13 October 2010

Sweet Streets/Melbourne Stencil Festival

'Total Life Forever' by Scott McAllester
Lantern Printing studio recently printed work for Melbourne artist Scott McAllester. Scott's giclee prints and originals will be on show during the Melbourne Sweet Streets festival, check out the program or visit the Melbourne Stencil Festival site for more deets.

04 October 2010

Xamy

limited edition giclee print by Max Plumley

limited edition giclee print by Amy Stuart
Lantern Printing clients Max Plumley (above image) and Amy Stuart (below image) are currently exhibiting at Unless Gallery, Melbourne until October 10. Go check out their work, proudly printed by us!


Max Plumley and Amy Stuart: Xamy 
October 2nd – October 10th
(opening night October 1st 6pm-8pm) 

@ Unless Gallery 
Corner of Albion St and Melvile rd, 
Brunswick 
Gallery opening hours: Friday 12-4pm, Sunday 12-4pm, or by appointment. 
Contact Unless gallery through Pip Jowww.unlessgallery.com  

"Both Plumley and Stuart currently study at the Victorian College of the Arts, this will be their first show at a Melbourne gallery. Plumley’s work explores the possibilities of microbiological environments and organisms, and the questionable, abstract representations that science constructs to illustrate these micro and nano topographies. Plumley explains that the forms he uses (looking like oddly coloured sausages strung together by a sausage machine gone wrong, or the balloon creations of a blind clown) are representative of the interactions between cells or the molecular building blocks of proteins. And that the traditional balloon animals he hides in his forms allude to a sentimental, human side of science that is disguised amidst the rationality of today’s scientific method. Rather than being ‘science bashing’ Plumley’s work pokes humorously at the fact that behind every scientific discovery and finding are people such as sponsors and researchers who interpret results according to their own political, ethical, economic and religious agendas. Through crisp line drawing, Stuart investigates the explosion of inexpensive cameras, the likes of which have become mandatory accessories incorporated into mobile phones. The kind of images these cheap cameras capture, the likes of which litter Facebook and MySpace profiles come together in Stuarts work as interfolded super-flat renditions akin to architectural blueprints or circuit boards. Figures, household objects, various interiors/exteriors and technological icons are paired with biological systems hinting at the almost organic way that we interact with and adopt technologies".