DOUG BARTLETT
- Margaret Ackland
- Kate Baker
- Doug Bartlett
- Max Berry
- Annette Bezor
- Terry Bradley
- Penny Coss
- Rhonda Dee
- Dan O'Toole - Ears
- Anne-France Fulgence
- Ginny Grayson
- Paul Haggith
- Mark Harrison
- Adam Hill
- Anna Hoyle
- Cate Maddy
- Anthony Morrison
- Lorna Murray
- Christopher Orchard
- Lauren Potts
- Deborah Sleeman
- Sue Smalkowski
- Peter Smets
- Ian Swift
- Lisa Tomasetti
- Samone Turnbull
- Marika Varady
- John Waters
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Doug Bartlett is the collarborative effort of Nick Morris and Dave Bowers.
Successful graphic designers working with the top urban surf labels, Mossimo, QuickSilver and Piping Hot ventured into their own artistic work resulting in canvases that are a free-flowing exchange of random images and themes, using stencils, spray paint and oil pencils. These complex assemblages of hand drawn and collaged motifs reflect urban culture: muscle cars, playboy bunnies and TV heros.
“Slabs of colour are slapped down haphazardly and images are layered on at random. A lot of this initial work won’t survive the painting process. Whole vistas appear and disappear. Hours of work can be swept away with one brutal sweep of a brush."
The work of Doug Bartlett has been exhibited in Melbourne, Sydney, France and HongKong.
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ARTIST'S CURRICULUM VITAE
“Morris’ and Bowers’ canvases indicate that freshness is still possible in a culture exhausted by all sorts of visual bombardment.” Dr. Claudia Calirman, New York Museum of Fine Art
Education| 1986 | Nick Morris and Dave Bowers graduated from Monash University (Caulfield), both with Diplomas in Graphic Design. |
| After selling the UMGAWA label, Morris worked as art director for Quiksilver. He then launched “anyhow”, his own freelance design company in Torquay. Bowers became a regular Mambo artist, as well as working as an illustrator and musician. Between them they have produced, and continue to produce, art for brands such as Paul Frank, Stussy, Mossimo, Lee, Globe, and St. Lenny. They were guest speakers at the prestigious Semi Permanent Art and Design conference ‘06 in Sydney and Perth. Their work was profiled in Desktop Magazine (Jan/Feb 07), and their painting “THE GAMBLER”, only the third canvas they ever painted together, featured on the cover. They are also profiled in King Brown magazine (issue No1). | |
| Their combined canvases at ART MELBOURNE 07 sold out in two days. This was the first time they had shown them in Melbourne. They have exhibited at Fresh Gallery in Melbourne, Ho Gallery in Melbourne and Tiger Fish in Torquay. The prices have almost tripled in three months after an enormously successful showing at Art Sydney. After trucking down the Hume Highway the night before the show and sleeping in the back of the car at a truck stop, art was walking out the door from the outset of the show. An empty trailer was the vision for the journey back and it soon became a reality. They are currently exhibiting at Space Junk gallery in France with Hong Kong coming up in March. With collectors buying from all over the country and also internationally it is boom town for Doug Bartlett and his lacky’s. | |
| They have worked together in the Street / Surf / Art subculture since creating clothing label “UMGAWA” in 1990. |