in Part 1 I told you I was sharing my visit to the exhibition Rone: Time by Rone at Flinders Street Station upstairs. Here is part 2 and it's time to leanr about Rone himself.
Rone is Tyrone Wright his is street artist in his 40's - He has been painting in the style we know today in Melbourne since 2004 and he has painted all around the world. He has done a number of exhibitions in derelict spaces or spaces about to be torn down.
He paints females exclusively, early days when they were more famous that Rone himself they were know as Jane Doe paintings (and yes I've photographed a lot of them 'in the wild'). His style was unique at the time, maybe not so much anymore (I find Snug similar in it's beauty although with more variety in subjects). Here is what he had to say about this back in 2016
*Rone first became known for his portraits of ‘Jane Doe’ — the unknown, unidentified female — which he began painting in 2004 as a response to a friend who was painting “screaming vampire faces.”
He wanted to do the opposite, a “non-aggressive, non-sexual, beautiful image of an unknown woman”, putting that next to the vampires as a contrast.
“I fell in love with the way it worked on the streets — it would decay or fall away — just the eyes would be left, but still beautiful.
“Nothing lasts forever, it doesn’t matter how beautiful it is*
But back to the exhibition - when we left it we were in the switchboard room... it's time to enter the Bosses office
And then through maybe the more introspective room - the artist's studio, which is dark and gloomy and on each easel is what feel like the working sketches
And from there to the classroom, another profession which was often done by women (and another under appreciated profession)
