I create my work using acrylic paint and a combination of brush and freestyle airbrush. My methods for achieving the distinctive look and feel often involve the use of simple household items such as sponges and atomisers. I rely on visual impact and blend colour, bold text and graffiti together with simplified iconic images.
These simple images are a typical and sometimes candid view of the unique Australian coastal culture. The beach, cars, caravans and bikinis form the basis of a majority of my work and are often just visual clippings and observations from holidays or life on the coast.
There is nothing dark about my work, the content and themes must be fun as well as colourful. Through my work I hope to spark the viewers own imagination and remind them of a time or moment.
Over the past 12 months I set out to push the boundary a little as far as content while keeping the same simple form.
This exhibition is a ‘visual milkshake’ with a blend of colour, bold text and a subtle touch of urban graffiti contained within the same simplified iconic subjects that have become artbydorf.
Andrew MANGELSDORF
Curriculum Vitae
1990 Mosman Art Prize : finalist
1993 Work installed : Ragland St Gallery : Manly
2002 Work installed : Palm Beach Art Café : Sydney
2003 Warringah Art Prize : finalist (2 works) : Sydney
2003 Invitation Group Exhibition : Glen Street Theatre : Sydney
2003 Work installed : Soho Gallery : Sydney
2004 Solo Exhibition : ‘FOCUS’ : Palm Beach Art Café : Sydney
2004 Work installed : Soho Gallery : Sydney
2004 Melbourne Affordable Art Show
2004 Group Exhibition : Sydney Antique Centre
2004 Warringah Art Prize : finalist
2004 Sydney Affordable Art Show : Fox Studios
2004 Work installed : TPG The Painters Gallery : Sydney
2004 Mosman Art Prize : finalist
2004 Work installed : Artworks Newport : Sydney
2004 Work installed : The Beach Pad : Kingscliff
2004 ANL Maritime Art Prize : finalist : Melbourne
2004 Beach Culture Group Exhibition : Kingscliff
2005 Domain : Sydney Morning Herald
2005 Solo Exhibition : Soho Gallery : Sydney
2005 Melbourne Affordable Art Show
2005 Painted Ukulele Exhibition : The Beach Pad : Kingscliff
2005 Riverview School Exhibition
2005 Jeans for Genes (Robert Downey JR)
2005 Article : Sydney Weekender newspaper
2005 Article : Manly Daily newspaper
2005 Article : The Daily Telegraph
2005 Article : The Sun Herald
2005 Commissioned piece ‘three heads regatta’
2005 Commissioned piece ‘mangrove leaves’
2005 Mosman Art Prize: finalist
2005 Warringah Art Prize: finalist
2005 Art Sydney 05: Hordern Pavilion
2005 Brisbane Art 05: exhibition halls Brisbane
2005 RMYC art exhibition: Royal Motor Yacht Club: Newport
2005 ‘All The Best’ Group exhibition: Soho Galleries: Sydney
