Featuring:
“Torn Again” is the title chosen by Shane Forrest to encapsulate this revisiting of his poster works from 2000 -2010.The ideas that informed these works are still current in his continuing practice.The poster was a new direction for Forrest in the mid 1980’s. He explains his discovery of this medium.“While stopped at the lights, I looked over to see a bank of familiar posters, which had recently been covered by a new layer. I realised I knew what was underneath, the location of now hidden colours, shapes and text. Musing on the line of rectangular posters reminded me of a child’s watercolor paint box. Thinking that if the surface was peeled or cut into, colours beneath could be revealed and combined. I thought about how manipulating posters could afford a similar experience to the push and pull of painting, the layering over underpainting and then rubbing back to find colours underneath.In a continuum that began in printmaking then drawing and painting, I applied images through a stencil to the posters as a starting point.”As an object for a subject the poster is a rarely used medium.Working in the 1950’s, a small group of French Nouveau Realists took posters straight from the street and exhibited these with minimal alteration.It was the artist Phillip Martin, a contemporary of the French Nouveau Realists, who after seeing Forrest’s poster works in the mid 2000’s, informed him of this link.
*Artists profits from the sale of Shane’s work are donated to Nature Conservancy Australia
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Collage and decollage on street posters 90 x 65 cm
Narrowcast $900
Collage and decollage on street posters 65 x 90 cm
Burgeoning Blooms SOLD
Collage and decollage on street posters 90 x 65 cm
Erase $700
Collage and decollage on street posters 50 x 80 cm
Veil $1,200
Collage and decollage on street posters 123 x 106 cm
Consumer Robusta – Rumba SOLD
Collage and decollage on street posters 53 x 53 cm
Puddle $600
acrylic on recycled materials 83 x 45 x 13.5 cm
Spring – Tenki Man $700
Collage and decollage on street posters 80 x 80 cm
Autumn – Crunch $700
Collage and decollage on street posters 80 x 80 cm
Disintegration/Static $700
Collage and decollage on street posters 80 x 80 cm
Rolling Cowboy $700
Collage and decollage on street posters 80 x 80 cm
Holly, Holly, Holly $1,800
Collage and decollage on street posters 126 x 100 cm
Six Eyes And Two Mouths $1,800
Collage and decollage on street posters 126 x 100 cm
Flicker $700
Collage and decollage on street posters 60 x 55 cm
Ripple $1,200
Collage and decollage on street posters 106 x 143 cm
Vent $700
Collage and decollage on street posters 84 x 69 cm
Night $700
Collage and decollage on street posters 84 x 69 cm
Day $700
Collage and decollage on street posters 84 x 69 cm
Peeking $350
Collage and decollage on street posters 80 x 77 cm
Budding SOLD
Collage and decollage on street posters 30 x 26 cm
Wrinkle SOLD
Collage and decollage on street posters 30 x 24 cm
Sakura Zaizen $350
Collage and decollage on street posters 40 x 33 cm
Hiding $350
Collage and decollage on street posters 40 x 33 cm
Regency SOLD
Collage and decollage on street posters 26 x 34 cm
Consumer Robusta $1,000
Collage and decollage on street posters 57 x 102 cm
Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy $300
Collage and decollage on street posters 26 x 34 cm
Descent $400
Collage and decollage on street posters 51 x 40 cm
Rupture $300
Collage and decollage on street posters 30 x 30 cm
Descending $400
Collage and decollage on street posters 51 x 40 cm
Erased Malevich $300
Collage and decollage on street posters 30 x 22.5 cm