Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th March 11am-4pm

The Fertile Imagination Captive Breeding Program at Tortuga Studios has exceeded all expectations with warm, dark corners cultivating fertile creation like mould…

The net result is a crew of wildly imaginative artists in residence and an unnervingly large swarm of scribbly eyed creatures with well-drawn proportions and domination on the mind.

These cardboard captains of quirk are the product of the most fertile of imaginations, that of street artist BUNKWAA. Spilling furiously from the brink of his mind they continue to fill the cracks between reality and idealism that crackle through the corners of Tortuga.

The carpet, sticky with creative juice, is out and the little people are waiting… come on down to meet them and all the artists in residence at Tortuga as part of the Marrickville Open Studio Tour and ART MONTH SYDNEY.

ART MONTH SYDNEY
Marrickville Open Studio Tour
Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th March
11am-4pm
www.tortugastudios.org.au
http://bunkwaa.blogspot.com.au/
http://www.artmonthsydney.com.au/

interact with our facebook event page

http://www.artmonthsydney.com.au/explore/marrickville-open-studio-trail-most/

see also

http://www.artmonthsydney.com.au/see/skein/

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Denis Mizzi
BUNKWAA
Dan Lovallo
Philippe Vincent – PV1
Douglas Mitchell
Terra Incognita
Chris Fox
Pete Strong
Giles Morgan
Cheungha Lim
Andros
Lu Campbell Smith
Ivan Smith
Cameron Stanton
Edward Horne
Alex Holver
H Morgan-Harris

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Rippling with bravado, Pictura Australiana channels the iconic brashness of the Young British Artist (YBA) scene of 90s London, with a distinctly Australian bent.

As part of ART MONTH 2012, sex, death, religion and much more are dissected through the murky prism of kitchen-sink realism, with a glint of backyard Australiana.

Featuring the work of 14 fresh emerging and established artists Pictura Australiana promised to be edgy, unembarrassed and proudly independent. A carnival ride into provocative sensationalism, decked in stripy sideshow awnings heavy with irony, the ringmaster ring-in is clutching a coldie and resting a leaking meat pie on his beer belly.

ARTISTS (in alphabetical order)
Will Coles, Claire Conroy, Perran Costi, Michaela Davies, Chris Fox, Justin Harvey, Charlotte Haywood, Clare Holland, Edward Horne, Garth Knight, Justin Maynard, H Morgan-Harris, Dean Sewell, Cameron Stanton,
Peter Strong

The Pictura Australiana Show runs from 16th March until 30 March 2012

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