Kain Picken & Rob McKenzie, A History of Manners 2009
solid granite side table, otto stool and 2 face vase
114 x 50 x 50 cm
Kain Picken & Rob McKenzie - A History of Manners (Identity) 2009
acrylic on canvas
31.0 x 23.0 cm
Kain Picken & Rob McKenzie - A History of Manners (T-Shirts) 2009
acrylic on canvas
31.0 x 23.0 cm
Kain Picken & Rob McKenzie - A History of Manners (Girlfriends) 2009
acrylic on canvas
31.0 x 23.0 cm
A History of Manners 2010
installation view
Uplands, Melbourne
A History of Manners 2010
installation view
Uplands, Melbourne
A History of Manners (1) 2010
hand-woven cotton
220.0 x 156.0 cm
A History of Manners (2) 2010
hand-woven cotton
156.0 x 220.0 cm
Two Friends (Rob McKenzie) 2010
acrylic and pencil on board
30.5 x 40.5 cm
Knvs (Rob McKenzie) 2010
acrylic and pencil on board
30.5 x 40.5 cm
Tact or Tactics (Rob McKenzie) 2010
acrylic and pencil on board
30.5 x 40.5 cm
Omega Workshop (Kain Picken) 2010
oil on canvas
51.0 x 71.0 cm
Blind Man Sees UFO 2008
installation view
uplands gallery melbourne
Espress Yourself (Briony) 2009
table, plinth, quilt, coffee machine
lifesized
Blind Man Sees UFO 2009
installation view
uplands gallery melbourne
Espress Yourself (Jane) 2009
table, plinth, quilt, coffee machine
lifesized
Blind Man Sees UFO 2008
acrylic on canvas
87.0 x 61.0 cm
Blind Man Sees UFO 2008
installation view
uplands gallery melbourne
Blind Man Sees UFO 2008
Kain & Rob
making coffee martinis for the opening
Blind Man Sees UFO 2008
acrylic on canvas
87.0 x 61.0 cm
This Through This 2007
installation view
Uplands Gallery, Melbourne (Prahran)
A History of Manners 2010
invite images
Live Through This 2007
installation view
Uplands Gallery, Melbourne (Prahran)
Live Through This 2007
installation view
Uplands Gallery, Melbourne (Prahran)
Live Through This 2007
installation view
Uplands Gallery, Melbourne (Prahran)
Live Through This 2007
installation view
Uplands Gallery, Melbourne (Prahran)
Biography
KAIN PICKEN
Born Broken Hill, Australia 1980, lives and works Hong Kong
ROB MCKENZIE
Born Melbourne, Australia 1984, lives and works New York
Education
KAIN
- Victorian College of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting)
ROB
- Victorian College of the Arts. Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), 2003
- Northern Metropolitan Institute of TAFE, Diploma of Art (Visual Arts), 2000
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008
- Blind Man Sees UFO, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
2007
- Live Through This, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
2006
- Building Something New, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
- Upping The Anti, Physics Room, Christchurch New Zealand
- Intergrated World capitalism, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2005
- Hatred of Capitalism, TCBart Inc, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
- Revolving Doors: an exhibition in memory of Blair Trethowan, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
2007
- NADA Miami Art Fair, Uplands Gallery Booth E4, Miami USA
- Sub Divide & Concrete, Joint Hassles, Melbourne (curated by James Deutsher and Chris LG Hill)
- Authur Guy Memorial Prize, Bendigo Regional Art Gallery, Bendigo
- Slave, Joint Hassles, Melbourne
2006
- ...It Ain't Necessarily So, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (curated by Kendrah Morgan)
- Going Under, Joint Hassles, Melbourne
- Greetings, Ocular Lab Melbourne
- Dep_art_ment, Auckland, New Zealand (curated by Erica Van Zon)
- Slave, 21st Century Modern, Adelaide Biennale, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (curated by Linda Michael)
2005
- Freedom For Prosperity, David Pestorius Projects, Brisbane
- Slave, Margaret Lawrence Galleries at VCA, Melbourne
- Free Prosperity Now! TCBart inc, Melbourne
2004
- 1+1+1, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney (curated by Janet Burchil)
- Slave 2 Launch, Clubsproject, Melbourne
Bibliography
- Helen Johnson, 'Seeing in Black and White', Whitehotmagazine.com, October 2007
- Kain Picken And Rob McKenzie, 'Car pooling, sex work and the collaboration industry', Machine, issue 2.5, 2007
- Olivia Barret, Gwyn Porter, Lizzy Newman, Live Through This, Uplands Gallery, 2007 (exhibition catalogue)
- Wendy Walker, 'The Kandy-koloured Tangerine Flake: the 25th Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art', Art and Australia, Vol. 44, issue 21, 2006
- Max Delaney, '1-18 Slave', 21st Century Modern, 25th Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
- 'Warning:', Artbash.co.nz, June 19 2006
- Kain Picken, Rob McKenzie and Gwyn Porter, 'A Good Home', Textfield IV, 2006
- Kendra Morgan, It Ain't Necessarily So... Mike Brown and the Imitation Realist, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2006
- Jarrod Rawlins, 'Hatred of Capitalism', Flash Art, December 2005, p110
- Slave, Margaret Lawrence Galleries at VCA, 2004