Death By Chandelier is the first solo show by Melbourne artist/illustrator Stephen Baker. The work represents a collection of fine ink/pencil and sometimes collaged works created over the past year. Most of his work seems to draw back to a fascination for repetitious symbols and elements creating pattern fills that seem to grow randomly throughout the image.
Kids are lucky you know, especially these ones with their luscious bowl-cuts and buck tooth enthusiasm. Oh! And those icy poles! Just look at them, so stickylicious! Doesn’t it just make you want to saw down your limbs and squeeze into an 8-year old’s dungarees again? Failing that extreme yet plausible technique for re-capturing the giddy heights of kiddy delights, Mooks want to pass on the ceremonial icy pole with a weekly snapshot of all the cool/fun/weird/unicorn/pretty/furry things happening Around The World! Just like Daft Punk asked us to!* Read more…
Ah yes, Bastille Day 14 July, 1789, a marvellously mutinous day when Paris’ starved and flea-ridden finally declared ‘enuff is enuff!’ and stormed the Bastille Tower in an all-mighty revolt against that gold monger Louise XVI and his cake fiend missus, Marie Antoinette. And so, in that same spirit of rebellion, sans plague and pungent odour, the people of Paris Melbourne came together once again to celebrate ‘Viva Le Party’ at one of the cities most infamous annual costume parties, the Clandestine Bastille Day Ball.













































