Originating from Adelaide, Sync relocated to Melbourne in 2002 partaking in the raise of Melbourne as a globally recognized city for street art.
Syncs unique vision and style has since become synonymous with Australian street art throughout the world. As Sync patrols the boarders of infamy and fame with his prolific attack of the streets, his iconic characters The Spektapods, visions of life from deep space who inspire his work via inter-dimensional transmission, mostly inhabit the tight knit alleyways of Melbourne city but have been sighted in strong numbers as far as Tokyo and New York.
Sync’s artwork is based on the Letter P. Check Syncs website for more.
How loose would you say your style is? All of those stringy lines look quite meticulously ordered…. Do you map out each piece like an architect or does it all just intuitively flow through you?
I’d say my style is loose like Brain Ticket. Its a never ending spiral
of confusion versus clarity. Being a Gemini offers me the pleasure of
being torn between two worlds, one being perfection, symmetry and parallel whilst the other is total chaos……quite possibly i am
insane and somehow manage to function within society without getting in too much strife.
Those “stringy” lines are meticulously ordered in a
sense but nothing is ever as it seems in this world. There is no doubt that it flows through me intuitively, i never sketch my work and allot of the time i work in felt tip pen straight to the paper or just line up my work on the wall in one hit.
I never made a conscious decision to start drawing like that, it just happened through constant experimutation and wanting to get work onto a page, canvass or wall as fast as possible. I dont have a huge amount of patients when it comes to producing artwork.
That mostly stems from doing graff and wanting my work up as fast as possible.
Tell us about the Spektapods… Where do they come from and what do they represent? Are they here for a reason?
Well, where do i begin??? They could represent blood sucking corporate entities that literally suck the life out of anything and everything.
You be the judge, i cant give concrete answers. Thier origin doesnt necessarily have to be taken literally in the sense they came from outer space but more like the interstellar reaches of my brain. The brain is like a universe unto itself you know.
Early days of Spektography started with a simple tag and developed into a headless human and a head in a laboratory. Ill be honest though, sometimes things happen too fast for me to digest and i end up having to create a story to support the images.
Thats not difficult but the stories often merge and mutate over the years causing overlapping and contradictions and thats where the origin of the Spektapods can get a bit crazy.
I think its just better almost to make your own way through the maze and create your own story. After all, i dont even know where i came from , let alone where they came from.
You went to art school before taking to the streets. What is true ‘art’ to you? Does it denote a certain level of technical skill or competence, or is art a measure of the struggle that goes into creating a work or expressing an intangible idea?
Been doing graff since I was in primary school, that counts as art on the street to me, tagging is wicked fun, defiantly when I was at art school my views did mutate, that was when I started doing more character based work on and off the streets.
Do you think that Melbourne is still a vibrant arts city despite the implosion of the stencil scene and the recent crackdown on graffiti?
Melbourne will always be a vibrant city. The “implosion” of the stencil scene doesn’t mean the city loses anything. Melbs was a vibrant city even before the stencil explosion.
As for the crack down on graff, that won’t make any difference I think. It takes more than tough laws to keep a street artist down.
