Heesco Art

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noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:23:00 +0000

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Windsor carpark project, plus new walls in the new year

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:22:00 +0000

just before the year ended, we set out to do one final project before the end of the year.
we were in talks about painting an entire carpark in windsor for some time, and finally organised ourselves enough to dare to do it.

the idea was to buff different colour sections, and each artist starts painting from left hand side and goes over the other side a little bit at the other end, thus creating a continuous flow of images..

seemed good enough in theory, but was a big task to pull it off properly. after nutting it out for a while, we decided best way was to hire industrial air-compressors with spray-guns, and a couple of scissor-lifts, and a hell of a lot of buff paint.

before:

after:

Photo by Dean Sunshine.

apart from us, the boys from SDM crew came down to put up some fine pieces, as well as Meggs from Everfresh crew. More photos below.

Photos by Dean Sunshine and David Russell.

soon after we scored a wall nearby and hit it with Rad and Hancock:

I painted Ming the Merciless off Flash Gordon series, which takes place on planet... MONGO!

End of the Year (and the World)

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:44:00 +0000

below is my last couple of months in pictures. busy times. hectic schedules. mad parties. and a whole lot of blood sweat and tears.

did a bit of nature landscaping for my good friends Phu and Ellen at Studio Something. check out their website. they kick ass.

and a first major collab with my boys Hancock and Rad. this was for George Lane Block Party in St. Kilda.

Then came the Grand Final of Secret Wars (or Walls, whatever) between the two from our crew, Hanock and Jacky D. Hanky took home the grand prize (on the right side). and we all nursed our hangovers for following few days. Big win for all of us.

and then Dean Sunshine dropped his book - Land of Sunshine. Dean is a mad dog, a mad dog with a camera, who snaps everything, and he put a book out with all of them photos, and i'm in it, alongside some of the freshest in Burn city. very humbled. thank you sir!

you see, Dean was there from my day 1 in Burn city, and managed to document pretty much anything noteworthy in my short career so far.

Dean threw us a massive launch party for his book, with never-ending vodka cocktails and good tunes. some party photos i found here at oyster mag website. the book is available through General Pants stores, NGV bookstore, Signed and Numbered in Prahran etc. OR you can buy your copy directly from Dean's website: http://deansunshine.com/land-of-sunshine-book/

For Dean's book launch, I painted a mongolian shaman dancing at the end of the world.. this was another collab with Hancock and Rad.

each year, my studio, the Blender studios, have a christmas party to celebrate the year we had, and to showcase what we all been up to with a massive open studio event, with drinks and djs and live bands, you name it. and each year we make t-shirts to mark the occasion. this year was my turn to design the tshirt, and i did caricatures of all the guys.

if anyone wants either large or medium size of this tshirt, i have VERY few left. email me.

next up, did some promo work for my mate Kiah's self funded zombie flick Wyrmwood. if anyone remembers, i did a painting for it earlier this year. this time around, the boys are running a campaign on Indiegogo to raise funds so they can finish making the movie. Well, they amied for $20,000 but at the time of me posting this, they have raised well over $28,000 with 54 days still to go till the end of the campaign! and its no wonder, the 7min teaser they posted on youtube (which you can watch just below) has gone viral, with well over 260,000 hits in matter of few weeks. anyway, my part of the campaign is to "zombiefy" you. i've got a few orders in already, and below is the sample i did of Kiah himself zombiefied. go to their campaign page, watch Kiah and Tristan tell you what's up, and choose a package to support, if you're up for it. it's gonna be fucking killa!

sometime during all this, put this piece up in Hosier lane, an another tribute to the people of Tibet, who've made the ultimate sacrifice in their fight for freedom. 94 people have self-immolated in Tibet since february this year, and yet, sadly it's still not seen as a major problem in the world. read more here. and show your support.

shortly after, we were filmed by french TV crew for Canal+ for a documentary on street art, apparently to screen sometime next year. Yet another collab with Hanky and Rad.

All of our pieces got slashed pretty much straight after, cos we went over a "RIP" piece, although, when we got to the wall, it was pretty much tagged all over, and half covered by a massive throwie. anyway, game is game, and I'm sorry if we offended.

