Anyone who enjoyed James Jirat Patradoon guest blog on mecho earlier this year, must not miss his upcoming art exhibition titled Heartaches.

The 25-year-old Sydney-based artist and illustrator, is known primarily for his neon screenprints and stylised digital work. With Hearthaches, his new drawings shift into a more organic and personalised gear.

Using a bold kind of reverse engineering, the exhibit presents a taut exploration of authenticity and identity in the form of massive graphite-on-canvas drawings. Informed by Patradoon’s observations of pop constructions of masculinity and of self-representation in a post-convergence culture, it is a sometimes bleak, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, but always insightful personal critique.

Heartaches art exhibition opens at Boutwell Draper Gallery (82-84 George Street, Redfern) on Thursday 23 September 2010 from 6-8pm, and runs in tandem with Ben Frost’s Art of Noise until 23 October 2010.

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