Another great show at Backwoods gallery opened last Friday, Slicer’s Organised Chaos. As I was expecting it was an amazing show. It started walking into the alleyway at backwoods wondering what Slicer had done on the infamous alley wall. His piece was exquisite! Beautiful lines, fat, thin and smudged – all so different but all
READ MOREAfter success making it as a finalist (and the 1st ever stencil artist to enter) in the 2012 Archibald prize E.L.K’s (aka Luke Cornish) latest entry into the 2013 Sulman Prize “Trickle down effect” has seen him become a finalist again (and again Luke is the 1st stencil artist). The finalists and winner for the
READ MOREI was having a cigarette outside a gallery opening some years back when I spotted my first Will Coles piece. No, it wasn’t in the gallery itself – it was stuck up high on a bit of guttering, glued in place – I’d only noticed it as I’d been half drunkenly staring up into space.
READ MOREOh hell yes! Slicer is having a solo exhibition at Backwoods this Friday night from 6-9. I’ve LOVED Slicer’s work for many years now. His work truly is organised chaos, so a very apt show title! Can’t wait to see what he’s painted for the show! From the Backwoods press release: “A fierce new collection
READ MOREI mean, seriously, Gent. How the world contrived so that I was on the other side of the globe when this exhibition was on, I will never know – but since coming over to Melbourne from the UK, Gents work has been high on my radar of cool shit and this show looks like it
READ MORESome of you may remember back in January that we posted a big assed painting session in Windsor that we helped to produce – at the time, I’d jokingly said that as the laneway didn’t have any official name, that it should be called “Aerosol Alley” … well, I guess its no longer a joke,
READ MOREWe had news last week that one of Indonesia’s top street artists, Darbotz, will be heading down to Melbourne to have a solo show later this month. We’ve seen a bit of Darbotz work before, but we’re even more excited after having followed up on it all, and got a bit more info on the
READ MOREAfter the hectic bustle of Kuala Lumpur and an overeating dose of food for Chinese New Year, I headed back to Singapore. My first few days there were, yep, full of eating, and getting back to do some proper exploring was pretty exciting. In all my previous wanderings, I just hadn’t seen any signs of
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