The TV frenchies needed more footage, so i did this outside my studio. i painted a portrait of my mate Fletch whose birthday was just around the corner, and seemed like a good present for once. i did kind of go wonky on his glasses, but all in all not too shabby for a quick session.

soon after, i scored a wall in Fitzroy, to do whatever i wanted, so i went Mongolian Metal all over that mother fucker. Happy End of the World!

(Photo by David Russell aka Dave Hustle)

Happy New Year everyone! don't forget to feed your inner juvenile delinquent :)

as for me, I'm always ready for the next wall.

oh and btw, i'm gonna be a dad next year ;)

October... and back at it

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 11:48:00 +0000

had a nice chilled day painting a laneway in Windsor. Thanks to Wayne Tindall for organising everything.

nerded out on this one a bit...

a few months back i spent some time developing a logo for a friend's bike company. got back from overseas to receive this bike from Tanto Bikes:

was good to finally see the headbadge all done and on the bike..

Mural in Mongolia

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 11:26:00 +0000

In early September I traveled back home to UB, Mongolia to paint a wall as part of the Cultural Exchange Program for the 40th Anniversary of Australia-Mongolia Diplomatic Relations, which was on September the 15th.

I haven't really done much back home in terms of exhibiting my work, so this was a bit of a big deal to me personally. And having to deal with government officials from each side and come up with the concept that was "fine" by both sides was a bit of a task in itself.

My initial sketch had a Mongolian shaman dancing with an Aboriginal shaman/wiseman character over a landscape that shifted from left to right which started with snowy Altai mountains, then mongolian forests and rivers, followed by Mongolian steppe, which turns into the red sands of Australian outback, then forests and hills, and then finally a coastal scene with a beach and palm trees. And the wall I was offered was originally a huge horizontal wall with 25m x 8m dimensions.

(image on the left got all the references for each section planned out.)

But this being Mongolia, the wall changed into the one you see in the photos... It moved to the dormitory wall of School of Cultural Education, part of Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture. And the design had to be changed, as the Mongolian side were sensitive towards depicting a shaman on an government commissioned wall.. I get to know about it on the day I was leaving for Mongolia to start painting... so i went a bit abstract-ey, and do a sketch with a horse and a kangaroo jumping playfully at each other...

... and the Australian side went a bit sensitive cos the kangaroo seemed to be "bowing to the horse"... I'm already behind schedule at this stage. I planned to spend 12 days in Mongolia, and leave for a friends' wedding in France which was on the 15th... so, I remove the kangaroo, and email a picture of a galloping horse on its own... because at this stage i'm already panicking a bit, and got the good ole' creative block..

I explain in my email, that it will have lots of abstract elements from both Mongolian and Aboriginal cultures, with plenty of green and gold thrown in etc. etc...
And, this is in Mongolia, people think differently, and i'm trying to make it fit in somehow.. The Australian side thinks it's ok, but Mongolian side says "what's with a lonely runaway horse??"
OK, no go then.

I decided to go and have a chat with the school director in person, and get suggestions on what they want, perhaps. He turns out a nice elderly fellow, an old-timer (meaning he's full of Russian socialist/communist aesthetics), we get talking, and I ask for some books I could borrow, with pictures I could use for reference and brainstorm a bit. The first book he gives me has a photo of this dude Tserendorj, a renowned Morin Huur player, State "Khan" Morin Huur player at that, meaning he goes to official Government events as a special guest to play and sing Mongolian folk songs. Perfect. I decide to go back to the original idea, and replace the Shaman with Morin Huur player. For the original design, I had found photo references for the Aboriginal wiseman, a dude called Major Sunmer. Since it's a sensitive issue for the Australian Government, the Embassy guys set out trying to find the guy, and hopefully get a clearance from him. From Canberra they tracked him down, and asked his permission to use his image as a reference for the mural. Thankfully, the good Major gave his blessing. He is a Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal elder from Lower Murray, South Australia. He had one condition, the plaque that is to be put on the mural after it's finished, should have the following included: "The image of the Aboriginal Wise-man was inspired by Australian Indigenous Elder, Major Sumner, Cultural and Spiritual Advisor within the Ngarrindjeri Nation." No problem. Now, I had to meet Mr. Tserendorj, and ask for his permission. I found his mobile number through family; turns out he comes from the same region as my father's side of family - the Gobi desert. I gave him a bell, and he got pretty excited about what we proposed. He invited me to his home, said he wanted to meet me and also show me some photos that I could use. So I rocked up at his house, and his place is like ... awesome.

