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Shea O'Neill — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:17:57 +0000

Dear Friends

You may have been wondering where we’ve been for the past month. Fear not, we are still alive and have been off on adventures again. As I write this the SIDEROOM.COM team are spread across the globe causing creative mayhem in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Auckland and Chile.

We apologize to you all for the lack of updates, but be assured we are collecting amazing stories along the way and as always plotting great schemes for creative world domination. You will hear about it all very soon.

Thank you to everyone who has sent in submissions. I promise we haven’t forgotten you and they will be posted as soon as we are back in the world of reliable internet.

Much Love

The SIDEROOM.COM crew.

endemicworld.com | Videos

Shea O'Neill — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:34:08 +0000

Check out these sweet videos our friends at endemicworld.com have released to showcase some of their creative collaborators.

The Making of Endless Summer from endemicworld.com on Vimeo.

The Cut Collective – New Zealand from endemicworld.com on Vimeo.

Alice Fennessy

Shea O'Neill — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:42:04 +0000

Alice Fennessy’s work employs her personal dreams as subject matter, allowing her to re-imagine banal aspects of every day life through painting.

Her work consists of oil paintings on denim and velvet; textiles that are stooped in the traditions of bogan fantasy art. The work aims to mine these suburban appropriations of dream art, as seen in countless album covers, on panel vans and in cheap op shop reproductions, as these references relate to her personal experiences and background.

Her work aims to explore the place where the banal meets the fantastical, representing the symbolic icons of dreams.

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Natalie Britten

Shea O'Neill — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:59:48 +0000

Natalie Britten is an emerging portrait artist and comedian. She gets a bit lonely sometimes, when sitting inside painting all day and she also loves collaborative work. So she has come up with a way to include other people in her painting process. Is there something you’d love to see turned into a painting? It could be anything, from a person to an animal, from a beach scene to you’re favorite movie poster, you could even inspire her with a word. Natalie can make anything happen. Send her an idea (natalie@nataliebritten.com) or post to her facebook page “The Natalie Britten”and the one that inspires her the most, will be painted, shown in an exhibition and then you can keep it.

Kate Lepper

Shea O'Neill — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:46:16 +0000

Sensual tactility, delicious colour, yielding forms, playful surfaces, humorous propositions and incidental absurdity are all nutritive qualities.

Kate Lepper’s easy aesthetic, drawing on toys, furniture, clothing, and utensils, seeks to seduce with unsophisticated accessibility. Often involving vegetables, plants or animal remnants and plastic, psuedo functional objects and installations attribute emotional experience to the inanimate, and suggest unlikely uses for the useless.

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The Blue Trees

Shea O'Neill — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:42:06 +0000

Brick Bay Sculpture Trail have announced their Temporary Artist Project for Summer: The Blue Trees by Konstantin Dimopoulos. An international project firstly realised in Melbourne, Australia then in Vancouver, Canada and which the artist is taking around the world, this is an eagerly anticipated event. Dimopoulos will transform trees at Brick Bay into an electric ultramarine blue walkway using biodegradable pigment.

The vibrant Blue Trees call to attention the issue of deforestation and its impact on global warming. Every year some 800,000 miles of forest are felled, trees which breathe for the planet, and without them temperatures rise. Often overlooked in daily life, trees are enormously important to our survival.

The ultramarine pigment is biologically safe within a water base and classified as a non-hazardous substance, harmless to humans and the natural world. Over time the colour naturally degrades and trees return to their natural state.

The artist will give a talk on site at 11am Sunday 4th December.

More info here

Tom Lark

Shea O'Neill — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:17:56 +0000

Tom Lark got his start when his routine practice space was demolished in the aftermath of the September 2010 earthquake. Rather than be discouraged by the setback, Lark instead found inspiration in the newfound restrictions and was soon penning new songs in a fresh voice and style. Armed with only this new set of songs and whatever instruments he could immediately lay his hands on, the self titled Tom Lark EP was born. The resulting work marries ricocheting samples with folk guitar work, a plaintive voice and a deft sense of storytelling.

Download the Tom Lark EP for free

Lauren Stewart

Shea O'Neill — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:41:20 +0000

Lauren Stewart is an artist living in Wellington.

This series of paintings is influenced by sites such as mines and quarries where the physical surface of the earth has been excavated.

Lauren has always been interested in the materiality of paint when it is diluted, the way it pools and moves across the surface and the element of chance that it has as it cannot be completely controlled. The most important idea behind this work to her is loss, the land that is excavated will never be returned and that landscape is forever altered. She has responded to the removal of the land by using a solvent to remove the top surface of paint and exposing what is underneath.

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Chris Wilson

Shea O'Neill — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:46:08 +0000

Chris Wilson was born in Southern California. With a deep fascination developing early on for visual arts, he soon began to dedicate his time to drawing and painting.

His influences range from old Twilight Zone episodes, strange things in nature and postmodern literature. Combining to create a style distinctly his own, mysterious, direct and oddly quirky.

Currently, Chris lives and works in San Diego as a freelance art director and illustrator, while exhibiting his work in galleries around the world.

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Petunia and Petal

Shea O'Neill — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:29:04 +0000

Simon Peters and Tanja Jade have collaborated to create these awesome little animations. They came up with the idea of these naughty lil’ twins; Petunia & Petal, who create havoc generally and are super nasty and cute.

Check out more episodes