Scott Cotterell

Scott Cotterell (TAS)

HALF THEORY

Acrylic, enamel, masking tape

This catalogue accompanies Takashi Murakami's LA MOCA show (see p45). surprisingly for such a high-profile artist, it's his first major book, edited by MOCA's chief curator. Given that this show will have a (controversial) booth selling expensive Murakami logoed Louis Vuitton bags, and that the artist's wares often fetch up an eBay, many will find this desirable.
Whether it's art is another matter….
1+1=?

Selena de Carvalho

Selena de Carvalho (TAS)

SORRY TO RAIN ON YOUR PARTY…

Wallpaper, acrylic, watercolour, collage

Exploring the seamless fusion of the imaginary and mysterious that is a childs sense of the world. I was inspired by photos taken in the desert of my daughter Ruby Peppa and her great friend Bassi Brown. It is immense to be the guiding force upon another life in a world that is so rapidly changing, growing and disappearing.

Tiffany Hampton

Tiffany Hampton (TAS)

UNTITLED

Paint, human hair, wool

Monica Escobar

Monica Escobar (TAS)

UNTITLED

Mixed media

Amanda Shone

Amanda Shone (TAS)

: 42.89°S : 147.33°E (WHEN THE WEATHER OBSCURES THE VIEW)

Cardboard, paper, glue, acrylic paint, pencil

The frigate was then at 31°15' north latitude and 136°42' east longitude…Night was approaching.
They had just struck eight bells; large clouds veiled the face of the moon, then in its first quarter. The sea undulated peacefully under the stern of the vessel.

"Precisely Ned: So that at 32 feet beneath the surface of the sea you would undergo a pressure of 97 500 lbs.; at 320 feet, ten times that pressure you would be at 97 500 000 lbs.-that is to say, that you would be flattened as if you would have been drawn through the plates of a hydraulic machine!"

"Thus mat this inexplicable be explained, unless there be something over and above all that, one has ever conjectured, seen perceived or experienced; which is just in the bounds of possibility."

Mat Ward

Mat Ward (TAS)

LITTLE BUNNY RABBITS HOP JOYOUSLY AMONGST RAVAGED INDUSTRIAL DECADENCE INSPIRED DELINEATED SPACE

Psssst… . It's just friggin' paint

Joel Crosswell

Joel Crosswell (TAS)

2008

EMERGENCY

Mixed media

Catherine Morse

Catherine Morse (TAS)

2008

WHAT IS SOFT? WHAT IS NOT?

Wallpaper, wool, cotton, paper, paper bags, Deborah's scarf

home is safe and soft. as I watch the bodies of others fill up with stories and sounds. mine is too. but mostly it's quiet.

This work is about home, about safety, about memories, and about the night, the street and how it often offers up safety for the mind with its soft blackness floating dreams and bitumen blue carpets.

Carolyn Wigston

Carolyn Wigston (TAS)

2008

VITRUVIAN APOCALYPSE

Acrylic on cardboard

The greater the decrease in the social signifigance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
- Walter Benjamin