GRAND SCHEME ARTIST SERIES | THE MASTER & THE APPRENTICE
We are proud to launched the latest in our ongoing Artist Series, by releasing two limited edition t-shirt collaborations with Pop-Master, Ron English and the artist he anointed “Rembrandt with a spray can”, Kid Zoom.

Renowned for his subversion of popular culture, through his exploration of brand imagery and advertising, English’s signature style employs a mash-up of high and low cultural touchstones, including comic superhero mythology and totems of art history, to create a visual language of evolution.

Having meet Zoom by chance in Sydney, English took the Australian artist under his mentor ship in the United States. Zoom’s work has developed to cover expressive aerosol based works incorporating highly detailed photo-realism and aggressive installation work. He is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.

Remaining true to the original artwork and the place where both these artists made their name, these limited edition t-shirts were – appropriately – launched on the streets with heavy poster campaign and this video:

Available at all Grand Scheme stockists and online at grandscheme.com.au

Illegal billboards by Ron English for the Obamba campaign.

Kid Zoom at work in his Brooklyn studio.

The first release come in Burgundy, French Navy and Gum colours, get them quickly if you don't want to miss out cause they are already selling out quickly.

Of the work, Strange said:
"Living away from Australia has meant that questions surrounding my own identity and a genuine sense of place have begun to filter through into my art. More broadly, I wanted to come home to create a work reflecting on my origins in the Australian suburbs I felt that I needed to escape when I was younger."

This video documents the results: