Meggs – Art / Aerosol / Design

Everfresh studio feature now on Australian INfront website. Some nice behind the scenes photos and insight into the studio. Check it out here.

“The influential Melbourne-based studio Everfresh has played a major part in driving the rise of street art in Australia. Everfresh has gained great notoriety in the city of Melbourne with a large collection of public paintings and murals. The National Gallery of Australia has acquired works from it’s influential members. The studio is now gaining a reputation in the gallery and collecting scene. Everfresh counts among its members some of most respected, innovative and widely recognised underground artists in this country.”
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St. Alis coffee in yarra Place, South Melbourne, is generously supporting a painting project of the entire lenght of the Yarra Place Laneway. 10 large scale individual murals will be done by 10 artists (including myself) over a period of three days from the 5th to 7th of Feb. There is a laneway party on Sat the 6th from 12pm onwards as well as an associated alleycat race. All details are on the flyer below, hope you can make it down on the 6th, will be a rad event:
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ZeroCool Gallery (UK) has just informed me that The Victoria and Albert Museum has recently bought one of my ‘Save Me (From My Self)’ prints for their permanent collection and it will feature in a touring exhibition of prints from this collection which will visit museums around the UK over the next year. Stoked!

You can see the ‘Save Me’ prints for sale at ZeroCool here.
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Preview of my piece for the Letterheads 2010 exhibition: http://www.ltrhds.com/

Featuring an amazing lin-up of artists (including Graeme Base !!), Letterheads 2010 brings together twenty-six contemporary artists to each re-envisioned a single letter of the English alphabet, creating a collection that explores the influence of the ubiquitous letterform in all aspects of contemporary art.

Check Ltrhds website for details, more info will be posted here closer to the show.
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Reports from Gallery 1988 LA are that the “Under The Influence: He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe” opening was insane! There was literally a line for 2 blocks ALL NIGHT LONG. For the first time in the galleries 6 year history, they stayed open almost an hour after the advertised closing time! Again I wish I had been there, but stoked just to have been included in the line-up nonetheless. Heres some pics from the show and my finished piece ‘Skeletor was OG’, enjoy!
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‘Skeletor was OG’ (below)
aerosol and acrylic on plywood
35.5 x 35.5 inches

Awesome video of Saber talking about his ‘Flag 2010′ painting and prints. Interestingly i was recently discussing the problems of America’s health system and (along with some other issues) it has influenced a piece a just finished for the upcoming letterheads exhibition tiled ‘False Idols Will Fall’. Anyway this is a really interesting perspective on how ‘right-wingnut’ media miss the real point of art reflecting a valid social issue and instead go all patriotic lynchmob. Dope work Saber! Fuck the ignorant!

G1988 LA have posted this preview of the installation/transformation of the Gallery
into Castle Greyskull. Set to be an epic show, damn I wish i was in LA right now!
If you are and you don’t go to this, I will kill you.
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Each year Gallery 1988 holds a “Under The Influence” art show. In years past, they’ve done tribute shows to the Beastie Boys and Stan Lee. This year’s honoree is a tribute to He-Man and The Masters of the Universe. Over 100 artists are contributing to the exhibition, each contributing their “unique vision of the wonderfully rich fantasy world of eternia.”

I am stoked to be included in this incredible line-up of artists and of course as a childhood fan of all things He-Man it was good to have yet another excuse for a  skeletor painting! (You can see a preview of my piece here: http://houseofmeggs.com/blog/archives/1133
If your in LA you should definately head down to this show. Its supported by Mattel and G1988 are transforming their space into a real life castle GreySkull, should be epic!
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So 2009 is finally over and personally i breath a sigh of relief. I’ve had a lot of great experiences this year, but equally a fair amount of difficulty so am looking to a fresh start now in 2010, ready to work hard and make it all count for something. It feels like globally theres been enough turmoil and strange energy this year for a lot of people.

Thanks to all my friends, family and art lovers for their support. I wont crap on too much about resolutions and the like, I’d just like to wish everyone a happy new year and all the best for a new decade. Peace!