Subtitled – The Street Art of Slinkachu – Will Self.

Bin Day by Will Self. Look at this Carefully. Apols for the scan quality.

Some of us may have encountered the miraculous super-realist mannequins of Ron Mueck on display at the NGV or at the MCA in Sydney.

Some of Ron’s work is HUGE – in the Sydney Exhibition there was a heavily pregnant woman who must have been over ten feet high and a half of Ron’s head was taller than a man.  The detail is incredible with whiskers as thick as your finger and perfectly in scale with everything else.

On the other end of the scale was an old woman under a blanket.  She was about 18 inches in length, but she was so realistic I saw two children standing and watching her for minutes on end – debating whether or not they could see her breathing.  They were debating whether she was alive.  Not whether she was real – whether she was alive.

Convincing ?  Eerie ?  You bet !

Now, yesterday I found in a bookstore  an expensive but brilliant counterpoint by Will Self – “Little People in the City – The Street art of Slinkachu” (2008) Boxtree – an imprint of Pan Macmillan ISBN 978-0-7552-2664-4.

I’m sure they wont mind us borrowing two pieces – you should buy the book.  It’s amazing.

And you can see some other interesting street art here