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
READ MOREThere are as many different variations in the whole low brow/conceptual realism (honestly, keeping up with terms these days to describe what is essentially just kick ass art seems to require some kind degree in etymological studies) movement, but one of the prominent influences within those variations is the common, every day comic. Much of
READ MOREFloods, cyclones, rain – its all just another week of mayhem across Oz, and if I wasn’t such a cynic I’d be shouting global warming doom from the rooftops (okay, so 2012 is obviously the end of the world via zombie apocalypse, but I’ll hold out on my scepticism til then). The other week saw
READ MOREThis ones a bit late to posting (things have been a bit hectic here the last two weeks) but tonight sees the first show of the year at No Vacancy – and it looks like it’ll just be the first of many amazing shows they have planned for this year. This time up, its the
READ MOREWell, we don’t often post videos, but we’ve decided to cave a little – just because we keep seeing so much cool shit every week thats been filmed and produced. So this new column will work alongside the Friday wraps. This will be our spot to showcase whatever Australian videos have have come out, without
READ MORELooks like Backwoods gallery is back for 2011, with their first international show featuring US artists and illustrator, Zach Johnsen. “Zach Johnsen is a Portland, Oregon based multidisciplinary artist and designer working in graphite, watercolour, pen & ink, and mixed media on paper. His work is figurative, depicting people and characters in various states of
READ MOREAnother of our favourites, Darren Henderson, who we interviewed last year before his impressive display of owl themed solo show, Get Lost Find Something, is a part of a group show opening up at Abbotsford Convent tonight – alongside a bunch of other cool artists, including Nina Knezevic, Kirra Jamison, Nina Ross, Nick Hall and
READ MOREA little late off the mark on this one, but its still going! In the wake of the QLD floods, there have been some amazing stories of communities pulling together to assist and give aid to those who were affected – and it has been particularly cool to see the creative industries get together and
READ MOREMeet Ed Bechervaise: contemporary artist, social commentator, and visual exploiter of the mundane and ordinary. Since 2007, Berchervaise’s work has been pushing creative envelopes from the walls of galleries Australia wide; no longer confined to the backdrop of city streets. Having run for several years under the intriguing moniker “UnwellBunny”, Bechervaise’s latest show “Fast
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