About Popperbox

Popperbox is a collective of Sydney based artists. Its members include -

Matt Huynh

Matt Huynh is a Sydney based comic creator and illustrator. Huynh’s graphic novels span a diverse variety of genres from surrealist fantasy to polemical essays, dramas and autobiography. His comics work has received recognition from Ledger Award for Excellence in Australian Comic Arts and Publishing, the Australian Cartoonist’s Association, ABC and Sydney Morning Herald. His inky, energetic brushwork has appeared on magazines and prints to clothing, accessories, health resources, tattoos, film, performance projections, vinyl toys and dolls. When he’s not at the drawing table, he can be found conducting instructional workshops, public presentations, exhibitions and live art demonstrations.

He’s been known to operate under the pseudonym ‘STiKMAN‘, having taken a bad high-school nickname to heart.

William Loeng

Will was born in Sydney in 1984. He attended the University of NSW – College of Fines Arts, where he majored in graphic and textile design.

He has taken part in collaborative exhibitions including From Here, Sincerely (2007), Extra Cheeese (2007), Copy Cats 2 (2007) and Fields of Conversation (2007). His works have also appeared in shop windows and interiors, magazines, websites, clothing, posters and an upcoming album cover.

Will is currently a graphic designer by day and a freelance illustrator/ artist by night.

Haline Ly

Haline Ly was born in Suresnes, France and migrated to Australia in 1986. She is currently working at Symple Creative, specialising in illustration and graphic design. Her work has been published in Traffic (Rotovision UK 2007), De Fish Magazine (BELGIUM 2007), Collaborative Autobiography (2006), Kleft Magazine (2005) and featured on the online hub We Are The Image Makers and French portal Many Things. Haline was a QANTAS Noise Soya finalist in the pictures category (2005) and her art has been exhibited in Sydney, Berlin and America. Her work will be exhibited as part of matchbox project’s international installation in March 2008 and also in June 2008 at Sydney’s Japan Foundation.

Tak Tran

Tak is 23 years of age and was born in Colchester, England. Having left England early on in his life, however and moving to Sydney’s Western suburbs, he primarily considers himself to be Australian.

He has completed a Bachelor of Software Engineering/Arts in which he received First Class Honours. He has also been a Research Assistant at National ICT Australia for 2 years, where he co-authored several research papers, one of which was accepted in the 2007 International Conference on Software Process.

Currently he is working as an IT programmer in a Sydney based software company, and developing a couple of yet-to-be launched web projects in his spare time.

Some softare applications he has built or is in the process of building include an online e-commerce system, Internet mashups using online APIs from Google and Yahoo, a Facebook application, a virtual self-navigating vehicle and a 3D driving simulator.

His university degree and work captures the spectrum of things he is most passionate about – ranging from human computer interaction and usability design, web development, sociology, culture, history and software development process.

Tina Tran

At the age of 22 and living in south west Sydney, Tina is an abstract artist who works in the traditional boundaries of painting and drawing. Her style is reminiscent of surrealist artists James Gleeson and modernist Georgia O’keeffe.

Tina’s first exhibition occurred in 2003 at the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre where her artwork was included in the Art Express Exhibition. In the same year her work was exhibited at the National Art School after she completed an intensive course in both drawing and painting. Afterwards Tina completed a degree in Business at the University of Technology Sydney from which she graduated in 2006. Recently Tina concluded a short course in drawing which specialised in exploring self portraiture at the College of Fine Arts.

In joining the arts collective Popperbox she is exploring new forms and ideas of art making with her peers which she can incorporate into her own art. She will also be participating in a group exhibition at Global Gallery mid this year.

Kevin Vo

Born in Vietnam, Kevin came to Australia in 1985 as a refugee with his father and older brother.

After studying Graphic Design at the Sydney Institute of Technology, Enmore Design Centre, Kevin has been working in the field of Graphic design and Visual Art.

Kevin has exhibited his works in three major exhibitions for young Vietnamese artists, held at the Casula Powerhouse (Creating Paradise on Earth); Liverpool Region Museum (Vietpop: Emergence) respectively; Casula Powerhouse, Co-Curator (The Fall of Saigon – Collected Fragments of Post 75 Generation).

Kevin is creative partner with Haline running Symple. Coming in June 2008, Symple will have their first solo show of photographs to be exhibited at the Japan Foundation titled, NEOSYDNEY + NEOTOKYO.