2022 - 9th WONDER OF THE WORLD - 3 COLOUR 4 PRINTS
Where to start with Chyna! My heart my soul. I used to get obsessed with watching WWF at my nan and pops who had Austar in Ouyen. Growing up in Mildura we had like 4 channels so it was crazy flicking thru 99 worlds. I always came back to the wrestling,. Its campiness, homo-eroticism and theatre enamoured my senses. Chyna was a fucking beast and I was mesmerised by her. I don't really care about current wrestling but the attitude surely was something else! One of my favourite photos in the family photo album is of me in a pink tutu, running out of my Jurassic Park tent getting smashed around with wrestling moves served from my Uncle Mark.
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2021 - GET UR ARSE 2 MARS - 2 COLOUR
Love love body horror films and yeah I'm gonna chuck TOTAL RECALL (1990) in there. This scene blew my mind when I first saw it. I thought it was hilarious how serious they tried to keep it. Got the two panel like a comic layout showing in disguise and out.
"GET READY FOR A SURPRISE!"
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2021 - WITHOUT A WORRY - SINGLE COLOUR 4 PRINTS
This character came to life after some ketamine scrawlings on a spew bag on a flight home from Naarm. I desired deeply to be free from trauma and find ease in life. This felt like a poem of sorts of who I wanted to be. Zooming thru life surrounded by beauty and nature, filled to the brim with self-confidence and self-love. Safe to say in 2022 I have arrived. The butterflies would become a symbol I tattooed on my arm to carry me through a tumultuous time when I had my top surgery. I wore my screen-printed pants, the scriggly butterflies my only company in hospital. The sleeve print read:
"Quite often we go thru life with our brains all the way back there but I found this new space where I can fly thru life without a worry in my mind."
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2020 - CRYO SENTENCE - SINGLE COLOUR 4 PRINTS
This piece is based on the beef-cake action-dribble mmovie DEMOLITION MAN! When I was a kid my mum would religiously state that she'd rather me watch a love scene than an action movie with killing. DEMOLITION MAN soon became one of my most rebellious VHS tapes that I'd watch back to back with Fantasia, a recording of Lulu and my copious RAGE compilations full of my fav music clips. I was (still am) so deviously attracted to Wesley Snipes who played the bad guy in the movie. He wore acid wash overalls, an orange muscle tee and had bleached hair with the most gorgeous piercing eyes. For this piece I took phone photos of screens and depictions of modern technology within the film. I'm so fascinated with how movies project ideas of technical evolution (this one being made in 1993 but based in 2032) and the stylizing within DM is so beautiful. Something felt really crunchy about taking a photo of a screen then sending it to Photoshop for more crunching (throwing it thru threshold) then printing it onto a tee. It felt like folding up the image within itself to take it to a new, unrefined, analogue world. Its crisp digital cousin a distant memory.
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2020 - VIDEO FANTASY - SINGLE COLOUR 4 PRINTS
This design was a culmination of old sex worker ads out the back of 90's Australian tattoo mags. Daria had been gifted a stack from a friend and after discovering the beautiful back page adverts they put together a design. A lot of them very obviously dated time stamps of the era. My fav is the gay men, Johno & Steve... mm sexy.
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2020 - WELCOME 2 THA HELLMOUTH - SINGLE COLOUR 3 PRINTS
This design was an amalgymation of Daria's obsession at that point being Buffy The Vampire Slayer and SUPER INFRAMAN a Shaw Brothers film from 1975. The Hell Mouth is where the vampire activity is most rampant in Sunnydale High and the back of the shirt has a quote from SUPER INFRAMAN that read:
"Condition their minds. Increase reception. Eradicate resistance."
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2019 - LAND OF PLEASURE - 2 COLOUR TEE
The Land of Pleasure series was a red hot beginning to releases. Featuring a friend, WILK, from Naarm who is a strong, beautiful and delicious advocate for the deaf community. After designing a sexy poster for their lover at the time they saw potential in a tee design. The shirt spread a message of sexual liberation and confidence in self.
"A land of gentle love and turbo babes - fluid in nature and in movement - we welcome you to the land of pleasure - feel the golden light ripple inside of you until your bones tickle - no judgement, just good times"
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2019 - SICKNASTY ORIGINAL TEE - 4 SINGLE COLOUR PRINTS
This was the first release of SICKNASTY. After 10 years of hospitality work, Daria was nervous to embark on this new sole-trader adventure. They created and printed this shirt to take the system for a spin. Before they launched the business then gifted this shirt to friends and creatives to share the news of the new journey. The claw on the chain symbolises breaking free from the constraints of mental illness and its deabilitation. Taking this steps to self sufficiency, while rocky at the best of times, was a love letter and belief to self. It felt right for the first design to symbolise stepping out of the clutches of dominating forces.
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