Interview - Adam Oehlers
- Art, International, Interviews & Editorial, Melbourne
- June 15, 2011
Meet 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
READ MOREAs a purveyor of the weird and wonderful, its always a special thrill when we discover an artist whose work has that particularly skewed edge to it. Personally, I’m completely open to all styles and types of art, darker illustrative work will always have a special place in my heart – and that probably harkens
READ MOREWell, its been a good three or so weeks off, but its back at it as of today – I’ve dusted off my laptop, thrown the stacks of accumulated beer and rekorderlig in the recycle bin and mournfully made my way to work … We’ve got a bunch of stuff coming up in the next
READ MOREWell, its been a really, really busy last two weeks for me, and today is my last day before I take a couple of weeks off work and head over to see family and friends in Perth. We’ll be taking a little bit of a hiatus during this time, or at least I will be
READ MORELush is the man. What else can you say? If you’ve seen his work, you either love it, or, if you’re someone without a sense of humour or some kind of sense of churchlike appropriateness, you’ll hate the work from this indomitable Melbourne graffiti artist. Walls, trains, burners, chicks, tits and all the bits in
READ MOREAs a P-towner, I’ll probably never get used to the schizophrenic Melbourne weather, and its been a rainy week this week here in Melbourne – amongst it though, there have been some cool things going on, and theres even more cool stuff coming up here and elsewhere in Oz – read on for more info
READ MOREIn my totally hung over state and after a busy afternoon (I may have possibly had one too many the night before whilst watching my friends band the Freak Technique), I headed down on the tram on Sunday evening to check out the inaugural Melbourne Tiger Translate event. So I decided to put a few
READ MOREIf you haven’t seen her work around the streets, then you probably don’t live, or haven’t been to Melbourne in the past year or two– or, you don’t pay attention to all the blogs and websites that track down her work when it goes up. She’s been quite prolific in recent times, and her work
READ MOREMeet Jumbo and Zap – two super powered artists from the urban realm of inner Sydney. Both have spent years gratifying our streetscapes with colour and mystery, witnessing first hand the progressive explosion of urban art and its mainstream cultural by-product. Their upcoming collaborative project at Lo-FI, Planetarium, offers a sneak peek into two very
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