GlEN DOWNEY is aN ARTIST, MURALIST, ILLUSTRATOR AND GRAPHIC DESIGNER based in MELBOURNE
and He hopes you’re DOING well.
Glen is an artist, muralist, illustrator and graphic designer working out of The Arts Hole studio in Melbourne’s south east.
He has shown artwork in exhibitions around Australia and the world and has produced five solo exhibitions of his own work that have exhibited in Melbourne and in Brisbane and here online.
As a commercial artist he has worked on major campaigns for Coca Cola, Sony, Codemasters and Activision and has worked on murals, apparel and campaigns with Asahi, Red Bull, Vans, RayBan, NBA Australia, Ardbeg Distillery, IGN, Boiler Room, Splunk, KFC, Fireball Whisky, Better Beer, Pirate Life, Little Creatures, Kathmandu, The City of Melbourne and a range of other local and international businesses and venues.
Glen's practice combines combines a reverence for the natural world with a fairly nihilistic view of the human one. He uses a freeform improvisational approach to composition, often paying homage to popular and historical culture, to synthesise a fantastical view of an apparently absurd world.