FOR THE LOVE OF LIDS by HARLEY-DAVIDSON
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Does it get any trendier or artier than this? No, it doesn’t.
You know the world has changed when the iconic American motorcycle company launches an arty helmet exhibition in a super trendy bar in the ultra-hip Sydney suburb of Newton.
The venue was (and is) Mary’s, the band that played that evening was Little Bastard, which had a fiddle-player, so it cannot have been anything but awesome, and some of the country’s edgiest artists displayed their applied creativity to the open-face helmet.
Bike Me! sent Big Tall Dan along for the evening on account of he likes beer, motorcycles and is acquiring a taste in art.
The exhibition runs until the 30th of November and is located at Mary’s Newtown, which is, amazingly, at 6 Mary Street, Newtown, Sydney, NSW 2024.
Go and have a look.
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The artists outside Mary’s
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Kim Rattenbury’s vision in blonde
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She probably should have braided it. The knots will be diabolical.
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For when the mating season starts
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The artist, Lachlan Bruce, is not a man to butt heads with
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Some very Old Skool cool by Ben Brown
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Skulls? Always cool.
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Sofia Fitzpatrick and her creation
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Eddy Lou’s leathery lid
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TJ Guzzardi looks into the soul of his work…or he’s checking out the sweaty inner liner. Hard to tell.
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Art, and the appreciation thereof, is simply not possible without life-giving beer.
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Little Bastard lays down the beats…um, strings…
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Yes, of course there were Harley-Davidsons there. This was not the a Monet exhibition, you know.
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Nanami Cowdroy went the full samurai
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Mason Mulholland’s deeply introspective collage of girl parts
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Sindy Sinn’s creation was arty and practical.