Dlux (born 1977, Australia) is a notable street artist operating out of Melbourne, Australia. A street artist is someone who creates art in public for the pleasure of passers-by usually tourists in order to earn money Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. His real name is James Dodd.
Dlux began doing street art in Adelaide in 1998, working largely at first with stickers. Street art is any Art developed in Public spaces — that is "in the Streets quot — though the term usually refers to art of an illicit nature as Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a Dlux only started doing stencils to mass-produce stickers. This is one of many Types of graffiti, for a more general discussion of the subject see Graffiti. Dlux moved to Melbourne because of the Street Art scene.
Although a powerful presence on the Melbourne streets, Dlux does a large amount of gallery work, and his stencils are always very politically motivated.
Dlux is now one of the most active street artists in Melbourne. A street artist is someone who creates art in public for the pleasure of passers-by usually tourists in order to earn money
See also
References
- Jake Smallman (2005). This is a list of Street artists Graffiti (singular graffito; the plural is used as a Mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched scrawled painted or marked in any manner on property This is a list of Street artists Spray paint art is an artform utilizing spray paint and performed on posterboard or wood Stencil graffiti capital : Melbourne. New York: Mark Batty Publisher. ISBN 0976224534.
- May's Sydney. April 1, 2005. (Featured artist).
- Stencil art world draws the line 8 May 2007
- National Gallery of Australia entry on DLUX
- Norman, James, "Graffiti goes upmarket", The Age, Melbourne, Australia, August 16, 2003. The Age is a Broadsheet daily Newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854 It includes some information on DLUX.
External links
- "Make Stencils Not War" - a work by Dlux
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