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The six artists featured in “Life or Something Like It” highlight in their drawings and paintings the importance of imagination over facts, desire over need, life over survival.
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Eight Melbourne trams will be transformed into mobile works of art as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Making the official announcement
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Kept closely under wraps in the lead up to the gallery’s launch, Kalimanrawlins has finally revealed its list of represented artists.
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22 August 2011 | Fifteen finalists have been selected for next year’s Basil Sellers Art Prize: Brook Andrew, Richard Bell, Lauren Brincat
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Following the exhibition Reflections Off Water Soften Impressions, whose topic coagulated around the concept of history and historical awareness
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For a man who is preoccupied with signs, Melbourne artist Jon Campbell is immune to the charms of the sprightly Skipping Girl, the iconic Pelaco
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Born in Northern Ireland in 1961, Jon Campbell lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Characterized by appropriation, collage and DIY painting, Campbell’s practice has evolved a heartfelt pop iconography that combines rock’n’roll references, everyday sayings and autobiographical motifs. Layering enamel house paint on commonplace surfaces, from masonite and plywood to found record sleeves, Campbell creates direct text pieces and simple graphic imagery, such as representations of his parent’s suburban backyard. He often displays his works casually within gallery settings, propping them up on old paint cans to recall their fabrication. The artist’s work “yeah flag” (2005) inspired a small grassroots movement, when locals petitioned the Australian government to replace its national emblem with Campbell’s green flag baring the positive word YEAH in bubbly pink letters.
Recent solo exhibitions include “DUNNO’ at Kalimanrawlins, Melbourne (2012), “Pure Bewdy” at Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney (2011), Melbourne Art Foundation Commission, Melbourne Artfair, (2010), Folk Songs, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, (2011) and the monograph, Jon Campbell, ‘Book’ published by the artist and Uplands Gallery (2010).
His work has also been shown as part of ‘Black Box / White Cube’, George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, (2011), ‘Tarrawarra Contemporary’ TWMA, (2010), Making it New’, MCA, Sydney, (2009), ‘Terra Nullius’, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany, (2009)“DE OVERKANT / DOWN-UNDER” at The Hague Sculpture, The Netherlands (2007), “Big in Japan” at Gallery Side 2, Tokyo (2006),
 and ”Game on! Sport and Contemporary Art” at Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne (2006).
Jon was awarded the Basil Sellers Art Prize in 2012.
Jon Campbell is represented by Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
