Snapshots - Heesco & Pierre Lloga @ Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange
- Art, Melbourne, Photographs, Street Art
- November 13, 2011
There have been plenty of great videos released this week, so without further ado here’s our weekly roundup of videos released across the web. Probably the funniest thing we’ve seen all month – Lush has released his new philanthropy website, Toy Vision. Check out the video, and head over to sponsor a toy today –
READ MOREWith a relatively swift trajectory, Hush has fast become a significant figure amongst the new, avant-garde class of artists whose techniques are derived from a blending of street, design and traditional elements. The vast majority of Hushs work is infused with swirling, seemingly chaotic urban mark making. His style conveys a remarkable unity of modern
READ MOREIt’s almost here, people! We’ve been to every one of the Seasons Of Change exhibitions thus far, and we have to say, the series is a total winner. Taking various graff orientated artists and displaying them for a single night at the infamous Revolver nightclub, well, it’s a stroke of genius. With The Royal Deviates
READ MORELast year we did an interview with Laura Chong, one of the two masterminds behind a cool and fresh new magazine, Six Years Later. At the time, they’d just been celebrating the release of issue #1 of the mag and they’d just done a call outs for submissions of artwork for their second issue, this
READ MOREFriday night before heading over to Tom Civils show Long Story, we stopped in at Egg Gallery to see Ryan McGennisken and Hollie M Kellys show, Sleep & Wake. Cutouts, illustrations, girls, strange dreamlike scenery and elements of the fantastical pervaded both artists works, and though they both have very different illustrative techniques, common elements
READ MOREChina Heights has another great show opening this Friday night, with a solo show from artist and illustrator Adam James Turnbull. Turnbull has over the years worked with a range of different projects and designed for a large variety of clients. Recently returned from a residency in Akmul, Mexico, Turnbull has produced a body of
READ MOREAfter having interviewed Tom Civil last week, we were really keen to get down and check out his show at House Of Bricks in Collingwood. What we saw sure didn’t disappoint. Street art meets folk art meets new meets old. Somehow, Civil managed to merge the best of all forms with his own aesthetic, creating
READ MOREDue for demolition any day now, this dilapidated Yarraville factory has seen an extraordinary amount of work placed upon its walls. Slicer, Kaff-eine, Lucy Lucy, Deams and Lush are just a very few of the artists who have work in there. Dean Sunshine got down to the factory the other weekend to document as much
READ MOREWhat can we say about Adelaide right now? Its booming. There are galleries opening up all over, awesome shows, pieces being painted up and a whole slew of artists beginning to pummel the rest of the country to attention with their work. One of these artists who are making their mark is Donovan Christie, who
READ MOREWe didn’t put up a Transmissions last week, because, well, there was bugger all! In future if there’s not much on that week, we have a great idea we’ll be putting into practice … just so you get your fix! For this week, without further ado. (Image via Sam Evans) First up is an awesome
READ MORERemembering back some years, I recall when I first became aware of Tom Civils work. I’d heard about a screening on TV of a new documentary, Rash, all about the emergence of a whole bunch of new street artists in Melbourne,. I was eager to check out what was happening over here (at the time
READ MOREIts that time everyone! After last years amazing competition down here in Melbourne, Secret Walls (previously Wars) is back, and the line up looks god damned grand with artists such as Rad, Hancock, Reliable, Jack Douglas, Eleven, Katie Houghton-Ward, Jessica Singh and Steve Cross preparing for the show down! This is the fourth in the
READ MORE