Gillie and Marc with Moby 09.08

September 2nd, 2008

Gillie and Marc and their Golden Retriever Moby

Blake Prize Entry 06.08

July 20th, 2008

Here is our Blake Art Prize entry for this year, titled God Dog

God Dog by Gillie and Marc Schattner

Painting Together 06.08

June 23rd, 2008

The first question everyone asks is, do you really paint together? Followed by, so how do you do it? The simple answer is yes, we really do paint together, and how do we do this? Well … were married.

But it wasn’t always like this. Marc and I first met as artists both doing our own thing. Fortunately we really liked each other’s style and respected the work.

We actually got married a week after we met, but that is a different story.

So we always shared the same studio space and over time, collaborating and talking about projects our different styles started to become more and more alike.

We both moved to New York City, in 1995. As contemporary artists that is the center of the universe. It was at the point that we were heavily influenced by Warhol and Pop Art in general. New York is filled with consumerism and unfortunately we got caught up in buying things we didn’t really need but at the same time it was interesting to start painting it. So yes, you can definitely say that we are Pop Artists at heart.

As we continued to paint and had joint exhibitions people had a hard time telling our styles apart. To be honest it is something we didn’t really notice happening. Read the rest of this entry »

Wishful Thinking 06.08

June 17th, 2008

Blue Collar Dog

Our show in Perth at Linton and Kay opens next Thursday 12th. It is called ‘Wishful Thinking’. We exhibit all over Australia and have also showed all over the world, Read the rest of this entry »