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Robot-Breakdancing into the future!

Robot-Breakdancing into the future!

Yeah, I didn't really have any good breakdancing jokes after 'Electric Boogaloo'. I did a few different sketches of this dancer, as the pose and angle would have gotten a bit distorted quite easily. I really liked the stripe on the t-shirt, so I thought it was a good element to keep. The hair is great too (and a reminder of when I, too, had it), so it made sense to incorporate that into it as well. I had to do a few colour variations to properly get him to work. I liked the b

Robotic B-Boy 3...Wait, don't I know you?

Robotic B-Boy 3...Wait, don't I know you?

This dancer should look familiar to you, and if he doesn't, I've put a helpful reminder below. Yep, he's the poster boy for my upcoming solo exhibition, Multi-Dimensional Urban Spaces (click here to get your free tickets)! The show is going to be a bit of a retrospective, but the Dancers are new material that will be getting displayed for the first time at the show. In case you haven't already seen, the opening night will be Wednesday 4th September, 6.00pm till 8.00pm, at The

Another break for some street art photos

Another break for some street art photos

I was out taking more photos around Enmore, and as you may have realised, it was with an eye towards extending my series of Robot B-Boys. At this point, I've taken photos around almost every area of Sydney, and it's kind of becoming an archive of the Street Art since I first visited in late 2009, as any time a new piece goes up, my wife and I take our son and head out to photograph it. This lot of pieces are actually some of the relatively few I've recently found for the firs

Robotic B-boys

Robotic B-boys

I thought I'd try combining a few interests I've already used in my art in a few different ways. This isn't the first time I've put my images with my photos, as you can see in my Portals series, but I thought I'd incorporate the Mechanical style I've used in the Mechanicals series and my typography project, and add a bit of hip-hop culture too. A well-timed photo of a b-boy dancing can be an amazing image. I found one which I thought was a really expressive pose, and appropri

Flashback - The Gentleman

Flashback - The Gentleman

Hey, I just found out The Gentleman's name! This is Robert Cornelius, the first person to take an image (a daguerrotype, not a photograph) of himself. So there you go, a little history lesson for us all. The Gentleman was another piece that really started out as an experiment. Summer and L'ermitage had been based on art nouveau paintings, but I wanted to see if I could take an image from the same period as those two, and turn it into an image in a similar style. Cornelius' d

A break from drawing for some Sydney Street Art

Some more typography and Photoshop skills

Some more typography and Photoshop skills

As promised, here are some more examples of how I used my vowels as a pattern. The first one was more complex than it perhaps looks - I had to erase this guy's t-shirt, and do two versions of the pattern, one with black lines, and one with a white outline. It was worth it though, as I'm really proud of how this one came out. This other one is more conventional, but involved trying out a different pattern. #mechanicals #lettering #letters #typography #finishedart #photography

João Barkley Interior design with my art

João Barkley Interior design with my art

This is an unexpected surprise! João Barkley, a Sydney-based interior designer has been working with images I've created in designs for, as she describes it, "a conceptual design for a Game Studio-GameSHINE Studio- at one of the Central Park areas." The GameSHINE studio is, if you don't know, one of the schemes run by ArtSHINE, and which got me involved with Yelkrab Studios, and the Primal:Khaos project. Seeing this space is fantastic in itself, and seeing my work used in it

Different Worlds #2 - The World with The Portals

Different Worlds #2 - The World with The Portals

With the 'Different Worlds' show coming up, I wanted to focus on the actual different worlds I'm using to link my work. This one is the world that links my Street Art Superheroes. An amphibious creature emerged from the sewers beneath Brick Lane, London, panicking local residents yesterday. Patrolling meta-officer, Jacqueline Bambera confronted the creature, and peacefully subdued it. She announced to the press that she plans to train it to fight crime with her. A robotic te

Street Scene: A Tour of London’s Street Art 1 – Shoreditch, Brick Lane and more

Street Scene: A Tour of London’s Street Art 1 – Shoreditch, Brick Lane and more

This essay originally appeared on Carabas on March 11th 2016. I love street art. I always used to look forward to the pages near the back of Hip-Hop Connection (HHC) magazine, where they’d show pieces from around the UK. When I started getting more into photography, I started visiting places like Shoreditch,and particularly up and around Brick Lane. Those are areas that take a more relaxed view of graf, so artists are able to take their time, and express themselves more. It’s

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