Everything's A-OK review
March 2, 2008
OK, you're a street artist exhibiting in a gallery. So how do you reconcile the shift from public wall to catalogue? Does a little piece of graffiti culture die in the process? What are you going to spend the money on? Sneakers? These are the mindnumbing questions posed in arts departments every day.
Kill Pixie's work tends to demolish such inanity. Famous in Australia for his street art - a note painted on a Sydney wall says: "Dear Kill Pixie, pls contact club77atmail.com we want you to paint our club" - he's becoming a collectable artist internationally.
The work looks flat - in a woodblockprint kind of way - so it has a middle-distance and a close-up impact. Through patterning and symbolism, he references indigenous and folk arts, apparently inventing an obscure, idolatrous mythology. But the patterns are made of, guess what? Sneakers. So stick that in your thesis and submit it.
Penny Modra