Last Show at a Fixed address; Nine Lives to Close

We've decided the old full time gallery front just ain't for us anymore. There will be a few project based exhibitions in the coming months to look out for but for now, we're playing host to one final show in the current space.

It's with our tea drinking, profanity loving English illustrator pal 'French' next week. That's fitting really, he was one of the first to show with us above Mellino's in late 2008 and now he's helping us see out this space with a bang.

-------------------

FRENCH (UK)
- a collection of new prints, a zine and more.

Opens Thursday Jan 19 - continues until Jan 22.
Opening night from 6pm.

Proudly supported by The Outpost, Earl Grey, Tyms Guitars, Pass Port and Small House Books.

-------------------

Want to take this opportunity to thank you all for the ongoing support over the last few years. We're very happy that we've been able to contribute to ol' Brisbane towns cultural landscape in some way or shape. For a long time this city's been seen as the little sibling to its southern counterparts but we really do think that is changing. Brisbane has plenty going on and there's a bunch of young creatives making that happen.

Come along Thursday, have a beer. We'd love to see you.

BRAZILIAN BOY - ASA

Searching a new york blog i stumbled across this brazilian - i was looking for Bikini babes but got this instead...

"ASA a brazilian born art reject. He has been recognised for his graffiti and skateboard art and plays music for 2 São Paulo bands.Polar rock and Caxabaxa

ASA’s art has always been a form of personal expression. Self-taught, rejected from art classes, ASA funneled his rage into painting and coloring whatever he could find, and he will still work with whatever he can get his hands on— acrylic paint, markers, crayons, or spray-paint.
Often the subjects are detailed, single iconographic monsters or large collage-like scenes of thickly doodled characters.


Skating, swimming and biking have also always been a part of ASA’s life in Brazil, but one of his biggest influences (besides caffeine—the artist has said, “espresso is the best partner when it comes to producing in large scale”) is music.
In Juxtapoz Magazine he named his top 5 albums as Johnny Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, anything by the Descendents, Teixeihinha and Mary Terezinha’s Desafio das Perguntas e Respostas, Jorge Ben’s O Bidú Ou Silêncio No Brooklyn, and Check Your Head by the Beastie Boys.


Still a big name in Sáo Paulo’s galleries, he now lives by the beach in Florianópolis with his wife, who makes Veraneyo bikinis."
Check out his flickr account for more pictures of his work.