PASTE MODERNISM Interview with UNWELL BUNNY

Interview with: UNWELL BUNNY
Your location: MELBOURNE

What is the medium you most like to work in?
At the moment its acrylic with a sprinkle of aerosol.

UNWELL BUNNY

What are your thoughts about the medium of the paste-up?
It’s great. It keeps coming back as a way to quickly get a message or an image up on the street. I first started using it in 2004, at a time when the paste up and street art scene was booming in Melbourne. Then again in 2012 in Europe when I traveled and lived in Amsterdam, then again in 2013 in Melbourne and Adelaide, and again and again and again.
One special memory is being in Barcelona, having been sick with the Spanish man flu for 4 days. I came out misery and had one day left, I went through the city with my lady pasting work to electricity boxes, walls, anything that represented a hard surface down malls and shopping districts in broad day light with people streaming past. It’s a magical way to be ‘up’ without anyone batting an eyelid.

UNWELL BUNNY

Tell us about your studio/where you make your art.
Currently it’s my home studio, I had a solo show in Paris earlier his year, and I also popped the question while I was over there, so I’ve brought everything back to home base to be an engaged domestic man. My lovely lady also assists me in production and in the practical management, helping me pay parking tickets, sending out prints, and chatting to galleries etc while I draw, paint, talk about ideas and the next adventure. Did I mention I’m marrying her?

UNWELL BUNNY

What will you be sending us for this year's PASTE MODERNISM?
I’ve sent a series of posters from my trip through Europe in 2012, I took photos of famous European artworks, and re appropriated them in black and white with art clichés and random streams of consciousness. Lucie and me put these posters up through Madrid, Barcelona, Perugia etc then Paris, Amsterdam, London. She got so sick of me looking for large scale printers… She also came out with me until one sometime two in the morning. She is a machine.

UNWELL BUNNY

What other projects/exhibitions/events are coming up for you soon?
A group show in Amsterdam early Jan, a project with a group in San Francisco, a solo show in Hong Kong (fingers crossed) and a trip through America next year most likely to put some more paste ups on electricity boxes.

www.unwellbunny.com
instagrm: @unwellbunny
facebook: unwell bunny

PASTE MODERNISM Interview With NEIL EDWARDS

Interview with: NEIL EDWARDS
Your location: Lattitude 34° 0 S Longitude 151° 0 E

What is the medium you most like to work in?
I love print. Mainly screen print but I like any analog technologies where mistakes can lead to new discoveries. I am also doing a bit more stencil work.

NEIL EDWARDS

What are your thoughts about the medium of the paste-up?
You can’t be too precious. Its fast and furious but its a great opportunity to try new things out and play with size and scale.

Tell us about your studio/where you make your art.
It is the nerve centre of Mr. Edwards’ global operations. A giant network of underground bunkers - although my working space is on the small side as I am hemmed in on all sides by heavily armed stormtroopers and piles of clutter that I have collected over the years. However for some reason this is resulting in the scale of my work getting larger.

What will you be sending us for this year’s PASTE MODERNISM?
A combination of Some new stuff and some old favorites. My strategy this year is varying sizes and and lots of copies of each in the hope that at least some will remain visible.

What other projects/exhibitions/events are coming up for you soon?
I have been doing a few joint projects and exhibitions recently - Mike Watt’s Tattoo me book, Stencil Art prize, Rock Screen Paper 3 ‘Supervene” which so far has toured Sydney, Singapore and Wollongong

@misteredwards
www.misteredwards.tv
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PASTE MODERNISM Interview With MATTHEW BOURNE

ARTIST: MATTHEW BOURNE
LOCATION: Kellyville - Western Sydney

What is the medium you most like to work in?
I love working with Acrylic, oils, stencil, Artliner, and inks.

MATTHEW BOURNE

What are your thoughts about the medium of the paste-up?
The Paste up is an awesome medium. Anything can be your canvas really. Its a great way to show the world your style and communicate it through your art anywhere you want. It also has that underground feel which is really unique to the paste up.
 

MATTHEW BOURNE

Tell us about your studio/where you make your art.
I have a little studio at home. It's where everything gets created. There's piles of paint, paper, pens, artwork all the stuff you would expect in a studio, controlled chaos. Right now it's a complete mess, the carpets need ripping up cause there's so much paint build up over the years.

MATTHEW BOURNE

What will you be sending us for this year's PASTE MODERNISM?
I'll be sending 4 pieces of work. There typically my style right now. I've got a graphic design background but as a kid loved everything cartoons, comic and cars. I love the old school muscle cars. So some of my work has been evolving around that. Creating my our style. Also I have sent in a political piece you can make your own mind up about that.

