The first concentrated show by Brolga, Fever Dreams showcases materials sourced from years of restless travel and an obsession with overlooked street signage.

Brolga brings together a hypercolour collection of painted originals, 3D installations, textiles, and toy designs.

Growing up in Australia, Brolga’s family would often make days-long trips across the country, moving house from Queensland to the Northern Territory and back. It’s on these car trips that his fascination with signage and iconography began.

Fever Dreams experiments with hallucinations and reality by highlighting the overlooked items of our familiar and foreign surroundings. Brolga weaves in his ever-increasing collection of original characters into the narrative, seeking a connection with them and the collage of elements delicately pulled from his travels and day-to-day.

About the artist

Brolga is a Melbourne-based artist and illustrator who gained recognition for his large-scale wheat pastes, street art, and murals on the streets of New York.

With a pop-styled aesthetic honed from a background in graphic design, Brolga mixes naive daydream-like doodles with a bold palette to create his worlds and characters.

Brolga is most influenced by the many subjects encountered and collected from years of traveling the world and living abroad. These days, his characters come to life in landscapes around the globe, going straight from his sketchbook to the streets and walls of a city. Over time, the characters wear with the location and become a part of daily life.

In addition to his work on the street, Brolga has found his illustrations adapted to a wide variety of industries and brands. Select clients he has worked with include Apple, Jaguar, Facebook, IBM and The New York Times.

When

Opening night: Wednesday 6 March, 6pm to 9pm

Exhibition runs Thursday 7 March to Saturday 23 March

Gallery hours: Wednesday to Friday, 11am to 6pm and Saturday 12pm to 5pm.