Check out this upcoming show by Mike D. Pieces range in medium – acrylic on board, lead pencil on books, aerosol and paint marker on denim and water colour and inks on paper. Opening night is this Saturday the 4th @ 6-8pm. The shows runs until the 10th Feb and is open between 11am and 3pm.
Venue – Kurb Gallery, 310 William Street, Northbridge.
Edwin is a Western Australian artist whose work often deals with the trickery of suburban ideals, and the distance between objects and experience. His works engage with the intersection of culture and nature by a system of signs drawn and painted in a series of visual maps. The paintings and drawings that Edwin makes are a testimony to an innate questioning and critiquing of the world around him. Strong graphic compositions with bright colours and patterns that are influenced by indigenous paintings cross path with art history references and articulate the story of an artist with a mixed heritage.
Born in 1984, CurtinUniversitygraduate and Western Australian artist, Edwin has spent time as a youth worker, an art student, a bartender and has lived in Perthcity as well as some of WA’s remote communities. A selection of paintings that articulate Edwin’s complicated world view, a distrust of suburban life and a questioning of the order of things will be unveiled for his first solo exhibition, ‘Not so fantastic now’, at Northbridge bar Ezra Pound on Tuesday 7th of February 2012.
For more information, visit the Facebook page.
We’re stoked to announce our first event in 2012 to be a return flight to Cambodia give-away! For this project Relative will award a local creative a voucher for $500 towards a return flight to Cambodia to do what they do best; whether it be take photos, paint, draw, cook, write, make music, or whatever your creative outlet may be. The fruits of their journey will be published in issue six of Relative Magazine and will also appear on relativemagazine.com.
To be in the running, send through your 250 word submission outlining what you aim to achieve from the visit to Cambodia, along with low-res images of your work to contact@relativemagazine.com. Short-listed contestants will have their work exhibited at the event and the winner will be decided by silent vote from those in attendance on the night.
Entries close Friday January 6th 2012
Event Date – Saturday 14th January
Venue – Four5Nine Bar (downstairs @ the Rosemount)
Doors open at 6pm
A massive thanks to everyone who made it down to the issue five launches of Relative Magazine at Grey Door Gallery and Ginger Nightclub, making them fantastic nights. Check out some of the photo’s from the night below. Issue five is now available around Perth at selected distribution points.
In addition to the Grey Door Gallery Issue 5 Launch in Claremont, Relative is stoked to announce the City Launch to be held at Ginger Nightclub on Friday December 16th. This second event allows those who can’t make it on the 10th at Grey Door Gallery to come down and kick… it in the City.
Come down and celebrate the launch of the 5th issue of Relative Magazine. DJ’s will be spinning their finest throughout the night, the magazine will be available upon entry and a few lucky punters will take home door prizes. This will be Relative’s final event for 2011, so come down and cap off the year with a party!
Doors open at 10pm, entry $10 at the door.
Venue – Ginger Nightclub, Northbridge
Date – Friday 16th December
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Look forward to seeing you there!
To celebrate the depth of creative talent within our community, Relative host regular events that provide a forum for those with an open and creative mindset to congregate, celebrate, inebriate, and for the lucky ones amongst us procreate.
Come down and celebrate the lau…nch of the 5th Issue of Relative Magazine. Relative DJ’s will be spinning their finest, and the magazine will be available upon entry.
Local artists will also be creating large format pieces live on the night.
Doors open at 7pm, entry $10 at the door.
Venue – Grey Door Gallery, Claremont (enter through the car park at the back of the Claremont Hotel)
Date – Saturday 10th December
For more information, visit the Facebook event page.
Look forward to seeing you there!
Check out this exhibition of up and coming artists at Cabin Fever on Saturday November 5th. Doors open at 6pm.
Club Sandwich is a new music series set to revitalise High Street’s most iconic and enigmatic clubs every Thursday in November. The series will run as an early Thursday session kicking off at 6pm and finishing at 9.30pm, with supper available and drink prices that belong in the 1970s. Get down and check it out!
For, Against and the Truth is a new exhibition curated by Stormie Mills and is currently running at the Linton and Kay gallery in Subiaco (123 Hay st). Containing works from a number of local and international artists the exhibition is based on the premise that there are three sides to every story: for, against and the truth. Each artist has created three separate self portraits that examine who they are from differing perspectives. The exhibition runs until November 2nd, make sure to get down and check it out.
FORM and Skalitzers Contemporary Art present Paradox, the first Australian exhibition by ROA. A modern day naturalist, famous for his large-scale depictions of animals on city walls around the world, ROA moves between continents and cities, observing and documenting the creatures that co-inhabit the urban landscape.
In his introduction to native Western Australia, ROA has explored regions of the Pilbara, immersing himself in the nature and origins of Australia, to inform the theme of his first Australian show. Get down and check out the opening night on Friday 21st October at 6.00pm at the FORM Gallery.
The exhibition runs from the 22nd October, 2011 until 13th January, 2012.
