Sleep is the Cousin of Death Exhibition

Peak Street & Adidas Originals present - “Sleep is the Cousin of Death”

Group Show at Per Square Metre / October 29 – November 9, 2008

 ‘I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death’

- Nas from “NY State of Mind”

Peak Street was basically born out of borderline insomnia. So it was only right that our unofficial motto, stolen straight from Nas’ rhyme book, became the theme for our first exhibition.

We hit up our favourite Australian graf writers, illustrators, designers and other assorted art delinquents, gave them Nas’ lyric to be inspired by and asked them to utilise two old 12 inch vinyl records as their canvas.

Thanks to Adidas Originals we also had 6 pairs of Conchord Hi’s that got freshly customised and hung from the gallery powerlines too.

Fittingly we launched the group show down at Per Square Metre Gallery in Collingwood on Halloween and turned the motherfucker out. Shan manned the decks early on, the beer starting disappearing faster then Puffy’s integrity, blackbooks got smashed, every single one of the 800 free Sharpies got pocketed, our Limited Edition exhibition books exchanged hands and a few heads walked away with a crisp new tee from Scribe Apparel. Oh yeah and the artwork was fucking tight!

Shitloads of artists were in the house and it was good to see so many interstate heads making the trip to the Burn too. Ivens topped off the night by tearing through tracks from his LP “Sounds to Expire Too”, until we were told to turn shit down.

Apart from having Mexi’s kicks racked, the show was all that and a bag of fucking chips. See you at the next one. Don’t sleep.

Respect to Adidas Originals, Sharpies, Scribe Apparel, Per Square Metre, Ivens & Joske Films.

We have a limited number of Exhibition Books left, so if you’re interested then hit us up.