2042: Art on the Street will feature the work of over 50 local artists, and will include photographers, model makers, industrial sculptors, graffiti artists, light technicians, installation artists, performance groups, stencil artists, video and multi media works,audio pieces and more.
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1| Newtown Square (18th September only) | Dillon McEwan – Carcutter
2| Newtown Square | Alien Proof Construction – The Coyote Gets his Own Back
Cameron Stanton has a love of large-scale industrial sculpture in the public domain. This piece is a humorous take on the classic Road Runner cartoons of the artist's youth.
3| Newtown Square | Edward Horne - Park Bench
Who says inanimate objects don’t have life? Sit with me and I will show you I am more than just cold metal…
4| Newtown Square (18th September only) | MAYS – Mays Lane Street Art Installation
5| Newtown Square | H Morgan-Harris – Birdsong
Birdsong captures the essence of the beauty of birds in song, whilst replicating their imagery in a very urban context.
6| Newtown Square | Jacq Sherry – Incubator
Incubator explores incubation, birth, rebirth and transformation.
7| Newtown Medical Centre | Luke Tipene – Secret Sydney
Inspired by the undiscovered and the unfound, Secret Sydney provokes an inhabitation of thoughts and feelings in places unnoticed.
8| Holey Moley Garden Beds | Will Coles – Concrete Generation
9| Head over Heels | Jacq Sherry – Displaced
10| The Zanzibar side wall | Projection work
11| The Zanzibar Hotel | Pete Strong – Mixed Works
12| Eastern Flair | Kath Fries – Clamber
Clamber, explores concepts of boundaries and permeability, echoing memories and some darker aspects of childhood fairytales.
13| Cream | Tina Alice – The Day I Went to the Mall
Surfaces and truth: the two are inextricably related.
14| Munky Bizness | Natalie Sharpe - I Will Live Today
“I will live Today”, is about traveling through life in a positive way. Right now our world could be described as less than happy. I want to show “happy” in my artwork. There is still a lot of beautiful out there.
15| Dr Earth | Brian Paisley – Its Mao or Never & Work and Pray
16| Fantasy Futon | Alan Giddy – Newtown Shuffle
Newtown Shuffle is a musical composition derived directly from traffic on King St. Each note is derived from the colour of a vehicle moving through a designated area of the video image.
17| Photogarden | Sydney Childrens Festival – Children’s Photographic Competition Entries
This competition was run as part of the Sydney Children’s Festival. The work of these talented up-and-coming snappers is displayed here.
18| Crumpler | Teazer – Nagasaki
Innovative and often character based Sydney Graffiti artist, Teazer believes he is saving the world, one wall at a time. His aim? To wake up the sleeping masses, with booming colour and startling imagery.
19| Telstra ‘I have a dream’ Square | Jesse Cox –Exchange
The Newtown telephone exchange filters phone calls locally, regionally as well as from Melbourne and internationally. Exchange listens in on some of these conversations.
20| Telstra ‘I have a dream’ Square | Luke Tipene – Secret Sydney
Inspired by the undiscovered and the unfound, Secret Sydney provokes an inhabitation of thoughts and feelings in places unnoticed.
21| Telstra ‘I have a dream’ Square | Perran Costi – A Better World
22| Platypus | Will Coles – Silence/ Life is Fleeting
23| Better Read than Dead | Rachael Lafferty - American Tragedy On Cloud Nine
Subtlety is for cowards. America is represented as a raft of mass produced potboiler romances, sinking slowly into the tar of its own pollution.
24| Cinque | Imogen Semmler - Chatterbox
Imogen is a radio broadcaster on FBi 94.5FM, a documentary researcher and arts producer. She loves telling stories and interviewing people about their lives. ‘Listening to Locals’ is a series of interviews with a collection of Newtown’s finest. Headphones are set up for your listening pleasure in Cinque café next to the Dendy Cinema on King St. Have a coffee and listen to the lives of people who call Newtown their home for work and pleasure.
25| Pentimento | Elise Vaughan – Cover to Cover
Inspired by traditional graphic design techniques and revisiting these production methods, Elise explores the highs and lows of love and life.
26| Holy Sheet | Keith Chidzey – Feather/ Hill
Photodocumentation of recent performance works undertaken north of Broken Hill showing the personality and fragility of fire.
