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 ‘the buff‘ has removed any trace of them.
Exhibitions:
2020 Bushfire
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
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
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
2020 Cant 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