“Sharpie Drawings”
Andrew Atchison
2 Feb → 24 Feb 2007

Sharpie Drawings explores contemporary masculinites, specifically the violent, fashion conscious and short lived ‘Sharpie’ culture spawned in Melbourne’s suburban sprawl between 1966-78. The works join the dots, or stars, to illuminate ideas about masculine relations and representation that were already present, though ignored or overlooked.

Over the course of a year Andrew Atchison has been focused on ideas of re-illuminating the unpopular using existing representational frameworks including the television screen, astrological mapping and decoration. He is attracted to de-popularised, overlooked and outdated media and techniques as they require the challenge of re-invigoration and provoke in the viewer identification with the fabric of their past.