Emily, Marrickville in Jeremy Scott Adidas.

Could not resit grabbing this shot of Emily in this fantastic summer colours combo. Love the lime see-through plastic satchel; perfect with Adidas Hi-Top boots; and I mean who does not love someone who breaks that terrible old rule - Blue and Green Should Not Be Seen - So YAWN, last-wheneverrr. Pink watch for some contrast and apparently the 'grenade purse' had just been purchased at the Marrickville Metro; has a bit of a Chanel quilted handbag look to it no? and the light provided courtesy of the bushfire smog this afternoon, great for pictures but obviously terrible if you are in the line of fire; my thoughts with all those out there fighting bushfires today, stay safe, rain is on its way! And thank you Emily for letting me get this lovely photograph of you outfit, I love it!

Street Fashion Sydney - shot with the Fujifilm X-Pro1 

Winter/Summer - it's Winter Sydney Style

Well in Sydney it is unlikely you will freeze to death between the venue and your transport; mind you neither the venue or the transport are guaranteed to be climate controlled to any realistic degree! Spotted this evening; this wonderful Winter-in-Sydney outfit, loving the splashes of tropical green; a jumper and scarf  as a buffer from the 'cold'  Inner West - Sydney style.

Street Fashion Sydney - shot with the Fujifilm X-Pro1 

Artist's Style - Deborah Young - Factory 49

Another fabulous and colourful show at Factory 49 this one 'Patterns' courtesy of Artist Deborah Young.

Factory 49

49 Shepherd Street

Marrickville, Sydney

Thurs - Sat, 1 - 6 pm.

Street Fashion Sydney - shot with the Fujifilm X-Pro1.

Artists Style & Gallery Friends - SNO 92

I took my first Artist's Portrait-at-SNO back in February 2006; that's almost three years before launching Street Fashion Sydney in late 2008; launched very-much-so I would have a dedicated space for showing my pictures as stories, stories about who & what I saw and experienced around Sydney.

Arpad Forgo, Artist portrait with artwork - Black Bipolar - SNO 92

One of the most surprising things for me as a photographer - having somewhat inadvertently come up with the SNO, Artists (at their opening) Portraits Project is that I have had the opportunity to photograph so many international artists who have come to Sydney to show at SNO. Showing at SNO 92, Arpad is from Hungry, Riki from Holland and Susan our local Sydney artist. So far it has been an amazing journey with SNO including my show of 40 SNO portraits in 2010. My heartfelt thanks to the gallery and the Artists who show there, it has been and continues to be something very special indeed.

Riki Mijling Artist Portrait with IHCW installation - SNO 92

Susan Andrews artist portrait with artwork - Slip - SNO 92

'Gray-scale' - guerilla fashion installation by Anonymous.

http://www.sno.org.au/
http://www.forgoarpad.hu/
http://rikimijling.blogspot.nl/

SNO 92 runs untill the 28th of April 2013.

SNO

LEVEL 1, 175 MARRICKVILLE ROAD
MARRICKVILLE
SYDNEY, NSW 2204
AUSTRALIA
E. info@sno.org.au
W. www.sno.org.au

Open 12:00 – 5:00 pm.

Friday to Sunday

Street Fashion Sydney - shot with the Fujifilm X-Pro1.

Choose Stripes - Every which way you can.

Every which way, its stripes. Matte has put together an eclectic striped ensemble; a classic Anthea Crawford vintage silk horizontal stripe jacket in black and white, vertical blue and white striped shorts over rainbow striped meggings complimented with the blue and white, mid-cut basketball boots with a a yellow Nike Swoosh - a little tick of a stripe of it's own.

Street Fashion Sydney - shot with the Fujifilm X-Pro1.

Artisit's Style - Beatrix Curran - Marrickville

Of course when you attend a group show there is always going to be a group of artists in attendance; yes that's just the way it works. I made this lovely portrait of Beatrix (with her art) at the "The Sausage Show" which is on now at 55 Sydenham Rd gallery... Something I have noticed over the years of making portraits of Artists at their openings is that they are more often that not, dressed in a way that is coordinated with their art; I love that! It's certainly happening in this portrait of Beatrix and it's also happening in the portrait I made of Jakob at the same show. What do you think? Or am I just imagining it all.. I will leave the decision up to you.

www.55sydenhamrd.com/
Marrickville Council's latest Artists in Residence.

