Bill Posters

Bill Posters

This work depicts the mystery of the little known through advertisements for various abstract minimal music conferences ( the sound of now ), 
subliminal messaging jockeying for space on the temporary boarding that surrounds an inner city building site.

Textured and weathered paint application on 120cm x 80cm x 4cm cradled plywood panel.

The artist’s appreciation and love of graphic design and package design from the 1920’s right through to the 1970’s (pre computer age) can be seen as an influence in this work.

This work is finished in a hard wearing gloss acrylic and signed on the reverse side.
Comes wired, and ready to hang.

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Originally schooled in Sign writing and later Scenic Art, in 2010 I began exploring and developing techniques in the treatments of typography by means of ( for example ) painting , sanding, masking and the overlaying of type and letter shapes. 

The original concept of my work was inspired by various weathered sign written signs I had seen mostly high up on the sides of buildings in Melbourne's CBD and also on walls of it's surrounding inner suburbs.

It was around this time that I started developing more of an interest in vintage graphic design, package design and vintage typography, and whilst my explorations into letter treatment for the most part remained the same, the focus of my work broadened as I began to consider layout and design, spacial awareness and colour (and it's tones )

By implementing these new concepts and coupling them with my ongoing explorations into typography, I was able to lay the foundations of the style of work that would follow and which continues to be a feature of my work today.