Following on from the Dabs Myla exhibition, Per Square have another showcase of a young up and coming artist, Jack Douglas, whose work has been seen gracing a plethora of walls and exhibitions around the city in the past couple of years. This guys work is fantastically energetic in its weird and stylised way, so its, yes, another, show not to be missed. Burn city keeps pulling out the goods – we’re pretty spoilt.

“This show is about coming-of-age in a society that’s not quite right. Graduating from art school and being forced to face the real world, dealing with drug use, alcoholism and petty violence. “I seek to escape my own personal dilemmas through the image-making process.” Feeling the urge to draw attention to the degradations in standards of living, the everyday Australian’s general contempt for each other and fearing things that are different. These “low life’s” each bear their own interesting stories, it is through his art that Jack attempts to portray them as a means for public discourse. Drawing on several influences (including pop surrealism, tattoo art, skateboard graphics, psychedelic music posters etc.), Jack has created a body of work that will act as a single piece of art through the process of installation that will hopefully make people stop and think about what is wrong with the world we live in.”

Who: Jack Douglas
What: Twenty One (Solo Exhibition)
Where: Per Square Metre Gallery, 191 Johnston Street, Collingwood VIC, Australia 3066 (corner Francis and Johnston Streets ), Telephone 61+03 94177991
When: Friday, 16 April 2010 at 18:00 to Sunday, 25 April 2010 at 21:00

Via Per Square Metre Gallery

You can find more info and a bunch of photos by Jack on his blog as well as the Facebook event page.