I love waking up to the news that one of my personal favourites is doing a Melbourne show, and when that artist is Shida, I’m doubly excited. I actually spotted several yesterday on my travels, one that I hadn’t seen before, cant help but love seeing it around the place.

Keen to check this one out is a massive understatement – the colours he uses, and his illustrative yet loosely dynamic line work is amazing. Its his first solo show here in Melbourne after a few really successful shows both here in Oz and overseas – just all very fkn cool.

“Shida is one of Brisbanes street art heavyweights and a regular presence on the walls of Melbourne for some years, honing a distinctive and beautiful aesthetic across a wide range of mediums.

Alongside his prolific street practise Shida has been well received by both Australian and European galleries, and has rapidly garnered respect from his peers and attention in the scene as an artist to be watched. Shida’s futuristic mystics inhabit a mythic distant universe and traverse elaborate multiple dimensions, with swirling colours buried deep within layers of resin.

There is a beguiling magic to Shida’s work which envelopes one in his fantastic world. Fresh from success in his 2009 solo exhibition ‘Fate’s Fantasy’ at Vienna’s Inoperable gallery, the ‘Stroke 2.0’ urban art fair in Munich, and sell out Brisbane shows, Until Never is proud to present Shida’s first Melbourne solo exhibition, Crystals of the Colossus.”

Who: Shida
What: Crystals of the Colossus solo show
Where: Until Never gallery, 2nd floor, 3-5 Hosier Lane (stairs just around the corner from Movida), Melbourne
When: Show opens 17th FEbruary, 6pm til 8pm, and runs until 26th February

Check out more of Shidas work at his website or his flickr page.