SURFACE POP Gallery/Space

Our Vision is to shape a creative evolving purposeful space to highlight great art & design. Space that is expansive, transformative and future focused. To encourage and offer opportunities to artists/designers professional and those not yet signed by galleries or starting out as we are. Create networks, community, collaborate, incubate and generate more LOVE for great design and art - that’s expressive, innovative, fresh, and engaging. info@surfacepop.com

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Surface POP posse relocates residence

Its been a big week.... as well as shifting the Gallery......

yesterday we moved house, after living in a third story apartment for a few years, it's pretty exciting for the surface POP family to have a house with a vege patch.

As the new gallery is a few weeks away, I can't wait to get my hand in the soil and do some planting while I come up with some awesome exhibition ideas... I guess after all the boxes get unpacked....

m-a-y-b-e-s.... :)

our 3rd story apartment, leafy and lovely

Dylan Sanchez - Surface POP family member number 3.

Our new pad!

one of the two raised beds - already full of basil, snake beans, parsley, red chillies, eggplants, capsicums...yum!

Sunday, March 27, 2011

The End is ONLY really the Beginning!

Bye Bye St. Kilda...

Surface POP had our last Exhibition and final HOOYA on Friday night

It was a real mix of emotion for us, as this space has been wild and I feel rather attached, but in saying that - the next stage of our Journey with Surface POP is full of possibility and all about creating opportunities.

It's about Grasping that creative thought of each and every creative being I'm blessed to come into contact with hear, observe & read between the lines.

Its all about this incredible community of like minds that we are discovering....

In the words of William Burroughs......

"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And their hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. "
So yeh..... that's my job in a nutshell :)

Here's some Pix courtesy of Warden Pirate of our final Exhibition 'Ending Where we Begin"

There's also two awesome albums - on our Facey PAGE and on Melbourne Street Arts PAGE both worth checking out to get a real feel from 2 angles!

We will be moving into the T-Squat headquarters mid April after a few Reno's, we will be having a hell of an Opening.....so hope to see you ALL there

Chur and big up's for all the support that the City of Port Philip and the Village of St. Kilda has given us over the last 6 months.

Junky Projects, if you want a rad night, he is the man to BRING it!

Regan Tamanui - HAHA work "Ben Counsin - Sinner"

an honoured guest

IRK

One of my up and comings 'Ryan Mcgennisken' watch out for this boy, MAD talent!

Some Aaron McKenzie and IRK observations.

BRADDOCK

James Watkins

The band - added a whole dimension and talent to our last exhibition

Lucy from Hunting for George - Awesome Chick!

there where loads of hugs, kisses and love at Surface POP's final

Warden Pirate

their was some serious Bend and snap from the T-squat crew and Aaron too...(more pix on the facey album)

I love this man - Conrad - LEGEND!

Azza pulling Doss Blocks beer's to the thirsty crowd

This Pic of Aaron McKenzie's work courtesy of Melbourne Street Art

Hellooooo PRAHRAN! WHOOOPPP! X

Friday, March 18, 2011

Surface POP is moving!

We are moving to Prahran!

we are moving in with the T-Squat community

and

My friend the Peacock

and Damselfly

Were going to do a few reno's so we all move into a unit like a a little eternity symbol, airy and light and creative - without bound nor end $\infty$

Damselfly & Surface POP will flow into the cafe My friend the Peacock
Our Posse at T-Squat will collaborate with us - creating a hub - feeling the love for local and international, low brow, street, urban, underground art, installation, design, culture and events

Surface POP have some brewing possibility collab's with I N V U R T Studios and ilvia Community too

New address as of Mid April will 20-28 Chatham St Prahran 3181

its all going to be sweet...... :)

T-Squat and Big Dog Creative

My Friend the Peacock

Headquarters

Part of Damselfly as is now - false walls going to move to create bigger space, cafe is on the other side of the wall

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Opening night - Phoenix the Street Artist - IN HERE.OUT THERE Exhibition

I love this exhibition, we are very honoured to have this body of work in our humble little space.

Phoenix's work in the street and on the galley wall, triggers off a whole range of thought provoking questions, about ecology, nature, synergy, politics science, art...... and my personal fav the unconscious mind.

Its not just the content of his work, its the way he goes about doing it, analog styles, cutting and pasting (with glue and scissors not a mouse and a click) layering and texturising, bodies of work that could, and will still be something else entirely different from what it might have started out from, imagery that repeats itself through many different forms, he likes repetition... as Phoenix says 'it takes 10'000 hours of practice (repetition) to become a genius'
Some might just say Phoenix is that, a genius!

Dean Sunshine who is a LEGEND! organised Stella Artois as beer sponsorship and CASSETTE to do our epic layout and print job of the flyer.

Dean Sunshine has a great blog called Land of Sunshine that's ALL about archiving Street Art - he has done a post featuring a collection of Phoenix's pix on the street, many that are now hanging on the wall in the gallery space.

There has been a heap of Media around Phoenix's exhibition at Surface POP, including The Age, Beat Mag, Inpress Mag, Super Future, Life Lounge, T-Squat, many on-line blogs and a nice little wrap up from INVERT big ups from Deano, Phoenix and Surface POP for the props.

Robert Lukins article that featured in Inpress can be viewed HERE on his personal blog, its a well crafted and thought out article about Phoenix rising from the ashes

When I finally watched 'Exit through the gift shop' last night, I was in fits of laughter watching Shepard Fairey at the photocopy machine..... bit of a private joke..... but I totally think Phoenix should marry Office Works - or in the very least own one!

Aarrrh the life of a Street Artist.....

The story that made Phoenix is well worth a read, you can click on the pic below to enlarge and you can also read it direct from flickr HERE

Phoenix has some Awesome sets up on Flickr to check out.....

And you can check and link straight to the album of the installation day and Opening night Pix HERE