Miniature art exhibition, Melbourne 2020 - urban decay and weathered buildings
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- čas přidán 29. 03. 2020
- Over the last year I have been working on a series of miniatures, showcasing old and decrepit urban scenes in the inner western suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. These scratchbuilt dioramas were displayed in a solo art exhibition at a gallery in March 2020. Here is a walk through of the exhibition, showing the forgotten and overlooked buildings that I love.
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Anyone else here from the Best Unintentional ASMR video? I’m from Sydney and love art especially the art scene in Melbourne and I love hearing about new stuff like this!
That was real gallery art Dave on display, model of the gallery with littler models inside and a little Dave holding his camera making CZcams for everyone to enjoy... General Rid Stump!!!
came from the unintentional asmr to say you have an amazing talent
Neverstopz thank you!
Rivals your Maschinen Krieger hover boat thing. Outstanding series.
CONGRATULATIONS DAVE !!!! I Told You They Were TRUE PIECES OF ART 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗, I Hope This Has Opened a Huge Door of Opportunities For You, BUT PLEASE DON'T FORGET Your Fellow Modellers, Prayers going Your Way For Safety and Protection From The COVID-19 Outbreak, It's Hit Denver Co. USA,,,, God Bless All.
Thanks Gary! I promise there won't be such a gap now, it was intense getting ready for the exhibition. Look after yourself - David
Y W Sir n T Y Back
Stunning work they look so real congratulations on having your models exhibited in a gallery
Thanks Greg :) It felt pretty extraordinary.
Fantastic dioramas Dave. You're right - it was very well worth the wait between videos.
You got your exhibition done just in time - wouldn't be able to do it now with the CV19 rules.
You really have talent and I hope you get suitably rewarded for your efforts.
congratulations on the exhibition. The video was fantastic, felt like I was really there :) There's something to be said for seeing an artist's collection in one space, you begin to see the personality you imbued into the pieces. Solid work mate!
Absolute pleasure to see an upload from you - and what a video! Congratulations Dave - lovely exhibition. It looks like you've found your 'thing' and really gone for it - and succeeded! That's living the dream! Really inspiring mate, cheers.
Extraordinary Davo!!
Firstly congrats on your exhibition and it is great to see your work again Dave. I feel proud of what you have done Dave because I saw many of the pieces being built via your build videos. I said then and it has been proven to be correct they are works of art each one of them Thank you for sharing your art. And please keep you and your family safe. Kerry & Sharon Toronto Canada..
You're alive! Yay!
Very well done. 8 hrs after post and over 30 posts on how good it is. HURAH! I guess you answered your own question; when dose it become art? When it's appreciated by the masses! Keep having fun brother..
I would actually pay good money to visit here
Unintentional ASMRtist!
Sabrina Williams heh heh, I see what you did there 😉 Thanks
Dave sooo proud of the work you do! You have definitely found your calling! I kinda call myself a scratch builder but Dave I bow to your masterful builds! Was kinda worried that you hadn’t posted in quite a while. Definitely look forward to seeing your next masterpiece!
Awesome Dave!! I really love that you have captured random but iconic buildings. Also that you have found beauty in some of the beat up elements, like the dodgy doors and other random parts!
Love it!!
😀🕺🏻🎥🏖🇦🇺
Congratulations on your exhibition, Dave! The models really invoke a great sense of abandonment and days gone by. Love the attention to detail like the cracks in the brickwork on the switch house, and the lightbulbs behind the missing glass on the theatre. Your work is really at another level.
Wow, just wow. I am mostly an aircraft man when it comes to modelling, but those sorts buildings are what I dream of in my ideal diorama for aircraft display. Give yourself a real pat on the back, you deserve it!
Fantastic exhibition, the detail is quite extraordinary. Nice to have you back.
Dave C.
