In the depths of the night, my imagination ignites. My sketch pad comes to life as I experiment with different movements, colours and fonts. Lately I’ve been enjoying colourful and fun characters with a slightly abstract twist. I like to let my mind take over, and go with the flow.
Hailing from Brisbane, Sofles jokes that his tag sounds like a box of tissues or something from a Hallmark card. He began painting graffiti in 2000 and soon wanted to get better as fast as he could. He began experimenting with 3Ds, however a more traditional style was developed and then improved upon. He quickly became known around the globe as an artist putting in both quantity and quality. As he mastered his craft, Sofles gained the reputation of “Special Effects Wizard”, a reference to his uncanny ability to take a standard painting and take it to the next level.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
KASPER – HARLEY & HANDE – CROSS STITCH OF CONTEMPT JORDAN WEARN SLOE MOTION CRONK & TONIC – KIMI SCHIEREN PHILB – TEENS ON ACID – JETTA’S NEST – WINTER OF ‘72 – ANNA ELIZABETH – REBECCA GILES – CROW JANE – SARAH SCULLEY – JUXTAFIED – AIRBRUSHING – LUKE HENERY – VIOLET MERMAID – SPENCER – DICKENS – URBAN PIXIE – BALAZOVABLACK – VIVID BLACK ARTISTRY
Fuzeillear enjoys paint, walls, bubble tea, action movies and outer space. If you create an opportunity for her to experience three or more of these at once, she’ll be there.
Guido van Helten is an Australian, internationally-based artist working in the field of contemporary street art undertaken through a site-specific exploration of cultural identity to be re-envisaged as large scale public works.
These projects are undertaken with the intention of initiating constructive visual connections between communities and site-specific urban spaces inclusive of a broader context of cultural, social and national identity narratives. Combining cultural research, documentary based photography and community engagement, this method of working seeks to generate a broad relation to emotive qualities in the selection and placement of imagery whilst promoting social discussion.
MÖBIUS + FUZEILLEAR
The first collaboration between Mobius Productions & Fuzeillear sees them projecting onto 25m walls within the Whale Room at the Queensland Museum. The intention of the motion works are to refract, not to reflect.
This is a portrait of a young man who has a desire for intimacy in a digital age. Societies’ widespread adoption of the internet has made computers the main platform for social interaction. He seeks to throw aside any digital interaction and reconnect with real life experiences but can’t help but find himself feeling left out and disconnected in an age where the internet and digital technology is rapidly transforming life, work and politics. He is trapped, relying on technology to connect with others but only finds the interactions feeling vacuous and empty. The work takes a critical look at the stance of the contemporary image and the internet. Showing fragmented, paper thin, cut out slices of physical materials and body digitally manipulated and assembled together, creating an exchange between the digital world and “real life”, the work aims to reflect the contemporary human experience and our relationships with digital technology. The outcome presenting a hyper coloured, perplexing mashup of digital and “real” and a closer look into our lives today in a techno-reliant world.
There is a place that many know, a place few have seen. A place that many wish to discover and explore, where magic and mayhem coalesce to create a wonder that many say only exists in dreams. Some say it is a place that lives somewhere between this world and the next, a limbo not of lost souls but of found dreams. This place is where you come to find the one, or many as you step into an alternate yonder of sensory symphonies that render your fleshy being useless as your soul meets its true destiny.
A place for the enlightened beings who appreciate those moments where the mind tricks itself into an illusory state where sound becomes sight and sight becomes sound, this, my friend, is Yonder.
One day, one night of visually audible tactility under the beautifully crafted roof the Tivoli, located in the heart of all that is warm, wet and sensuous. Be careful what you wish for, Brisbane.
A photographic survey of Brisbane graffiti from 1984 -1994.
ARTISTS FEAT. IN IMAGES
Acids – Arouz – Asia – Avoid – Blex – Brat – Brek – Bribe – Brink – Chore – Cruel – Diagram – Diohe – Disne – Dmote – Dupe – Elk – Exit – Frickman – Furious – Hams – Inker – Jafa – Jasper – Jelous – Jury – Kasino – Katch – Kooly – Kub – Malis – Maze – Mr. Ben – Nice – Odie – Opium – Phink – Price – Pubes – Quiz – Ravage – Revs – Risk – Rush – Scape – Seiz – Skelter – Smerk – Snupe – Spike – Styles – Tez
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