Art meets fridge with Red Bull Canvas Cooler Project

April 2nd, 2012

It has already decorated Red Bull fridges in London, Toronto and San Fransisco, and now the popular project has made its mark in Sydney.

The project elected 11 of Australia’s best street artists to transform the stainless steel on the fridges into works of art.

Each Red Bull fridge is to belong to one of Sydney’s vogue watering holes and so the artists were asked to work within a specific bar’s theme.

Exhibited last week at The Standard, the ‘low brow’ artists of the Lo Fi Collective presented their work on the Red Bull coolers.

The event was curated by Marty Routledge and featured artists included Beastman, Numskull, Phibs, Roachy, Thomas Jackson, Will Lynes, Esjay, Brent Smith, Well Dressed Vandals, Kerupt and Peque.

If the artists names are anything to go by the work on the fridges could be as unique as it gets.

For those who are interested to see how cool an otherwise ordinary fridge can be, the works of art will be featured in 11 iconic Sydney bars including the Oxford Art Factory, Upstairs Beresford, Bucket List, El Loco and The Standard.

The Canvas Cooler Project – Teaser from Gavin Blyth on Vimeo.

Keri Algar

Having once had to sit on the washing machine to stop it from bouncing into oblivion, Keri is today delighted with the new (smoother running) technologies that make housework easier every day. A self-confessed lazy-bones, Keri seeks out quirky inventions that ease the human workload, such as the robotic vacuum cleaner (wow). And as soon as someone figures out a Jetsons-like self-cleaning house, she will happily lay her pen to rest and retire from appliance journalism. Until then, her pick is a fridge that will tell her smartphone when it's time to pick up more beer on the way home. Magic.