OPENING
CITYLIGHTS CENTRE PLACE ::: Melbourne CBD ::: AUSTRALIA
6PM to 8PM ::: Friday 27 April 2007 :: (Until 31.07.07)
Featuring
DJ AIDS YOUTH YOUTH PARTY SLOUTH (KISSES-BUH-BYE)
THE MEATPACKERS UNION :: GALLIANO GIRLS
Kavanavoch gets KMOSSED at Citylights!
Weddings R Us
Rutledge Lane styles...
"Ah remember the days when we used to hang out in the alleys babe?"
CURVY 4 and FAFI !!!
Until Never, Citylights, YEN Magazine and adidas Originals presents
CURVY 4 and FAFI(France)
Poise : Deb : Vexta : Miso : Pets : Pascale Mira Tschäni(Switzerland).
+ 45 local and international female artists on exhibit
Performing live :: GameBoy/GameGirl :: Pop Tarts :: DJ Streetparty
OPENING
UNTIL NEVER and CITYLIGHTS HOSIER LANE
6PM to 10PM :: Thursday 5th April
AND Friday 6th April 12 to 3PM
(until April 31 at Until Never and June 4 at Citylights)
Gallery hours :: Wednesday to Saturday 12-6pm
2nd floor 3-5 Hosier Lane :: Enter from Rutledge Lane :: Melbourne CBD :: AUSTRALIA
CURVY 4
proudly presented by YEN Magazine and adidas Originals.
Thursday 5 April 6-10pm: Opening
At Until Never and Citylights Hosier Lane
Featuring:
:: Special guest Fafi (France) - first time in Australia and exclusive to YEN & Curvy.
:: 45 local and international female artists on exhibit at Until Never and the lightboxes of Citylights.
:: Launch of CURVY 4 book - featuring 100 leading female artists from over 20 countries.
:: Advance copies of the limited edition book available for $35 on the night
:: Guest Performances: GameBoy/GameGirl, Pop Tarts, DJ Streetparty.
Friday 6 April 12-3pm: !
Special! Live collaborative street production
On the walls of Until Never :: Hosier Lane
:: Live painting by special guest artist Fafi (France)
::and Melbourne’s finest, Poise, Deb, Vexta, Miso, Pets, Pascale Mira Tschäni (Switzerland).
:: Guest performance TBA
YEN send Special thanks to presenting partner adidas Originals and our media partners - MySpace, Triple J, MTV, Dazed & Confused, Empty, Creative, Lifelounge, Don't Panic, Design is Kinky, Pedestrian. Thank-you to www.posterprinting.com.au for the gallery prints at all venues and to Molotow for supplying paints. Drinks supplied by Asahi and Skyy Blue. CURVY proudly supports Semi Permanent 2007.
For more information on CURVY or to find out more about the exhibiting artists head to www.myspace.com/yenmagazine
www.dazeddigital.com
www.yenmag.net
www.pywya.net
THE TROUBLE WITH BOYS - James Drew, Michael Porter, Konrad Winkler & Chong Weng Ho at Until Never
OPENING at UNTIL NEVER 6PM to 8PM Wednesday 14th March 2007 (until March 31 ) To be opened by David Hansen - curator and writer.
Gallery hours Wednesday to Saturday 12-6pm :: 2nd floor 3-5 Hosier Lane :: Enter from Rutledge Lane Melbourne CBD AUSTRALIA
THE TROUBLE WITH BOYS is an affectionate look at maleness. A video of the rough and tumble of Saturday night on the streets is juxtaposed with a peek at some of Australia’s best-known intellectuals sketched in pocket-sized pads. Massive graffiti heads on the walls and strange bronze figures compete with delicate black and white photos of men with artistic ambitions and the bug to create. In this show four artists face off with very divergent views of art and Australian masculinity.
James Drew’s short film takes us into the world of boys. Mucking around, out at night, full of beer, bravado and aggression. A male idea of fun. And if you live in Melbourne, you will have seen Michael Porter’s heads glaring down at you from a wall somewhere. But now they come in off the streets and onto the gallery walls, along with his smaller heads and figures, cast in bronze. This is an obsession that knows no bounds.
