MAKING ENDS - The collected design works and studio of Mark Drew

I used to skate once part IV - Thursday June 26th
— group show

Made this for Matt Brady's 'Skate Once' series of shows in Brisbane. Opens tonight at The Zoo in Fortitude Valley. Shouts to Charlie Brown for being my spokesman...

BROFILE POSSE SHOT
— on the way to Canberra fair, Saturday June 21

Outside of Ed and the gallery, and Pete in Melbourne, My regular productive crew is the 'Brofile', pitured above. TC, IZROCK and DL76. Webstore pending of our collective zines and prints.

SMALL GOODS - Thursday June 19th
— group show

I have a piece in a show at Palmer Projects soon, with a few familiar faces... My works were a series of 2 prints (click to see)- one a pile of tapes, one 'the scene' as shown below. They sold all 40 I had prepared - will put out another edition soon.

VENUE MAGAZINE #23 - Oxford Art Factory feature

They used the tape wall for the cover shot, with the Venue masthead dropped in as a cassette, then had a few nice spreads inside also.

MCA ZINE FAIR - 25/5/08

We had a few tables at the MCA zine fair, as part of the Sydney Writers Festival. Restored my faith in these events, after some major zine fair let-downs of late. An excellent day, and the unofficial launch of Long story Short #8, among other things.

Good times with my table bros: Tristan, Joseph + DL76.

LOCALISM

"Hot! Reckless! Totally insane."
My piece for a group show and publication organised by Joseph Allen and Dave Ladd, based around the idea of community. The show opened at a local barber/record store, Sedition. An A4 publication was put together for the event, should be available soon from Izrock.com

TV Photos from the movie Thrashin', A2 pigment print on watercolour paper.

Also did this mind map of 'The Scene', silver ink on black card:

UV MAG
ISSUE #7

Lachie Goldsworthy from ERA recently interviewed me for UV, a Brisbane art/fashion/music mag - we talked mainly about the heights and general design stuff.

KIDS TODAY - Semi-Permanent 2008 group show
FRIDAY APRIL 4, MTV GALLERY, DARLINGHURST

I have a piece in the Semi-Perm group show this week, put together by Ben Frost and XX'Zilla of StupidKrap. Another tape work, made up from my highschool faves.

KIDS TODAY
MTV Gallery - Yurong St, Darlinghurst
Friday April 4, 7.30pm

Show flyer

KILL PIXIE BOOK OUT NOW
THROUGH IZROCK PRESSINGS

The Kill Pixie book came out recently - We have a few signed and numbered by the artist for China Heights, available for sale through the gallery. $30 each, including postage Australia wide. email me if you would like a copy.

Perfect bound, A5 size. Offset printed with both colour + B/W Spreads.

click for sneaky preview

OLD FAITHFUL - BONELESS
ANOTHER INCH BONELESS EXCLUSIVE COLOURWAY

Did a small run of The End 'Boneless' tees, in the Another" colourway. Available exclusively at their store in Darlinghurst (while the OG hot pink on white and whats left of the first range is available online at Purest Cut).

ANOTHER "
13b Burton St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010
t +61 2 9360 0533

www.anotherinch.com

GROUP SHOW AT VALUE KING, SA
opens march 14

In 1996 I went on a mystery flight to Adelaide. A friend was trying to impress a girl, and asked me along as a third wheel. Made for a weird dynamic, and all we did was go to Rundle mall for 8 hours, then come home. It didn't get him anywhere, and the whole day was kind of awkward.

Anyways, I'm giving the place another try for a group show at Value King.

Solid Gold II

HIGHSCHOOL CLASSICS - TAPE PAINTING AT OXFORD ART FACTORY
by myself and Luka du Chateau, Jan 24

I pitched this idea a while back to the OAF, for their 25 metre gallery wall, and the perfect opportunity to do it came up last week - for the Big Day Out afterparty. All up there are 5 archways like the above. Massive 24 hour session painting it, with Luka from Of The Castle on the assist. By the end, we could kinda see through time. The imagery itself comes from my teenage collection of tapes, mostly originals, but also a few hand written bootlegs chucked in - true 90's style... black and white high contrast... and $100 worth of posca's well spent!