27| Twelve | Johnny Romeo - Royalty Tooth Coins
Johnny Romeo is a neo-expressionist bombastic pure pop painter dealing with the way we construct out identities from the vast array of images that our popular culture immerses us in.
28| Funky Deli | The Dance Museum – Able to be Danced
The Dance Museum is a collective of Musicians, Dancers, Performance and Film Makers from across Melbourne, Newcastle and Sydney. Able to be Danced is a video - dance/music project that was created to re-imagine and therefore highlight the relationship between dance and music.
29| Dangerfield | Terry Archer - Evolver
30| Newtown Mission | Kon Parris – The Revelation Ceiling
Situated in Newtown Mission's Historic King Street Chapel, the Revelation Ceiling invites viewers to contemplate the role of spirituality in contemporary society and the arts.
31| Newtown Square | The Red Room in association with Camilla Lawson – Lost and Found
32| The Flower Room | Peter Williamson – God’s Eye
Peter Williamson is an environmental artist working with urban greenery and green waste, reimagining the potentials of what is usually seen as discarded or used materials.
33 | ANZ Bank | Luke Tipene – Secret Sydney
Inspired by the undiscovered and the unfound, Secret Sydney provokes an inhabitation of thoughts and feelings in places unnoticed.
34| Thai Pothong | Robert Taylor – Untitled
Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, Robert communicates through body language.
35| Bob’s Chemist | Jennifer Tran – Dead Active
Dead Active is an attempt to depict the beauty and the residual energy of the artistic remains.
36| STA Travel | Sam Ash – King Street
Sam Ash has a way of finding something subtle in every day life and turning it into a turning point of his day.
37| Quick Brown Fox | Hiske Weijers – Rainy Street
38| Pure Botanicals | Token Imagination (Mike Hayes, Jess Cook, Emiko Kinoshita) – They thought it was such a wonderful stunt that they called for another elephant
Token Imagination set free a herd of elephant thoughts along king St. Find an elephant or thought and take it for a walk - only stuck with magnets not glue so they can migrate with you.
39 | State Rail Authority Shopfronts | Street Art
40 | Repressed Records | Darian Zam – I’m so miserable without you, it’s almost like you are here. I always hoped…
Darian Zam's series "I'm So Miserable Without You, It's Almost Like You're Here" examines the human condition using amateur photographs embellished with slogans which are sad, brutal, funny- but most of all moving.
41| King Street Cyclery | Tai Chau – Tsunami Hopes
“Tsunami Hopes” is part of a distorted photograph series of six photos expressing the devastation and the aftermath of the Tsunami in Phuket
42 | Newtown Auto | Dillon McEwan - Carcutter
43 | Embryo | Tina Alice – The Impossible Still
In memory, time, space and experience fracture and merge, they distort: occurrences overlap and much is lost. Reality brings forth something of the
past and we find ourselves explicitly elsewhere.
44| Ruben Rat | Brendan Penzer – The Great Toy Car Drive
45| All Buttons Great and Small | Perran Costi – Tree Cubed
46| MBE Newtown | Robyn Buchanan – Modern Mona Lisa: Nicole, 2008; Modern Mona Lisa: Paris, 2008; Modern Mona Lisa: Lindsay, 2008
In this series, two constructed ideas of 'beauty' are juxtaposed. These Modern Mona Lisa's look lost, sometimes desperate and disconnected.
47| Buzz Bar | Hamilton Poblano – imij
How far can a known image be twisted yet still be recognisable....and what, and whose, does it become in the process.
48| Happy High Herbs | Tealia Scott & Rebecca Lampard – Fabric of society
Adapting needle lace technique from Seventeenth Century Venetian Lace Makers, the Kamikaze Couture crew unveil the gruesome corsetry of forensic fashion.
49| Slims Vintage | Herbie Peppard – Slim Pickings
50| Allegro Coffee | Ingrid K Brooker – Anode ‘Terminal’ Installation
Ingrid K Brooker is an artist, animator and multimedia creator. Specialising in stop motion animation, Ingrid's films are assembled from an eclectic mix of found objects and sculpted creations which transport the viewer into bizarre and wonderful world's of imagination.
