So Dave Russell and I went and checked out Oz Comic Con last Saturday. What a laugh of a day. Saw some awesome costumes, and some pretty strange ones also! As we are an art focused website, we particularly focused on checking out chall the stalls where artists were drawing live, or creating illustrations and
READ MOREWe posted a preview of this the other day, David Russell got down for a look. What an awesome exhibition!!! Thanks for the shots Dave. [nggallery id=265 display_type=photocrati-nextgen_pro_masonry]
READ MORESometimes when you’re travelling you are just in the right place at the right time – luckily for me thats happened during my visit here to NYC. Amongst that fortune was being able to catch up with The Yok and Sheryo last week in the lead up to their opening, and, of course, being able
READ MOREAmongst my travels over the last few months, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and visiting with a whole bunch of artists. Last week I had the chance to catch up with two favourites, The Yok and Sheryo in their Brooklyn studio as they prepare for their upcoming exhibition “Pipe Dreams” (we posted a whole
READ MOREYou’ve probably just read my interview with Vhils. We were lucky enough to catch him while he was in Sydney. God I wish I was there! Can’t wait to see the works from the show. The show opens tomorrow night at 6, details below. From the media release “Skalitzers Contemporary Art presents Dissolve by acclaimed
READ MOREThe other night I was home reading blogs, when my good friend Thomas Spiteri messaged me… “Dude… Vhils is in Australia!! He’s in Sydney” he said. If he’d been speaking I know he would have been screaming, I could tell he was excited, and shit so was I! I immediately started googling and found out
READ MOREI was having a cigarette outside a gallery opening some years back when I spotted my first Will Coles piece. No, it wasn’t in the gallery itself – it was stuck up high on a bit of guttering, glued in place – I’d only noticed it as I’d been half drunkenly staring up into space.
READ MOREOne man who continues to make us love art on a wall, is Shida. Over the years we’ve been following him, Shidas work has gone from strength to strength, and every new piece he puts up is grander than the last. Just as grand though, is when he puts on an exhibition – and, with
READ MOREWe do love it when artists visit our shores from afar, and even more so when its an artist like Mr Penfold – someone whose work has both levity, humour and tight linework that really gets us inspired. Abstract art meets comicbook bliss, graffiti meets illustration, Mr Penfolds work is grand as. “Penfold has made
READ MORESydney powerhouse Numskull brought the heat for his latest solo show ‘Survival Tactics’ at the Tate last week. The show follows on from a previous exhibition the artist had in Brooklyn NYC earlier this year, as part of a collaboration he did with Brooklyn based streetwear label MNWKA. With one of the best looking shows
READ MOREThis is the one that we’ve been looking forward to for years. After having discovered Roa a few years ago, we have been avidly following his work across the globe. Having had a chance to meet and watch the man paint up at Outpost Festival last year, we had always hoped that he would head
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