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Geoffrey Carran428. Geoffrey CarranGeoffrey Carran is a contemporary artist renowned for his vibrant depictions of Australian birdlife. Over the past decade, he has focused on capturing the essence of Australia's avian diversity through both detailed studio paintings and expansive public murals. His work masterfully balances meticulous realism with expressive, looser techniques, bringing each subject to life. Born and raised in New Zealand, Geoffrey completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2000, followed by a Master of Fine Arts at RMIT University in Melbourne in 2008. He subsequently tutored at RMIT University for three years before dedicating himself fully to his artistic practice in 2011. Geoffrey's art has been showcased internationally, with exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, London, and New York. Notably, he has collaborated with institutions such as the National Gallery of Victoria, for which he produced a design range, and Dulux, serving as a judge for the Dulux Colour Awards and contributing to their Colour Forecasts. In partnership with his wife, fellow artist Rowena Martinich, Geoffrey has created large-scale murals that blend their dynamic styles. A significant project includes the transformation of three grain silos in Goroke, Victoria, into monumental artworks featuring native Australian birds—a kookaburra, galah, and magpie—reflecting the local fauna and engaging the community. Geoffrey's murals often highlight endangered bird species, aiming to raise awareness and foster conversations about conservation. His dedication to portraying the unique personalities of birds serves as a conduit between viewers and the natural world, encouraging a deeper appreciation for Australia's rich biodiversity. Currently based on Victoria's Surf Coast, Geoffrey continues to explore the interplay between detailed realism and expressive techniques in his work, contributing significantly to both urban and regional art landscapes.
23rd Key429. 23rd Key Jess began creating work in 2005, first exhibiting her work in 2008, and has spent most of her time toiling over a table ever since. Under the pseudonym 23rd Key, she creates photo-realistic stencils and hand painted works, taking no short-cuts and cutting all her stencils by hand. With a background in Printmaking, Graphic Design, Audio Engineering and Architecture, she brings this knowledge into her work and in recent years has adapted to installing and hand painting large scale mural works without the use of stencils. Still in the early stages of her studio-based art career, she hand cuts each intricate layer, and this attention to detail has become a trademark of her work, winning her the Australian Stencil Art Prize in 2011, the World Stencil Art Prize in 2014, the Emerging Artist award at Forty-Five Downstairs in 2017 as well as inclusion in Sydney’s longest running charity auction event ‘Project 5’ with aMBUSH Gallery in 2014. Working with only 9 layers or fewer on any one piece, she doesn’t believe it’s the number of layers a stencil has that lends to her stunningly photo realistic images, but the amount of detail cut into each individual layer. Breaking ground in her medium, she is one of few stencil artists to incorporate 3D and free hand elements into her works and to create large scale murals both by hand painting as well as using stencils. The stencil cut murals have been a feature at Wall to Wall festival for consecutive years as well as in Brisbane for the Vibrant Laneways project. In 2011 23rd Key held her first solo show, ‘Skills to Pay the Bills’, showcasing her ground-breaking 3D works, coupled with her already renowned photo-realistic street scenes and portraits. She followed this with her second exhibition in 2014, at Juddy Roller, titled ‘Keezus’, which focused around the themes of the artists ego and the human condition; themes that were so vast that a second show ‘Keezus: The Second Coming’ developed and launched in February of 2017. Followed these shows was ‘Forever Home’ in 2019, and a body of work that had matured and developed upon the prior shows, taking a broader look at how culture is represented through architecture and the emotional ties we have to certain places through inexplicable familiarity. Having such a memorable style, it’s easy to distinguish her work from the rest, she is a jack of all trades, and a master of some.
Tian432. TianTian is a French painter and street artist. He was born in le Mans in 1964 and grew up in the workers city of Allonnes. In 1982, he founded the Punk-Reggae band NUCLEAR DEVICE, which, worn by the alternative movement, plays intensely on the French scene until 1989. In 1990, with the band called MEGA REEFER SCRATCH, he recorded the album «Honky Soul Times» on Sony Music. From 1993, Tian is getting more involved in picture : he works as a graphic designer, a webdesigner, then an artistic director. From 2004, the work of Tian slides from the screen to the canvas. Therefor, he appropriates the silkscreen and stencil technique. In 2007, he becomes a professionnal painter and starts to decline his work in the street, using paper collage. Since 2009, Tian develops alternative strategies, organizing his own exhibitions, selling his works on the web, and improving his international presence during a trip to New York. in 2011, the Artists’ Residency « Espace Provisoire » enables him to tackle the mural to a very large size. This residence of three months allows the artist to anchor deeply in the local scene. In 2014, Tian takes the road and makes a street art tour over east Europe. Visiting ƁódĆș. to see the mural paintings, he feels that it would be the perfect place for a new Artists’ Residency. So, he’s back in summer for a 2 months residence in KsiÄ™ĆŒy MƂyn. He comes back in spring 2015 for a new 2 months period. In 2016, Tian creates big mural paintings in Le Mans. During spring, he’s having a streetart road trip across England and takes part, during the summer, in the biggest streetart festival in Europe : The UPFEST in Bristol. 2017 : The «Humaine Nature» solo show at GalerieK is a success. almost all artworks The artist starts producing screenprints series that find a great interest from collectors. 2018 : Tian sets a new Artists’ Residency in Leipzig, Germany, and prepares a new exhibition “L’Usage des Plaisirs” that will be showed in 2019. 2019 : Tian joins the Extinction Rebellion environmental organization in Bristol, then London and Paris, and became a seasoned Artivist. 2020 : Before leaving his studio downtown, he sets the show “Une Insolente proximitĂ©â€ 2022 : After a 2 years break, the artist comes back producing new screenprints works. 2023 : New painting show : “Contes des Filles de l’Orage” at Hangar Crealab
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