Iconic Australian artist and musician Reg Mombassa is among the creative talents selected to discuss their life’s work and inspiration at the Semi-Permanent creative conference occurring on 5 August at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre.

The Mental As Anything star’s unique artistic style earned him pop-culture fame via Mambo t-shirt prints, while his works hang in the nation’s most prestigious art galleries. It is a rare opportunity to hear Mombassa share anecdotes and insights from a career that has entered its fourth decade.

“I’m very much looking forward to talking at Semi-Permanent,” said Mombassa. “The idea of standing up and delivering a lecture for an hour would be a fairly disturbing prospect but to talk about the images and show them to people, I really enjoy doing that.”

“The best gigs for musicians are playing at festivals because they are well organised and promoted and you get an audience that is interested in what you are doing and I see this graphic conference as being a similar kind of thing to a music festival.”

Now in its ninth year, the Sydney-born Semi-Permanent design festival has been exported to five countries, welcomed 150,000 attendees and hosted 190 gifted speakers from the fields of design, art, photography, digital creation, company and creative directors, product and fashion design, amongst others.

During the Brisbane event that occurs on 5 August will be several side shows displaying artwork from hand selected artists.

“Semi-Permanent is a forum that welcomes all people with a mind open to creative ideas,” said organiser, Andrew Johnstone.

The Brisbane event is a one day event with each speaker delivering a 45 minute-long presentation on the ideas and application behind their work, plus an opportunity for guests to pose questions. The Brisbane event’s website has all information about speakers, event details and ticketing information.

BRISBANE SPEAKERS

REG MOMBASSA
Iconic Australian artist and musician well known for being one of the leading artists of the Mambo fashion label and guitarist in Mental As Anything.

KELLY THOMPSON
New Zealand born, Australian based, Kelly Thompson has become a highly sort afterillustrator with work in major publications throughout the world.

SAM LEACH
Winner of Australia’s most prestigious art prize, The Archibald prize, in 2010, Sam Leach has become one of Australia’s top artists exhibiting work both locally and internationally.

SUPERVIXEN
Founded by Morten Rowley and Daniel Bavell, Supervixen have put themselves on the map as one of Australia’s most creative studios, producing motion graphics, typography and branding.

WEBUYYOURKIDS
Webuyyourkids are Sonny Day & Biddy Maroney from Newtown in Sydney. They are exhibiting artists as well as commercial illustrators operating as a small multidisciplinary design studio.

TOBY DIXON
Toby Dixon is a photographer who primarily shoots environmental portraiture and conceptual still-life as personal projects as well as major advertising campaigns.

T-WORLD
T-World’s Eddie Zammit is recognised worldwide as an expert T-shirt connoisseur. The logical alchemy of Eddie’s talents is T-world, the world’s only  T-shirt journal. It is now distributed in over 30 countries including Japan, the UK, USA and Canada.

EVENT INFO:

Date: 5 August 2011

Location: Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, South Bank, Brisbane

Website: www.semipermanent.com.au

Tickets: semipermanentevents.com

While surfing the web we came across the site sketchoholic.com showcasing some great work such as the competition winner above for Browswer Wars. The winner was shoze a talented artist from Israel, check out her collection at deviantART here.

Image by Ricardo Gomes

June Featured Artist – Ricardo Gomes

Our June 2011 event will be showcasing the work of the extraordinary Ricardo Gomes.

Ricardo Gomes is a photographer originally from Portugal and currently settled in Brisbane, Australia.

Ricardo completed a diploma in Graphic Design in 1999 and later, in 2009, completed a bachelor in Photography and Cinematography in the school of music and visual arts in Oporto, Portugal.

Ricardo is passionate in all fields of visual arts, exploring different mediums such as graphic design, digital art & video – but it is photography that provides the best format for his expression. Having explored all forms of photography such as photojournalism, fashion, landscape and architecture it is portraiture where Ricardo has found his little spot in the sunshine.

Be sure to check Ricardo’s work out at Thursday’s Creative Drinks event, you can book your tickets here if you haven’t already.

Creative Drinks Event @ SIMJEN HQ  - Thursday 23rd June

Our next event is now on sale. We will be holding the event at the SIMJEN headquarters which is an amazing creative space.

There will be heaps of opportunity to network with other like minded creatives, listen to some amazing inspirational speakers, check out some of Brisbane’s creative talent while listening to some hot music from DJ Maravilla.

So don’t miss out on a great night where you are sure to make some great business connections.

Early bird tickets are only $20 plus booking fee and are on sale until June 17. There are no door sales for this event so please don’t miss out getting a ticket.

Bookings can be made here. Stay tuned to our Facebook page and Twitter feed for more information about the night.

