Snapshots - Michael Peck 'The Landing' - Metro Gallery
- Art, Melbourne, Painting, Photographs
- November 22, 2011
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
READ MOREWell, 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
READ MOREThis 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
READ MORERone returned from London and Paris not so long ago, and not only did he arrive home after a successful exhibition, but he also managed to paint a whole slew of new pieces along the way. Check out all his pics from the exhibition he did at Zero Cool with Tom French, as well as
READ MORETonight 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
READ MORENot 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!
READ MORELast 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.
READ MOREVandal Spruce is quite well known to Melbourne street art paintspotters, and when we saw that he had a show on, Anonymity, in Collingwood last Friday night, we really just had to check it out. We got down pretty early, just as it opened and before everyone had started to arrive, so we got a
READ MOREFor the last six months or so, we’ve been glued to Shidas flickr account as he’s been voyaging around the world. As he’s travelled, he’s been hitting up, well, pretty much anything and everything – adorning cities with his entities as he goes. May finds Shida in Austria, where he will be opening an exhibition
READ MOREIt’s that time, people! Finally we will be able to get our hands on the next iteration of Curvy Magazine, that annual tome of gorgeous works from a selection of female artists from around the world. If you haven’t read Curvy before, you’re really missing out, its a great litmus of femme artists who are
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