Street Fashion Sydney - shot with the Fujifilm X-Pro1.

Artist's Style - Jakob Neulinger - 55 Sydenham Rd

When I met Jakob on Friday evening at "The Sausage Show" (no I don't know why they called it that) the first thing I said to him was "a man can't have too many candy stripe business shirts"  and I think this Austrian Artist 'now showing' at 55 Sydenham Road gallery was in full and total agreement!

Curiously I spotted a well suited business man on the train to Kings Cross earlier that day, pink shirt, pink candy stripe socks! I could be the new thing for men..

www.55sydenhamrd.com/
Marrickville Council's latest Artists in Residence
www.jakobneulinger.com/

Street Fashion Sydney - shot with the Fujifilm X-Pro1.

Spotted in Marrickville, Scarf, Blouse and Red Pants

A reportage style shot; something a little different.. 55 Sydneham Rd Marrickville..

 

Street Fashion Sydney - shot with the Fujifilm X-Pro1.

Weekend Fashion-Camouflage for Guys and Gals..

Yes it was a bit cold over the weekend so we all had our jackets and what-not out to see us through the inclement  nature of the weather; but what I was not expecting was to see a run on camouflage gear. And yes second picture down, I do think that home made so-I-was-told scarf qualifies as camouflage fashion too. The big question is, is this a forerunner for later in the year or just a rainy day coincidence? I suppose only time will tell but it might me nice to see a shift from leopard print to the many different prints of camouflage style.. .

Street Fashion Sydney - shot with the Fujifilm X-Pro1.

SNO 85 - Factory 49 - Abstract Art Baby!

The 85 after SNO stands for the number of shows; SNO being good minimalists don't have names they have numbers for the shows instead. I quite like that as it makes it easy to keep track of how long it is is since the last show I attended, photographed at, and how many I have missed! Not many lately. And although Factory 49 also shows work in a similar style and some of the same artists; the 49 is the street number of the gallery space and always stays the same - though this could become confusing if they decide to move and keep the same name - mind you King Street Gallery seem to have been able to work around that little problem quite well for more than a few years..

First up is the SNO show; I had been wanting to make a portrait of Suzie Idiens for a while now and this time I managed to get one of Suzie in front of her artwork 'Blue Slot 2012', (MDF, polyurethane, 60 x 54 x 6.5).  I was thinking that having made Suzie's portrait I had photographed the only exhibiting artist in attendance at SNO 85; not so. I had been talking with sound artist Gary Bradbury; who incidentally had performed live at my own show at SNO two years earlier - I knew he had the sound piece running in the front gallery space but it just didn't click, no pun intended that I should photograph him too. So this is what happens when you get a little too fixed in your ways; you think visual-art artist-portrait a little too often and you forget that the sound artist who is making art you cannot see is standing right there talking to you and can also be documented at the shows opening. My apologies to you Gary, this will not happen again; and by way of trying to make up for my omission I did make an 'autograph portrait' of the freehand ballpoint pen description of 'Mouth Tracks' which I very much suspect was jotted onto the wall by Gary himself;  pictured below, I quite like it.

Dutch artist  Henriëtte van 't Hoog 's coloured , light-reflecting back-to-the-wall 'Cubes' were/are absolutely fascinating and had me thinking of some great ideas for my fashion photography. Well yes I do draw some of my inspiration from looking at art, of course! And then there was a mild pang of jealousy but far more admiration for Karen Schifano's - 'I'll take you there', I do love a good road line. I wish I had thought of adding my own to the ones that are already there. What a great way to draw, the possibilities truly are endless.

