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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