GRANT HUNTER: May 2011

Pure Evil

Grant Hunter. Pure Evil
Ink On Paper & Digital Colour. ©2011

This is another work of mine from the Art Vandelay exhibition about nothing which is on at ARThive right now. This one is of Newman aka Wayne Knight aka the primary antagonist from the TV show Seinfeld. To make this I drew it up on an A4 sheet of paper with some black and brown ink, and then scanned it into photoshop and coloured it with a wacom intuos4 graphics tablet. The opening night for the exhibition was really awesome, heaps and heaps of people came along, lots of artists sold work, everybody who came seemed to have fun and be totally into it, united by a mutual love for the best sitcom ever. I've sold a few Newman prints already which is pretty exciting, and it even appeared in yesterday's Newcastle Herald in an article gushing about the show, so if you'd like a print for yourself or your Dad you should come into ARThive and check it out, it's on for a few weeks so you've got plenty of time. I totally think it's the coolest and most important art show on in Newcastle right now, but we'll hold the final verdict until we hear what the critics have to say haha. (not really).

My cat Amy just jumped on my computer nb mmmmjugguklllllllll

It's Go Time!

Grant Hunter. It's Go Time!
Ink On Paper. 21x29cm. ©2011

This is one of my contributions to the ART VANDELAY Seinfeld themed art show which opens at ARThive this Friday night and will be on display until June 4 2011. Of course it's Izzy Mandelbaum! If you want to purchase this work you'll have to come to the exhibition, but if you can't make it you can also buy gallery quality art prints on archival paper from my Society6 store here.

Art Vandelay

I've got some work in this super rad Seinfeld themed art show called ART VANDELAY that opens at ARThive this Friday night May 27 from 7pm. ARThive is at Level 1, 111 Hunter Street Newcastle and the exhibition runs until June 4. If you don't like my dumb drawings there will also be heaps of cool Seinfeld-y stuff by some of my other favourite art dudes including Mike Foxall, Sarah Mould, Rose Turner, Ry Wilkin, Jessica Louttit, Angus Crowley, Elizabeth Nagy and heaps more. Don't miss it!

Going Off At The Swamp (Also Bung It On The Barbie)

Grant Hunter. Going Off At The Swamp (Also Bung It On The Barbie)
Ink On Paper. Digital Colour. ©2004

This is another drawing that I did for the Going Off At The Swamp music festival, this one was for the 2004 event, which I think was intended to be more of a big family barbecue kind of vibe, well that's what they asked me to draw on the poster anyway. This particular year at GOATS was particularly notable as it was here that Crab Smasher played their first ever live performance, which set in motion a long and complicated chain of events that have steered me this way and that way for the last seven years of my life.

Going Off At The Swamp

So Going Off At The Swamp 2011 happened and even though i didn't make it down to the Central Coast to attend, from what i've heard it was a big success. The new mascot/logo that i drew for them was on all the posters and banners and Tshirts and in the local paper and everybody seems to have liked it, which makes me very happy. To have been able to contribute something to such an awesome community event, which gave me so much support back when I was a young kid, is very satisfying. I've finally motivated myself to dig out the rest of the art that I made for them and cleaned it up after years of neglecting to do so. This is the 2003 art that they commissioned from me and have used nearly every year since in some way or another.

The Crowd Take To Their Feet

Brains Please

I drew this last night with a big chunky sharpie on the inside of a Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate cardboard wrapper(dear cadbury please sponsor me!). I coloured it in with photoshop(dear adobe gimme a free upgrade). It's available for sale as a print if you'd like to put one in your house. Manners are important!
Fine art print on bright white, matte, ultra smooth, 100% cotton rag, acid and lignin free archival paper using an advanced digital dry ink method to ensure vibrant image quality. Custom trimmed with 1" border for framing. Prints available HERE

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