JAMIN is an artist / stencil artist / musician. Jamin is a founding member of Die Laughing Collective, since 2004. Jamin lives and works in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Die Laughing Collective have been invited artists at the 2005, 2006 & 2007 Melbourne Stencil Festival (MSF) also Melbourne & Sydney Stencil Festival (2006) and in 2007, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Sale, Ballarat and Newcastle. Die Laughing Collective have also had three major exhibitions: Dissent Disrupt Desert (Hobart) 2004, Die Laughing (Melbourne) 2005, The Rat Palace (Hobart) 2006. Die Laughing were also the invited artists in February 2006 at MAY'S in May Lane, St Peters, Sydney, and were part of the first MAY's Retrospective exhibition. City Lights 2008 Degraves Lane, Melbourne. Street Art. Stencil Art. Jamin's music is diverse and uncommon, reminicent at times of other singer / songwriters such as Nick Drake, Cat Stevens and Leonard Cohen. Jamin plays a variety of guitars, including lap steel (slide), and various other instruments such as the digeridoo, flute, stomp box, keys etc. Jamin is an independent musician. Jamin's poems and writings cover a broad range of universal & humanitarian concerns dealing mainly with a consciousness revolution of humanity through love (in the past this was know as spirituality (ha ha)). He has published via this site one book called The Book of Endless Ends (follow the links). His limited edition demo album of 2003 is called The Weather. Jamin is planning a new release for mid to late 2006. His design work focuses on artist blog sites and designing for individuals who promote good stuff, including designing the brand for swamisz shoes www.swamisz.com. sarvamangalam. Jamin appears on two compilation CD's: "Talloonne" (w. The Mystery) and "Have You Dropped Something" (w. Three Times Green). Jamin also makes electronic music (dub, dreaks, hip hop, trance) under the name Pirates of Bass Straight. edge radio dmusic mp3.com.au naked dwarf JJJ devendra banhart ben harper john butler xavier rudd mason jennings m. ward nick drake bonnie "prince" billy grant lee buffalo robert johnson leonard cohen ween bad religion bright eyes iron & wine the waifs hayden sainthill. benjamin ben.jamin. Jamin's solo exhibitions include, Common Ground, 2006, BUS Gallery Melbourne, A.K.A. opens on the 22nd August, 2005, at Amulet Café (North Hobart) presented by Criterion Gallery. Jamin is supporting Architecture in Helsinki in Hobart on 5th August, 2005. Jamin supported Carus at Sirens Restaurant on 13th August 2005. Jamin supprted Those Bloody McKenna's at the Lewisham Tavern. Jamin is a painter / image maker who lives and works in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Jamin’s practice engages with the production of ‘political’ art in an age of rapidly decreasing tolerance for dissent and critical opinion. Through a hybrid of street and gallery based work, Jamin explores ideas of power, complicity, duplicity, ambivalence, corruption, greed and privilege as being indicative of both personal and collective contemporary experience.

Jamin's next major exhibition is the Devonport Regional Gallery's Solo Commission 2007. First we take Paris, then we take the World. http://www.devonportgallery.com Jamin's solo exhibitions include: Tasmania: Explore the Possibilities (INFLIGHT Gallery, Hobart, 2007), Common Ground (BUS Gallery, Melbourne, 2006), A.K.A. (CRITERION@Amulet, 2005) and Evoluntary (Nourish Cafe, 2004); and he has been involved in numerous group shows including Hatched 06 (PICA, Perth, 2006), Group Action 2 (CRITERION Gallery, 2005) and Melbourne & Sydney Stencil Festival 2006 (Rose St. Artist Markets, 2006). Jamin is a founding member of the Die Laughing Collective with Paicey and Empire who have had several 'solo' exhibitions together including (Dissent Disrupt Desert, Hobart 2004, Die Laughing & Melbourne Stencil Festival, Melbourne 2005, May's, Sydney 2006) as well as numerous group shows, public and private commissions and workshops. Jamin joined the board of INFLIGHT Gallery (Hobart Artist Run Initiative) in July 2005, and the board of Red Wall Gallery in January 2006. Jamin is represented by Criterion Gallery in Hobart. Jamin is a candidate for an MFA at the UTAS School of Art, Hobart, where he completed his BFA in 2004 and BFA with First Class Honours in 2005. Jamin was a working Graphic Pre-Press Designer from 1995-1999 and continues to freelance.