Robert Doble interviewed for My Favorite Room in Melbourne Weekly, September 29, 2010.
Robert Doble interviewed for My Favorite Room in Melbourne Weekly, September 29, 2010.
Doble & Strong have donated one of their studies to the Lasallian Foundation Fine Art Charity Auction. The auction takes place this Sunday 29th at Menzies Gallery and proceeds will fund development projects supporting poor and marginalised children through the asia pacific.
John Coote's Palladio-inspired house in Ireland is featured on the blog The Style Saloniste. Robert Doble's paintings and works on paper are also featured in a number of the rooms.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Collaborative work "Sarcoplasm" featured on the cover of Australian Art Collector magazine, July-Setember / 2010 Melbourne Art Fair issue. The issue features an 8-page profile on Simon Strong, and includes works from the upcoming solo exhibition "The Green Wood" which will show at Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney from 22nd July 2010.
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="32px" background_image="" image_repeat="no-repeat"][vc_single_image image="16194" border_color="grey" img_link_large="" img_link_target="_self" qode_css_animation="" img_size="full"][vc_empty_space height="32px" background_image="" image_repeat="no-repeat"][vc_single_image image="16195" border_color="grey" img_link_large="" img_link_target="_self" qode_css_animation="" img_size="full"][vc_empty_space height="32px" background_image="" image_repeat="no-repeat"][vc_single_image image="16196" border_color="grey" img_link_large="" img_link_target="_self" qode_css_animation="" img_size="full"][vc_empty_space height="32px" background_image="" image_repeat="no-repeat"][vc_single_image image="16197" border_color="grey" img_link_large="" img_link_target="_self" qode_css_animation="" img_size="full"][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Robert Doble's works on paper feature on the cover of July's House & Garden UK magazine in John Coote's Irish villa.
I was recently included on the blog www.500photographers.com (see it here)
Netherlands based photographer Pieter Wisse has set himself the task of adding 5 photographers a week for 100 weeks to his weblog. He's already included some of my favourite photographers, and several others with exciting work whom I didn't know, so it's worth taking a look. I'm sure the site will end up being a useful resource to photographers and those that appreciate photography.
I also stumbled across an entry about my work on Lifelounge. I loved the witty-but-spot-on commentary by "Georgia":
"I don’t feel so concerned anymore that my work needs to be immediately comprehensible. I’m consciously allowing concepts to evolve and develop in a less linear fashion. I’m enjoying the possibilities presented by a more enigmatic or mysterious tone...where you only get glimpses of what may be a more encompassing psycho- drama..." - Simon Strong.
In other words, you're not meant to 'get' Simon Strong's work. We're not expecting you to sit in front of your computer screen for twenty minutes, psychoanalysing the darkest corners of these images. instead, take them for what they are: a little bit fucked up and a whole lot aesthetically saturated. In fact, if you do manage to pull some freaky-deaky voodoo meaning out of Strong's work, you should probably considering booking in for another session with your shrink: there's nothing normal about glowing cabbages.
His heavily layered and constructed photographs seem both familiar and surreal at the same time. Strong plays with the idea of normalcy: how far can you push the boundaries of the visual image before we begin to disregard it? Embrace the wack-ness. Naked bodies are rarely sexual, men are nonsurplussed when trapped inside glass boxes, and having a string of Christmas lights spew from someone's open mouth like an escaping fiberoptic tape worm seems perfectly ho-hum.
Fashion designer, Yeojin Bae featured on the cover of M Magazine, The Sunday Age, 6 June 2010. Photographed in the apartment of Robert Doble, she speaks to the magazine:
First Born, the inaugural collaboration between Melbourne-based artists Robert Doble and Simon Strong at Block Projects, utilises the image of the human body to dramatically different ends. Comprising eight huge photographic and gloss enamel works mounted on aluminium composite, the show deconstructs and mutates the archetypically flawless human image.
2009-2023 © Doble & Strong