aside from all that excitement, the other art project I’ve been working on is artRiot. If you haven’t copped the spiel yet, a few of us have got together and started a new artist’s collective with the aim of supporting, promoting & connecting artists whose work aims to create radical social change in a concrete way… and challenging the stagnation and encroaching banality of Sydney’s art scene. Our inaugural exhibition will run from September 11 – 26, upstairs at the Annandale Hotel on Parramatta Rd and is part of The Sydney Fringe – this being the first year a fringe festival has ever been run in Sydney.

The opening night will start at 6pm, Sat 11 Sept with the performance works and lots of exciting & interactive things besides. Check out www.artriot.org.au, join the facebook group, bring your friends to the opening night and if you’ve know any radical artists we’ve got a last-ditch drive to get a few more submissions by the end of this week:

Alright, that’s all from me for now – but you gotta promise to spread the word about artRiot, okay?

Everyone will remember the night the riot started.

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You can also get…

May 21, 2010

There’s a bunch of new products that RedBubble.com (the peeps that print and distribute my artwork) are offering, so I thought you might be interested in the updated options…

Hoodies

Any of my t-shirt designs (old and new) can now be bought as hoodies, starting at AUD$49.50 and available in a few different colours depending on the design. Proceeds from the design above all go to the Australian Student Environment Network nuclear free campaign.

Postcards

Want to save on envelopes? Forget the old greeting cards (starting at AUD$2.52 each)

…you can now get any of those as postcards starting at AUD$2.02 each and if you order 4 or more of either type of card, there’s a 20% discount.

Don’t forget, all my photos are also available as Laminated ($18), Matted ($30), Mounted ($48), Canvas ($72) & Framed ($96) prints or big posters ($24).

Kids T-Shirts!

Come in sizes anywhere from a 2 to a 12 year old with size measurements on the buying pages. They’re super soft ring-spun cotton, made sweatshop free.

Baby Clothes

Ranging from a short-sleeve one-piece,

or a long-sleeve one-piece,

to a super-cute little baby tee, all available in different sizes for 3 – 24 month olds. They’re all made with the same soft sweatshop free cotton and all have lap shoulders for big-heads. Great protest accessory.

And finally, Stickers!

I got so excited about these that I went on a sticker frenzy myself when I first saw them for sale.

They actually come cut-out, even in multiple pieces if necessary, which is pretty great. They start at AUD$2.32 each but if you buy 6 or more (even all different designs) you get 50% off – yes, 50%. You can get the idea of the cut-out effect from the snap I took on my phone:

RedBubble Stickers

To give credit where due, the cool images that aren’t mine are Gliding the Green by Nick Ford, day dream by vian and Dandylion Flight by zomboy (clockwise from right).

That’s about it. Looking forward to some sales in the very near future – wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

Oh, I almost forgot, you can also now print on the back of any of the clothing – for example…

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Special COP15 Aussie Climate Action T-Shirt

December 14, 2009

Coming direct to you from the biggest climate action in history, Copenhagen. You’ll be able to look back on this beauty and say it was the chant that changed history. Click here to order yours now!

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ErlandHowden.com Launched & New Blog Theme

April 13, 2009

I always seem to start my posts with an excuse or apology for tardiness… so, for the sake of tradition, it has indeed been a long time coming and finally, after purchasing the ErlandHowden.com domain over 7 months ago, I have finally finished my photography & design gallery and portfolio. In the end, it only took a few days of solid work – finding a theme, sorting out which pictures to use, uploading, tweaking and polishing – there’s still a bit of that to do. Until now, the domain has been redirecting to my online shop through RedBubble – erland.redbubble.com – but that interface is very limiting in terms of design and content.

At the moment, I have six galleries – landscapes, fauna, flora, people, design and Papua New Guinea. Each has at least 15 images in it and there are a few waiting to be added to the galleries, especially in “people” where I’ve had to ask for permission and “design” where my poster work is scattered throughout my files. There are a few more galleries waiting in the wings too – Europe for one, where I already have enough to make a gallery I think, as well as Central Australia and possibly more.

This blog is now a top-line navigation link from the site, so that people checking out my portfolio can catch up (however irregularly) with what I’m up to. Speaking of this blog, you might have noticed a theme change recently – part of the whole web presence overhaul which as of two days ago includes creating a facebook profile. I’ve been holding out on that one for a long time because I don’t like the company, I don’t like invasive advertising (actually, I pretty much hate all advertising) and I don’t like the privacy policy or terms and conditions. Read a full diatribe here. I’ve also updated my changents profile and added a badge for that to the column on the right – it’s a great web site to support activists and tell their stories, check it out. Just a few other things to point you around this blog – at the top on the right you can see my twitter updates – think of it as a mini-blog that’s updated much more regularly and usually by text message (follow me here). You can also check out all my latest travel photos at blog.erlandhowden.com/photos

Anyway, check it the new site and if you like it please help me out by recommending it to others. Remember, good old word of mouth works just as well as twitter, facebook, digg, delicious and all the rest.

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Free shipping on my photography & designs

October 29, 2008

To celebrate 100,000 artworks sold on RedBubble, this week only (ending 11pm Fri 31 October Aus Eastern time) they are offering free shipping on all artworks and will double the revenue to the artist on works sold in this time. Check out my artworks (photos, designs, clothing) and take advantage of the free shipping.

www.erlandhowden.com

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