Inside, it's decked out like traditional Mongolian Ger: felt walls, with timber lattice over it, complete with Toono - the window of a ger, positioned on the ceiling, with lots of ancient string instruments, and such. And this was just the lounge room. He was the perfect gentleman, and not only gave me heaps of reference pictures I could use, but also told me lots of educational stories about Morin Huur.

So, now that I had the blessing from both subjects of my painting, I could finally start.
The scissorlift I had rented was the smallest size, which goes up to 6m, as the previous wall I had in mind had an iron fence right next to it, and I couldn't see anything bigger fitting in. With the new wall, it just had to do.

The first day of painting, a guy comes up to me, and asked me who I was painting. I tell him it's loosely based on Mr. Tserendorj. The guy tells me "I thoughts so... Looks like him. He's my father." Turns out, Mr. Tserendorj's eldest son is the Morin Huur teacher at the school I'm painting at! talk about working under pressure..

Because of the new layout of the wall, I put the Mongolian character on top, and towards the back, with the Aboriginal character down and front. Australian Embassy guys got a bit concerned about this new arrangement, and suggested I balance it out, by giving them the other country's landscape... which was brilliant.

Took me 3 days to finish the piece, and I had some spare paint, so I rounded up some of my local mates and hit some spots.

With Redeggs Crew.

Ironlak was like gold to them. They'd yell at me for sketching with the Ironlaks, like "dude, what the fuck you doing wasting good paint..?! here's some chinese paint.."

and with ROAAD crew.

Meanwhile, I was asked to have a seminar with the students at the School of Cultural Education. I wasn't sure exactly what they were expecting, so I just put together a slideshow of some of the work I've done in the past, and a few short videos and hoped for the best.

and nearly 100 people showed up. It went for about hour and a half. I did my best not to stutter, and not to think too long for the right word, cos I gotta admit, talking about art practice in Mongolian, without using any English words is pretty damn hard.

... and a TV crew showed up to do a news piece too.

and then I chilled for a few days

by playing domino at my uncle's with my cousins

and eating a lot..

catching up with some old mates over a few drinks..

(the label for this Chinggis beer was designed by my dad, back when they didn't have computers..

it is still one of the best draft beers around. word!)

Ulaanbaatar is a crazy busy place these days, developing at an insane rate, everywhere there were new buildings already built, or being built..

Meet my niece Iveel:

She had a unique request from me. She wanted 2 ponies painted on her house (which was still under construction), one for her and one for her baby sister...

So I oblige...

I think my cousin was happy with it more so than her, cos now he could order pizza delivery and go "it's the house with the ponies!"

And here came the big opening day of the mural. Australian Ambassador to Korea, Mr. Sam Gerovich was flying in to meet and greet, and open the wall. In the email I got it said "15mins in front of the mural to get photos of us shaking hand"... The uni officials had a different plan..

And after about nearly an hour of speeches and performances, we got to pose for the photos...

and finally, here's a video of famed Mr. Tserendorj performing at the opening ceremony:

September

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 04:25:00 +0000

My 4th solo show Manifest wrapped up. Got an overwhelmingly good response for it, and I want to thank everyone who came and supported. Here's a little video of the opening night, courtesy of Rtist Gallery and Oberon Creative.

"Manifest" - HEESCO x RTIST Gallery from Rtist Gallery on Vimeo.

and also painted this collab with Hanky - Skeletor and Trap Jaw, from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.. (Photo by Lorraine Ellis)

MANIFEST - new solo show at Rtist Gallery, and other updates

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 05:39:00 +0000

First things first - here's the flyer for my next solo show. it's at Rtist Gallery, Prahran. Really stoked to be part of Rtist crew, which reps AWOL crew, DMV crew, Niels "SHOE" Meulman, Sofles, Urban Cake Lady, Fintan Magee, Unwell Bunny and more.

