The timed auction ends Thursday September 24th at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Darren King
Street, 2018
Acrylic paint on canvas
Height 30 cm x Width 35 cm
Artwork is stretched and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $400
Original mixed-media artwork on stretched canvas.
Created using acrylics and screen-printed water-based ink, the piece features bold, vibrant colour and celebrates a simple street scene. There are no hidden meanings or elaborate narratives — just an honest, energetic image brought to life through colour, texture, and layered detail.
I enjoy elevating everyday scenes, mashing them together with strong colour and overlaid text to build depth and visual interest. Each layer contributes to the richness of the surface, giving the work a sense of movement and presence.
Thanks for checking it out. Cheers, Darren
Artist Bio: Based near Wollongong on the NSW South Coast artist Darren has been honing his skills in collage, printmaking, mixed media and painting for the past 10+ years.
King's work is heavily influenced by pop art and drenched in nostalgia. Creating artwork that celebrates the local, the joyous, the small-scale, the tasty, the abandoned and the ordinary.
Darren’s focus prior to rediscovering his love of painting/printmaking in his 40’s was primarily spent building his printing, graphic design business and family life.
Trained in Fine Arts, cartooning, illustration, graphic design and screen printing, his work attempts to fuse elements from each of these practices.
After recently rediscovering collage, Darren King now creates a selection of paintings entirely made from recycled paper. Discarded magazines, junk mail, maps, paper bags and old books are all harvested for interesting pieces to create original, vibrant, textural artworks.
In recent years Darren King's work has been exhibited and sold throughout Australia and internationally.
Dimensions:
30 cm x 35 cm