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The Bottleshop 2025

Kaleidoscope Editions

Melbourne Art Print Fair

7th - 9th February 2025

Linden New Art Gallery

‘The Bottleshop’ 2025 is new project commissioned for Kaleidoscope Editions and printed by Trent Walter of Negative Press. It is part of Peter Atkins’ ongoing series of “Readymade Abstractions” in which the artist uses aspects of everyday life—for example, signage, billboards and product packaging—as the inspiration for his work, appropriating elements from these sources to create his own distilled, abstract versions. This new series of three prints was inspired by a poster advertising Gin, Vodka and White Rum displayed outside a local bottle shop along Melbourne’s bustling Sydney Road, not far from the artist’s home and studio. Atkins has reimagined the starburst forms on this poster in three colourways to reference specific cocktails, with the large silver form (consistent across all three prints) representing the clear liquid of the three white spirits. The resulting works are titled ‘Gin and Tonic’ (yellow), Vodka and Orange’ (orange) and ‘Rum Martini’(olive). The transparency of the overlaid forms in these striking prints also suggests a sense of movement and fluidity, of liquids being mixed, combining to blend these classic cocktails.

Vodka and Orange 2025

Martini 2025

Gin and Tonic 2025

Silkscreen prints

Edition of 10 (each colour) plus artist proofs

56cm x 76cm

Printed by Negative Press, Melbourne 2024/2025