During my tour in Australia, I was amazed by the incredibly talented artists , musicians, Djs, producers, graffiti.. Its why I decided to make this blog to give you an idea of the SuperHer'OZ i selected for you. Enjoy !
(Mix / Biography / Graffiti / Music)
(Mix / Biography / Graffiti / Music)
Selection of amazing graffiti artists
JUZ TEN
Melbourne
KABUKI.ETC
Adelaide
MAT ADNATE
Melbourne
DANIEL VDW
Melbourne
LEE HARNDEN
Sydney
As LINZ, an internationally acclaimed and Ironlak-sponsored graffiti writer with a career now spanning 20 years, Harnden’s movements have aligned him with celebrated Australian musicians, artists and sporting personalities. These figures, along with some closer to his heart, form the pith of his work; a realism characterised by the heightened juxtaposition of subject and technique.
There is a brutal honesty in Harnden’s work. While highlighting the rawness of gangland imagery he affords a sentimentalist portrayal of integrity and soul in each of his oil paintings. He achieves a unique exactitude through the medium but also draws upon a tremendous amount of depth, claiming more than a simple connection with his subjects.
Although some figureheads he depicts fall short of the limelight in the popularised mainstream, the romantic undertone of Harnden’s perception is revealed as every character he paints is essentially a hero in his eyes.
In his time and place, Lee Harnden is a catalyst of ‘subterranean representation’. Unfortunate for him as it is for many true artisans, his work will speak volumes much louder in generations yet to come.
VANS THE OMEGA
Adelaide
Roughly based in Adelaide Australia, Vans the Omega has been creating & painting letterforms for over two decades, which has seen him, travel around the globe consistently since 2000. Most of his influences have come from ancient scripts, Architecture, engineering, nature & the idea of movement or balance.
Recognised for his attention to detail & search for perfection within letter structure, technique & life has put Vans the Omega in the spot light worldwide & helped to advance the way in which the art form is painted along side his other TMD members & extended family of writers around the planet.
JOSHUA MIELS
Adelaide
DAN WITHEY
Adelaide
Dan Withey originally from Birmingham, England, emigrated to Australia in 2004 and now resides in Adelaide, where he studied at the University of South Australia and obtained a Bachelor in Visual Communication.
While on the course he specialized in illustration, he then decided to become an artist. He taught him self to paint and with that had his first show and continues to paint six years later, with 17 successful solo shows around Australia to date
This prolific artist is one to watch out for, Withey is the very embodiment of the work he creates, with eccentric characters and an eye catching instinctive use of colour. His intuitive work comes from the world around him, from direct life experiences and the things that seep into Dans daily life. He is part of the art, and the art is part of him, and if you have met Dan this is clear to see.
ERNEST DOTY
Prolific and passionate street artist Ernest Doty equates justice and vision in his pursuit for more wall space. At once a mystic and a social activist, Ernest seems to want to drag the rest of the contempoary world into an age of neo-enlightenment, kicking and screaming. His ancient characters, with their multiple. sad eyes have a message for us: their message is silence, compassion and social justice.
ARCHITECHTURE/ GRAFFITI/ AUSTRALIA
Melbourne
Graffiti enthusiasts will be pleased to learn that a new project melding street art and architecture is in the works in Australia. The first in a series of buildings celebrating graffiti was recently unveiled in a suburb of Melbourne. Australian architect Zvi Belling of ITN Architects renovated an old tailor shop into a contemporary and eco-conscious apartment that, according to the architect's statement, “seeks to knit itself into the existing building on the site to form an integrated new cultural type that exposes the history of the site with glimpses of period material and detail.”
KENTA SENEKT
Fintan Magee is a Lismore-born, Brisbane-raised artist who seems to have gotten up in just about every Australian city. Recently, especially in Sydney.
Magee's early work was heavily influenced by more traditional graffiti, but he's since been painting murals that verged into a different category. It's sometimes surreal, often character-based, and extremely illustrative. Stange people wearing masks play dangerous games, an infant dressed as Superman is speared by an arrow – there are some nightmarish themes that are somehow still beautiful, no matter how bleak.
His recent blending of cartoon-ish hero-style characters with everyday humans is a favourite: we love how the characters can explore heavy themes without being entirely grim. And yet, the subjects are strange, pseudo-humans – not quite real and not quite imaginary. They teeter in a strange kind of limbo that's neither here nor there.
Phibs is one the most respected and renowned names in Australian Graffiti/Street Art. His public art works are prolific in Melbourne & Sydney and are far-flung across the globe. He has painted so many walls around Fitzroy, an inner suburb of Melbourne, that it has affectionately become known by locals as ‘Phibsroy’.
