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What do you do?
I wear many hats, literally, there are not many days that don’t pass without some form of head attire, and also metaphorically.
I’m a painter, illustrator, large-scale muralist and event producer, as well as a father of two small human beings.
My gallery works these days are usually monochromatic or limited in color palette, consisting of some pretty intense fine line detail and intricacy juxtaposed with loose, gestural brush-marks and ink wash work, finished off with gold leaf detailing.
The walls I paint are usually as big as I can get my hands on, often focussing on themes based around folklore, mythology, the environment and lately have been drawing pretty heavily from New Zealand flora and fauna.
Another big part of my creative life is working with PangeaSeed Foundation, a not for profit ocean conservation organisation, producing the New Zealand leg of Sea Walls, a mural painting festival aimed at raising awareness around the different issues our oceans are currently facing.
What did you have for breakfast?
Scrambled eggs, from our chooks in the backyard, on some homemade sourdough. Pretty tasty.
What’s currently on your walls at home?
We’ve got a pretty eclectic mix hanging around our house, some goodies picked up over the years, doing art swaps with friends along the way, in my studio right now I have a Lauren YS original, a Telmo Miel screenprint, a Pat Perry original drawing, Ben Lopez, Ekundayo, Two One, Elliot Francis Stewart, an amazing drawing from one of my old work buddies Anton Petrov, a painting by my mother, a super weird yet amazing painting of two wrestling jaguars from a flea market in Mexico City, a couple of my pieces, some little scribbles from old friends and so on. Our lounge has a beautiful piece by Regan Tamanui (aka Haha), a stunning new piece by our mate Findac, one of Aaron Glasson’s prints, a Greg Creyola Simkins Print, one of Rakai Karaitiana’s screenprints…. i’ll stop there. We’ve got a bit of art. I may have a problem.
If you weren’t making art/doing what you do what would you be doing?
Don’t really think that’s an option… I’m never not making art. I guess facilitating more art-making rather than making it myself, coordinating more projects, festivals/ events or doing yoga teachers training, moving bush and turning into a weirdo.
Current obsession?
My whānau.
Career highlight so far?
Probably painting in Estonia last year. I was invited out to Tallinn, Estonia to paint as part of Mextonia, a mural painting festival produced by Nueve Arte Urbano in partnership with Sea Walls. The festival was a really amazing event that utilised public art to reinvigorate the countries indigenous heritage. It was my first time in Europe, and to be able to travel to the far north to a pretty obscure Eastern European country on the Baltic Sea was an amazing introduction to Europe. I was blown away by the rich heritage and history of the place, the landscape, mythology, and the peoples incredibly strong connection to nature. Also painting in a country which has 20+ hours of daylight means you can be super productive!
Dream project or collab or both?
I’d love to tackle painting an apartment building, something within the 10 – 20 story range, in an exotic location, with good friends and family, and complete creative control.
Plans for the future?
This year there’s a little bit of travel on the cards, I’m planning on having my 4th solo exhibition, and working on expanding Sea Walls further up the East coast. Also, plenty more print releases soon to drop here!
Build your dream concert, 3 acts you wanna see live. Living or dead.
3 acts! So limiting! Skip James, Hiatus Kaiyote, Jimmy Hendrix.
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]]>What do you do?
I make Art
What did you have for breakfast?
Muesli and coffee
What’s currently on your walls at home?
At home nothing because we’re renovating at the moment but my studio is filled with heaps. Doze Green, Obey, London Police, Tristan Eaton, Elliot Frances Stewart, Gasp, Otis Chamberlain.
If you weren’t making art/doing what you do what would you be doing?
Working on film sets or gardening
What does a typical day look like for you?
Long. I’m up with my boy when he wakes at 6 am. Try to beat the traffic and leave home for the studio at 7.30am. Coffee, work emails, art making, lunch, water, then more work. Chats with some Ponsonby locals and my studio buddy Hannah. Then home for the second shift with my lovely daughter and son and wife. Then sleeps.
Current obsessions?
My family
Career highlight so far?
Painting the ‘Time Being’ mural inside the Cider Building. The whole process from developing the idea with the client, collaborating with photographers and friends, then getting to actually execute the largest stencil I’ve ever done (5 meters tall) was pretty fulfilling. It’s just cool when you get to work on something like this with lots of people and everything just works out and everyone gets paid.
Dream project or collab or both?
‘Time Being’ was a pretty cool project to be able to do. Would also love to collab with other artists to paint a plane.
Plans for the future?
Working, working, working. I work mostly commercially right now so being able to do some of my own art would be nice, would like to work more on ideas I have for 3D and light-based works also more outside street work. Keep healthy, happy and look after my family.
