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Character Design & Development

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Work by Simon Ormerod

Work by Simon Ormerod

Join some of New Zealand’s leading street artists, Cinzah Seeyakem & Simon Ormerod (Cracked Ink), for a 3 hour workshop exploring character design & development using a range of different mark making materials & techniques. This session is designed to increase your appreciation of creative expression and finding your own unique style, and how to use available materials to best suit your style.

www.flickr.com/photos/seekayem

http://www.crackedink.com/

Session dates & Times: Tuesday 12th October 6pm – 9pm

Venue: Collingwood Underground Arts Park, 44 Harmsworth Street, Collingwood VIC

Cost: $25

Enquiries: Contact Debbie Hall debbie_hall@bigpond.com or call 0431363097

Sweet Streets at BSG Event/Exhibition- WED 13 OCT 6pm

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Through a small bookshop, squashed between two kebab shops, and up some narrow stairs, you will find the hidden gem that is the Sweet Streets at BSG exhibition.

Finding the place may be tricky, but it is worth the effort as Brunswick Street Gallery and the Sweet Streets Festival presents an amazing show of urban and street artists from Australia and New Zealand during the Sweet Streets Festival (8-21 october).

This cross-tasman show will feature artists working in comic illustration, stencil, free-hand graffiti, screen-printing, mixed media, and painting.

FEATURING:

Cracked Ink (NZ) -   Cinzah Seeyakem (NZ) -   Liam Moore (NZ)

PNTR (NZ) -   Rhys Burnie   -   Nate Gamble   -   Deb -   Jo Waite

Megan Dell -   Bados Earthling   -   Heesco  -  KA’a

Come party with the artists on opening night:

A free event on Wednesday 13th October, from 6pm featuring music by A DJ CALLED MATT!

Cracked Ink

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I grew up in the North of England for most of my life. I’m 30 years old and based in New Zealand about 1 hour north of Auckland in the sticks.

I started painting about 9 years ago, when I was an Art student. My stylz are crazy, monsterish characters, pretty much everyday observations, but twisted ever so slightly. I think my style also has humor, it’s easy to understand my characters whether it be there personality, expression or plain and simple face value.

The name cracked ink came about after a series of characters I did when I first came ova to NZ, they were a little disturbed, visually and expression wise, and It kinda came through that, I thought the word cracked was quite relevant for the style that I worked in too, old objects that are pretty ruined, demolished, and the ink, well that’s were it all starts.

At the moment my Art work is not a full time career as much as I would enjoy that, my art is definitely a full-time affair, because it’s my life, no matter whether it’s something simple or complex I’m always thinking about or doing my work, it’s an addiction.

Check out Simon’s work in various festival events including:

- The Sweet Streets Award Exhibition: 8-24 October, 1000 Pound Ben

- Sweet Streets At BSG group show: 8-21 Oct (opening night 13 Oct), Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy

- Live Painting Street Murals (exact locations to be announced)

www.crackedink.com

Cinzah Seeyakem

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Cinzah ‘Seekayem’ Merkens is an Auckland based Artist/Illustrator. Over the past 5 years he has exhibited in numerous exhibitions and expeditions throughout Australasia, South East Asia and the U.S. Cinzah quite often draws directly from his own imagination and past experiences, exploring familiar themes such as Childhood Nostalgia, daydreaming, nature, travel, and studies of slightly deranged city folk.

In 2007 Cinzah was awarded the ‘People’s Choice’ Award by the Auckland Art Gallery for a collaborative installation within the Auckland art gallery as part of the ‘Off the Wall’ Exhibition. Cinzah was also invited to be a guest artist as part of the 2008 Malaysia ‘Meeting of Characters’ Graffiti art convention in Kuala Lumpur.
His work has been exhibited alongside some of New Zealand and the U.S best established artists such as Misery, The Cut Collective, Rob Tucker, Nigel Brown, Philip Clairmont, Michael Tuffery, Fatu Feeu, Greg Craola Simkins, Greg Manchester, Anton Petrov and many more. Cinzah is currently working as a freelance Illustrator represented by Watermark Ltd. At the moment Cinzah is working towards a Solo Art Exhibition in Auckland, a traveling street art tour throughout South East Asia, and another solo show in Tokyo, Japan.

Check out Cinzah’s work at various events during the Sweet Streets Festival including:

- The Award Exhibition: 8-24th Oct, 1000 Pound Bend

- Sweet Streets at BSG, group show at Brunswick Street Gallery: 8-21st Oct, with opening night 13th Oct

- Live street- mural painting (exact locations to  be announced)

PNTR

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I currently reside in Wellington, where I work as a visual artist as part of ‘I WEAR THEM’ studios; after completing a BFA at Otago School of Art in 2008.

Several areas of my current practice step outside of conventional means of galleries and into quintessential public space which forms a dialogue outside co modified media. The street being an area for public communication and response without permanence.

I use printmaking and painting as a way of bringing art to the people, printmaking being a perfect medium for this because you can create multiples of an image and install them in different contexts and the whole work changes.

My current working practice somehow mediates between conceptual ideas and a more intuitive aesthetic experimentation where I’m interested in objects which don’t feel important and aren’t valued, from cardboard boxes to concrete sinter blocks. I want to
start with objects which are as dumb and inert as I can find and see where I end up at the end of this project which will be exhibited as part of a group show at BSG on the 13th October.

Check out PNTR’s work at various Sweet Streets events including:

- The Sweet Streets at BSG group exhibition: 8-21st October, with opening night 13th Oct, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy)

- Live painting murals (exact locations to be announced)

www.withgrittedteeth.com

DRYPNZ

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Drypnz is a New Zealand based paint mover. For the past five years he has been creating murals and street works that imitate experiences, and the people he finds surround him. The output is characters called Drypppls. They try and explain and expand the notion that, ‘the human race is in a state of dis-evolution, revealing exaggerated aspects of the human condition and our common traits.

Check out Drynz work in the Sweet Streets Award Exhibition: 8-24 October, 1000 Pound Bend, and his live street-mural painting throughout the festival (exact locations to be announced).

www.drypnz.com