After the Sweet Streets Urban Intervention opening, I dutifully hitched a quick lift over to Backwoods gallery to catch the last ten minutes or so of the opening for Elphs show, Dataloss. Walking in, I noted his illustrative-styled work splashed across the walls, and smaller sections of work placed amongst it. To say cool and
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A friend sent this to me last night, and I immediately thought it was a damn cool idea for a charity gig. They’re looking up to 150 people to register to be involved, each will paint a vinyl bear which will then be sold off with the proceeds going towards – it’s Section 8, so
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Speaker TV have a cool event coming up on the 7th of November, with their first War Of The Walls event, hosting a mashup of five artists, of varying styles, battling it out for the judges vote at the Collingwood Underground. “Sketch City is proud to support what will be Melbourne’s ultimate street art battle.
READ MOREKA’a are no strangers to these pages, having just caught up with them last week for an awesome interview. They have also been very active in the streets and throughout the street art community in the past year, so getting a chance to see any of their work in a gallery setting is a real
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Over the past year or so, I’ve been seeing several KA’a pieces popping up across the city and in exhibitions, but it was only after the guys from At Large gallery told me to check out some of the work done by their friends, Kirsty and Mathieu, that I realised that they and KA’a were
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Sweet Streets powers on through its last week of events, and tomorrow night sees another big event event with the opening of the Collingwood Underground, a massive converted underground carpark and one of the major hubs of the festival, to artist and purveyors alike. This interactive event will showcase a massive variety of artists who
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A good friend of mine sent me the info to this today, something a little different but no less cool. This is the annual show put on by the Artful Dodger Studio, which, since 1995 have “aimed to assist young people to access education, employment and training for young people aged 15 – 28 who
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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
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I 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
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I 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
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I 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
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