I was part of a group show, with my boys Hancock, Rad, P-Yeah, JD, Facter, and Mysterious Al, titled Paperape. Check out pics from it here.

Scored a funny looking but pretty slick and cool foldable Strida bike for a design job i did for a mate. this was an "extra" in the deal, i'm waiting for the real bike to be dropped off anytime soon.. stay tuned!

my cousin Tansi visited me from Berlin, and we went to Above's farewell party in Collingwood.

and we got drunk and grabbed cans and this came out..

and sometime later i painted a wall inside Melbourne Central. the first half came out all weird, cos i think i must've been still recovering from Above's party..

But come nighttime, this owl happened. pretty happy with the feathers and the splashes.

afterwards, did this little sith lordy dude for a charity at Home Made Jam gig.

and painted this for my mate Kiah, who's making an independent zombie film, called Wyrmwood.

and lastly, always remember who pees in the prime spot

Carbon Festival recap video

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Tue, 08 May 2012 11:08:00 +0000

here's a recap video of carbon festival that took place in melbourne recently. you can catch me painting the "wolf pack" mural at the cullen hotel briefly in there somewhere.

Mural for Tibet (Union Lane, Melbourne, Jan 2012) video uploaded!

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Wed, 02 May 2012 11:18:00 +0000

Huge thanks to Alec McCloskey, and Chris Phillips for putting together this video! Free TIBET!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:05:00 +0000

uploaded some photos from the cullen hotel paint up. click here.

OAF

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:35:00 +0000

Surface Tension photos

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:49:00 +0000

Finally got around putting up the photos from the Surface Tension show up on the website.
Click here.

update of things coming and gone

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:21:00 +0000

next weekend i'll be painting a mural inside the Cullen hotel. more deteails here.

and today I had a good session of painting a collab with Drewfunk and Meggs at Hosier lane.

and here's a little throwie collab with Braddock on a van...

Holliava

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:57:00 +0000

new prints at Mongo Hustle

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:06:00 +0000

new prints now available through Mongo Hustle shop - http://mongohustle.bigcartel.com/

ac/dc lane video

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:19:00 +0000

video by Matt Harding.

Shaman in Collingwood

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:22:00 +0000

painted this the other day behind cafe Provenance in Collingwood. cheers to Hancock, Facter and Rad11

AC/DC Lane paint-up for Zoos Victoria

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:06:00 +0000

Last weekend had a blast painting at AC/DC lane alongside Everfreshers Makatron, Prizm, Meggs, and Plea, Kid Zoom, Itch, Mayo, and my fellow Blenderite Drewfunk. It was a gig for Zoos Victoria's Fighting Extinction campaign. Bigups to Maka for getting me involved!

More photos at Dean Sunshine's website here.

another day another wall

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:08:00 +0000

with Rad11, Hancock, J-D, P-Yeah, Facter

it's gone up inside chapel off chapel in prahran for Art Town

The great city outdoors..

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:53:00 +0000

a couple of murals completed in last few weeks. first @ iddy biddy bar in st kilda, with my boys the WSW crew.

and finished this one just tonight at east richmond.

Tribute to Tibet mural

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:08:00 +0000

just uploaded some pics from the painting session on my website. click here. video coming soon.

Tibet Tribute at Union Lane, Melbourne CBD

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:51:00 +0000

This is my tribute to everyone who have sacrificed their lives for the cause of Free Tibet.

Mongo Hustle online shop now open!

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:29:00 +0000

Click here for some brand new Mongo! t-shirts (limited edition of 20).

And there are a very few of this old design t-shirts left, also available from the Mongo Hustle store:

MONGOHUSTLE.BIGCARTEL.COM

Metro gallery live painting video

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:18:00 +0000

Today Metro gallery have posted the video of myself, Drewfunk, and Mysterious Al doing some live painting at the gallery.

Tiger Translate Sydney 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Heesco) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:26:00 +0000

Lhagvaa Enkhbat representing Mongolia at the Tiger Translate in Sydney, alongside some of the local heavyweights Beastman, Numskull, Creepy and Phibs, yep!