In November a team of skilled tradesmen will head over to assist in re-building these destroyed homes along with training the locals with the skills to continue restoring this damaged community.

The cost of each home is $4,500 AUD, and our goal is to raise enough funds on the night for 2 x homes. The night and day will consist of an art exhibition, a silent auction with insane prizes-including 2 x LAN Airline tickets, a raffle with surfboards and clothing prize packs, with all proceeds going to the cause.

Plus they have some unreal bands lined up which include ‘The Villainares’ and ‘Hong Kong’ along with plenty of free booze and mountains of epic artwork from the coolest love cats around….

THE FACTORY oF YEAH

Exhibition Dates
Opening Night – Friday 27th August
6pm – 11-pm

Saturday 28th August
10am – 4pm

Address
194 Harbord Rd, Brookvale, NSW, 2100 ( Just after the speed camera )

OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY 6TH AUGUST 6PM-10PM
EXHIBITION RUNS UNTIL 3RD SEPTEMBER 2010
THE NATIONAL GRID GALLERY. 24 CHARD RD. BROOKVALE
WWW.THENATIONALGRID.COM.AU

Opening Night: Friday 18th June 2010 from 6-10pm
The National Grid Gallery. 24 Chard Road, Brookvale NSW 2100.

Exhibition is open from 19th June until 23rd July 2010.
Opening Hours Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm :: Saturday 12pm – 3pm

The exhibition is a celebration female artistic talent from around the world.
Each artist has been requested to produce an original piece specifically for this event.
None of the work will have been seen anywhere before.
The band ‘KissKiss n Tell’ will also be performing LIVE on the night.

Featuring:
KAREENA ZEREFOS :: EMMA SHELDRAKE :: KELLY THOMPSON :: ANDREA INNOCENT
BRIDGE STEHLI :: MIMI YOON :: LARA ALLPORT :: CARLY CASEY :: RACHEL WELLS
SHANNON CREES :: BEC WINNEL :: CLAIRE REID :: BEC CROCKETT :: MADDI BOYD
REBECCAH DENT :: MIA TANINAKA :: KAITLIN BECKETT :: JAIMEE PAUL
:: ROZANNA JOHNSON :: KRISTY MILLIKEN :: KATHERINE BARRETT :: RUTH CADIOLI

How long have you been using water colour as a medium?
Actually its ink, but i use it like watercolour. I’ve been working with it for about 2 years now.

Who inspires / influences you?
The news, people in the line at the supermarket. When things stop being exciting and new and start becoming normal and dull. I self impose a ban on looking at other artists work while i’m working on my latest series. Now the work for this show is complete, I’m looking forward to checking out all the Anthony Lister, Kill Pixie, Marcel Dzama and Tim Hussey work I’ve missed in the last couple of months.

What compels you to paint really fat people?
Its a weird time for fat. Fat is both confronting and can be the most normal thing in the world, its the context thats important. Plus I’m sick of all the pictures of skinny girls that seem to be everywhere.

Have fat people always been your thing, or is it the current trend in your work?
No, it’s a fairly recent thing.

Is there a hidden meaning/ message that you are trying to communicate in your work?
Theres a few reoccurring themes i get hooked on. Greed, beauty, the fact that it’s ok to be average.

What was it like working in the amateur porn industry and how has it affected the way you see the world?
It’s great to be exposed to that much nudity from an artistic point of view. Being saturated with beautiful girls everyday can take its toll, nowadays the things I find attractive are the imperfections.

Do you like spaghetti?
Love it!

‘A life slowed down for the observer’
Artwork by Kristy Milliken

Opening Night: Friday 7th May 2010
Exhibition is open from 8th May until 11th June

The exhibition opens Friday 18th December from 6pm.

The show will be open until Friday the 22nd January.

Gallery is closed for holidays from December 23rd Until January 5th.


Ben Brown was born with super thermo x-ray vision which, naturally enough, lead to an obsessive relationship with skulls & bones. He has worked for a mixed variety of clients for over twenty years. His commissions range across publishing, clothing apparel and the music industry. He has designed an extensive range of music posters for performers like Silverchair, nirvana, fat boy slim, Frenzal rhomb and the hoodoo gurus, as well as events including the Big Day Out, Good Vibrations Festival, Homebake, the falls festival and others. He contributes a regular comic strip to notorious surfing publication ‘stab’, and provides illustration for many other titles. Ben also creates graphics to cover all manner of clothing for clients like Insight, Mambo, Globe, O’Neill, Rip Curl, Ocean & Earth, Nice produce and Supply. 

Opening Night: Friday 25th September 2009 6pm-9pm

Exhibition is open from 26th September until 16th October

Come and Join us for beers and art.

Gallery opening hours, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
Saturday 11am-3pm