Oh yay, Dave is back. Absolutely fabulous Dave, thanks for sharing this awesome display. Take care and be safe. Xx
Wish I knew about this when it was on... please do another exhibition when it’s legal to! My girlfriend is obsessed with miniatures
I will do, I promise! The best way to find out about upcoming stuff for me is to follow me on Instagram - instagram.com/davidhouriganartist/
Welcome back Dave, you've been missed! Wonderful to see the aspects of urban beauty amid the decrepitude. There truly is magic everywhere if we just pause to see it. Congrats on the exhibition. May there be many more!
Fantastic work Dave, your talents and creativity are inspiring. Glad that your venue was well received and successful!
Congratulations! Awesome to see your build videos on this series in an art exhibit.
G'day Dave, You've blown me away with your 'Urban Structural Art', or at least that's what I came up with as name for your installations. I truly view these works of yours as much more than scratch model making. They make just as strong a statement and evoke just as much emotion as any classic work of sculpture or art, or they do for me.
I was born in the early 50s and lived in Melbourne until I left in the early 70s to join the RAAF.
Between my mother and father's families we had a huge extended group of relatives and they seemed to be almost evenly distributed over the older suburbs, all around Melbourne.
For instance, we had an old auntie who lived in a truly spooky terrace house just north of the City. My sister and I hated staying there, not because of our aunt but because the terrible state of her, once grand, old terrace home.
I recall my father not knowing how to get it off his hands after the aunt died. I think he almost gave it away. Someone had painted the whole house and the lovely wrought iron work an awful dark 'sh#t brown' inside and out. We kids were convinced the place was haunted.
I wish Dad had hung on to it because when I grew up it became the headquarters of the ACTU in, I think, No 1 Drummond Street, or whatever address it was, or is.
I was so familiar with at least four of your diorama works.
We frequented Olympic Doughnuts whenever we were in the area and the Sun Cinema/theatre was well known to us.
Your art moved me deeply because it got me thinking about being a kid and a teenager, again, in and around Melbourne. I did a cooking apprenticeship at the old Hotel Australia in Collins Street which is now a 'soulless', cavernous shopping mall. That hotel building, which opened for business just at the start of WW2, became a 'second home' to me, I spent so much time there.
Melbourne and its older suburbs were, collectively, a beautiful place to grow up.
From a young age I was allowed to travel anywhere I wanted to go on the trams. It was a safe city to live in and I loved exploring on long weekend tram rides to nowhere in particular.
In fact, I caught the modelling bug through making countless trips into Hearn's Hobbies in the city when they were near 'City Hatters' in the Flinders' Street buildings.
I met all three of the famous Hearns brothers, all of whom were pilots in the RAAF during WW2; they were fair dinkum heroes to many kids, me included.
My first ever kit was an Airfix 1/72 Spitfire sold in a little plastic bag. I had to save up my pocket money to buy it plus a tiny tube of glue, two brushes and maybe four or five little tin pots of Humbrol paints.
I wish I could have seen your 'Urban Art' on exhibition, still, it was really special to see your video of your first exhibition. I hope there are more and I can get across Bass Strait to see one.
Cheers, Dave and thanks so much for the experience.
Bill H.
Thanks so much Bill, for your kind words and also for sharing your memories. Nostalgia is definitely a big part of what I do, and it makes me very happy when my work evokes memories and emotions like this. All the best mate, hopefully we can meet in person some day. Cheers, David
Incredible details! Thanks for sharing your amazing creations
Hi Dave, glad to see your OK and well. Hope the family are all OK matey. Congratulations on your gallery etc. Stay safe my friend
Amazing art!
Amazingly Artistic and accurate! Well done! Thanks for sharing!
I think it would be very awesome to have pics of the real life buildings displayed as well.
Great work btw! Absolutely stunning detail. :)
Thanks - I considered it when setting up the exhibition, but I decided not to just because I didn't want to distract from the miniatures. But I get your point, good to have a sense of context.
Total Awesomeness
Bravo....
Thanks Dave- I have really missed your videos.
