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

The Sharpie Drawings explore 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 past year Andrew Atchison’s practice has been principally created around 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 He is attracted to de-popularised, overlooked and outdated media and techniques as they require the challenge of re-invigoration and provoke in the viewer identification with the fabric of their past.