What other projects/exhibitions/events are coming up for you soon?
I've been in plenty of group shows this year, met heaps of rad people and it blows my mind how the art community come together to just rock out and have some fun. Future projects, I'm really just digging my art creating and drawing as much as I can. I've been busy with submissions and commissions before the holidays. I would love to have a show some time soon.

https://www.facebook.com/matthewbourneart/
https://www.localartistdivision.com.au
 

VOLUNTEER THIS FRIDAY 20th AND SATURDAY 21st!

If anyone would like to come into the gallery and help out CUTTING UP the printed paste-ups, that would be awesome!  Anytime between 12-8pm - if you have some scissors BRING THEM!! There's about 500+ linear meters to snip through ..!!

We begin the install on Friday and over the weekend - with artists invited to come into the space to put up their own work from MONDAY 23rd - THURSDAY 26th - then the show opens on FRIDAY the 27th of NOV. .

aMBUSH Gallery, 
Level 3, Central Park,
28 Broadway, Chippendale 

PASTE MODERNISM Interview With REBECCA MURPHY

What is the medium you most like to work in?
Mostly in acrylic paints and ink on canvas, but I love anything that pushes me out of that comfort zone as well - toy mods, paste-ups, printmaking, sculpture, silver smithing, whatever.

What are your thoughts about the medium of the paste-up?
I love the ephemeral nature of the paste-up. They're quick to put up, messy, fun, and anyone can do it - the only limits are what you can imagine and how strong your paste is.

REBECCA MURPHY

ARTIST: REBECCA MURPHY
LOCATION: SYDNEY

Tell us about your studio/where you make your art.
My studio is a little beachside flat in Sydneys southern suburbs, which I share with a bluetongue called Trouble. It's always changing, and looks pretty chaotic most of the time, with every available surface covered in pots of paint, sketches, and random art crap (power tools, glass taxidermy eyes, reference books, anything I might use). There's a very loose kind of organization to it all. I used to move around pretty regularly, wanderlust style, but once I walked in the door here I stopped moving and got busy creating.

REBECCA MURPHY

What will you be sending us for this year's PASTE MODERNISM?
Two decent sized hand painted pieces. The first is a raw hearted girl, riffing on the piece I did for PM3. The second is a satiated sekhmet, the egyptian lion goddess whose bloodlust was only quenched after being tricked into drinking a river nile full of wine. So basically a sexy drunk cat lady.

REBECCA MURPHY

What other projects/exhibitions/events are coming up for you soon?
The 30th Anniversary Screaming Hand art show, which I am so stoked to have been invited to mod a screaming hand sculpture for, is in Melbourne right now, then touring on to Japan and onwards.
Push/Pop/Kick : Adaptions of Skate Culture group show is about to open on another leg of its tour as well, at Valkarie Gallery in Colorado.
I'm working on a couple of collab pieces with Deanist - one featuring his tiger and another featuring one of my girls, which are going to look amazing.
I did some artwork for 100 Squared which I think was just installed, paste-up style, in their Melbourne space by Toby of Just Another Agency. And I'm planning on expanding my #rebeccamurphyintype project to include the whole alphabet. That's gonna be pretty fun.

www.rebecca-murphy.net
www.instagram.com/rebeccamurphy
www.facebook.com/rebeccamurphy

PASTE MODERNISM Interview With STEPHEN GREGORY

ARTIST: STEPHEN GREGORY
LOCATION: Brisbane, Australia currently

What medium do you most like to work in?
I work across quite a few different mediums so that’s a tough call. They’re all great in their own ways. I love hand drawing because of the physical control but I’ve recently gotten very into mixed media work using a lot of digital elements because I needed a way to make art when I was broke and it has a kind of unpredictable, mash-up quality to it which I enjoy.

STEPHEN GREGORY

What are your thoughts about the medium of the paste-up?
I love it. This is the first time I’ve worked with paste ups and I’m definitely going to be using them more in the future. It’s quite an immediate medium which I like and it can combine so many elements I love from digital manipulation to painting and drawing. It also allows you to produce and reproduce large scale works quite easily which is great.

Tell us about your studio/where you make your art.
I make my art wherever I am honestly. I don’t have a set studio space at the moment. I’ve made art everywhere from friend’s balconies to nightclubs but in the times when I do need some sort of set up it’s usually me with a laptop, lots of “bad” pop music, paper, pens and paint everywhere and cigarettes. I always tell myself I’m going to start working in a more controlled environment but it never really happens. I’m pretty all over the place.

