Northern Exposure 2012

A few weeks ago I was invited by the lovely Belinda Suzette to submit a proposal for an art installation for the Northern Exposure Festival. I was fortunate enough to have my proposal excepted and tomorrow evening I will be installing the work.

The Festival will officially launch this Friday night (15th) between 6 and 9pm.  My work will be on the facade of 241 High Street Northcote, between the Town Hall and the Uniting Church.

If you're free come on down and check out the art! There will be other exhibitions and art installations all along the high street. It will be a hoot!

In the meantime above is a sample of one of my images that will feature on the facade. My concept is to cover the facade of 241 with posters depicting some of the locals.

Enjoy!

Digital Portrait

Here is another digital portrait I created in Photoshop. I had fun painting this one. I particularly like the violet in the shadows.

Red-faced

Here is a cheeky little sketch I did in PhotoShop the other day. I was mucking around with using a basic split complimentary colour pallet. Enjoy!

ROCK!

Well the mad cyclone that was the Little Deities exhibition has well and truly settled down now and I am able to focus my attention on other creative endeavors.

A few weeks ago I thought I would have a go at creating an animation for the Loopdeloop challenge. This month's theme is Rock. To check out my submission (and to vote for it!) just click on the link below.

daniel atkinson ROCK

All animations, which make it to the site for this months theme will be screened in a group airing at the Loop bar in Melbourne (23 Meyers Place) on Tuesday the 24^th of April.

Hope to see you there!

Little Deites, Big Ideas.

Well you have probably been wondering where the heck I have been since my last post.

The answer is I have not been any where, but I have been incredibly busy organising a group exhibition! The exhibition is titled Little Deities and it will be held at the No Vacancy gallery in the QV building, found in the heart of the Melbourne CBD.

The idea behind the exhibition is to provide each contributing artist with a standard size doll, each artist is then asked to transform his or her doll into a god!

I was inspired to curate this show after I completed my own little shrine about a year ago when I moved into my new place. You may recall I posted about that a while ago.

The exhibition is being generously supported by Moritz beer, who have agreed to supply some brew for the exhibition launch. The launch will be on Thursday the 8th of March, between 6pm and 9pm.

So if your free come on down to the launch night people! I you can't make it don't stress, the exhibition will be open to the public till Sunday the 18th of March.

For more info head to the official Little Deities site at littledeities.com

Cheers!

Officer Johnson

It's Loopdeloop time again! This months theme was condoms. It's an interesting theme that has resulted in a few lively responses. As always the animations will be screened at the Loop bar in Melbourne on the last Tuesday of the month, which is actually tomorrow. So come on down people and check out some animated condoms! Good fun for the whole family!
In the meantime here is a link to my animation, titled Officer Johnson.

daniel atkinson CONDOMS

9x5 2011

The annual Illustrators Australia 9x5 exhibition is just around the corner. The theme for this years exhibition is rapture. I decided to explore the dictionary definition of rapture, which is intense delight. My interpretation of intense delight was to show a pair of Hyenas feasting on a dead animal.

I thought it was important to show how an image that may initially seem dark and unpleasant can be seen by others as a source of great comfort or pleasure. In the case of the Hyenas in this image they are in their own way experiencing a sense of rapture as they satisfy their hunger.