SPREAD FOR ONESHOT ZINE
Issue #5

Made a quick spread in the new issue of Oneshot, a small local photocopied zine. The launch was piggybacked onto Luke Taaffe's opening last night at China Heights. For issue 5, the boys have finally upped things to A6. Also has an interview wth Caib. Reminds me a lot of the first zines DMc and I were making in Highschool, The Sauce + Damn Kids.

HIGH CONTRAST GRIME 4EVA . . .

THE CHRONIC - OPENS MONDAY 14/2, AT THE OUTPOST IN BRISBANE

Doing an installation of 15 recent screenprints at The Outpost store in Brisbane this coming week.
Low key, all welcome. On instore until Feb 14.

Bigger version of the flyer is here

The Outpost
5a Winn St, Fortitude Valley, QLD

(click images for detail)

THE 100th CHINA HEIGHTS ART OPENING - December 21, 2007

Ed and I put together a monster group show for our 100th art opening at China Heights . Heading into our 5th year, a big crowd came to pay their respects and get drunk. click here for the flyer.

World famous Scott Lowe AKA best neighbour ever, shot pics of all who work from the Studio, making up the core Heights fam. Thanks to everyone who was involved. And thanks to everyone for coming to the Heights every damn Friday night! You are truly keeping me skinny...

INSTALLATION FOR ANOTHER" STORE - December 20, 2007
with Tristan Ceddia

After working together on a zine a couple of months back, Tristan Ceddia and I put together this wall piece for Ritchie at Another", on Burton St in Sydney. Order of the evening was no plan - just meet with sketchbooks and a some reference material, and a $50 photocopy budget at kinkos, then get busy pasting freeform style...

Stay tuned for a commemorative zine documenting the installation. in the meantime, trip on this for the full image compile.

NEW STORE: VALUE KING, ADELAIDE - STOCKING THE END LABEL

Value King in SA just picked up The End. Nice looking spot, just opened its doors in December. Not only do they have a gallery space, the boys are also equipped with an OG tournament edition of NBA Jam! I suck at the game, but can appreciate the sentiment...

MONSTER CHILDREN END OF YEAR SHOW - December 6, 2007

I have a piece in this years Monster Children end of year show, opening Thursday 6/12.
Good list of peeps for anyone around Sydney during December. below is snap of my piece, a hand screened pile of cassette tapes from my past, titled 'Solid Gold'.
Edition of 4, all sold. Thanks for having me back, Monsters!

RENT ME #4 / AUGUST '07
A5, 80 pages
New issue. Rent Me is a series of zines archiving things I've produced, collected, seen and been inspired by. This issue was put together in one 12 hour sitting, with the majority of photos coming from my trip to Japan in June.

Click HERE for full issue scan

CLASS OF '96
08/NOV/07

I returned to highschool today, to talk to year 11 art students about being a graphic designer and running the gallery. I had a lot of random work to show them from the 10 plus years its been since I graduated, but spent most of the session stressing the importance of having an 'inside guy' at kinkos.

ACCLAIM #7 - June 2007
Article on Eric Orr

I wrote an article on Eric Orr for Acclaim, when he was out to show at China Heights in March. Eric designed a lot of early rap logos. Busy B, Jazzy Jay, Strong City... and a few 90s acts like D.I.T.C. It was great to have him in the country. Top guy.

SPREAD FOR 6FU ZINE

Quick Heights spread for Money Mepher's photocopied zine, Six Feet Under.
Thanks to the kings of rock for the phrase...

'GOING TO SEE A DEAD KID' + "MAYBE IT SHOULDN'T BE A PARTY"
For Monster Children Group Show, Dec 2006
These images from the movie 'Stand By Me' were developed onto the metal plates used for printing newspapers. I made these in 2004 on the nightshift, and had them box-framed for the MC show.

NES SHOE for Sneaker Pimps tour.
2003
a google search for my NES shoe will lead you to countless blogs claiming they know for a fact that the shoe actually functions as a Nintendo - but my remaining NES doesn' even work, let alone the one i chopped up to make the shoe. Sorry folks, display only...