Welcome to Room60 a place for poets and dreamers; where the dimmer, soft lighting scheme lends itself to making one appear  more brooding, interesting or attractive (or so I can only hope). The warm eclecticism of ‘rainy day, family time board games’,  comfy couches  and the wildly exciting ‘Chili infused Ginger Beer’ make this cosy little nook a very welcome addition to the Creative scene of Brisbane town. The place has got a truly unique, quirky and welcoming vibe about it, and between the undeniably superior crackle of the vinyl and a whole host of ‘left of center’ creative activities throughout the week there is really no excuse not to drop by and say hello! Did we mention the mixed nuts?

Room60 is open from 4pm-midnight Mon-Sat, with a riveting new addition chalked up on the cocktail board every night!

While a healthy discretion of the bar will be employed, feel free to dust off your favorite vinyl to bring along and come wander through the sultry red entrance ( mind the great wall of shoes!) at Shop 22, Carraway St, Kelvin Grove Urban Village.

For more info have a squiz at:

http://www.dysonindustries.com.au/room60.html

We’ve got a crisis on our hands, Arab Israeli Crisis that is.

This Brisbane DJ crew is streets ahead when it comes to fresh music.  They will liven up our Creative Drinks Christmas Party with music to network to plus a little bit of party, thrown in for good measure.

Here’s your chance to meet Brisbane’s creative talent in one convenient location.  With tunes in the air, art on the walls and a few creative showcases to hook you in with what’s happening in Brisbane’s creative scene, this is a night not to miss if you want to be part of the cities creative industries.

Tickets for you and three friends are only $20 each – book online at www.creativedrinks.com.au to pick up an early Christmas present for yourself and those special people in your life.

So come all ye creatives to the Creative Drinks Christmas Party, Thursday 16 December at Bleeding Heart.  Doors open at 6pm.

5^TH WORLD MEDIA

Interaction through collaboration is the theme of our Creative Drinks Christmas Party and what better way to get interactive than gaming?

5^th World Media will be on hand and er, in your hand on Thursday 16 December at Bleeding Heart.

This fresh animation, gaming and app studio of Brisbane will be showing off their stuff.  If you didn’t make it to the 5^th World launch party recently, here’s a second chance to meet the team and play some of their original and very addictive games.

Bouncer Boot Out and The Romeros are sure to get your fingers moving and your brain buzzing.  These are just two of the projects 5^th World have recently completed, with many more on the way in the New Year.

Go to www.5thworldmedia.com to see WHAT 5^TH World Media has to offer.

Better yet, get yourself in the mix and purchase your tickets online to play the games and meet the people of 5^th World Media at our Christmas Party.

Just in case those Christmas decorations and jingles have knocked all the senses out of you… Creative Drinks is happening Thursday 16 December from 6pm at Bleeding Heart, 166 Ann Street in the city.

See you there!

Alison Mooney is a Toowoomba-based painter and curator.

Predominantly self taught, she has been exhibiting and selling works consistently since early 2009, when she first started sharing her work publicly.

Her works are characterised by a bold use of layering, colour, line and subtle satire.

Alison has works in private collections nationally as well as in Japan, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand.

As a curator, Alison works with Toowoomba cafe and function space, Metro Cafe and Events. Into the second year of their partnership, these shows have exhibited the works of over 60 local artists across six seasonal, themed shows. OPening nights, which incorporate local live music, performance and art, have regularly attract crowds upwards of 60 people.

Artists are invited to exhibit and create pieces to a common theme for these exhibitions which have been well recieved by the local community.

They seem to have also stimulated creation and experimentation within the town’s creative community.

2011 promises the expansion of these shows into a more comprehensive contribution to the local scene with plans to implement artist residencies, workshops, artist talks and toured exhibitions.

SHAELAH ARIOTTI

Born and raised in central Queensland, Shaelah moved to Brisbane to study and is a 2008 graduate of a Bachelor of Photography at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, and her major is Creative Advertising in Fashion.

Shaelah’s dream is to become an internationally renowned and respected fashion photographer who has a sphere of influence great enough to effect immense change in the world through an unexpected source.

It is not usually expected that fashion be anything other than superficial and that is why it has such potential to transform ideas.

Tyler Alberti – Photographer

Having worked in the field of live concert photography for a number of years, Tyler
fell into the music photographer role quite quickly.

His experience has led him to other areas and most recently as on-set photographer for short films.
He has been commissioned to complete include fashion portfolios, awards nights and school formals and product documentation. Keeping a range of photography broad and applying lighting skills across all
areas of  photography rather than specializing in any one genre. His work reflects a broad range of content with a vivid and punchy feel; using a number of lighting techniques to create vibrant and contrasting images.

We can’t wait to see what he’s got in store for the Gallery Space at Bleeding Heart next week!