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This past Friday I attended Kevin Tran's solo exhibition - STROBE - at the China Heights Gallery in Sydney’s Surry Hills. Luckily I managed to get there early and take some happy snaps of his collection on show before the crowds piled in and covered my view!

With free booze and red bull on offer, the tiny gallery was packed early on in the evening with an eclectic mix of individuals enjoying the collection and ‘cause I knew the artist through a friend, I managed to catch Tran on the side for a few minutes of chit chat where he explained the concept of STROBE, acknowledging that it was inspired from “the last year, having fun with friends at festivals, and stuff like that”.

With 15 limited edition prints of each artwork design (7 in total), Tran created beautiful illustrations with mixed medium on cotton rag paper, using vibrant colours that really popped from the black backgrounds. You had to be there to really step up and pay close attention to the detail of each piece the artist put into his work, but all in all it was a great solo show for the twenty-something year old. 

Hit up the gallery to see the rest of the pieces from STROBE including my faves, ‘Magic Karp’, ‘Kaleidoscope’, and the above, ‘Rafiki, Baboon on the Moon’.