TRANSMUTATION

I flew back to New Zealand for a street art festival in Auckland called 'All Fresco' which was held on K'rd there were lots of awesomely cool NZ artists there for the event such as ENO, CINZAH, DEUS, MICA STILL, XOE HALL, WERT 159 & many more . The wall I painted is near the corner of  Pitt st & K rd at the Methodist Church, my wall was blessed by the Minister DR Lynne Frith & she also gave a prayer as well then I started painting.  Unfortunately it rained a bit but I managed to get most of it done here's some foto's

XOE HALL

ERIN FORSYTH

WERT 159

MICA STILL

 HAHA work in progress

almost finished but got rained off on the last day 

Any I flew back to Melbs to set up my exhibition called ' METAMORPHOSIS' at ' Dark Horse Experiment it took me 4 days to set up. It was an awesome night I got to show off the stencil fusions that I have been working on for pass year it was like harvest time, a time to celebrate & share my artistic abilities with everyone & thanx to all the peeps that rocked up for the opening & also I had a comic book release signing as well for the ' Adventures of the Braddock god' comic book. 

This progress shoot of Metamorphosis installation 

This is the piece finished its the seed of life 

opening night at Dark Horse

stencil fusion of Debbie & Tom

Sandrew

Sara & Tom

Clint & Tresca

Caper, Drew Funk & Doil

Sarah & Micheal at the comic launch at blender studio's

Thanx to everyone that came to the show & all the peeps that helped with setting everything up for Metamorphosis in Melbs & also the All fresco crew in Auckland for the awesome time painting , may the force be with you.

PASS PRESENT & FUTURE

With my experiments in regard to Stencil Fusion, I am attempting to explore idea's about archetypes as a single identity , within relationships, tribes, national groups or religion & on a planetary scale in regard to a global collective consciousness it is like a fractal, a continually reappearing  image . For example when two people are in love they keep the relationship alive by going out of their way for their partner  to keep the spark alive, the flame of  love. This flame or spark is the archetype within the relationship but when the flame dies out the archetype within the relationship dies out. The same archetypes are created within tribal groups, national groups, planetary groups etc all the way to universal groups, which in its most basic form is the mathematics of fractals. 

This fusion is of Maori chief Natai from 1800's & a portrait of myself, this an experiment of the pass & present , a metaphysical study into the idea of the ancestors that made my existence possible. The half face covered represents a fork in the road a new cultural shift the colonial migration to New Zealand by Europeans.

Stencil fusing is my attempt to discover the most basic forms of the archetype - ex man fused with machine or the silicon circuity of technology, the idea of Transhumanism -  mankind's quest for immortality . The relationship of this fusion forms an archetype perhaps a ego driven god that no longer depends on materialism to express itself, it becomes the new expression of power. The idea came from reading up on Transhumanism check out Dr Joseph Farrell & Dr Scott de Hart

 I did a stencil workshop at the Venny in North Melbourne with kids aged from 7 to 16, the kids went ballistic with the spray paint creating this awesome mural probs the best workshop Ive ever done & there was heaps of food there as well.

My friend Doyle hooked me up with a stencil workshop for Signal in Melbourne city, these kids cut out some awesome stencils .

Young people are our future & I think its important to pass on knowledge that I have acquired over the years specially for those who are willing to learn. Just like when I was a kid, to have some one to teach or encourage me to expand on creative side is a bonus to return that favour .

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AUSTRALIAN SUNWORSHIP

I did a bit of sun worship while back in Australia it all started off in Mildura where I hung out with Junky Projects, the infamous Braddock & Kieran Mangan where we discussed topic's dealing with aliens farming the human race, ufo's & alien corporations etc while enjoying a nice 37 decree day & 24 at night while trying to spot UFO's through my telescope

This my friend Kieran & his partner Jimi

 This stencil of Kieran is a 7 layer stencil which contains 800 left hand cuts & 819 right hand cuts to produce this image & Jimi which is also a 7 layer stencil contains 361 left hand cuts & 372 right hand cuts 

 This is a stencil fusion of the 2 portraits fused together

This is a false god erected by aliens in Mildura it gives humans cancer

 these aliens where spying on us in Mildura so I split back to Melbs

 I jumped on a plane to Townsville where I did a stencil workshop at Pinnacles Gallery for 2 days which was really awesome to pass on a bit of knowledge to people wanting to learn more from "the laugh factory"  (its a pataphor for HAHA)

here's some of the stencils that where cut out 

I also gave artist talks while up in Townsville, 2 at local high schools & 1 at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery where I spoke about my art practice to a full house of around 80 people 

Then I jumped on a plane to Brissy then cruised up to the Sun Shine Coast to enjoy more glorious Sun Shine went swimming twice a day while there, hungout with my brother & his family  

I cut a stencil of 1 of his daughters this is a stencil of Ava

I also bumped into my good friend Ben Frost on the Sun Shine Coast this is a foto with the crocodile hunter in the back ground he's like a god up this way, 

anyway im back in Melbs now , had lots of fun up north the adventure continues HAHA

MELBOURNE HEAT WAVE

Since I've been back in Melbs its been stink'n hot everyday like a heat wave that wont end , I'm using my friend Ero's studio to cut more stencils , staying at Braddock & Gwen's place making punk arse comic's, gardening & watch UFO doco's, I've also been painting down at Section 8 bar & drinking coffee, I'm also planning on doing a fun raiser at end of April to get back to Europe. ALSO if people want cheap stencil portraits made off themselves send me an email at  regan@regantamanui.com 

This is at Section 8, work in progress , these characters are little Tiki aliens 

Ive started to cut out stencil portraits of all the people that I took foto's of while travelling around the planet this an image of Monica Regan & Russell Howze from San Francisco with a pataphysical stencil fusion inbetween , both stencils are 11 layer stencils

Stencil fusion 

This is my good mate Russell Howze

 

This I put together for a charity exhibition for next month in Sydney at Blank Space in Surrey Hills. This piece is called 'Sun worship' its a homage to the persistant heat wave

This is an image of Squizzy Taylor another Melbourne gangster that I've started to spray around town with my good friend Rod 

wow its so good to be back in Melbs, so much awesome street art has gone up since I left especially by the 'AWOL' crew & more awesome underground comic's by the Silent Army wicked stuff oh well I think I'll go have another cold shower I'll cya's all soon Love & peace