Since beginning his painting career in 2011, Liam Dee has been hard at work creating surrealist wastelands, melting faces, psychedelic robots, squids with emotional problems, and exploding heads just to name a few.

Liam’s perspective on surrealism is much accredited to the influence of prominent street artists such as Jeff Soto and Alex Pardee, but also the traditional styling of James Jean and Shaun Tan.

Liam’s work has been described as truly disturbing, a little crazy, and highly enjoyable.

‘Happy Farm’ will be Liam’s first solo exhibition and will be exhibited at Bivouac from Tuesday 12th March til Saturday 1st June 2013. All pieces are for sale, please contact Bivouac for more information info@bivouac.com.au

If you would like to see more information and artworks you can follow Liam on facebook

Newcastle born, Courtney Illfield first discovered her love for photography as a curious teenager. As a young adult she travelled and immersed herself in discovering the world from behind the lens.  It Can Be Just That is a raw, spontaneous & playful journey through the eye & soul of the woman hidden behind the camera.

Courtney’s latest project took her around Europe, China and Japan and created the foundations of her current exhibition. Courtney’s ability to reflect on her personal and professional journey in everything she shoots has produced a range of emotive images that capture her lone perceptions of surrounding landscapes. It Can Be Just That has been printed entirely onto metal, reinforcing Courtney’s unique approach when photographing and presenting landscapes.

This is Courtney’s second solo exhibition and Bivouac is proud to be filling the walls with her glorious pieces from Tuesday 13th November, all pieces are for sale.
www.courtneyillfield.blogspot.com.au

The Unforgettable Délices of Paris – an exhibition by Beau Est Mien

Artist Magali Dincher swapped the cobblestones, baguettes and fromage for the warmth, sand and ocean life in Perth in 2008. During this time she made another transition to a life dedicated to creativity and is now a teacher and owner of the creative business Beau Est Mien based in Perth.

Magali’s involvement with art consists of the simple pleasures taken in creating, handling and playing with textures and colours. Magali’s philosophy is to create things that she would like to make her own. Her work is almost naive and characterised by a childlike easiness and a simplification of the urban, social, natural and musical environments that surround her.

The architecture and buildings of big cities and small villages she has visited is what inspires her work the most. Magali specialises in several techniques of printmaking including etching, collagraphy, linocut and screen printing. Beau Est Mien works are sold in shops and galleries around Australia such as PG Printmakers Gallery in Melbourne and locally at the Fremantle Art Centre.

The Unforgettable Délices runs from Tuesday, 2nd October until Saturday, 3rd November 2012. All works are for sale and will be available to be viewed at Bivouac. For more information, please visit www.beauestmien.com.au

WOOOO!

We’d like you to meet someone. His name is Martin E. Wills and he’s pretty special.

His latest exhibition – Tricking The Depths – is now gracing the Biv Gallery walls.

Think streetart cool meets War of the Worlds. It’s all attitude, quiffs and bravado in the face of impending sci-fi catastrophe.

We think their pretty darn ace, and opening night was a winner. But don’t take our word for it – head on down and check em out.

Tricking The Depths runs til October 1

The Biv’s latest exhibition is about to open

What If? by Janet Keating

Janet Keating is an artist and designer having studied both fine arts and interior architecture. Influenced by abstract expressionism, Janet’s work is spontaneous and intuitive.

Moments. Thoughts. Memories. is an exhibition which draws on lived experience from remembered thoughts and images. The compositions are unpremeditated and random harnessing the accidents occurring during the painting process.

Janet explains, “Painting for me is a meditative process whereby I am completely immersed in the act of painting. What transpires in this exhibition is a loose painterly approach to abstraction free of the anticipation of the result.”

“I use a combination of oils, inks, pencil and what ever I can get my hands on to develop my paintings. I enjoy being absorbed in the moment, the act of painting and excited by the surprise of what transpires.”

“This exhibition is a departure from how I usually work. Normally I would start a painting from photographic studies I have taken. I am interested and inspired by patterns, texture, colour and details. For this exhibition I have still used these elements as inspiration but relied solely on my memory to instigate the painting process”.

Moments. Thoughts. Memories opens on Tuesday 12th June and will run until August at the Biv, and all pieces are for sale.

Come check it out soon!