About p1xels
p1xels + photographer
p1xels is a Melbourne-based photographer whose subculture-specific photo documentation of the graffiti scene has spanned over nine years. p1xels has worked with highly-regarded local and international artists, documenting their artistic expression.
p1xels dark and moody compositions are an insight into their passion for exploring urban environments. It is apparent in their work that they have developed a specific style: a triangulation between subject matter, viewpoint and the interpretation of light.
Preferring to work alone, p1xels has investigated and shot across diverse urban environments. The past decade has seen p1xels travel extensively, both internationally and domestically, allowing them to photograph artists and writers at work, and to investigate empty urban places. p1xels documents these desolate, isolated, and beautiful environments through their photography providing a glimpse into a world in which they are fascinated and one which would otherwise not be seen.
Beyond abandoned locations, graffiti belongs at the heart of p1xels ͛ work. In a medium where tags and ‘pieces’ have only a short life span, their portfolio of images allows these works to live on, long after time has removed any trace of them.
In recent years p1xels work has continued exploring the relationship between man's impact on nature including the irreversible effects of nuclear explosions in Pripyat, Ukraine (Chernobyl) and global warming influence on glaciers surrounding Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon, Iceland.
Exhibitions:
2022 From The Ground Up, City of Port Phillip, Balaclava, VIC
2022 Ling - The Allure of Gold, KSR Gallery Melbourne VIC (supporting documentation imagery)
2021 Captured, Curator Backwoods Gallery Collingwood VIC
2020 The Other Art Fair, 2020 A Brief Survey, London, UK
2020 Linden Postcard Show 2020, Linden New Art, St Kilda VIC
2020 ILFORD CCP Salon, Contemporary Centre of Photography, Collingwood VIC
2020 Bushfire Relief Auction - Leonard Joel, South Yarra, VIC
2020 Bushfire Crisis Art Show, Level Up Studios, Fremantle WA
2019 Alpha Beta Gamma - Inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone, solo exhibition, Melbourne VIC
2019 Linden Postcard Show 2019, Linden New Art, St Kilda VIC
2019 ILFORD CCP Salon, Contemporary Centre of Photography, Collingwood VIC
2019 Variations of Style, Fremantle WA
2017 Illmatic Seasons of Change, Prahan VIC
2016 Luminence, Metro NSW
2016 That one shot, Fitzroy VIC
2015 Curvy Creative Women’s Conference and Curvy Exhibition, Chippendale, NSW
2015 Screaming Hand 20th Anniversary (Aust Edition), Chippendale, NSW & Praharn VIC
2015 12 x 12 The Stockroom, Ringwood VIC
Online Contributions
Just Another Agency (2016 - 2022)
Ironlak (2017 - 2020)
Invurt Magazine (2016 - 2019)
Very Nearly Almost (VNA) Magazine (2017 - 2020)
Juddy Roller (2016 - 2018)
Melbourne Arts Club (2017)
Bailer (@017 - 2020)
Fluoro (2016 - 2017)
RONE (2017)
Workshop Melbourne (2017)
Backwoods Gallery (2017 - 2019)
Give Crohns a Slap for me (2016 - 2017)
Graffiti Street (2017 - 2018)
Everfresh (2016 - 2017)
Melbourne Arts Club (2016)
Mayonaize (2016 - 2019)
Pantactive (2016)
No Cure (2015 - 2016)
Cam Scale (2016 - 2019)
Redbubble (2016 - 2017, 2020)
MTN Australia (2016 - 2018)
Printed Media
2022 Ling From the Ground Up - exhibition publication, self-published
2021 p1xels Captured Exhibition Zine - self-published
2022 Vincent Message Cora dans la spirale Points France
2019 The Age - Rone
2018 The Age - Rone
2017 Christian Hundmark and Patrick Hartl The Art of Writing Your Name: Urban Calligraphy and Beyond, Gingko Press
2017 Jetstar In- Flight magazine
2017 The Age – Adnate
2017 Very Nearly Almost Magazine
2016 Very Nearly Almost Magazine
2016 Ewan McEoin (ed) Melbourne Street Art Guide, Thames and Hudson (Australia)
2014 Infinitism
Festival
2022 Big Picture Fest, Frankston VIC
2020 Can't Do Tomorrow, Urban Art Festival, Kensington VIC
2017 ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE, City of Port Phillip and Climarte partnership, St Kilda, VIC
2016 Wall to Wall, Benalla VIC
2016 Pow Wow, Hawaii USA
2016 Meeting of Styles, Melbourne VIC
2016 White Night, Melbourne VIC
2015 Patterson Project, Prahan, Melbourne VIC
Grants
2021 Flash Forward - City of Melbourne, VIC
Residencies
2022 Fish Factory, Creative Center of Stöðvarfjörður Iceland