SURF bike POP - Surf immersion exhibition sponsorship LEGENDS!

Are proud to present our supportive sponsors for our SURF bike POP - Surf immersion exhibition for St. Kilda Fest.

rake surfboards

Deus ex Machina Motorcycles

Cricketers Arms Larger

Icon Frames

Surf love for St. Kilda Fest.

I just have to say I am so pumped! (Surf lingo) 

We have THE most amazing, awesome line up coming together for our total Surf culture immersion exhibition that will run during St. Kilda Festival! 

End of this week when I have all my artists locked and loaded - 

I will blog in detail about our Artists and collaborations - 

it is super.....

i cant even began to tell you....

well....... yet anyways....

Rhombus Surf Shop

Rhombus Surf Shop has had a lot of media of late, including front page of Broadsheet's hard copy edition this summer.  Last night Aaron and I meet up for beers at St Kilda's New Market Hotel with Angus Wilson founder and creative mind behind Rhombus - Angus is really supportive and into collaborating with Surface's Exhibition Surf Bike POP which will be part of St. Kilda Festival, our concept is total immersion of Surf Culture. We also have been in contact with Ado from Rake Surf Boards, he has some awesome illustrators, photographers and artists we would love to tap into for the exhibition also, including Ado himself 

So watch this space SO much more to tell......

Rake

My Erotica hand - made posters by Andrew Mattock & Invite

 Had to share my posters that Andrew Mattock made me to hang in the window to advertise Chic Erotique our next exhibition with gastronomic Theatre by Comida Bebe.

New Year @ surface POP in Pictures

New Year Window @ Surface POP

St. Kilda Gallery NOT St. Kilda cycles thanks......

New Years day eve drinking vino @ Surface POP with Donovan (aka Voici Le BATTEUR) and Ilan El (aka ilen.el.com)

Surface Artists - Andrew Mattock - Opening night January 21st 2011

Ex-Pat
Ex-Short Order Cook
Ex-Waiter
Ex-Race Car Driver
Ex-Salesman
Ex-Ceramicist
Ex-Husband
Ex-Gardener
Ex-Shop Assistant
Ex-CEO
Ex-Rugby Player
Ex-Goal Keeper


Still
An itinerant backpacker
An IT consultant
A cyclist
Dyslexic
Forty

"My work is experiments with motifs, iconography and wanting to be somewhere else; its my re-interpretation of contemporary visual culture in our clickable reality. I strive to make my paintings narrative, but usually images that have been sand blasted into my cortex, by every conceivable form of bloody mundane media, result in a dialogue of real or imagined history of the mid-20th century.

Having an industrial background, the works are usually conceived with power tools, with a self-conscious decision to use ply-wood. I am more comfortable talking two-by-fours. Ply-wood appeals to me when covered with layers of enamel, acrylic, and spray paint; they form a hybrid composition. 

Theres never really a single source of inspirations a mash up of medias, sleazy fiction, naked wrestling posters, comics about war, New Idea and washing up adverts, all pointless but illustrating our chaotic, physical and incomprehensive world.

Its not about labels or easy options; its a puzzle that I cannot solve.

 Its trying to keep the rough edges and inconsistencies while being as sloppy as possible. Its about paint and rectangles and keeping a human dimension. In the end I am Painter and I have painted a painting. My paintings are crafted of white noise on multiple layers dealing with black/white, dark/light, male/female and the Two Ronnies. Or it might just be a Gemini thing"

Andrew Mattock has had a load of media of late, and is a total go getter, he doesn't sit around and wait for the shit to hit the fan, or indeed someone to come and blab about how much they love or hate his work, he just gets to it, makes it happen, and that is a trait I truely admire, so when I asked Andew to exhibit his paintings as part of our "Chic Erotique" concept with our Comida Bebe boys doing the food and drink - he gladly obliged and is our solo "art"exhibitor for this exhibition.

Surface POP are Proud to be exhibiting Andrew Mattock in Conjunction with Comida Bebe for a erotic and gastronomic feast on Friday January 21st, 18 per person, food and drink


Call Renee on 0416873599 to book your place - limited spots available.


On the night we will be doing a sealed bid for Andrews Work "killer heels" the winner will be revealed on the final day of the exhibition....fun!

   

Media - Green Magazine issue 17 January - February 2011

If you have never seen Green Mag then go get it, you can purchase it all over Australia and New Zealand, and for those overseas they have an on-line edition too. 

Personally I love the hard copy, they print on quality recycled paper and its always a pleasure to flick through the pages, it reads well, it holds well, and the photography and articles are always enticing.

They have a section called  "Up Front" where they highlight interesting stuff that has a 'environmental or sustainable flavour' and this issue Surface POP popped up.

As I don't have the on-line version (because I like the comfort of the paper version) these are pix I took of the actual mag, but its possible to still read and see our mention.

We also had pictures from our shop's designers Marc Pascal's  his Opposite light that we have displayed hanging from our roof, and handmade stackable stools from Mariachi Design Collective both pix in the mag where taken at Surface POP,  also in the "up front' section of the mag.

I also got a mention as the 'marketing dynamo' I have to admit - I really do like that! 

I Cant say I love this pic of the shop,  looks much better now, but to be fair this was taken in our first week

Surface POP up

The section of the article about us two other pop up where in the article as well as us

Marc Pascal's Opposite light at the shop

Mariachi Design's stackable stools in front of Aaron's glass work