Look - Perth Art Galleries
People who say that there is no such thing as bad art are lying. LOOK takes an objective view of the subjective world and, with a free drink in our hand, guides you through Perth's best galleries and art exhibitions. From institutions to artist-run initiatives, installation to illustration, photography to painting, LOOK is an ongoing document of Perth's ever engaging and growing arts culture.
Dancing Mountain, Issue One
If you were ever subjected to a slide show back when it involved a mechanical projector and a dark lounge room, then the idea of a whole book of travel photos might not appeal to you. Luckily for everyone, online collaborative photo book Dancing Mountain doesn't involve a boring couple and their boring photos in front of a boring landmark, nor the frightening reality of four walls with nowhere to run.
Perspectives
In year Nine, I went out with Sheridan. Sure, she was knock-kneed and had an overbite, but for those five days we dated, my life approached perfect. Then Sheridan dumped me, prompting ten long days of skulking about the house and swearing I would never, ever love again. Yep it's true, nobody does angst quite like teenagers.
Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School - Lola The Vamp
Common sentiment says the human body is a beautiful thing, no matter what shape or size, and that might well be true, but the human body is not always a classy thing. Enter Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School to intrude upon your preconceived notions of life drawing classes, providing sass and style to the stock art-exercise of sketching the human body in still poses.
Debut
During high school, the major art project I submitted to the Year 12 Perspectives were dodgy noir illustrations inspired by the comic book Sin City. Not my proudest moment, I'll admit. But hey, cracking the art world is a tough gig! Even with the internet allowing any teen to upload their dodgy noir sketches, it's difficult to be noticed amongst all the Robert Pattinson charcoals.
February Exhibition - Tané Andrews + Caitlin Yardley
Here's my idea of a challenge: drawing a dragonfly. Here's my idea of a super challenge: drawing a dragonfly by making thousands of pricks with a tiny needle ink pen (‘stippling', if you will). The winner of today's challenge is local artist Tané Andrews. Tané is still a pup who goes dancing on the weekends but has got the big wigs (ie the WA Art Gallery) chasing him for his stuff.
'Go To Hell', new works by Andrew Nicholls
Answer us this: how can the dude who did the totally cute double-headed dog on the Third Drawer Down tea towel be the same dude who draws weird runt-ish monkey babies, owls raping baby cherubs and bulls with boa constrictors where their private parts are? Everybody has an inner pervert, but you've gotta wonder about a guy who who sits around doing detailed drawings of mermaids (*cough* mer-MEN.
'Going Back Home', Joel Wynn Rees
During primary school, my mum used to grapple with ways to keep my juice box cold in summer. Nobody likes lukewarm Sunshine Punch, but freezing it made the sandwhiches soggy as it melted. Or worse, the juice box wouldn't unfreeze at all - thirsty times ahoy. Finally Mum resorted to a bit of creative problem solving - wrapping a paper napkin around the juicebox to soak up the ice - the sandwiches stayed dry, I stayed hydrated.
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