Build your dream concert, 3 acts you wanna see live. Living or dead.
Can’t pick just three. James Brown, Tribe Called Quest, Bob Marley & Prince.
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]]>It’s curated by Ross Liew & Cleo Barnett for the K Road Business Association. It will be primo, inspiring, fun, fresh, entertaining, funny, serious, colourful and best of all FREE !!
Check out some of the photos form last years ALL FRESCO below.
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]]>One look at his studio space and you can also see he’s most definitely a type nerd…
Two of the art prints from iThink we have at endemicworld.
Hi Jaime! Can you tell us a bit about your process… How do you tend to get inspired? What are the steps to creating a finished piece?
Inspiration for me comes a lot from popular culture. I am a big collector of things; Vinyl, Movies, Fonts, Shoes… You name it! And these things help to inspire me and give me ideas on where my art works go. Of course this lovely country or ours is also an endless inspiration to me. I really do wake up everyday and feel blessed to call Aotearoa my home. And finally my beautiful daughter gives me an abundance of drive to create, make, succeed and basically be a better artist/creator/person.
All this inspiration helps me to channel ideas from the dark recesses of my brain and into my computer. I have had a Mac in my home since I was 7 (and I ain’t that young anymore) and it has become a very comfortable tool for me to use, so my designs/artworks always start in my head, flow through my fingers into my computer and then the fun begins.
iThink’s home studio – stacked with cool vintage signs and design books.
I am a type fanatic, and I feel my work needs humanity and nature in it somehow, and the computer (obviously) lacks that, so I often create a clean typographic composition and then begin the enjoyable process of ageing/distressing/roughing up the composition to try and give it that imperfect feel and help endear the idea to the audience, almost try to include the viewer in some way, because we are all humans and we all have imperfections so hopefully we can relate more to it this way.
Tools of the trade
What’s the favourite piece of work you’ve done?
I am still working towards my best work. I am just a rookie in the art field. I would say i am a graduate of design but am still learning the art of art making.
So far my favorite works to create have been my hand painted, one-off, text based pieces on ply (image below), because they are fun to work on and say a lot about me and my language but also about our NZ vocabulary and the funny quirks that only us kiwis would understand. I like to call these our coloquialisations. This is an area that I’m really enjoying investigating and am looking to delve further into this idea for future works!
We want a wall like this at home – with one of each of iThink’s typographic works on it!
Besides street art and graphic design, what else do you love to do?
As i mentioned i am a hardy collector!
And music has for a long time been a huge passion of mine. I have been DJing since I was 17 (and again, I ain’t young anymore) and still love playing records and still play out regularly.
A professional DJ for many years, Jaime collects vintage vinyl
And as I now live on Waiheke Island I am well into the outdoor lifestyle that comes with that – Beaches, Fishing, Swimming, Walking… Its a hard life!
What’s coming up for iThink this year?
The next phase for me as an art maker is developing my 3D typographic works. I am looking at incorporating clever tools like computer controlled router and 3D printers to try and push my ideas to that next plateau. Whether it will work or not is another story. But I am going to continue to push myself, try new styles and techniques and see what I can come up with.
As I mentioned, I consider myself a rookie in this and am just enjoying the art of making art!
What would be a dream commission to do?
I would love to create 3D words in a variety of sizes and uses like customised light boxes or large scale building signage.
That would be pretty cool!
Yip, we love Type too.
Tell us about a person who inspires you…
I have already told you about my daughter who continually inspires me to push myself. I am also a big fan of anybody out there doing their own thing! Swimming against the rest as it were.
Internationally, I love the work of Mitchy Bwoy and Steven Bonner, type sites Hype for Type, You Work for Them & My Fonts, and type designers Alex Sheldon & Schizotype.
Locally, I admire the work and work ethic of Askew and Component.
There are so many inspirations in life and i could be here all day listing them. Anyone who resists the mainstream and does their own thing in life is an inspiration to me!
We couldn’t agree more, Jaime.
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]]>Here is a teaser of what is here, some have sold already, they sit in our antique print drawers waiting for you to have a search through. See you at the shop, grab a bargain. If you can’t make it in person, just drop us an email to put dibs on your favourite.
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Hayley King, aka Flox. (Image from Designworks.)
Can you tell us a little about your process – from inspiration to realisation of a finished work?
My process varies depending on what type of job I’m working on, whether it be an interior mural job, a commercial brief, or a private commission.
Fundamentally however, my initial inspirations are normally dictated by the brief that I’m given and then I work from there. My work is very decorative and my main medium is stencil spraypaint, so I love finding visual inspirations that I can then transform, applying my own style and artistic language.
