Street artist Rone and his glamorous women

Famous for his sumptuous paintings of glamorous women, in particular an often recurring image of his so-called Jane Doe, street artist Rone’s work attempts to locate the friction point between beauty and decay, the lavish and despoiled, creating an iconic form of urban art with a strongly emotional bent.

Producing many of his early works either through a process of stencilling or screen-printing however, like fellow Everfresh member Meggs, Rone’s movement toward a more freehand style of practice has enabled a certain amount of openness and looseness to seep into his images, a rawness which can perhaps be seen to have enhanced the affective quality they contained.

A key individual in the Melbourne street art scene, Rone’s images have not only appeared all over his city itself but have increasingly began to appear all around the world too, his trademark figures, his heroic, alluring, cinematic icons manifesting themselves in ever larger, more elaborate and emotive forms. Find out more at r-o-n-e.com.

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