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The highly developed techniques of airbrushing lines and stencilling were fundamental to Arkley's unique style where the ordinary metamorphoses into the extraordinary, creating deliberately hyperreal images similar to the glossy reproductions of paintings found in books. Although the best-known subject matter of his art is suburbia, seemingly the most boring of themes, for Howard it was an endless source of fascination, and he depicted the sedate homes of Melbourne with a lurid vitality which makes them like a crazy vision of heaven.