Pioneering old school graff and street artist Petro will be visiting our shores in November, with two exhibitions at both China Heights Gallery in Sydney as well as at Backwoods gallery here in Melbourne (I popped in to the Elph exhibition briefly on Friday night at Backwoods and it was great – loving the shows
READ MOREI made my way down to help out with the opening of Urban Intervention last Friday night at the Yarra Sculpture Gallery, and was pretty impressed by the whole affair (sure, I’m helping volunteer for the festival so maybe I’m a biased, but fuck it, I like what I like). The curating, by Anna Briers
READ MOREI wasn’t able to make it to the opening exhibition the other week at Richmonds new gallery, Paradise Hills, but I’m hoping to make it down for this next group show opening from Reko Rennie, Stabs, Rus Kitchin and Jay Walker. I’ve heard really good things about the gallery itself, and I know the work
READ MOREI have no idea how I missed putting this one up, all I can say is that its been a hugely busy last few weeks and I thought I had already put it up ages ago! Scotlands Elph is will be opening up at the awesome Backwoods Gallery tonight, with a range of works on
READ MORELast night I did the dual mission between Fitzroy and the city to go and check out both the opening of Sweet Streets @ BSG as well as to see my first Secret Wars heat. Neither disappointed, and I got a couple not so crappy shots from both … Sweet Streets @ BSG So much
READ MOREGotta love themed shows, and what better theme than one between shades and saturations deadliest competitors – black &white and colour. This upcoming group show at Collingwoods Off The Kerb Gallery with a showcase a variety of well known and upcoming names in an attempt to add yet another argumentative display of art to the
READ MORETonight sees the much loved Secret Wars series hit Melbourne for round two of the Australian series! This battle style live art event pits some of the best artists from around Australia against each other in a no holds barred artistic smack down. I’ve heard awesome things about this event from both its overseas counterpart,
READ MORESweet Streets keeps building up steam as it continues along its eventful program, and another awesome event of note is the upcoming Urban Intervention exhibition. In partnership with the Yarra Sculpture gallery, Urban Intervention concentrates on “site specific installation, culture jamming, yarn bombing, guerrilla knitting and other public art forms that relate to an engagement,
READ MORELast Friday night was the opening of Sweet Streets, the 2010 Melbourne street art festival. I was there most of the night at the Awards exhibition helping out with the show (as semi-official red-dotter and general run-around-er), and got a glimpse into all the hard work that was done in the background for both the
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