Drawing on techniques as varied as tattoo art, screenprinting, graffitti and traditional mediums, four of Australia’s

freshest emerging visual creatives have flocked together to bring you Twitching, an exhibition on the beautiful

and bizarre of the feathered world.

Alex Louisa is a self-taught artist from Brisbane, Australia. Once completely obsessed with creating artworks only with ink and coloured

pencil, she is currently exploring and enjoying the move from ‘drawer’ to ‘painter,’ and wondering why on earth it took her so long to pick up a paintbrush.

In most of her works, Alex likes to try to depict an animal’s individual personality - putting a bit of a spin on a realistically-rendered creature, pairing it with graphic

elements, punchy lighting and a patterned background. You might also notice that she is somewhat fond of drawing wrens. It’s unavoidable really, as they bounce

along her studio windowsill all day, driving her to distraction.

She is, however, finding people and figures ever more intriguing, and is currently working on a series surrounding one particular character and her growing obsession with pocketwatches and time. Alex is looking forward to plenty of painting in the coming months, as she maps out this

girl’s story, much of which will be on a larger scale than she has been used to previously.

Her german shepherd Shadow is also happy she’s started painting, as paintbrushes taste remarkably like sticks!

alexlouisa.com

Bec Winnel is inspired by all that is physically and emotionally beautiful... A person, a conversation, a gesture, polar opposites to societies inhumanities and disrespect

for the earth we live on. Reclusing to her dreamy artworld, she manifests delicate, detailed and dreamy feminine portraits, habitually amidst elements of nature. She finds solace

in making art and hopes that positive emotions are felt by the viewers of her pieces.

Bec works by building layer upon layer of mixed mediums including acrylic, pastel, pencil, ink, pens, makeup, and anything she finds. Bec is a self taught artist, originally from rural NSW

and presently living in Melbourne. She has participated in many group shows across Australia and the United States in the past four years. In 2010, her entry in the

Design a Spark competition won her a brand new Holden Barina Spark. Whilst being prolific with personal work, illustration commissions,

an Element Eden Advocate and full time graphic design, her long awaited goal is her first solo show.

becwinnel.com

Melbourne based Illustrator & Designer Ken Taylor works primarily within the music industry and is predominantly well known for his striking rock posters.

Ken started in Perth Western Australia doing posters and album artwork for local bands. In 2001 He moved to Melbourne and slowly started to create a name for himself within Melbourne’s music scene. In 2006 he went out on his own and started to work full time

on music based artwork.

Ken has designed posters and album artwork for many Australian bands including You Am I & The Beasts of Bourbon & Crowded House. Internationally he has

designed artwork for bands such Queens of the Stone Age, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Kings of Leon, Bob Dylan & The Rolling Stones.

Ken has won the Desktop Create Award for Best illustration in both 2007 & 2009 and was a Guest Speaker at the 2009 AGIDEAS design conference and at

Semipermanent Creative Conference in 2011. Ken continues to work with bands both locally and internationally and is represented by Drawing Book.

kentaylor.com.au

Steve Cross is a passionate and obsessive documenter of the world around him.Since the early 1980s, where he honed his artistic craft on the bare-faced walls of suburban Perth,

Steve has obsessively painted, drawn, sprayed and photographed the world around him.Heavily involved in the street art scene in Australia, Steve has always been inspired by the urban

landscape, a passion that has found a place in his textured, layered and collaged works on canvas.Now an in-demand painter and illustrator, Steve is also a tattooist and in 2007 co-founded

Korpus Studio in Brunswick, Melbourne.

This series of drawings/painting have been inspired byhis recent travels to Spain and UK.

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Photography sourched from DeviantArt. Thank you to the following Deviants:Dark Dragon Stock, Sick Sad Little Mara, Tasastock & CanadianRoakcker.