Keep them coming.
Exquisite work there. Beautiful details, very subtle. I'm jealous of your talents.
Congrats on the gallery showing.
Thank you Andrew!
Great work dave, you really are a great artist and a modelling master. Hats off to you keep up the amazing work.
Just saw this video on the Find Calm channel. I see this is from months ago but congratulations on your succesful exhibit! You have incredible talent.
Your Slowbro thank you so much ☺️
These are just flippin amazing dude !
I sat in absolute awe watching this video, and a thousand and one questions came to mind - 99° of them about how you actually made the stuff that's in or around them and what they are made from.
You should definitely write a book on model making, or on making dioramas more precisely. I think thousands of people would buy it, and I would definately be at the head of the line.
Showing how to make the stuff you have, things like doors, hinges, shutters, locks, chains, all from scratch, how to calculate the size of an item to model it to a particular size is totally mystifying to me ! I always make stuff too big or too small - this would be a great starting point for a book and you could even write a series of them. The first could be titled "Construction for dioramas" - and be about the bricks & mortar and building side of starting out. Different brick patterns, breeze blocks, woodworks like rafters, windows, doors, roofs, chimneys, flooring, attics, lofts, door frames, etc. etc. I can definitely see you filling 200 pages with just the basics of stuff like this.
Then in the next you could take a separate section of diorama building to concentrate on and scratch build everything in various scales or just 1 scale. So it could be things like :
"Greenery" : how to make trees, hedges, grasses, reeds, flowers, fields, swamp foliage, tundra & wasteland foliage, dead vegetation, climbers like ivy and parasitic plants, forests for different climates such as a pine forest in Norway, part of the Amazon forest, a Florida wetlands, etc. as this type of stuff is so important to modeling dioramas and quite literally plants something into an environment.
Next could be "Modeling the Infrastructure" so you would show how to make fences, gates, wells, paths, roads, walkways, kerbs, manhole covers, zebra crossings with flashing lights, traffic lights, lamp posts, telegraph poles, pylons, railway lines, bridges, tunnels, beaches, water pipes, canals, locks etc.
Next the 4th book could be, "Model making Transport Facilities" : petrol stations with pumps, car washers, paper stands, a garage with service bays, tyre changers, mechanics tool trolleys, engines on tables, train stations, bus depots, car parks, bus stops, police station, fire station, ambulance station, small airfield, control tower, etc. Basically anything at all connected with transport.
I hope you see the thread and take off with it, as for someone like you with your skills it would surely just be a matter of taking some pictures while your working and telling someone who is taking notes for you, or talking to a recorder, so you could type things up later and put with the appropriate photo. Learning to make dioramas like you, with your skill set would be an honour and I really do hope you consider writing a book (or 7 or 8 !) so others can learn how to make awesome dioramas akin to yours. Thanks.
Pebbles The Cat I think that you are onto something there! This is possibly the longest comment that I have seen on a post! LOL
No I don’t feel so bad about my rambling!
But in sincerity, the book idea is good.
Even a digital version that could sell globally with ease!
Dave, it's been a long time not hearing you or seeing your work. But by god it was enjoyable watching this video. Your work is amazing. The attention to detail is second to none. I wait with baited breath for your next piece👍
Very nice work!
Also very nice voice! I'm afraid I found this because of ASMR.
I'm glad you found it, however that was! :)
Remarkable Dave. Congratulations on your exhibition. I grew up in Yarraville and remember the Sun theatre when it was abandoned and the Olympic doughnuts were a favourite. Ah the nostalgia 🍿🍩I hope to go to your next exhibition when the lock down laws are relaxed.
I’m just tickled! What a great bunch of buildings to have built and shown. I think have been smacked with inspiration. I have these photos I’ve taken of what I call “small shelters” and I’ve never been able to find the right project to sort of pull the whole idea together. But building them as you have so masterfully done is likely the answer. Besides the work you did, I appreciate the buildings you selected. So interesting. I have a question. Where the devil do you stow/display all your finished models, buildings, etc.?
