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Tuesday
Oct282025

Malleus 'Arcana Tarot Cards' Gold Kickstarter Available

Artist: Malleus
Title: Arcana Tarot Cards (Gold)
Medium: 80 Card Set
Size: 18 x 29.7 cm
Edition: 100
Price: $60

Friday
Oct172025

Ben Frost 'New Sticker Packs' Available

Artist: Ben Frost
Title: Sticker Packs
Medium: UV Coated Vinyl Stickers
Size: 5-6 Inches
Edition: UNSURE
Price: AU$25

 

Ben Frost is an Australian contemporary artist born in 1975 who has gained international recognition for his bold, irreverent Pop Art that subverts mainstream media iconography. Based in Melbourne, Frost creates kaleidoscopic mash-up paintings that draw inspiration from graffiti, collage, photorealism, and sign-writing techniques. His instantly recognizable style features everyday consumer products and beloved childhood characters recontextualized in provocative scenarios that critique consumer culture and advertising.
Frost's work challenges Western cultural norms through confrontational imagery, often depicting familiar mascots like Super Mario, Bart Simpson, and Pikachu in compromising situations that explore themes of addiction, hyper-consumerism, and the darker side of commercialism. His paintings frequently utilize packaging surfaces, from McDonald's fry containers to luxury fashion bags, creating a tension between fast-food accessibility and high-end status symbols.
Educated at Queensland College of Art, Frost has exhibited internationally for over two decades with solo shows in London, New York, Sydney, Los Angeles, Toronto, Singapore, Berlin, Miami, and San Francisco. His controversial 2000 exhibition "Ben Frost is Dead" made national news when he faked his own death. Notable collaborations include working with Jeremy Scott for Moschino's Fall/Winter 2018 capsule collection and partnering with Carolina Herrera for a limited edition fragrance release. Frost also founded Stupid Krap, a platform promoting Australian artists globally, and established Paste-Modernism, the world's largest paste-up festival.

 

Sunday
Oct122025

Halfstudio 'Empathy' Wall Sculpture Available

Artist: Halfstudio
Title: Empathy
Medium: UV Printed Plexiglass Wall Sculpture
Size: 30 x 41.8 cm
Edition: 35
Price: €360

Halfstudio is the shared creative identity of Portuguese designers Cláudia Amorim and Sérgio Leitão, a couple who merge architecture, typography and bold colour into murals, objects and screen prints that pulse with urban optimism. Both born in the late 1980s and trained at Lisbon’s Faculty of Architecture, they met while painting stage sets for music festivals and soon discovered a mutual fascination with scale, signage and the emotional power of flat colour. In 2015 they founded Halfstudio as a vehicle for collaborative experimentation, choosing the name to signal that every project is only half finished until public interaction completes it.
Their process begins in the studio with precise vector drawings that distort letterforms into rhythmic ribbons. These shapes are then enlarged by hand onto building façades using rollers and brushes, allowing slight drips and texture to soften the geometry and to root digital clarity in human touch. The palette is unapologetically upbeat: tangerine, turquoise and bubble-gum pink collide in gradients that seem to vibrate against white masonry, transforming quiet alleys into open-air colour fields.
Clients such as Nike, Underdogs Gallery and the City of Lisbon have commissioned walls, window displays and limited-edition prints, yet the duo still volunteers for neighbourhood festivals, teaching children to paint giant initials that spell out local hopes. Living and working in Almada, across the river from Lisbon, Cláudia and Sérgio continue to treat every surface as a chance to exchange architectural rigor for contagious joy, proving that two imaginations can add up to far more than one.
Thursday
Oct092025

Retna 'Eastern Realm' Print Waitlist Open

Artist: Retna
Title: Eastern Realm
Medium: UV Printed Mirror Mounted To Aluminium
Size: 27 x 36 Inches
Edition: 99
Price: $9,500

  

Retna born Marquis Lewis in 1979 on the streets of Los Angeles turns alphabets into incantations. Drawing on Mayan, Egyptian, Hebrew, Arabic and Gothic black-letter scripts, he has forged an elegant, unreadable calligraphy that feels ancient yet algorithmic, a coded chant meant for every culture and none. He discovered the name “Retna” in a Wu-Tang Clan lyric about light burning the retina, and the metaphor stuck: his white hot linework does scorch the eye. Starting with spray cans on bus stop ads at fifteen, he soon swapped aerosol for long haired brushes, layering house-paint, aerosol and 24K gold leaf until letters hover like textile over raw canvas.
Murals soon scaled whole city blocks: a 24-storey social-housing façade in Mexico City, the Bowery Wall in New York, and the stage design for San Francisco Opera’s Aida prove his glyphic system can sanctify concrete or velvet equally. Luxury came calling Louis Vuitton storefronts, Justin Bieber’s Purpose album cover, Chanel Beverly Hills, Ryca yet Retna insists each commission is a public talisman, not a logo.
Monochromatic fields of indigo, blood scarlet or molten copper amplify the rhythm of his strokes; drips are allowed, revealing the human pulse behind the cipher. Collectors from Usher to the Broad Museum chase his coded poems, but Retna claims meaning is optional: “I want people to feel the music of the shapes.” Still based in L.A., he continues to paint, meditate and archive new symbols, ensuring his secret language stays fluent in an ever-splintering world.
Tuesday
Aug052025

Anthony Sunter 'The Swan' Print Available

Artist: Anthony Sunter
Title: The Swan
Medium: UV Ink
Size: 47 x 63 cm
Edition: 30
Prices: £125

Tuesday
Aug052025

Anthony Sunter 'Springflower' Print Available

Artist: Anthony Sunter
Title: Springflower
Medium: UV Ink
Size: 47 x 47 cm
Edition: 30
Prices: £125

Tuesday
Aug052025

Anthony Sunter 'The Orchid' Print Available

Artist: Anthony Sunter
Title: The Orchid
Medium: Aerosol + UV Ink
Size: 47 x 47 cm
Edition: 30
Prices: £125

Monday
May262025

Anthony Sunter 'Woven Rise' HPM Available

Artist: Anthony Sunter
Title: Woven Rise
Medium: HPM Screen Print
Size: 18.5 x 18.5 Inches
Edition: 30
Prices: £125

Saturday
Nov232024

Todd Slater 'Hunter T, Bali Barong + Senators' Stickers Available

Artist: Todd Slater
Title: Hunter T, Bali Barong + Senators
Medium: UV Coated Multi Color Screen Printed Stickers
Size: 3 x 5 Inches each
Edition: UNSURE
Price: $15

Saturday
Nov232024

Todd Slater 'China Cat, Whale + Peacock' Stickers Available

Artist: Todd Slater
Title: China Cat, Whale + Peacock
Medium: UV Coated Multi Color Screen Printed Stickers
Size: 3 x 5 Inches each
Edition: UNSURE
Price: $15