EXHIBITIONS

SAGE VAUGHN AND MICHAEL MULLER | KINGDOM

Artists: Sage Vaughn and Michael Muller
Location: The Outsiders Newcastle
Dates: Friday 10th of May 2013 to Saturday 15th of June 2013

Kingdom sees painter Sage Vaughn and photographer Michael Muller return to The Outsiders for another breathtaking collaborative exhibition.

Last of the true romantics, Sage's dreamlike paintings contrast primal beauty – of the natural world, or childhood for example – against the often soulless secularism of a 21st-century existence. Michael is the world's foremost underwater photographer, yet while the photographic side of the duo's last exhibition focused entirely on sharks, Kingdom is themed around Michael's incredible shots of dry land predators. Sage paints on top of Michael's digital images, creating entrancing images that challenge conventional notions of beauty and violence.

Take a walk on the wild side this spring at The Outsiders Newcastle.

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RAVI ZUPA | COLOUR DEFICIENT

Artists: Ravi Zupa
Location: The Outsiders Newcastle
Dates: Friday 5th of April 2013 to Saturday 4th of May 2013

Ravi Zupa's work appears to be collage, but it is almost all hand painted. Mythology, warfare, hip hop and sexuality collide in a riot of colour. "I try to create very controlled, detailed art, influenced by many old masters. I then deface and subvert that control with frenetic, more emotional, abstraction" he says. The Colorado artist is also a dab hand at sculpture and the only marionette maker on The Outsiders' roster. His first European exhibition at The Outsiders London in January 2012 was one of the most successful ever for an artist new to our visitors and clients.

In the past Ravi has worked full-time as an animator in San Francisco. He gives art lessons for free and produces videos for the Anticon Bay Area hiphop collective. Ravi is a history buff who has exhibited in Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles and at the Vice magazine gallery in Mexico City.

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GROUP EXHIBITION | CRUNCH

Artists: Saber, Mode 2, DALeast, Cleon Peterson, Brett Amory, Revok, Know Hope, Doze Green
Location: The Outsiders Newcastle
Dates: Friday 1st of March 2013 to Saturday 30th of March 2013

This extensive group exhibition showcases some of the most compelling names within urban art. Several attained the giddy heights of inclusion in MOCA gallery's landmark Art in the Streets show, and the rest can truly lay claim to the title "international bright young thing". Some create serene work, while others embrace violence. All have created pieces in their sought-after signature styles that are sure to delight admirers.

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NINA PANDOLFO | FEELINGS

Artists: Nina Pandolfo
Location: The Outsiders Newcastle
Dates: Friday 18th of January 2013 to Saturday 23rd of February 2013

There's never been a better time to be a young lady, thinks Brazilian artist Nina Pandolfo (almost certainly correctly). Her Spice Angels portraits are part Manga, part bandes desinées, and part fashion illustration presented with all the lurid and enthralling fantasy of feminist novelist Angela Carter. These large, ambitious canvases in beguiling bright pastels will bring a balmy dollop of sunshine to The Outsiders Newcastle this January.

The exhibition Feelings also includes nymph-like bone china dolls moulded by Nina herself. Come wallow in her world.

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ANTHONY LISTER | UNSLUNG HEROES | NEWCASTLE

Artists: Anthony Lister
Location: The Outsiders Newcastle
Dates: Friday 16th of November 2012 to Saturday 22nd of December 2012

Australian superstar-in-waiting Anthony Lister takes over both The Outsiders gallery spaces in our monumental final exhibition of the year.

Those already familiar with Lister's work will notice Unslung Heroes as something of a departure for the artist. In the past, his trademark has been paintings of super-hero characters indulging in louche behaviour, more inclined to shoot laser beams from their sexual organs than their eyes or gauntlets. "The super-heroes I always described as 'misguiding role models'. Well, the characters in Unslung Heroes are the products of those bad role models. Also this whole show is about people without super-powers who influence us. Super-heroes are just people in costumes after all", says the artist.

Unslung Heroes features impressionist portraits of after-party revellers, dominated by his signature red, black and white colour palette. Hedonistic yet elegant, the canvases exemplify Lister's poetic treatment of highbrow and lowbrow themes, and old masters-meet-street art painting style. Elsewhere in the gallery, Lister has constructed a larger-than-life sized coffin, and daubed the walls with scribblings straight from his own unique stream of consciousness.

Unslung Heroes opens to the public at The Outsiders galleries in Newcastle and London until 22nd December 2012.

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