Joseph Allen
Joseph Allen is jack-of-all-trades who hopes only to be reasonably-good-at-just-one before the time he becomes flower fertiliser. Always fascinated by the phrase 'mixed business' used by many Sydney convenience stores, Joseph Allen adopted this phrase as an umbrella term for his unrestricted commercial art making. In the last decade Joseph has spent most of his time in London designing skateboarding periodicals and record sleeves. Now back in his birth town, Sydney, he has established Izrock Mixed Business as an (in)convenience store for general art tom foolery. Currently his main focuses are being the gallerist at Monster Children Gallery, other curatorial work and running Izrock Pressings, a platform for independent small run artist books, zines and editioned art prints. (Portrait by Rhys Lee.)
Website — http://izrock.com
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‘Artefacts From The Fifth Ritual’. An Exhibition by Daniel Askill.
March 31st 09, 4:27
Monster Children Gallery Presents ‘Artefacts From The Fifth Ritual’.
An Exhibition by Daniel AskillOpening night: WEDNESDAY 1ST APRIL 6.00PM
Exhibition continues from 2ND APRIL – 18TH APRIL, 2009.About the Exhibition:
Internationally acclaimed Australian filmmaker Daniel Askill will present a striking exhibition of video, photographic and sculptural works at the Monster Children Gallery in April, the first in a series that will culminate in Askill’s first long form film project.The new film, tentatively titled Universal Machine, will expand upon ideas and concepts introduced in his 2003 short film We Have Decided Not To Die, which comprised three acts entitled Rituals One, Two and Three. The film was labeled a “visually stunning imagining of human rituals” by the New York Times and played at hundreds of international film festivals, winning major prizes at many including Clemont – Ferrand, Melbourne International, Brooklyn International and South By Southwest.
Universal Machine will follow with rituals four, five and six. During the fifth ritual, the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall is the location for the climax of the second act, presented in this exhibition in large-scale photographic form. This sits alongside a holographic video sketch of the central character, and other artefacts from the fifth ritual.
Born in Sydney in 1977, Daniel Askill works internationally as a filmmaker and artist and lives between Sydney and New York. Described as “a technical clinician with a designer’s eye for form and a composer’s affection for minimalism” by US production industry bible ‘Boards’, he has created film, video installations, music videos and commercials, and in 2001 he co-founded multidisciplinary studio COLLIDER which now represents an award winning roster of filmmakers, designers and artists.
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From the Mind of Martin Bell
March 24th 09, 21:26
Alf goes fishing in pizza and catches a beast man!!!
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May Lane Retrospective at Carriageworks
March 23rd 09, 20:36
Tugi Curated this show at the massive Carriageworks space.
It’s all the panels he’s been collecting over at May Lane.
He is also talking on Saturday.Opening: 6.30pm, Wednesday 25 March, 2009
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DATES 25 MARCH – 6 APRIL
OPENING TIMES MONDAY TO SATURDAY 10AM – 6PM, SUNDAY 12 – 4PM
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Samuel Hodge at Chalk Horse
March 9th 09, 21:25
Pretty Telling I Suppose
– Samuel HodgeOpening 6pm
March 26th 2009P.S. CHALK HORSE IS IN A NEW SPACE: 94 COOPER ST SURRY HILLS.
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The Duke Spirit playing gigs around Australia
March 9th 09, 2:08
Fantastic London rock’n'roll group The Duke Spirit are playing some dates in Oz.
They are so well-followed in London that, I am not kidding here, they used to sell the record in my local pub!
Definitely get to this show – you won’t be sorry.www.thedukespirit.com
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Power Bastard~!
February 25th 09, 23:41
Whoa!
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New zine for Marcus Oakley on Le Dilly’s Power Bastard! -
Cobra Snake and The Selby at Monster Children Gallery
February 25th 09, 18:15
Monster Children Gallery Presents “Predator’ and ‘Home Alone’.
A double feature of photographs by The Cobrasnake and The Selby.
Opening Night Friday March 6th at 6pm.
Exhibition continues from 7th March – 21st March, 2009.About the Exhibition:
Todd Selby
‘Todd Selby…. is becoming a kind of Horst of the hip set: an environmental portraitist of Williamsburg and Silver Lake society.’ New York Times, November 08.
Since launching in mid 2008, theselby.com has become one of the most watched sites on the web. Photographer Todd Selby visits interesting people such as film directors, musicians, designers, architects, painters, actors and writers in their homes or offices and takes beautiful shots of them in their creative spaces. Those featured on the site include REM’s Michael Stipe, designer Alexander Wang and model Erin Wasson.
Todd will be photographing a selection of Sydney fashion, music, photography and design identities specifically for ‘Home Alone’, the best of which will be added to his site.The Cobrasnake
“If…Mark Hunter is there… it’s a good party.” The New York Times, October 2005.
World-renowned party photographer Mark’ The Cobrasnake’ Hunter has visited Australia a number of times since launching his world famous photoblog , and for “Predator’ he will show a hand picked selection of the best shots he has taken on those visits.
Over the past five years, thecobrasnake.com has become the world’s ultimate party photo site and an internet phenomenon. The site essentially documents underground party culture and its enormous popularity has led to The Cobrasnake being invited to tour and exhibit all around the world.Check out The Cobrasnake and The Selby.
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Getting Lousy for Life
February 11th 09, 15:09
Although I have known Hollie for some time, I only just saw that she had this Stefan Marx tattoo.
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I sent it to Stefan and now he is gonna run a series on people who have his work as tattoos.
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Garry Trinh Photographs ‘Batteries Not Included’ Artist Talk
February 2nd 09, 0:15
Saturday was the artist talk at ACP for my show Batteries Not Included.
All the artists spoke real well.Thanks for snapping these Garry
Actually, everyone looks a little smashed in this pic – it had been a long week for most and the previous night had been the artists dinner.
Misha Hollenbach – one quarter of the Changes.
Jonathan Zawada – four quarters of Jonathan Zawada.
Misha took over from Shauna (who spoke efficiently (not a euphemism – she really got to the point) the previous evening) as speaker. It was indepth and insightful.
The back of the Changes installed creation.
JZ also gave a lot of great background on his work – there is so much to this piece.
Martin Bell’s masterpiece.
Marty had a whole heap of anecdotes to how his work came together.
Ross Manning followed and gave some great points on working with ongoing ideas and generating new solutions up to the last minutes of installation.
Kat and Lara AKA Spat +Loogie take us through performance and opening up engagement and conversation in the void usually allotted to frustrated analysis.
A bushman turned up to talk about Ben Barretto’s installed surveilance portrait of a computer bug.
Last speaker was Paul Winkler – he spoke well and long and can talk forever. If only one had the time to keep the talk open. Really we talked for hours the previous night at dinner.
Unlimited Paul Winkler.
Malcolm and myself.
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Batteries Not Included Catalogue
January 26th 09, 3:50
Here is a peak at the catalogue for the show on Thursday night at the Australian Centre for Photography produced by Izrock Pressings for the ACP.
If you are in Sydney, get down and see the excellent work these artists have produced and take one of these green beasties home.
Oh and if you can’t make it down to the ACP and want one of these, paypal me at info@izrock.com AU$10 and your address and I’ll post it to you folded once. (I have about 10 spare).
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