Painting in the Park – Monet’s Water Lilies
Come to a guided class painting Monet’s Water Lilies down at the glorious Sydney harbour forshore at the fabulous Pyrmont Food & Wine Festival. All materials are provided and you can take your masterpiece home. This is a highly recommended activity and a joyous day.
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Painting in the Park – Manet’s Water Lilies
Come to a guided class painting Toulouse Lautrec’s The Kiss down at the glorious Sydney harbour forshore at the fabulous Pyrmont Food & Wine Festival. All materials are provided and you can take your masterpiece home. This is a highly recommended activity and a joyous day.
BOOKINGS
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Kris Hades Art Exhibition
Kriss Hades has established himself as a solo artist, producing an album of noise and dark ambience in 2002. He also maintains a parallel career as an underground illustration artist
INTERVIEW BEAT
What’s the story of Rev Kriss Hades – what’s been happening ?
“I’ve been to hospital and become an alcoholic. I’ve been to Moscow and I’m a surrealist now. Always been a surrealist, actually.”
So first, up what’s the deal with the name? Are you a real Reverend? How’s that even work? What sort of church would that be for anyways?
“That’s a good question. It’s a real church. And I ain’t a real Reverend. I cannot reveal the identity of this church other than that the purpose of the church is for beautiful women and girls to wear black while going to funerals. Not necessarily gothic clothing, but they must congregate themselves before the high priest, which is myself.”
What’s the story of Rev Kriss Hades – what’s been happening since Sadistik Exekution?
“I’ve been to hospital and become an alcoholic. I’ve been to Moscow and I’m a surrealist now. Always been a surrealist, actually.”
Your music encompasses a wide range of genres and influences within black metal. What is the most important element included in your music?
“ The word genre is shit. The other word I hate is… well, actually, I blocked that word out, I hate it that much. Oh, I remember now. AESTHETIC. I HATE THAT WORD!”
Your live shows are said to be nothing short of dynamically crazed. What do they
typically involve?
“Has anyone seen Get Smart when they drop acid, when they’re full on tripping because they put a gigantic acid trip in the water supply? That’s what I’m trying to recreate; Get Smart with added chaos. ”
What’s the vibe you’re trying to impart at the live show? What’s all this about an imperious, vampiric presence we hear about?
“Dr Fibes.”
In term of your music , what’s the most important aspect that you want people to walk away with?
“Professionalism, and a hard on. Or\no, not that. Give us some cash and we’ll do our best to play well. Otherwise, we’ll put a curse on you. We’re like a gypsies in that sense.”
What, do you believe, is the allure of black metal?
“The T-shirts.”
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Level 1, 259 Riley St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
Kris Hades Art Exhibition
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Austin Konchira Paintings
“I was born in Trivandrum, a city in Kerala, South India. A former professor of History, I have 40 years of active involvement in the field of art. I have 2 Studios-one near Napier Museum, Trivandrum, and one in Pattambi, a small town in Palakkad district of Kerala”
I have conducted 23 Solo Exhibitions in several important cities of India and 3 Solos in Holland. I have also participated in a number of important group shows.
In my days of student hood, I was a naturalist. As I matured as an artist, I was inspired by the surrealist movement. My surrealistic works from 1980 to 2000 were exhibited in major cities of South India like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam etc. In 1996 I was invited to Holland to conduct an exhibition by Galerie Schoe (Lotus Galerie). In the subsequent years, I was able to do two more solos in Holland.
In the 2000s, my works moved towards abstraction and I partially discarded surrealism. The year 2018 was transformative for my art, as I began to get fascinated by the function and appearance of modern machines. I started to incorporate them into my paintings.
Machines are everywhere in the field of human activities and no one can exist without them. At present they serve as a motif for my art.
About my present works
I consider my art as a performance to heal my existence. It is a long journey to some unknown destination that one cannot reach till his life is spent. My journey had various turning points as a romantic painter, a surrealist, an abstractionist in search of new images, forms, colours and patterns. It is a journey through zigzags, flotations and oscillations, between the obvious and the subtle.
Motifs of machines fill my recent works. Machines and discarded mechanical objects began to appear in my paintings way back in the 80’s. But then, all of them were used as supportive elements to the main theme. Now, I am fascinated by their appearances and functions. Machines are manmade and have served as a productive force throughout Time. From their first appearance as stone and bronze implements and the wheel to today’s machines of iron and plastic and various metallurgical innovations, machines have become an indispensable part of human life. During the first and second world wars, they came as Aeroplanes, Patton Tanks, Motorcars, Ships, Boats…
In the modern age, the role of machines has changed radically. For every extension of human desire, there is a machine. Be it in Agriculture, Industry, Transport, Communications…in the sky, in water, in space, in the warfront…They often induce a sense of fear and awe within me. Their heaviness, strength, vitality and dexterity transport me to the world of imagination and fantasy. I see a moving locomotive, an approaching aircraft, a heavy earth mover, an armoured war vehicle, in front of me…Their appearance creates a feeling of proximity to an animal of gargantuan proportions like the Dinosaur, a disturbed Elephant or a swift moving Cheetah…Their perfection astonishes me. Their disturbing forms attract me at once. I am convinced that they limitlessly extend the possibilities of the human senses.
I like to paint machines. I pay my tribute to the thousands of known and unknown people who have devoted their lives for the evolution of modern machinery.
| Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Gallery, Durbar Hall, Ernakulam (Cochin), 2020 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2018 Roerich Gallery, (Roerich Research Centre), Nagar, Manali, 2016 Shridharani Gallery (Triveni Kala Sangam), New Delhi, 2016 Alliance Francaise, Thiruvananthapuram, 2015 Triveni Gallery (Triveni Kala Sangam), New Delhi, 2014 Triveni Gallery (Triveni Kala Sangam), New Delhi, 2013 Academy of Fine Arts and Literature (Arpana caur’s Gallery), New Delhi, 2012 Birla Art Gallery, Calcutta, 2011 Shangri La Art Gallery, Thiruvananthapuram, 2010 Russian Culture Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, 2009 Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Gallery, Thiruvananthapuram, 2005 Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2002 Chithranikethan Art Gallery, Thiruvananthapuram, 2000 Lalithakala Akademi Gallery, Calicut, 1999 Galerie Hendrik Bekkman, Marrum, Holland, 1997 Galerie De Artist, Holland, 1997 Galerie De Stalling, Holland, 1996 Alliance francaise, Hyderabad, 1994 Alliance francaise, Bangalore, 1993 Indo-French Culture Centre, Visakh, 1992 Alliance francaise, Thiruvananthapuram, 1991 Museum Auditorium, Thiruvananthapuram, 1985 |
Major Participations
| Duality, 2019, Alliance Francaise, Thiruvananthapuram Art Alliance, Raveendra Bhavan, New Delhi, 2014 Art Yatra by Kareesa Jewels, Mumbai, 2012 Group Show in Galerie De Compagnie, Holland, 2008 Sangamam, International Exhibition conducted by Chitraniketan Art Gallery, 2000 Group Show 1999 at www.artgallery.com (an exclusive digital space for Indian Contemporary Paintings) Kerala Lalithakala Akademy Annual Exhibitions etc. |
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Email: info@tapgallery.org.au * Telephone: 0400610440 .
Level 1, 259 Riley St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
Austin Konchira Paintings
Rock Chikz – The Songs Performed by Vee Malnar and Ann Brita Nilsson
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