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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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John Dowland Concert: A Photographic Journey

July 3, 2010

I’ve been working on the visual component of this concert – both the poster above, and a collection of my photos…

The modern relevance of John Dowland’s songs – performed brilliantly by musicians from Song Rising – will be explored through a photographic journey that crosses three continents and spans six years.

So, now you know it’s going to be awesome: reserve a place (pay at the door) via songrising@gmail.com

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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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Copenhagen: Global Day of Action

December 13, 2009

So today we participated in what was probably the world’s largest climate protest. Organisers said there were up to 100,000 people on the streets who walked 6km from the city centre to the Bella Centre, conference venue for the UN Climate Summit. Here’s a picture someone shot with a camera phone (click to see it bigger):

Biggest climate demonstration in history on Twitpic

Far more importantly, we came up with some new rhymes!

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie
CUT THE COAL
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie
CUT THE COAL
Aussie
CUT
Aussie
COAL
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie
CUT THE COAL

To the tune of ‘Skippy the Bush Kangaroo’:

Sooty, Sooty, Sooty the coal kangaroo
Sooty, Sooty, our coal’s gonna screw me and you

And finally, the brilliance of Waltzing Matilda:

I’m an Australian
I’m an Australian
We’re selling coal to the rest of the world
If we keep selling coal we’ll be watching while the planet burns
Come on Australia and STOP SELLING COAL

After an hour of that, we had tripled our numbers as other Australians in the crowd homed in on our progressive boganism.

Some of the media reporting of the event has been pretty rubbish. I’m not even going to link to the horrible, inaccurate crap that Australia’s ABC published. I’m going to go out on a limb and link to an article from FOX News in the US – I know, I know, it might sound crazy, but they interviewed us without telling us who they were and quoted Martin, so here it is, actually its a much better article than all the Australian media I saw: shame. Here’s another angle from the Guardian, though it says nothing of the amazing feeling of being there and shockingly doesn’t mention us! And here’s a blog from an Australian caught inside by the dodgy police tactics. We filmed by a bunch of TV crews and interviewed for Deutsche Weller radio and a couple of others, but didn’t see any Australian photographers or journos – where the hell are you guys???

Anyway, here’s a few of my photos from today – very sub-standard this time sorry.

Aussies at Copenhagen Global Day of Action

Aussies at Copenhagen Global Day of Climate Action

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Kangaroo Climate Crew Strikes Again

December 12, 2009

Before I share a few more fabulous photos of our recent actions at COP15 in Copenhagen, I want to let you know that I’ve coined a new term. Progressive boganism. That’s what our actions so far at Copenhagen have all been about. Check it out.

Nothing says day out at the footy like an inflatable green and gold boxing kangaroo. This shot was taken at Copenhagen’s iconic ‘little mermaid’ statue yesterday and is targeted at the issue of loopholes that various countries, especially Australia, have been trying to get in to the final text of the Copenhagen agreement. We might here more in the next fews days from journos inside the conference, but you can read a little more about it here in the mean time.

After a quick placard re-arrangement, we snapped a second shot in support of a treaty that will bring global carbon dioxide in the atmosphere down to 350 parts-per-million. The Australian government is currently angling for a 450ppm deal as their ‘ambitious’ position. This is a death sentence for mainly low-lying island nations including many of our Pacific neighbours and would also spell disaster for the Great Barrier Reef and potentially a lot of Australian agriculture. Find out more at 350.org

Right now we’re patching up the ‘Sooty twins’ – our two inflatable roos – to take down to the Aussie bloc in the Global Day of Action on Climate Change march starting at Parliament Square, Copenhagen.

We also found our little actions spreading around the web in a few more places:

A little mention in der Freitag, a lefty Berlin paper.
Another video posted by Ove on Climate Shifts

Australia represent at COP15 from climateshifts on Vimeo.

A photo & mention on a German blog, Wir Klimaretter

More actions to come, so keep on eye on my unfolding set of my COP15 photos here.

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