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“Cats, one dollar hair extensions, fake blood and glitter” – what’s not to love about a series of parties based around these four elements. CHERYL as it’s fondly known, is part art, part fun and absolute craziness. The self-described ‘disco shamans’ behind the monthly Brooklyn parties, have been plugging away for nearly two years on all things deliriously wacky and it’s beginning to pay off.
To us Aussie’s, Tishon is quite an unusual name. We’re more familiar with names like Ben, John, Wayne or Michael. Prior to meeting Tishon, who features in this here little interview, I had never met anyone with his name. And like the uniqueness his name suggests, the 26-year-old Brooklyn-based self-described “graphic designer art director, writer, and oatmeal lover”, who has already worked for clients including Ubiquity Records, Tortured Soul Records and artist Jeff Cylkowski amongst others, is pretty on-point and/or spesh. Tishon has got it going on (we also wonder how many times he’s had to endure that little rhyme… at least it’s complimentary).
Artist Laura Adel Johnson, is a fine example of an Australian doing it, and doing it well in New York. Being half Perthian and half American, she’s lucky enough to have one foot planted in the sunny land of beers and universal healthcare, and the other in the country of extreme possibilities but every (wo) man for himself/herself.
I first met artist Denise DeSpirito in New York in the summer of 2005. She was a friendly face amongst a sea of Williamsburg/Lower East Side posturing, and as far as I knew, the only girl running with a riff raff crew of street art boy renegades. Visually, her own work needed no crutches (I think she was making particularly striking detailed drawings at the time), and from what I could gather for our handful of brief hangouts, for her there was little distinction between art and life. It was all one and the same.
With a career spanning 16 years, including exhibitions in the UK and USA, 36-year-old artist Josh Lord has emerged with some of his finest work to date. Thought provoking and confronting, his latest exhibition entitled: When It Was Yesterday, is both an inspiring collection of urban artwork and a confronting image of the (post) modern world. The exhibition features 32 new works on display at the FAD Gallery on Corrs Lane, until Nov 15. To find out more, Lord gave the Mooks Report an insight into his latest work and the inspiration behind it…
Heath Nash creates beautiful objects out of simple materials. He’s a creative with a practical bent, an ideas man who is also good with his hands. His designs are complex, colourful, joyful celebrations of what it means to be South African. Heath draws from local craft materials (paper, plastic, wire) and traditional crafting techniques (binding, weaving) – but steers clear of knit-your-own-muesli, rustic kitsch. Instead his pieces are beautiful, sophisticated feats of design and form. His Die Cuts pleated lampshade, for instance, is deceptively simple – origami at its most accessible – while Strength in Numbers’ modular structures are about forming stronger and more functional wholes by binding wire together. |
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