Ashley Wood and Robert Duxbury

Name: Ashley Wood and Robert Duxbury
Start: 2025-11-14T08:00:00+11:00
Location: 319 Smith St, Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia

Schedule

Fri, 14 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 am

UTC+11:00

Location

319 Smith St, Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia | Melbourne, VI

Showcase Exhibition
Outré Gallery Fitzroy
14 Nov - 5 Dec 2025
Opening Night
6–8pm on Friday, 14 Nov 2025
319 Smith Street, Fitzroy
Drinks provided by Range Life Wine & Bodriggy Brewing Co.
*** Exhibition presale will be sent out to our mailing list on 10/11/25.
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CRAQUANT LE CALIN by Ashley Wood
Ashley Wood is an award-winning Australian multi-media artist, illustrator, art director, and internationally renown toy designer. Ashley Wood has been pushing the boundaries of comic books and collectible figures for over 30 years. Getting his start at the UK’s infamous serial 2000AD working on the iconic Judge Dredd series, eventually jumping to the Big Two publishers - Marvel and DC Comics doing both cover and interior work. His avant-garde approach caught the eye of Todd McFarlane and Image Comics, which led to his breakout work co-creating and illustrating the Hellspawn series.
In 2008 Wood co-founded 3A, a designer toy company based in Hong Kong, where he designed, art directed, and produced hundreds of original vinyl toys, action figures, fashion dolls, and couture streetwear, in-addition to producing high-end collectible figures for some of the world’s most well known brands. During this era he curated the Venture art exhibitions taking place in Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, and San Diego. Each exhibition blended fine art, pop art, and toys and provided an outlet for established and up-and-coming artists to be seen by new audiences and expose the toy scene to something they’ve never seen before.
In 2019 Ashley Wood founded his own entertainment and collectible brand, Underverse, where he continues his legacy of producing high-end designer figures from his original series. He has also recently returned to Image Comics, creating new comics, republishing past work, and co-curating new independent series by other writers and artists around the world.
In the midst of all of this – Wood still finds the time to produce personal work for himself and for gallery shows across the globe.
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NEUROTICISM by Robert Duxbury
Robert Duxbury is a predominantly self taught artists based in Melbourne Australia. Exploring the elusiveness of the deep and complex emotions that reside within our subconscious. Duxbury puts form to these enigmatic emotions with the use of ambiguous symbolism and brooding colour palettes reflecting the subtleties in feelings and emotions.
Duxbury spent several years living in the Guangdong province of China where he studied traditional Chinese Gongbi and ink wash painting styles. After almost 15 years of exclusively paint street art his experience in china was the turning point that led him to a more traditional studio based practice.