STEPHEN GREGORY

What will you be sending us for this year's PASTE MODERNISM?
I’m sending a few images I’ve worked on over the past few months and some created specifically for this show. I think the series is a good representation of the themes and messages that are reoccurring in my work. There’s zombies and popstars, I have one piece which kind of compares Disney to the sex trade. It’s all statements on modern pop culture and what we think, or rather what we are told is beautiful or desirable and juxtaposing that with the reality of what is actually going on.

STEPHEN GREGORY

What other projects/exhibitions/events are coming up for you soon?
I’m going to be speaking on a panel about celebrity culture and feminism at 2High Festival early next year and I’m in the early stages of planning my next solo show which I’m going to shop around. I’ve been doing a lot of work that incorporates gay porn and BDSM so that’s going to be super fun to flash around to people.

instagram: @stephengregoryartist
facebook.com/stephengregoryartist

PASTE MODERNISM interview with OLIVE 47

ARTIST: OLIVE47
LOCATION: Currently in Atlanta, soon to be back home in Los Angeles

What is the medium you most like to work in?
I've been doing a lot of murals the past couple years. I like painting large scale because it’s a full body experience and I get to have massive cans of colours in my possession at all times. Also, my close up vision is going, so it’s easier on my eyes.

OLIVE47

What are your thoughts about the medium of the paste-up?
• I like doing paste ups because it’s quick. If I want to do something not quite so legal, I want to get out of there and not hang out. I am too delicate to go to jail.
• It’s a good way to get a repetitive message across as well, which could be useful for visual mind control schemes. Not that I want to do that.
• A lot of wheat paste looks like cum.

OLIVE'S STUDIO

Tell us about your studio/where you make your art.
My apartment is my studio. It started off as just the lounge, but has taken over the bedroom and paint cans line the kitchen. It’s always in a state of slightly organized chaos. As soon as I clean up after one project, the next art tornado hits. I could really use a housekeeper. (see above)

OLIVE47

What will you be sending us for this year's PASTE MODERNISM?
Oh, the usual.. some animals, sperm, a one-eyed vagina or two and maybe a couple of completely handpainted pieces..
What other projects/exhibitions/events are coming up for you soon?
I am finishing up a mural project I’ve been doing in the neighborhood of Historic South Atlanta for the past couple of years, then a couple more mural commissions and then off to Los Angeles.
www.olive47.com
facebook: /olive47 IG: olive47 twitter: miss_olive47

PASTE MODERNISM Interview With JEROEN HUIJBREGTS

Your location: Amsterdam

What is usually people's reaction to your pop culture mash-ups, and why do you enjoy making these amazing artworks?
I get a lot of positive reactions, especially from outside of The Netherlands. For some reason it's not that big a deal over here yet. It seems like the imagery I use in my work gets recognized, but doesn't draw the same type of response as it does in other countries. I feel that this branch of pop culture just never was as a big a part of Dutch culture as it has in other places on this planet.
In my work I try to blend two recognizable icons of popular culture. This results in a whole new image that's recognizable, but is something completely new and able to stand on its own as more than just the sum of two parts. I particularly enjoy the research, and finding out how I can bring different shapes, forms and emotions together in one new image

JEROEN HUIJBREGTS

What are your thoughts/experiences about the medium of the paste-up?
I actually have no experience with Paste Ups, but I love the medium. It's an amazing way to transform a wall or object into something completely different, with whatever (street)art you desire. There's no limit in shape, subject or size. It's something I might try to get into in 2016.

Tell us about your studio/where you make your art.
I recently started sharing a studio with Amsterdam based painter Sit (http://www.sitnie.com). It's a great space that allows me to work on larger pieces. At home I have a small desk where I develop concepts for new works and create some of my smaller pieces.

JEROEN HUIJBREGTS

What will you be sending us for this year's PASTE MODERNISM?
There's three thing: first there's the Marge Monster, it's one of my first and most recognizable works. Secondly, de EVOLOVE, which is not as well know as some of my other stuff but it's a piece I'm really proud of. Last but not least there's The Hand. It's a brand new piece, and it introduces a more conceptual style that I'm hoping to continue to develop in 2016.