I spend a lot of time on the net gathering visual info, but I think also now that I have 8 years of experience, I often draw from previous examples and jobs, recycling, developing, evolving and collaborating to come up with new ideas. I work to briefs, but there is also a very apparent intuitive component to my work… I’m still fundamentally a painter and not a designer.
What’s your favourite piece of work you’ve done?
It’s hard to pick a favourite piece, but what I can say is that I hope the pieces get better and better as time goes by. I look at some of my old work now, from say five years ago, and think “arghhh, I wouldn’t do it like that now, or I wouldn’t use that colour with that colour, or there’s some mid-ground elements seriously missing from this piece…”
I’m particularly proud of my recent stencil works for the latest Fly My Pretties 4 tour. I had to re-brand for them, and come up with a really strong single colour image of a fantail for them to use on everything from advertising, album covers, animation and merchandise. And then using this image, I began a series of large, one-off, hand cut pieces.
Flox’ massive hand-cut pieces inspired by the NZ band Fly My Pretties.
What has been the coolest experience of your career so far?
One of the most beautiful places I have been to recently was the new Cloudy Bay “shack” down on their Marlborough vineyard. They flew myself and a bunch of other artists and designers who had input into this place, to be wined and dined for the evening. Fine wine, amazing food, Nathan Haines, passionate people, picture perfect afternoon. What more could you ask for?
Mural for Cloudy Bay.
You’ve recently been in Europe. Tell us a little about the trip…
I recently went to Berlin with my partner who is a film maker, so we went over prepared and with the intent of collaborating somehow. I took four large letter stencils spelling the word HOME over with me, so I was able to make street posters, and very fortunately got to paint an interior piece with them too. We got it all on camera, including a couple of time lapses, so as a result made a short process doco. Berlin was incredibly inspiring especially for its famed street art scene. Every wall, alley and lamp post is covered from head to toe in art, stickers and paste ups. So, it was a really integral part of my journey that I add to that, as I wasn’t going to go half way across the world and not do any art!
Pasted street art in Berlin. See the making-of video here.
What was the last thing you saw or experienced that got you really creatively excited?
Actually, this is probably going to sound pretty geeky, but there was this multi level store called Modular in Berlin, which just totally blew our socks off. It’s an architects/designers/art makers wet dream of a store!
Flox has a light-filled studio space in Auckland city.
What are you working on at the moment?
I started this year with a resolution to really get back to my roots as an artist, and put more time into developing some of my own ideas. Here’s my latest artist statement, that will sum up what I’m working on at this point: Inspired by recent travels to Europe, the UK and Southeast Asia, Flox has begun a new chapter that reflects on the word home and marks a return to her roots as a fine artist. The series was initiated with a piece Home Is Where The Heart Is, a response to the renewed sense of ownership and community in Christchurch following the earthquakes. While in Berlin, the city’s turbulent history prompted her to consider the word home as its antitheses: displacement and dispossession. These new textured works also form a narrative of her travels, incorporating the New Zealand waxeye, the European swallow, the British robin and the Asian kingfisher. Next, Flox intends to repurpose the work in abandoned spaces, to investigate what home means in environments that were once precious but now lost and forgotten. The implications of the word home will alter and distort in new ways when she positions the work as street art, where home and homelessness coalesce, and in the formal confines of gallery spaces.
Some of the Flox art prints available at endemicworld
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]]>The Freyberg Pool building is our favousirte, built in 1960 and designed by King & Dawson Architects. Apparently butterfly roofs were trendy back then! An architects office is not complete without it.
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HOME by Flox from NEKTAR on Vimeo.
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]]>Life’s a Lottery is also available as a screen print, Limited of 80, signed and numbered, 500x700mm. $390 U/F
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]]>One thing we have noticed over the years is that the quality of poster design in New Zealand is improving everyday.
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]]>This year it is in the silo 6 pack in Wynard Quarter on Auckland’s waterfront. It was a balmy night, great crew, cold beer, hot pizza… and a show that was so worth heading out to see.
If you’re not familiar with the area, the silo’s are in the old tank farm, next to docked super yachts and flash new bars. Each silo has an instillation, from fine art prints, painted crates, music videos being projected onto old machinery, interactive mirror light show, lasers and sound activated lights….
When inside, you forget you’re on Auckland’s waterfront. We suggest you go at night to get the best out of the show.
It’s on until the 13th of April. To top it off, Shake & Bake is on tomorrow at the same spot (Sat 7th April, 12pm – 6pm). Live painting, live music, all thanks to Basefm.
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