Works that are 'hybrid' in concept, theme or execution.

JAMES BIRCH & DAMIAN DILLON
Collaborative paintings

Vulnerable hybrid creatures organically evolve from the layers, accretions and drips of paint that are applied in a form of painterly pas de deux by collaborative painters Damian Dillon and James Birch. 
A complex and organic choreography of put and place, erase and replace characterizes the spontaneous and seamless creation of these ensemble works as both artists, operating ’a la prima,’ act with a rapport of purpose on the one painting.  They work with a spontaneity and immediacy and lightness of touch, with brush and aerosol, then with turps and cloth, to pull back and seek out the ephemeral and fugitive image in their mark-making.
The paintings are hybrid in both concept and creation.  This creative partnership developed from the artists inhabiting a shared studio space and these collaborative works are expressive of their complementary aesthetic and mutual mind space.  The works are raw but subtle and characterized by an emotional sadness; a hybrid creature is after all ultimately transient as it is unable to reproduce.

ADAM CULLEN & CASH BROWN are independent artists with a history of working together.  Unlike Birch & Dillon who work simultaneously, these works were made during separate campaigns by each of the artists.
The works are from a series of proof state etchings by Adam Cullen made in 2005-6 at Cicada Press and reworked by Cash Brown during 2006 - 07 & 09.  
Cash Brown, for whom appropriation is a recurring focus, has overlaid Cullen’s original etchings with drawing and collaged images from the popular press to mask or elaborate, with her characteristic panache and macabre joie de vivre, Adam Cullen's equally contentious marks and intentions.  Whether it is printmaking, painting, installation, sculptural objects or drawing, Cash Brown has maintained a constant devotion to aesthetics and most importantly has never lost her sense of play.
Among other conceptual concerns Adam Cullen remains transfixed by the human condition and his use of dark and sometimes base imagery including demonic clowns, decapitated creatures, outsiders, and the marginalized, often provokes a visceral response from viewers.

CLAUDE JONES
Sculptures & Drawings

Claude Jones’s surreal winged sculptures and detailed drawings and collage are of mutant hybrid creatures.  The meticulous fine-lined drawings, a mix of biological and mythological fantasia, call to mind latter day versions from a bizarre medieval bestiary.

The sculptures are grotesque celluloid centaurs, manekins and marionettes formed from doll parts feathers, ceramic and papier mache.
She has been exploring this theme of hybridism in a series of exhibitions since 2002 with titles including Mutation & Imagination, Hybrid states, Hybridism, Creature Couples and Strange things.

DREW BICKFORD
Drawings

The grotesque narrative meanderings and convoluted creatures and copulations of Drew Bickford’s images are perversely rendered as delicate, ‘fine art’, meticulously detailed  ink drawings on white paper.
The minute visceral detail and sometime saturnalia of his hybrid imaginings are released from the frenzy of lines only on closer and prolonged intimate examination and engagement with the image.  In these works ‘the devil’ is truly in the detail.
Drew Bickford is Education Officer at Campbelltown Arts Centre.  He is a Board Member and is a frequent exhibitor with MOP since completing his Bachelor of Fine Art Studies at University of Western Sydney in 2003. Drew has been granted a residency with Artspace in 2009.