Easter Island Totems - ADi

Easter Island paste up design

A Beautiful Shambles Installation 2014 - Dark Horse Experiment

Here are some images attached of my recent installation "A Beautiful Shambles", the install included oil paintings, found objects, cutlery, traps, wallpaper of totems and prose, up-cycled timber railway siding boxes, LED lighting, furs, paste up artworks and much more. Below is a brief synopsis:

The treatment of Australia’s dwindling native fauna is erroneous to say the least. The Kangaroo, arguably the most well known of Australia’s marsupials is a reflection of this “beautiful shambles”. This symbiotic descent demonstrates mankinds irrational, destructable and single minded pshyce. 

The protected Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) is currently valued at an estimated $20 per head. They may only be processed however if they are shot and killed with a single shot to the head.* An intriguing contradiction, protected, not protected, permitted, not permitted, killed, not killed effectively... Treated by many as vermin and culled on a magnitude that is indescribable legally and illegally(estimated 90-98% population reduction). These mammals are not even an “object of desire”, merely destroyed for destructions sake, culled and buried or dealt out as pet food for the masses to feed the animal minions. 

This is not disimilar to the predicament of other Australian mammals which since the arrival of Europeans in Australia have suffered a higher rate of mammal extinctions (%10) than any other continent in the past 200 years. Seventeen species of Australian terrestrial mammals have gone extinct, representing nearly half of the world’s recent mammal extinctions.* After a lull of 60 years the new wave of extinctions beginning with the extinction of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus murrayi) has arrived with a further 35 mammals listed as endangered species. This wave of extinctions will be on a far greater scale than seen since the last great extinction. The so named “marsupial ghostlands”* of the southern interior will spread, the effects of which are unfathomable in regard to the symbiotic relationships that have formed and evolved for millenia between flora and fauna amongst these fragile ecosystems. 

Make no doubt about it, the face of this continent is under enormous and seemingly irreversible change with the cries of the few 

going completely unheard by the many. This is the Holocoene Extinction Event.

William Temple Hornaday Totems - Yarraville

Feral Cats Radio National Podcast - Background Briefing

The second wave of extinction since European settlement is currently sweeping Australia's north. It's arrived in the Kimberley - Australia's last ark of pre european bio-diversity, Feral Cats...

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/feral-cats-re-write-the-australian-story/5802204

Scientists now say the main threat to that biodiversity is the feral cat. Shocking story which demonstrates the terrible state of Australia's native wildlife, and overall shows not much is being done about it...

Devouring Our Own Existence

Shane Sterry and i did this over the weekend in Somerville Road Yarraville -

Its A Plastic World - Vimeo

Link to an animation here which beautifully illustrates truths a lot of us do not wish to acknowledge or deal with...

Brad Mills 2014

William Temple Hornaday totems turning up everywhere...

Imagination Outside of Capitalism - Duckboard Lane

Duckboard Lane doorway - here displaying yet another William Temple Hornaday tribute with animal mandala I recently designed. This will appear in more works on the street in varying designs with differing prose.

Magic Totems - ADi

Here is another Magic Totem paste up I did in Duckboard Lane - Melbourne. These paste up are pre-fabricated for little niches, (if thats a word!) alcoves and doorways around the city, I have been putting up quite a lot but some building are cleaning them off within 12 hours of them going up. It appears the no tolerance system has been put in place in Melbourne too, David Gunn would be so proud... Speaking of David Gunn, %99 Invisible had a great podcast "Clean Trains"on the New York city subway graf scene back in the 80's and how they have literally brought it to a stand still, , well worth listening too.

Rabbit Wave (Katsushika Hokusai) ADi

A new paste up I did in a lane off Franklin street in Melbourne.

Rabbit Wave Baby...

ADi will be featuring in the International Wilderness Show.
Opening this Friday 20th June at 6pm at Auguste Clown Gallery 52 Johnston Street Fitzroy

A huge line-up with artists the likes of Scott Musgrove, Beau Stanton, Audrey Pongracz, Annie Stegg, Alexandra Soury and the list goes on.

For a preview contact:
Leigh Cornish
info@augusteclown.com
0451 958 260


"The Greater Bilby" (macrotis lagotis) 
260mm x 195mm 
oil on wood
$450.00
ADi 2014

Hosier Lane Melbourne Paste Up

Some pics of the weekends paste up myself and Shane Sterry put up in Hosier Lane incorporating yet another William Temple Hornaday totem design and his crazy characters.

SUPERGRAPH 2014 - Signed & Numbered

Signed and numbered will be exhibiting at http://www.supergraph.com.au Australia's Contemporary Graphic Art Fair held at the Royal Exhibition Building between14-16th February 2014. 

I have released a small version (210mm x 210mm) giclee print of "Oneness" which is a limited edition of 50 especially for this event. The print can be viewed in my shop at adiart.com.au

Their will be a myriad of other hi end exhibitors so will be well worth a visit.

IKEA - Best Melbourne METRO train panel of 2013

By far the best panel done in Melbourne for 2013:
IKEA
Sandringham line
2013

Blender Studios 2013 Group Show - ADi installation

Above is an image of my 2013 installation that was featured at Dark Horse Experiment gallery. Consisting of my private collection of antique furnishings, taxidermy, antiquities, oddities and of course 8 oil paintings of native Australian marsupials.

Spinifex Hopping Mouse

One of the sold pieces from the Abbotsford Convent Show in 2013
Spinifex Hopping Mouse#1 (notomys alexis)
Oil on Panel

Wombat#6 - Abbotsford Convent Show

One of the sold pieces from the Abbotsford Convent Show in 2013
Wombat#6 Oil on Panel

Hosier Lane Wallpaper Design - ADi