Above: Here Today Gone Tomorrow

Overview

When he moved to Paris, US street artist Above went from the literal to the figurative and started signing his name with an arrow. Having started his career tagging trains in California, he began sticking up pointed wooden mobiles instead. A few years ago, he checked out Latin America's street art, where for a while he worked in paint instead of woodwork. In Europe, he hung his two-sided wooden arrows off edifices across the continent, decorated the Vatican, and put up arrows in every one of Paris' many arrondissements. Thursday night, he'll be putting on his first official Australian show, called Here Today, Gone Tomorrow at the Lo Fi Collective.

The gallery show here in Sydney is pretty brief and unusual. Above travels on a budget and enjoys the social side of his artistic life much more than the financial. Potential buyers of his work have been asked to fill in detailed questionnaires on their lives and loves before he was happy to sell to them, and he's pretty uncomplimentary about what adding money to art does for the artist. Barring any surprise installations, this may be your only chance to get close to his work here for quite a while.