Brilliant work
Wonderful work.
Looks awesome Dave! Congrats on your exhibition
Dave ! Man they are fabulous and seeing them in a gallery setting is Awesome. Kudos my man well deserved. Cheer's Tassie John PS the Sun Theater Has to be my Fav'
Good to see you back! I think you've really found your forte in this hobby!
It's good to be back after such a long radio silence :)
Dave's Model Workshop say no to Radio Silence!
Spewing I missed it. Great work Dave!
Congrats on your exhibition! Did you get lots of "I hung out there when I was a kid" type stories? I bet you did. Some great building of... buildings there. I think you do some fantastic work. Marvellous achievement, good on ya.
Great vid, thanks for sharing.
I loved all of them. Amazing work man
Thanks Diego!
Beautiful work as usual, and take care, all the best.
This is incredible. Congratulations
Thank you!
Crikey! You're skills are beyond unbelievable. I'd feel accomplished if I built one of those buildings, you've finished 10! Amazing!
Brilliant work, well done man!
Awesome work mate!
Very nice. Great work.
Hey Dave, it's been a while.😁 Great to see you getting a bit of recognition; you deserve it. One thing which stands out with these builds is the "ordinariness" if that's a word. Visitors to the gallery would recognise the buildings, making your artworks relevant to them. Each one is a masterpiece. Were they for sale, or purely on display? Did you sell many? Maybe the gallery will make this an annual event, which gives you twelve months to build another 10 or 12 - get the glue out.😁 Great work sir !!👌
Cheers for now,
Dougie.
Very cool to see this having watched more than a few of the videos you've made walking us through the fabrication of some of the parts. Congrats on the success of the showing - well deserved.
Awesome mate! And well done on the exhibition! Been following you for abit now and been inspired by doing so much from it ! And it all started from your tutorial on ww1 propellor! Iv done loads since even starting up my channel and i think some point ill have to make a building like these! Loveum well done mate!!!
Good on you Dave that’s brilliant Brother well done 👍🏻🇦🇺 wish I new it was on I would of came for a look ;)
As a Macedonian-Canadian with rellos in Melbourne, that café makes me happy, but my favourite is the Sun Theatre. But they're all great, and I admire your attention to detail, especially the realistic weathering. Makes me want to put down my oil paints and get back to modelling and finally get to work on that video storefront I've been planning for over a year...
Great work, Dave!
Great work!
Thank you :)
Fantastic. Been wondering what you were up to. Making ART clearly!
I was wondering where you were! Great work as usual Dave.
Thanks Len, it's good to be back :)
Amazing art dude
Francesco Freni thank you!
Fantastic tour, would love to see it in person!
Damn, Dave... you should have told us upfront about the exhibition (or I missed the announcement). I was in Melbourne 15-18 of march. Had to hurry back to Belgium though because of... well we all know why 😒
Very very nice, works of art. Have you stopped making model kits?
Incredible work! Such an eye for detail and for interesting looking buildings. Congratulations on your exhibit Dave.
They are all so amazing dave! Is there a category in the model show for scratch buildings like this?
I've been contemplating trying to convince the local pubic gallery to show the work of local scale modellers and miniature painters. Do you have any advice on how to approach a gallery manager about that idea? Beside the quality of your work, what do you think sold them on the idea of showing your work? I've never seen a show of miniature art anywhere before.
Cullens Gardens was a place I went when I was a kid here in Ontario canada and it had a entire town set up with houses that were about 1foot high not sure the scale but it was extremely accurate and I loved going there it was a few Acres in size. It's to bad it's not there anymore. Must of took many years to complete.
mohawksniper79 I love places like that. We don’t have any where I am now, but I remember going to some as a kid and they had a little sea battle with model navy boats! Loved it
Wow, if I had a hat, it would be off to you.