Its been a busy week in terms of exhibition announcements and various bits of news – looks like everyone is doing end of year shows, and its awesome to see so much happening in the lead up to the x(pissup)mas season – the more the better, as far as we’re concerned. So, here’s just a general wrap of whats coming up in the next week, and a few cool things we’ve seen around the blogsphere …

Exhibitions

Melbourne – Dirtfish has a show opening tonight at Artboy Gallery. We had a cool interview with him here.
Melbourne – The A3 Small Art Show opens up on Wednesday 17th at For Walls gallery – there are so many great works in this show, its unbelievable! Its all for charity as well, so check it out.
Sydney – Go Font Ur Self has started its run of shows with its Sydney exhibition as of yesterday – it’ll be in your town soon!
Sydney – Perth artist, talented illustrator and crazy-detailer Alexandra Lekias has a solo show opening at Friends Of Leon next Thursday, the 18th.
Brisbane – Spare Parts opens up tonight at the Brisbane Powerhouse, this show looks fantastic, lots of customised prosthetic limbs on show from some amazing artists!
Brisbane – the amazing Vexta, who we talked to a few months ago, has another solo show opening tonight, the 12th, in New Farm – she’s rad, so check it out.
Perth – Great little group show opening tonight in the form of All Of This Will Be Yours Some Day – go check it out.
Perth – Don’t forget that the Chopping Block is on this weekend, as a part of the Norfolk Lanes festival down in freo – lots of street and urban art goodness both on display and being produced!

Various bits and pieces

– Kami & Sasu have been working on a wall at Melbourne Central this week in the leadup to their exhibition, which should be finished tomorrow according to the guys at Nice Produce

– I’m sure you’ve all heard of it already now, but details were released in the past week or so about the Underbelly Project in NYC – a 100 plus artist project carried out in an old abandoned subway station – incredible news and pics coming out from it. There are also some great writeups about it on Images To Live By and Vandalog. Cant wait to see the doco for this one.

– I’m a little unsure of the details on it, but it looks like the Salvation Army, of all people, an organisation that in the past has actually run support programs for graffiti artists, is now taking Sydneys Westsyde Connection gallery and studios to the High Court in order to have them remove a mural that was done by street artists from the backyard of their gallery. They have a petition up, so you should go and sign it and show your support. All I can say to that is for shame, Salvos, for shame.

– Totally loving this new Bliss n Eso video for their single Addicted – fkn wicked display of animated graff from two of the best, Askew One and Deus – and theres a behind the scenes clip here.

– This Life posted up a cool interview with Nate Gamble, about art, tattooing and graff – big fan of Nates work, and the This Life blog, so go read it.

– I haven’t done a wrap for a little bit, so I didn’t mention this when it was released two weeks ago, but if you’re reading this blog then you have to go and read issue #23 of weAREtheIMAGEmakers – if you love this kinda art then its a must – it’s been a source of inspiration for me for some years now.

– Bridge Stehli rocks, and so does her body-paint Graff on Graffers series – check out part #7 here.
– There’s also some cool pics from last weeks Petro solo show opening at Backwoods up on their site

– There’s also a whole bunch of wicked pics from the opening of the seminal Space Invaders exhibition at the National Gallery in Canberra the other week, over at the Everfresh blog.

That’s it for this week, I think! – hope everyone has a great weekend!

Ez.