HUNG BY THE STICKY BITS
September 5, 2007 - October 15, 2007
PRESS RELEASE
Hung By The Sticky Bits is an exhibition of contemporary illustration that showcases the recent labours of love by eight international artists working in the fields of Graphic Design, Gaming, Animation, and Illustration. The artists involved have been sourced by Australian illustrator Beck Wheeler through myspace and blogging and are linked together by their love of character based illustration.
Sauerkids is Mark Moget and Taco Sipma, an artist duo based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Their character based art has been shown in several exhibitions, art projects, magazines & books. They've been accused of "being on medication" or "sick (in a good way)", but in the end their work is probably best described as a combination of innocent childhood imagery and the mental confusion of everyday life.
Hobo Divine is a Canadian artist who takes a collage approach to illustration. He samples various materials and mediums to create faux naïve pieces. His enduring interest in cartoons has led him to work on numerous TV and film projects, including The Ren and Stimpy Show and the feature Fern Gully: The Last Rain Forest. Hobo has also directed two animated short films for the National Film Board of Canada.
Mattias Adolfsson is a Swedish illustrator that works as a Senior Artist in the gaming industry. He has been working with computer generated imagery since completing his Masters in Fine Art in 1997. Mattias has recently started to rediscover his love of drawing through blogging and sketchbook renderings. His drawings are a blend of the everyday and the surreal.
Beck Wheeler is a German born artist who studied sculpture and painting in NewZealand before moving to Australia in 2000. Beck then went onto study illustration in Melbourne, where she now works as a freelance illustrator. Beck combines painting, sculpture and toy making to explore narrative and the art of story telling. Her work has been seen in Dot Dot Dash, Latex for Fun, IdN, The Age, Australian Art Review and Monster Children.
Falsk is a Swedish illustrator and artist born in 1984. He has exhibited in Sweden, Spain and Australia. Lately he has been working as an illustrator for the Metro newspaper in Sweden. His clients include Metro Sweden, Sony PSP, Quote, Formula Werks, Mediatemple and Dolce & Gabbana.
Miss Lotion is an illustrator, graphic designer and artist based in Copenhagen. Her character based work places surreal creatures in parallel universes. Her work has appeared in various publications including Brazilian magazine Zupi and the Latex for Fun book published by DGV in Berlin. Miss Lotion has collaborated with artists from all over the world, recently with the Swedish born artist Ekta.
Born in France in 1976 and living in Paris, Stephane Tartelin mixes traditional drawings with computer graphics. In 2000 he started working as a freelance graphic designer, illustrator and motion designer. He now works for a various range of international advertising, broadcast and publishing clients and still explores all facets of graphic design, animation and photography. Illustration remains his favourite playground.
Stephane is the Co-founder of Le Soupe design studio in Paris.
