After cruising down to the fantastic Ghostpatrol show last Friday night, we headed over to House Of Bricks to check out the “Magic” group show. As we mentioned earlier, we didn’t really know what to expect – obviously, themes of Magic, but we were pleasantly surprised that there was more than one form of magic
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Melbourne is in for a treat this week, with the return of Tom Civil with his show “Long Story” at House Of Bricks in Collingwood. Tom Civil is a name known to most of those who follow the Australian street art scene, and his work across the years with social advocacy and his immediately recognisable,
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Last night we did our regular Friday night pilgrimage down to Collingwood to check out a few shows. First up, we saw Ghostpatrols latest solo show at Backwoods Gallery, Cosmic Scale and the Super Future. This was a great show – the work itself was a further refinement of the direction that Ghostpatrol has been
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Well, we don’t know too much about this event beyond the info we’ve found on the Facebook page – “HOB will explore the world of magic, myth & ritual, from the infinite origins of………….//” It also includes a slightly mysterious quote form Magic Johnson. “My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I
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This is a show that we have been looking forward to for some time now, and now that it is just around the corner, we’re brimming with anticipation. We first saw the work of Hush several years ago, and have enjoyed watching his colourful work evolve, going from strength to strength with every piece we
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Backwoods, as usual, are putting on an awesome new show next week by a super cool and talented Melbourne artist. This time it’s the likes of Ghostpatrol, a guy who was definitely one of Melbourne’s first and most inspiring street artists. Ghostpatrol smashed it at his last exhibition in Backwoods last year, and we can’t
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In late summer, a mutual friend in Perth introduced me to an artist over Facebook who was looking for some heads to paint with – he’d only recently moved to Melbourne, and was pretty keen to meet other artists and to get up (as you do!). I invited him down to a wall we were
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Tonight at Paradise Hills, Katie Parish and J.F. Payne bring their show “Wrap Your Trouble In Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)”, an exciting duo show from two emerging artists with a lot of promise. Amongst the show, the pair will be experimenting with different mediums and materials, exploring new ground and conjuring up a
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Prahran continues to go from strength to strength, shrugging off its gentrification stigmas with galleries, shows and art popping up all over the place. One of our favourite galleries, ArtBoy, continues to bring new an cool art to the area, and this next show from Tim Shepheard looks to be another fine addition to what
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Not a whole heap on the video release front this week, but what there is is golden and good. So without too much preamble from me, here’s this weeks run down. Acclaim and Carbon Festival put out their video recap this week, great to see the whole thing in slap shots – so much happened!
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Starting today and running for a couple of weeks, Pimp My Sneaker looks pretty fine. Chadstone Shopping Centre has done this kind of “urban art” promo/event thing before, dabbling in street art and such in its promotions, but this one has to be the best we have seen yet. With over twenty customised sneakers on
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Last Friday night we headed down to 69 Smith Street Gallery to check out the group show, Weird, OK! This show was a collection of work from an array of young emerging artists, many of whom are just at the beginning of their creative journey. It was a pretty mixed show, to tell the truth.
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