Artists: Antony Micallef
Location: The Outsiders - London
Dates: Friday 9th of March 2012 to Saturday 28th of April 2012
Following the runaway success of Antony Micallef's 2011 show 'Happy Deep Inside My Heart' at Lazarides Rathbone Gallery, The Outsiders London is delighted to announce his next solo show 'A Little Piece of Me' opening this March.
'A Little Piece of Me' consists of ten new examples based on his ongoing 'Head' series, each titled 'A Little Piece of Me' one to ten. Antony paints his Head pieces at the beginning of a painting process and is his way of getting his creative juices flowing, they serve as a way of capturings a certain sentiment - or vehemence.
Antony's relationship with the Head paintings is spontaneous, intimate and physical: "The end result is never known before I begin. The mark making creates the expression of the face, changing it with each stroke. I'm constantly picking up the canvas, turning it around, trying to control the drips and throwing it back down." The Head paintings endure a rigorous edit, and many are destroyed before they make it on to gallery walls.
Antony's Head paintings are highly admired, both by Antony's partisan fans and those viewing his art for the first time. The Outsiders London promises that 'A Little Piece of Me' is a show not to be missed.
Artists: Ravi Zupa
Location: The Outsiders - London
Dates: Friday 13th of January 2012 to Saturday 3rd of March 2012
The Outsiders London is delighted to announce the first ever UK solo show by Denver-based artist Ravi Zupa. It's sex, samurais, exotic goddesses, rappers, guns and money. Zupa uses passionate visual vocabulary to preach messages of compassion which explore the denial of human emotional needs.
Zupa, is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture and with works on paper. He employs recycled materials such as “blueprints, envelopes and old letters salvaged from dumpsters” to work on using “graphite, coloured pencil, India ink, latex and acrylic paint, oil paint and pastel, chalk pastel, relief, block print cut from traffic cones, silk screen and collage – whatever is required.” And in this way the process reflects the message – be aware of needs, and the rewards will be apparent.
Read the press release or view the available works.
Artists: Invader
Location: The Outsiders - London
Dates: Friday 2nd of December 2011 to Saturday 24th of December 2011
Invader descends on London for his solo show 'Attack of the Space Waffles' opening December 2nd at The Outsiders London.
'Space Waffles Attack!' is surreal, spaced-out, and suitably seasonal. Showcasing brand new mosaic Alias', an Invaded Disco Ball, a 20 minute documentary and a 'Space Waffle Machine' discpensing hot waffles throughout the exhibitions for the gallery's Christmas visitors. And that's not even the half of it ...
These mondo marvels and stellar souvenirs will crush everything in their path this Christmas at 'Attack of the Space Waffles!'. Plus the gallery will smell really cosy too!
Artists: Kelsey Brookes
Location: The Outsiders - London
Dates: Friday 4th of November 2011 to Saturday 26th of November 2011
Kelsey Brookes has reinvented psychedelic art for the 21st Century for his UK debut exhibition.
His latest body of work consists of large scale canvases, with paintings of animals, bold geometric shapes and kaleidoscopic abstraction, which is unusually inspired by migranes. The powerful affliction is often associated with not only visual hallucinations but all other 'synaesthetic' experiences (the interpretation of one sense as another, for instance 'hearing' colour). The geometric lines and colours come directly from the hallucinogenic experiences just before the headache.
The work is impulsive, extravagant and spontaneous, an echo of the spirit.
Artists: Michael Muller and Sage Vaughn
Location: The Outsiders - London
Dates: Thursday 6th of October 2011 to Saturday 29th of October 2011
Sage Vaughn: a contemporary painter honed in street art noted for his colourful portrayals of wildlife. Michael Muller: a Hollywood photographer with top-flight production values and a personal penchant for underwater photography, especially of sharks. They surf together, and now they make art together. It’s a symbiotic relationship with absolutely spectacular results.
Sage paints in his signature style over Muller’s magnificent photos, creating a whole that’s greater even than the sum of these particular parts.
“I was introduced to Muller in Malibu by a good friend. He told me about a project he had been working towards down in Mexico: great white sharks, underwater lighting systems, cages, it all sounded incredible.
“We'd meet and talk about life, art, waves... One day he asked if I wanted to get some paint on one of the photos he took of the sharks. When I looked at those shots for the first time, my jaw dropped. I’ve been obsessed with sharks since I was a little kid, and even more so since I started surfing, but I had never seen shark images like these. Mike had taken such a different approach to portraying these amazing animals. The amount of character contained in these creatures’ faces was so beautiful, I couldn’t help but be inspired. When our first collaborative piece was finished we knew we were really on to something...”
Michael adds, “It’s sort of like peanut butter with chocolate. What we discovered was that for some reason the two mediums worked for us and we really felt what was being co-created. Sharks and butterflies somehow took the fear of the solo shark away. I have been diving with and without a cage amongst these amazing animals for years, and personally know how safe we are from them, but how do I translate that which I know to people? Working with Sage has accomplished that for me, I feel these pieces somehow some way show these creatures in the way I feel about them.”