JEROEN HUIJBREGTS

What other projects/exhibitions/events are coming up for you soon?
I have nothing in the works right now, besides Paste Modernism of course. In the next few months I'm going to focus on creating larger works, which is a new chapter for me. I also have plans to publish a book, featuring the mash up designs I did for Stupid Krap. Besides all that, I'm constantly working on perfecting and innovating my style and continue to do what I love.

https://www.instagram.com/jeroenhuijbregts/
www.jeroenhuijbregts.com

PASTE MODERNISM Interview with EDGARR

What is the medium you most like to work in?
Lately I've been getting into digital art and finding out ways I can teleport them into the analog world. That can be anything from aerosol to ink.
What are your thoughts on the medium of the paste-up?
The medium of the paste up is limitless. I can take a photo of your face, fuck it on my iPad and print it to A0 for less than 6 bucks. Now stick it to the wall and your'e done. In other words i love this medium.

EDGARR

What is your studio/workspace environment like?
Im used to working in a backyard on the account of having to use industrial paint equipment. I believe i can turn most spaces into a factory.

What will you be sending us for PASTE MODERNISM 4?
Ive got some religious themed prints i'll be sending in. Ive been having fun with famous religious scenes/sculptures and have been recreating them.

EDGARR

What other projects/events/exhibitions do you have coming up?
'll have over a hundred paintings for sale in 107 projects coming up in December as part of a character study along with other artists.
https://www.facebook.com/edgarr.arrt

EDGARR

PASTE MODERNISM Interview with CREON

Interview with CREON
Location: Sydney, Australia

What is the medium you most like to work in?
Although in the past I’ve tried and enjoyed all traditional mediums, the main mediums I use in my practice these days is acrylic and aerosols. In the near future I’d like to play around with two other medium formulas. The first is gouache over watercolour and the second is ‘prismacolour’ pencils over opaque high flow acrylic in airbrush.
What are your thoughts about the medium of the paste-up? 
I love paste ups because you can just get yaself a big roll of paper and just take ya time in your studio to do ya thing on it then roll it up, chuck it in ya bag along with ya broom n bottle of paste (made out of ya secret recipe) then go out and quickly put it up for viewing. You can either do a picture, then cut around it (leaving a desired sized border) and then put it up on a wall somewhere.  You can print off rolls of your design and effectively wall paper a masterpiece strip by strip, floor to ceiling over the whole damn wall.

Tell us about your studio/where you make your art.
I have just recently set up a studio space in my large bedroom at Anthony Listers studio in Sydney. We also have Ben Frost staying with us during the lead up to PM4. Before that i was sharing a space with Jodee Knowles. In my studio now I have a large drawing machine desk that i use for drawing, sketching or refining smaller paintings. it has a drafting mechanism with rotating set square rulers attached which is great for when i need to do any architectural plans for my building business. The desk can also be repositioned to anywhere from horizontal to vertical. I love it. My shelves of all my jars, brushes, pastels, charcoals, colic markers, inks n all that shit are kept next to a filing cabinet full of spray cans, tools and house paints etc. I always have a large wall or two for hanging the pieces that I’m working on and i always have floor space for when i stand on a stool to achieve large splatters.
What will you be sending us for this year's PASTE MODERNISM?
Last Paste Modernism I submitted an extra large piece that covered about 4-5 sqm. This year I plan to do around 3 sitting a little under half that size. My subject matter of late has been monsters n 'humorous horror' i guess. So i imagine these new works will continue from that. One idea I'm playing with is a vampire with syringes for fangs attacking a naked woman. I’m leaning more towards a sensual scene (typical of vampires) as apposed to a violent attack (typical of zombies).

What other projects/exhibitions/events are coming up for you soon?
I have three works submitted to a group show called 'killing me softly’ which is at Z gallery 86 Abbercrombie st Chippendale and opens this Sat Nov 7th. Before long I can see myself aiming at a solo show somewhere interesting n some time in the realistic yet foreseeable future. In the meantime i will try and hustle myself into as many shows as i can. Maybe even drop some stuff on the streets again. Its been a while.

PASTE MODERNISM Interview With DENIAL

Interview with DENIAL
Location: Windsor, Canada

What is the medium you most like to work in?
I use aerosol paint through all different kinds of cut stencils. I also mostly do a lot of printed paste up posters and stickers for my work in the streets. I also do large scale legal murals.
What are your thoughts about the medium of the paste-up?
I have been using paste ups for over a decade now and I love it. You can easily get your message/image up with relative ease. In bigger cities you can also blend in to the background a bit, most people just think you are putting up ads.  

