Artist's ads a work of art
It is one thing to send out a pretty invitation for your next art exhibition, but Brisbane street artist Anthony Lister has publicised his art show in a different way.
This week, the 33-year-old artist flitted around Perth, painting a variety of murals on some of Perth's best-known venues, from the Mary Street Bakery in Highgate to the side of the Metropolis Concert Club in Fremantle.
Lister has courted controversy by not gaining council approval for some of his murals, but said he accepted street art was ephemeral and liable to be removed or painted over.
Well-known in street and stencil art circles, Lister was not so philosophical a week ago, objecting to the Brisbane City Council's decision to paint over part of a commissioned public artwork and calling the decision a way of "killing the culture" of his hometown.
Working in a style described by critics as a "grimy fusion of high and lowbrow culture", Lister graduated from the Queensland College of Art in 2001 and moved to New York two years later, where he was mentored by New Zealand artist Max Gimblett. Since then he has shown in galleries - and painted on street walls -around the world, though controversy continues over his painting on non-approved sites.
Lister's exhibition Still Life Crisis opens at Gullotti Galleries at 43 King Street, Perth, on November 16.
