Sydney’s aMBUSH gallery will see the coming together of street photography and intimate portraiture in the form of Matt Bourne‘s 15-month in the making passion project ‘Streets x Portraiture’.
Influenced by pop art icon Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Australian heavyweight Ben Frost, the exhibition will feature several large-scale portraits that showcase some of Australia’s most respected street and graffiti artists at different stages of their artistic careers.
Bourne has crafted a distinctly Australian take on street photography, working with labels such as New Balance and Vans, while focusing on the uniqueness of Australia’s natural and urban environments. Bourne has utilised a unique and striking colour palette, honoring subjects including including Australian legends Mike Watt, James Jirat Patradoon, and Cherie Buttons, to name a few. He also includes what he describes as ‘graffiti landscapes’, which combine graffiti typography and font, and use ‘everyday vehicles as a canvas’
The exhibitions begins on Thursday, 20 July from 6-9pm at aMBUSH Gallery – it’ll then be open daily and free of charge to the public from Friday, 21 July to Sunday 23 July, from 12-4pm. For info, head to the aMBUSH website and the Facebook event page.
