War of the Roostermen

Pics of the final piece.

Pics From ColaboYARRRation

Some pics from Micah's ColaboYARRRation exhibition. The night was a great success with beer flowing and people spilling out of the gallery.... The guy above really liked that grey tee.

Work in Progress

Just a teaser of a new piece that im working on..... only the pencil sketch though.

Black Betty Beer

Black Betty is out on the town and is available to drink at Ding Dong Lounge. 18 Market Lane, Melbourne. Keep an eye out for her in more bars soon. Also her blonde sister is visiting us very soon.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Spookmag

Goodbye Yellow Brick road SPOOK from chase burns on Vimeo.

Semi Permanent Book 2009

Thanks Design is Kinky for putting my stuff in your book!

Sneak Peak at my "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" piece

This is my latest piece for the "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" exhibition (see details below) it will be for sale and all profits go to the children with cancer foundation. Heaps of great artists are exhibiting so come down drink some beer and donate some money ;)

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Exhibition

A benifit exhibition raising money for youth with cancer via the Alfred Hospital. Opening night Friday 27th November 2009, 6pm - 9pm. Exhibition runs 28th November - 30th November 2009. The Commission Gallery: 25 Bray Street Prahran. Hope to see you there.

YARRR! TEE

My completed piece for the upcoming Yarrr! exhibition. The colour original will be for sale and also 20 limited edition tees of the blue monotone version will be available. It will be a great night with alot of amazing work up for show.

Exhibition details are:

One night only

7:30pm until late

Saturday 5th December

Inside Out Gallery

473 Malvern Rd

South Yarra

Hope to see you there.

ColabYARRR!ation Exhibition

colabYARRRation

My latest work is for an up coming exhibition called colabYARRRation for Yarrr! Clothing. The exhibition consists of artists works being printed onto limited edition tees. Ill post details as soon as i get them. In this piece ive been experimenting with colour pencil and thick tracing paper. The colours just boom out and give excellent depth. Im not giving too much away here but you get the idea, ill post the finished piece up once im done. Pictures thanks to my amazing girl Kym x.

Spook Interview

The nice people at Spook gave me a 4 page interview in their opening issue. The mag really looks good and the articles are actually worth reading! Whooho.

EXTRA PICS FROM THE NIGHT....

Please visit my myspace page for more images..... any one that i spoke to one the night regarding commission pieces.... just email me.

OPENING NIGHT!

A big thanks to everyone who came down last Friday night to the Opening of my exhibition! I wasnt expecting so many people and was stoked to sell 17 out of 25 works! The exhibition will be running for 2 more weeks Mon - Fri 9ish - 5, Sat 1 - 5ish. Or email me at benashtonbell@hotmail for other appointment times or if your interested in any of the work or commissions. Ill be posting heaps of pics from the night very shortly. 

Thanks again!!

FINISHED PORTRAIT PIECES FOR SHOW

Plus many more............................................................

THE GALLERY

So the exhibition hanging is underway and all the booze is bought. So if you have some spare time on Friday the 17th of April (tomorrow) then comeone down between 6-9pm for some good times!

Hope to see you there. 

MY SOLO EXHIBTION

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From A Distance We Look The Same : SOLO EXHIBTION

Well I havn't posted anything for quite sometime now but i've been working like crazy on my first solo show at 'The Commission Gallery' (Formery Meeja Gallery) in Prahran. It will be on the 17th April and will run for 2 weeks. Ill post more info when it gets closer. In the meantime these are some works in progress.

Famous When Dead Portraits Exhibition

Wakes me into

Sekaw Em Otni

My latest piece for the upcoming exhibition 'Wakes me into", Shall post details of it soon......

General Pants - The Bubble

If you feel the need you can vote for my work here.

I Dreampt I was Dreaming

 'How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true...'

-Logan Pearsall Smith

Its a panda.....!?

Works in Progress

'Breathe'

Heaps of new stuff coming soon. Stay tuned....

No Vacancy Print Shop

Ive been asked to put a piece in the No Vacancy permanent print shop. I was asked after the flyer was made so my name isn't there but I assure you that you'll be able to purchase a limited edition (1/20) print of Featherpuff from the gallery. They are A2 in size. $380 framed, $180 unframed. Visit www.no-vacancy.com.au

Pussy Portraits

Yay. I have a piece in the pussy portraits. 2/4 (below) was choosen by the nice peoples down at 696 to be in the exhibition. Ill also be putting some originals up for sale at the gallery very soon. 

Nick Cave

You will be able to purchase a piece of Nick Cave at Gallery 696. So stay tuned peoples.

Red Head

This has been an ongoing piece for sometime now. I reckon that there is around 10 other paintings / sketches/ crap underneath what you see here. Ive had this canvas since highschool....which was around 8 years ago.

Its snowing again

Featherpuff

This little bird sits on his pirch. He had a tail once. 

2/4

Meowwwwww

This is the first in a series of 4 pencil on wood drawings that i'm doing. My cat will be the inspiration of all 4. She loves chewin on those lines! 

Custom frames

I started this with intentions of liking it once I was finished....This didn't happen so it's going to be recycled and made into some custom frames for some of my work. Hopefully ill like it then.

Untitled sneakers

This is my lastest piece that im working on. However im putting it on hold for awhile to work on a series of 4 portraits on plywood. Ill post pics of how it all going soon. And also a finished version the 'untitled sneakers' once its done.

Untitled skull

Boo! Are skulls scary...? Im still not sure. This fellow doesn't seem that bad. Done for the International Skull Drawing Competition. I never heard anything back from those guys......glad I put in the effort though.

Untitled head

This was influenced from one of my dad's drawing of one of my younger brother's. He now has three eyes.

TED 696

Untitled tv

Tv these days to me is about as interesting as watching grass grow. Knowone would watch tv if this was on....but maybe I would start.

Untitled girl

In 2007 I had the opportunity of meeting Istivan Orosz. He is an amazing illustrator and uses the technique of anamorphosis. This piece by no means compares to his but was influenced by his work.

AGIdeas

Whilst working at Cato Purnell Partners I was asked to illustrate the 2008 theme. It was based around the quote "The mind is like a parachute... it works best when it's open" So it's basically a mutated brain which is half parachute. The illustration was used on all the print and advertising media this included it being varnished onto the hardcover of the book, posters, umbrellas, t-shirts the list goes on....images of the event here were taken from the AGIdeas website. www.agideas.net. I only illustrated the brain and full credit should go to the team at the design foundation for all the graphic design work that was done.

Mooks

This was for the Mooks Artspace competition. The theme was typography.

Yarrr! Clothing

Yarrr! Clothing first season range. To get some pirate action you can contact Micah Pearson at yarrr_clothing@hotmail.com.au

British India

British India's debut album 'Guillotine' was nominated for a triple j album of the year award. Pretty happy were it ended up. Credit to Jonathon Jones for his great photography.

Album Covers

These are a selection of album cover that ive done for bands here and there. The only one that has been used was the blake scott cover on the left.

Teacher Mother Secret Lover

This is a piece i did for a good friends band some time ago. Not sure if he used it or not.