The Thousands

An album cover design, an illegal wall mural, a collectable toy, a skateboard, a gig poster, a photocopied zine, photos from a fashion shoot or a shoebox full of photos at a flea market. They’re all equally awesome, right?

Disorder Disorder features artists who don’t so much ignore the lines between commercial and fine art, amateur and professional, or highbrow and low. They simply never adopted those distinctions to begin with.

Joseph Allen (from Izrock Press and Monster Children Gallery) has wrangled an amazing collection of artists whose shared aesthetic attitude generally stems from their backgrounds in disparate subcultures. We are super impressed and proud of Joe for bringing these works (and people) down under.

What’s great is you don’t need a PhD in art history or a 2000 word artist’s statement to "get" this art. And, the playful, introspective, silly, smart, honest and melancholy spectrum of works communicates to way more than just stoic street art hounds.

There’s a free shuttle bus to Penrith for the show opening and Steven Powers’ talk this Saturday. A great excuse for a road trip with like-minded art freaks, Disorder Disorder reminds that beauty is everywhere around you, and art ain’t just for the gilded few.