DENIAL

What will you be sending us for this year's PASTE MODERNISM?
I am putting a few of my classic images I have put up for a long time. My misfits spoof, denial kid and a few others.
What other projects/exhibitions/events are coming up for you soon?
I have a solo exhibition December 18th in Detroit called ENJOY DENIAL.

DENIAL

www.enjoydenial.com

DENIAL

PASTE MODERNISM Interview With CAMO

Interview with CAMO
Location: Sydney, Australia

What is the medium you most like to work in?
Aerosol and stencils
What are your thoughts about the medium of the paste-up?
Fast, efficient, fun, one of the best ‘bombing’ tools for a street artist, anyone can make them, messy, anything goes when it comes to pasteups. .

Tell us about your studio/where you make your art.
I make all my art at a home studio. I have just moved to a new space in the inner west of Sydney and im pretty excited at the possibilities. I plan on opening a small gallery at the same space with my partner (Karen Farmer) in the near future as well as making the most of the space we have for producing new works.
What will you be sending us for this year's PASTE MODERNISM?
Paste ups …. Haha... Im not exactly sure yet, ill probably paint up some older stencils that I haven’t done for a while as well as some new ones.

What other projects/exhibitions/events are coming up for you soon?
Nothing really coming up in the way of gallery shows, I have a few bigger walls to paint soon which im really looking forward to, setting up our new space is also taking up a fair bit of time. I’m also running stencil workshops at Workshop Sydney now.
Other than that, the streets are always there.

www.camostreetart.com
Instagram: @camo_streetart
Facebook: camo streetart

CAMO

PASTE MODERNISM Interview with TEENS ON ACID

Interview with TEENS ON ACID
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland

What is the medium you most like to work in?
Ink and paint on paper or wood
What are your thoughts about the medium of the paste-up?
Love it. works anywhere and everywhere. Immediate impact and doesn't limit the artist to any style or method of creating...drawing, digital, paint..everything can be pasted.
Tell us about your studio/where you make your art.
I share a single room studio with my lady Kat Kalindi at our house. Instead of a master bedroom we converted it to a pretty chill studio space filled with the usual ; toys, art and books. It's a perfect spot for working small or digital, so when it comes time to paint or go any larger than A3 I get relegated to the backyard.

What will you be sending us for this year's PASTE MODERNISM?
i'll be sending some character jams mostly featuring disney and hanna barbera characters looking a little less savory than they usually do plus some original characters dealing various illegal mind altering substances.

What other projects/exhibitions/events are coming up for you soon?
First up is Fastplant in Toowoomba, a skateboard artshow featuring some incredible artists. After that I'm painting at Jungle Love festive on the Sunshine Coast with a crew of QLD's finest. Then I go all in on prep for a show at Bench Espresso next March. In amongst all that I'm working on a clothing brand, Enemy and as usual pushing my own personal shit on Teens on Acid.

URL's:
teensonacid.com
instagram.com/teensonacid

PASTE MODERNISM Interview with THE MASSIVE

Interview with: THE MASSIVE
Location : Sydney City.
What is the medium you most like to work in?
My favourite medium is wet concrete, it's timeless, it's still brings me the same joy writing my name in fresh concrete now as it did when I was a tiny boy.
What are your thoughts about the medium of the paste-up?
The pasteup is a great entry point to street art, low risk, super quick application time, and you can always remove it if you're caught red handed. In the context of paste modernism it's awesome, virtual unknowns can exhibit alongside some of the biggest names in the world.

Tell us about your studio/where you make your art.
I haven't really had a studio as such for a few years now, I make my art on the run, and I try to work in different mediums and at a wide variety of scales, so it depends on the brief, one day I'll be working at my mates jewellery studio, another day I'll be in a welding workshop, at other times I'll send files to Mumbai for vectoring or be getting something made in China, my most frequently used workspace is my van, loaded with paint and ladders so as to facilitate the use of my favourite canvas, the street. 
What will you be sending us for this year's PASTE MODERNISM?
There will be a classic black and white comic book cover graphic I made earlier in the year, with some hand coloured elements and some oversized full colour character appropriations, if you wanna know more than that you'll have to come to the show... 

What other projects/exhibitions/events are coming up for you soon? 
This week is the screaming hand show celebrating the 30th anniversary of the legendary graphic by Jim Phillips, which is an exciting honour to be a part of. I'm working on a sculpt of my can character, and still working on my little apartment here in sydney, the next big project for that is with Bei Bad Girl, together we're gonna convert my bathroom into a Kawaii as fuck "Bei-throom" and you thought women spent a long time in your bathroom ? Wait for this....
http://instagram.com/anamelessforce

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