Surf, art, music, and free beer & complimentary tickets are the four pillars on which Mambo is built. Over the past 24 years we have worked with many wildly talented artists, Reg Mombassa, Maria Kozic, Paul McNeil, Beci Orpin, Josh Petherick, Robert Williams (US), Trevor Jackson (UK) and Rockin’ Jelly Bean (Japan), putting art onto anything that can be worn, hung, ridden, driven or played.
In 1993 Mambo was invited by the Art Gallery of NSW to share wall space with an international exhibition of surrealist art. The following year we released the first of three books, ‘Art Irritates Life’. This coincided with the launch of a touring exhibition of original Mambo artwork. Mambo has also exhibited in London, Milan, and in Sydney at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Ray Hughes and Monster Children Galleries.
In 1989 Mambo sponsored The Ramones Australian tour. We also sponsored the first Big Day Out in 1992 and helped launch Vibes On A Summers Day. In-house label, Mambo Recordings, has produced 8 CDs including, ‘Show Us Your Hits’ and ‘Great Songs of Sexual Jealousy’.
In 2000 Mambo designed the Australian athletes’ uniforms for the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games. We have also sponsored WCT surfers such as Matt Hoy, Nathan Webster, Luke Stedman and Dayyan Neve, surf and skate events, Australian films, and have given creative and financial support to friends like Greenpeace and The Wayside Chapel, who do what we’d like to be doing if we weren’t so busy doing what we do.
In our spare time we throw televisions out of hotel windows, worship strange gods, square dance in round houses and generally go where few men- or women, have bothered to go before.
Welcome to the world of Mambo.
