Coming up this Thursday in Adelaide is a cool little solo show from the man behind the recently opened These Walls Don’t Lie gallery – Donovan Christie.

Not only is he the founder of TWDL, but Donovan is also an emerging artists who tends towards painting, usually utilising acrylics – however this modern/traditional medium comes with an urban twist.

“I possess a very broad understanding and appreciation towards a diverse range of art, as you can tell in my own range of work. My preferred medium is acrylic paints on canvas. My body of work generally consists of hyper realism pieces; whether they be portraits, streetscapes or traditional landscapes. I so frequently find myself standing still and appreciating things that people take for granted in life. This outlook makes me an avid admirer of people, architecture and urban landscapes in particular.

My home town of Adelaide gives me my inspiration, taking suburban and rural photographs; this might be anything that appeals to me such as a bus stop, an alleyway or even a set of powerlines. I then collate a number of angles of the one subject and configure, crop and edit these images and sketch out a final draft. I then sketch and paint this to canvas as I believe a painting conveys more feeling and sentiment rather than a photograph.”

Documenting the metropolitan environment via his work, it looks like Christie will be forging into the streets even more with this upcoming show.

“Art-illery; The weapons of choice by today’s Guerilla Street Artists.
An exhibition displaying the Art-illery, the culprits in the act and the targets of choice.”

Sounds pretty intriguing, and worth checking out!

Who: Donovan Christie
What: Art-illery solo show
Where: Brown Sugar Gallery @ Sugar Nightclub, 274 Rundle St, Adelaide
When: Show opens Thursday 7th June from 8pm and runs until the 3rd of July

Check out Donovan Christie on fb, These Walls Don’t Lie and the Facebook event page for more info.