SNO 85

Factory 49 Annual Group Show 2012

And so onto the Fab group show at Factory 49 which included the installation piece 'barely breathing, 2012' by Caroline Phillips whom I also managed to photograph for my collection of Artists at their openings. Thank you Caroline; love your installation piece and I love the pink and mauve. As group shows go, there are far too many artists to single any out - you just must go and see for yourself. Both galleries being quite close to one another in Marrickville should make it an easy trip to see both SNO and Factory 49 in the one afternoon..

Thanks to everyone at SNO & Factory 49 for another two beautiful art shows.
http://www.sno.org.au/
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http://factory49.blogspot.com.au/
Factory 49 on Facebook

Dexter Fletcher - Careers in Retail - A Case Study

Talk about stepping back in time - this show put me way back when, or as North American Hipsters would have it, 'back in the day'... And what day would that be? Well the 80's of course. I may not always be the sharpest tool in the shed but; even then; how sharp do you need to be to get something. Something... This is what I got; kind of.

On a dark and chilly night in I found myself at an exhibition entitled "Careers in Retail" by a 'consortium' of artists, "Dexter Fletcher". Was this a realist show of some sort? Well I had trouble finding it at first as the poster on the door really did look like a career training poster from back-in-the-day and it did not help that the gallery shares space with commercial business. Eventually I worked it out and made my way upstairs to the intimate art space that is 55 Sydenham Rd for the first time, entering a room of large format, graphic illustrations/art - heavy with texts and quotations - and a Manifesto, something all artists have dreamed of having at some point in time; here it was and for all the crowded text on image of the art, the Manifesto had just two words in bold-all-caps that sized up the Zeitgeist of 80's art school thought on conventional employment, NEVER WORK! After all how can you make art and change the world if you have a full time job. An Old (art) Skool sentiment if ever there was one and the second time I have seen it in as many weeks. Something is coming back at us from the past.

You know, Street Fashion Sydney has of late been privately bemoaning the lack of political point-of-view in the world of 'fashion blogging' in-particular and art in general - but here it was - a show taking on the desire that drives creativity and the desire for change. Change not driven by the corporate sponsorship of creativity that seems to have been all the rage for the last 20 or so years and now going LARGE with so-called independent bloggers... this show seemed to be taking on the life conflicts of creativity at a grass roots level. Did I like the show? It really doesn't matter; it made me a little uncomfortable and for the past couple of days it has made me think and kept me thinking. Now that's something you don't get at every art show...

Careers in Retail,  Dexter Fletcher - 55 Sydenham Rd Marrickville 6 - 22 July 2012.

http://www.55sydenhamrd.com/

Factory 49 - Sally Clarke + Group Print Show

A cool and challenging Installation piece "Power Play" by Sally Clarke (portrait below) and lovely works on paper and fabric in the group print show. All well worth the trip to Marrickville to take a look. Lots of great looks in the diverse crowd & I loved artist Adrian Clement's classic style, wool overcoat, flannels and a dinosaur neck tie with white shirt. Perfect artist opening dress sense.

http://factory49.blogspot.com.au/

Factory 49
49 Shepherd St
Marrickville

Till July 7..

SNO 82 - Marrickville's Best Art? You Decide..

SNO 82 must be one of the loveliest SNO shows I have seen in a while which is a pretty big call as I do love almost everything that SNO does show.  So yes you might say I am more than a little biased on the SNO front. The biggest thrill for me was Ian Andrews work 'Displacements', a contemporary constructivist piece a little like El Lissitzky meets Steve Jobs (and El Lissitzky wins)... Its computer and tiny light installations and books and posts... Much much more than the yellow post I photographed Ian behind. I have only experienced Ian's sound works before, Displacements is a wonderful introduction to this side of his work.  

Alexandra Lawson's terrarium project is a beautiful, changing, ongoing work which extends to an online website documenting its growth. Grace's 'foam' works show a beauty one would not normally associate with the material used and Tarn and Fiona's 'canvases' brought more than colour to the exhibition. SNO 82 is on until the 3rd of June.



Grace Dewar 
Ian Andrews 
Tarn Mclean 
Fiona Morgan 
Alexandra Lawson 

http://ian-andrews.org/  http://alexandralawson.com/ 
http://www.tarnmclean.com/