There are more heads from Chong and Konrad Winkler. Older heads this time. Chong’s small, intimate drawings of well-known writers and artists are outtakes from his life, & done out of habit rather than for any purpose. Portraits caught on the fly (on the sly) during a meeting or a conversation. They are the opposite of official images. Winkler’s photos are of artists who haven’t given up in spite of their years, still making art instead of a proper living. They have more persistence than worldly ambition, and an abiding faith in art that makes the often crappy life worthwhile, in the hope perhaps that they will leave something behind that is of lasting value.
Konrad Winkler, Curator, February 2007
Michael Porter
Konrad Winkler
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Chong Weng-Ho
Pascale Mira Tschäni & Michael Husmann Tschäni
14 February until March 10 2007
Opening 6pm to 8pm Wednesday 14th February
First show for 2007
Until Never is proud to present the first Australian exhibition by Pascale Mira Tschäni & Michael Husmann Tschäni of Zurich, Switzerland.
Since 2001 Pascale and Michael have developed a unique collaborative style encompassing the worlds of animation and comics, illustration, painting and installation. Pascales’s spontaneous and playful drawings spring from fantastic worlds and are complimented by the graphic, illustrative style of Michael’s work. Together they create imaginary playlands inhabited by wonderful creatures, magical flora and enchanted children.
Pascale and Michael’s long standing involvement with the Swiss comic and independent publishing scene has led to a number of limited-edition screen printed books such as Frau Kronenberg & ihre Katze, Meerestupfenpferde and a modern interpretation of the Indian folk legend Rama. They have exhibited prolifically throughout Switzerland and Germany, gained commissions for the Lucerne Childrens Hospital and the Hotel Landhaus in Berlin, and have most recently collaborated with Melbourne artists on the Foxtel - St Kilda Festival tram project, curated by Citylights. In March 2007 Pascale and Michael will also exhibit at Citylights in Centre Place.
“It was like two completely different, somewhat incompatible picture languages had collided when they started working together. But somehow they managed to create pictures, stories and installations together, without having to change their own individual styles or expressions in any way at all. The result is a unique aesthetic world whose quality lies in the harmonious confrontation of two totally different artists.” (Husmann Tschaeni Blog 2006)
Citylights 10th Birthday
Hosier Lane
Wednesday 13th December 5pm until 10pm
Hey there!
Bands, BBQ, dancing in the street. Its 10 years of Citylights, and 8 years of Misty bar, so we have joined forces yet again to bring you Melbourne's original free, all-welcome street party. For 10 years now the Citylights posse have been getting together in the street to celebrate new exhibitions in the lightboxes. Hope you can make it!
Peter Daverington
Reflections on Hyperspace
29 November until 22 December 2006
Peter Daverington has been a significant player in the development of graffiti in Melbourne since the 1980s.In 1991 he teamed up with Merda to win the first national aerosol art competition (held in Melbourne), and throughout the 90’s Peter developed a distinctive aesthetic that is unique amongst local graffiti culture and the all pervasive NYC inspired Wildstyle. The stylised lettering of his early pieces feature miniature landscapes, architectural elements and his trademark checkerboard, all tropes that reappear in his most recent works.
Two years spent living in Egypt influenced Peter to make connections between Arabic calligraphy and graffiti lettering and further produced an appreciation of the Eastern origins of Western optics and the mystical dimensions of geometry and mathematics, via Sufi philosophy. Upon return to Australia, Peter commenced a Master of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts and Reflections on Hyperspace is the result of his research.
‘The realm of hyperspace is a product of the 1980s, a now anachronistic future dreaming that yoked together the hedonism
of early digital and late disco with the expansive complex spaces of a Romantic revival. In this, Daverington’s paintings owe as much as Frankie Goes to Hollywood to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1798 opium-fuelled vision of an exotic Eastern palace, the ”pleasure-dome,” around which caverns, rivers, walls and towers erupt from the earth and tumble together in fragments.’
Dr Lachlan MacDowall 2006
Richard Butler-Bowdon
The Aesthetic Cell
01 November 2006
Recent adventures in Outsider Painting
In an exercise in stylistic dissimulation, Richard Butler-Bowdon presents a seemingly literal series of portraits of local artists and landscapes which covertly allude to wider subtexts such as acts of seditious self-sacrifice, ethnic displacement and border control.