Originally from Sydney, Phibs came from a strong graffiti background and was active in community programs, inspiring the artistic potential of this now popular art form. Moving to Melbourne in 2001 saw Phibs exposed to an evolving Melbourne street art scene and the joined the Everfresh Studio collective. In Melbourne Phibs established a name within the fine arts world and rapidly became one of the cities most respected and renowned artists, on & off the streets.
Phibs signifies the symbiotic, engaging the urban with the organic. He produces works across a vast variety of mediums and consistently reflects his own unique realms of symbolism, multiculturalism and mythology. Largely inspired by nature, his works have spawned a menagerie of signature characters.
Phibs distinctive style has attracted numerous major brands and publications and several of his works have been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia for its permanent collection.
Now based in Sydney, Phibs continues to exhibit interstate and Internationally in galleries, on walls & at various festivals.
RONE
Melbourne
http://r-o-n-e.com/
Famous for his sumptuous paintings of glamorous women, in particular an often recurring image of his so-called Jane Doe, Rone’s work attempts to locate the friction point between beauty and decay, the lavish and despoiled, creating an iconic form of urban art with a strongly emotional bent. Producing many of his early works either through a process of stenciling or screen-printing however, like fellow Everfresh member Meggs, Rone’s movement toward a more freehand style of practice has enabled a certain amount of openness and looseness to seep into his images, a rawness which can perhaps be seen to have enhanced the affective quality they contained. A key individual in the Melbourne street art scene then, Rone’s images have not only appeared all over his city itself but have increasingly began to appear all around the world too, his trademark figures, his heroic, alluring, cinematic icons manifesting themselves in ever larger, more elaborate and emotive forms.
Rone’s work swiftly become an unmistakable part of the Melburnian cityscape, his images suffusing the landscape at an almost unimaginable rate. Using their “calming beauty”, their innate contrast to the walls that they grace, they thus fuse its dirt with decorativeness to form an ephemeral elegance, a transient beauty amidst the chaos of the street.
DAEK WILLIAM
Perth
Daek William hails from ‘Australia’s number one, middle of nowhere city’ -Perth.
The focus of his work is to tell the stories of his interactions with the people and places he stumbles across. He combines the elements he observes and plays them out in origami crowns that dress the heads of his portraits.
Mixing aerosols and acrylics his paintings are known for having monstrous amounts of details that are both light and complex and include a hint of lustful attitude.
YOK
Perth
http://theyok.com/content/
If the artwork produced by The Yok ever came to life, it would be a fantastic army of eccentric, moustached, bike riding Gargoyle-esque creatures who may or may not have connections with Australian bushrangers.
The character-based works of this Australian-born artist have been spotted on the streets of countries near and far as he�s been making his way around the world.
For some years now, the droopy eyes and twisted moustaches of Yok�s black-lined characters have been staring aimlessly from Australian alleyways, zines and gallery walls.
A yearning to see and do more elsewhere saw him spend time and exhibit in places like Melbourne, Sydney, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Berlin, New York, Tokyo and London, collaborating with local artists on their city walls.
If the artwork produced by The Yok ever came to life, it would be a fantastic army of eccentric, moustached, bike riding Gargoyle-esque creatures who may or may not have connections with Australian bushrangers.
The character-based works of this Australian-born artist have been spotted on the streets of countries near and far as he�s been making his way around the world.
For some years now, the droopy eyes and twisted moustaches of Yok�s black-lined characters have been staring aimlessly from Australian alleyways, zines and gallery walls.
A yearning to see and do more elsewhere saw him spend time and exhibit in places like Melbourne, Sydney, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Berlin, New York, Tokyo and London, collaborating with local artists on their city walls.
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ANH PHAM aka Dj SOURAY
Melbourne
DJ Souray, is a self-described "man of many different hats." A formal trained DJ/Producer, graduated from United DJ Mixing School in Melbourne, He is also a professional web and graphic designer. Known to many as the guy who created the most advanced 3D graffiti and was chosen as the winner of GP2 an international graffiti contest, after that he created graffsociety.com one of the biggest social network for street art and graffiti nowadays. His graffiti artworks have been featured in many famous websites, computer and mobile games. DJ Souray also researching Vision Science, a study field about understanding human vision, and its relation to cognition, action and the brain. In 2012 he was chosen as top 10 Op artists worldwide by illusionoftheyear.com for submission of two research works "Viewing Angle Illusion" "and Zigzag Way Illusion" to the anual international contest hosted at Naple Florida. He is currently a big contributer for many optical illusion websites such as moillusions.com and newopticalilluions.com. Some of his best optical illusion artworks were published in a book called "eyes exceptional".
Special thanks to Jonas Marnell aka Ethiks from SDM Crew, Pornograffixxx, Lingerid to shaw me the city of Melbourne and made me discover so many great street artists !
LINGERID
Melbourne
JONAS MARNELL AKA ETHIKS
Melbourne
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