Will Lynes’ solo exhibition ‘Special Reserve’ opens at Kind Of gallery in Sydney on Thursday 8 November, 2012.
Lynes’s work is reminiscent of an era and a trade long passed. Influenced by old original hand-painted signs, he uses modern slang, gold gilding and ageing techniques to recreate traditional signage of yesteryear. With references to fictional businesses and colloquialisms inspired from days gone by, Lynes’s work will invoke a sense of history in the gallery.
“…it was seeing all the old bars and shops with their original signage. Places in the middle of nowhere, all run down and dilapidated… still having half a gold leaf or neon sign on the window that looked like it had been there for a hundred years. You get a weird sense that there was a story or history behind it. They just had amazing character to them so I started trying to replicate that feeling. It’s cool to do a brand new gilt or hand painted sign on a window, but there’s something nicer to me about a sign that looks like it can tell a story… good or bad.”
*A limited edition ‘Special Reserve’ t-shirt will be released at the opening.
‘Special Reserve’ opens to the public on Thursday 8 November at 6pm and will remain open until 18 November, 2012.
Kind Of — Gallery
72 Oxford St,
Darlinghurst, Sydney
Australia
0404 105 030
kindof.gallery@gmail.com
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