Richard Butler-Bowdon has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Gallery 4A, Experimental Art Foundation, First Floor, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Centre for Contemporary Photography, BUS, Citylights, Temple Bar-Dublin, ROOM Project-Rotterdam Netherlands and HOME-Prague Czech Republic.
Kieran Mangan & Aaron O’Donnell
The Horror
11 October 2006
Kieran Mangan and Aaron O’Donnell are founding members of the Silent Army comic book underground. They have been responsible for co-curating a whole bunch o' major group exhibitions, and publishing a series of anthologies and zines that get snapped up hotter than Nullarbor asphalt. The Horror is their first major collaboration, and if it wasn't for a severe obsession with alcohol and all it's merits then none of this would have ever seen the light of day (or even the crack of dawn).
"The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks. They spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does."
Shane McGowan
“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”
Charles Bukowski
Kill Pixie Kills Things
20 September 2006
Kill Pixie has recently been causing a stir in the Australian graffiti scene with his naïve and idiosyncratic characters. Although his works appear in many private collections and previous exhibitions at Monster Children and China Heights, the best chance you have of spotting one of his creations is by keeping an eye out on the streets of his hometown, Sydney.
Kill Pixie is terrified of sleep. The grotesque notion that one might rest when they could be out painting the town 18 shades of inspiration doesn’t sit well for the young infidel. Despite recent crackdowns on street artists, Kill Pixie continues to create spell binding imagery in some of the harbour city’s seediest grottos. Until Never is proud to present Kill Pixie’s first solo exhibition in Melbourne.
Rumble
26 July 2006
AIM : SEAN CLANEY : JAMES DODD : DREW1 : MICHAEL FIKARIS : FRAY : HAHA : JACK HOWE : HUMMINGBIRD SKATES : ASH KEATING : A.MAC : KIERAN MANGAN : DEVEN MARRINER : TULLY MOORE : KEIKO MURAKAMI : DABS & MYLA : AARON O’DONNELL : CHRIS RADICH RENCS : AL STARK : TIM STERLING : KATE STRYKER : TRES : VEXTA JAMES WOSHFOLD : WHY?
UNTIL NEVER presents RUMBLE: a salon style floor-to-ceiling group show of new works by emerging and established artists associated with the Hosier Lane underground.
HOSIER LANE is home to half-a-dozen artists studios, and an outdoor studio/gallery for hundreds of artists who leave their marks on the walls of the lane. RUMBLE is the tip of an iceberg - an exhibition of works by 30 artists who work and hang in the lane, and illustrates the diversity of creative aesthetics happening in the area right now; Graffiti, drawings, paste-ups, prints, stencils, collage, photography, sculpture, readymades and more will be added to the mix right up until the doors are opened.
RUMBLE will also be dedicated to the memory of the artist know as WHY?. WHY was a prolific artist who left his signature “WHY?” paste-ups and stickers all over Melbourne. WHY? was a street artist, web designer, writer and philosopher, and a dedicated contributor to on-line resources like the Wikipedia, as well as various print media. WHY? leaves behind an inspirational legacy of works spread through the internet and the streets of Melbourne.
God Save HaHa
14 June 2006
HAHA is a pioneer of Melbourne street art and a founding director of the seminal Early Space. After a non-stop series of interstate exhibitions over the last two years, Until Never is proud to present this first solo show in Melbourne for 2006 by HaHa - Australia’s most prolific & notorious stencil artist.
New Works: Limited edition hand-cut stencils on plywood featuring Australian iconography 2004-2006.
Salon 1
December 13 2005
Richard Butler-Bowdon : James Dodd : Katherine Huang : Lister Nurok Marcsta : Phibz : Reka : Noble Savage : Dan Scurry : Dan Sibley : Sync Amac
Aloha from Until Never
Aloha! Until Never is nearly one year old now. Until the new website is up, I'm going to use this blog to put up anything to do with Until Never. Some pictures here of the gallery under construction in December 2005. Ishmael Smethurst came on strong with the art direction, Louise kept everything moving and under control. The walls were buffed Council Style, and Phibs and Nurok christened them with some tight white outlines. Until Never is an independent gallery located in the heart of Hosier Lane here in Melbourne, and is a new project by Citylights directorAndrew McDonald. The curatorial bent is all about seeking out hot art from underground and overground Australian and international artists.
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