NOW SHOWING

Are You Kitten Me?
Cat Themed Group Exhibition featuring new work by Eddie Botha, Kirrily Humphries, Alisha Hinds, Amanda Reeves, Sarah Mould, Jessica Louttit, Grant Hunter, Daniel Smith, Angus Arley Crowley, Bryce Collins, Ry Wilkin

Sarah Mould

Sarah Mould - Batgirl In Love
Sarah Mould - Edie Bouvier Beale
Sarah Mould - Lump

Ox King

OX KING - Sweet Teeth/Your Treasure Is Our Trash CD Art (inside)
OX KING - El Barto
Whatspace, Marrikville, 17th March
OX KING - Heathen Godz
OX KING - Ox Cabin

New Zine in stock!


You may have noticed that we are now stocking a small range of artist made soft toys, prints, CDRs, cassettes, comics, zines and more alongside our regular art collection and scheduled exhibitions. You'll hear much more about this over the coming weeks, but first up we'd like you to know about a super awesome new zine, 'Poisonous Hearts.' This is a comic compilation made by Peter Kozak and a group of artists from Melbourne and Tasmania. We have a limited number for sale, or you can just pop in and read one as you relax in the gallery reading/relaxing seat.

25/03/2012 : Word Hurl Anti-Slam

It's finally here! Word Hurl Anti-slam in 2012. Put it on your calendar folks 'cause on Sunday the twenty-fifth of March things are going to get wordy. Newcastle's most effusive spoken word night. So come, oh yes, please do.

Are You Kitten Me?

We are very excited to announce it is now just over a week until our first ever cat themed exhibition, 'Are You Kitten Me?'
We have a group of amazing artists from a variety of disciplines exhibiting- things are shaping up to be just purrrrrrfect! Featured artists include Eddie Botha, Kirrily Humphries, Alisha Hinds, Amanda Reeves, Sarah Mould, Jessica Louttit, Grant Hunter, Daniel Smith, Angus Arley Crowley, Bryce Collins, and Ry Wilkin.
Come to the gallery at 3pm Sunday March 11th to share some kitten cake and enjoy the delightful music of exhibiting artist, Lizzie Nagy as Young Lions! MEOW!
Ps. Those who dress in leopard/jaguar/cheetah/cat prints shall be rewarded!

It's Only Madness...

Via Grant Hunter
I really like Batman so at 2pm on Sunday Feb 5 at ARThive I will be unveiling 20 new paintings of various Batman villains, including The Joker, Mister Freeze, Penguin, Killer Croc, Two-Face, Clock King, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Black Mask, Mad Hatter, Clayface, The Riddler, Bane, Crazy Quilt, Calendar Man, Zsasz, Scarecrow, Ventriloquist, Ra's Al Ghul, and Manbat. I've been working on these on-and-off in my studio for about a year, but the time has come to quit faffing about and just show them to people. So if you like Batman too and wanna have a look at them, come to 111 Hunter Street Newcastle on Feb 5 and i'll put on a spread of fizzy drinks and lollies and maybe put Prince's soundtrack to Batman '89 on the stereo.
RSVP on facebooky

Steven Nuttall available for freelance work

Steven Nuttall - The Key
Steven Nuttall - RPG

Steven Nuttall (OX KING) is currently available for freelance work! We recently commissioned THIS awesome mural from him, if you need anything done you should totally get in touch, he's totally versatile, mega skilled, and super nice!
Ok who wants to save me from abject poverty? Will freelance for food!
Poster art, Album art, T shirt design, personalized commission art, wall murals, heck I'll even design a logo for your etsy business or whatever!
Hit me up if you need art did, now at discount prices! I NEED FOOD!
steven.nuttall@hotmail.com
 

OX KING: Dead Gods Never Die

Thanks to Steven Nuttall/OX KING for creating this marvelous new wall piece in our hallway at last Saturday's live art event. It really brings the room together! Be sure to come and check out the real thing, the colours will melt in your mouth and fry in your brains. Also, giant big thanks to Renew Newcastle for sponsoring our event and this fantastic piece of fine art. Peep more recent stuff from OX KING at http://theoxking.tumblr.com

Sarah Mould's recluses venture outside!


Here are some new pasteups by our resident "street artist" Sarah Mould. You can find these on the outside of our building as you walk upstairs to our star attraction (the toilets).

LIVE ART by OX KING!!

 As part of Renew Newcastle's Festive Follies Walking Tour, Arthive will be hosting a special once-in-a-lifetime event. Fresh from Paste Modernism at Cockatoo Island, OX KING (aka Sydney artist Steven Nuttall aka Automaton) will be visiting to drop some mad paint skillz on one of our miserable looking walls in an incredible live art performance that you're invited to watch, critique, and enjoy.

OX has been making quite a name for himself in Sydney this year. Since his SPOOK HOUSE exhibition at ARThive in 2010, he has participated in art battles and live art performances all over the place, from Hardware Gallery, Lo Fi Gallery, Dirty Shirlows, to the Australian Museum!



Check out some of OX KING's recent work at http://theoxking.tumblr.com

From 2-4pm Renew Newcastle will host a walking tour starting at the Renew Church which will make its way through Arthive, Makespace, Shannon Hartigan, Birdhouse, Little Papercup, Run Amok, Odditorium, Tipsy Orchestra, and The Woods. It's a good chance to check out what's happening in each of the RN spaces in the mall and also meet the people behind them. There will be free food, drink, and entertainment along the way.



Supported by Renew Newcastle