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- April 4, 2011
With Christmas making its ponderous way towards us (hurry up, annual leave) everyone seems to be getting into the xmas spirit with parties, shows, and, of course, live art. Metro Gallery has had a phenomenal year, with solo shows from Swoon back in January, Michael Peck, D*Face, Stormie Mills, Anthony Lister, and their great Things
READ MOREAs the extraordinary D*FACE show comes down, another show goes up – and just when you thought that Metro Gallery couldn’t possibly continue this run of amazing art on its wall, well. We can’t express how happy we were to see the details of this show arrive in our inbox. We consider Michael Peck to
READ MOREWith a bunch of large scale, confronting armed stencils popping up through the laneways of the ‘burn, Luke Cornish (aka E.L.K.) has been causing quite a storm of interest after his recent relocation from Canberra. Not surprisingly, either, is that the talented stencil artist has been picked up by the cunning eyed crew over at
READ MORE“Anthony Lister’s work references street art, pop art, expressionism and all things “low brow”. His 2011 exhibition at Metro Gallery promises to be a special event – an amalgamation of influences, including graffiti, stenciling, installations, pop art, comic book imagery, cartoons and his recollections of childhood”. Last time Invurt encountered Australian born artist Anthony
READ MORELast month in our Thursday Transmissions we featured a piece from Stormie Mills, and with a career spanning over twenty fives years, a whole slew of out shows across the continent, we were happy to see that he has another show coming up at Metro gallery this week. “Since launching his career as a visual
READ MOREOn the heels of several events, including the Everfresh @ NGV and Rone and TwoOnes upcoming solo show, it looks like the crew at Metro have drafted in some of the talent for a showcase of live art and painting up in Armadale. Featuring Rone (who we interviewed last week), Reka and TwoOne, it should
READ MORETen years in the making, and Metro Gallery is still going strong – and they have a great show coming up next week to celebrate it, in which they will feature their whole stable of artists. Love this gallery, its definitely up there, and this show has such an amazing line up … “Please join
READ MOREIt’s been another fun week of viewing on the web, with a couple of really interesting and cool videos posted up around the traps. First up is the latest Secret Wars video from the first Semi Final of the Melbourne round – this was the battle between Pierre Lloga and Scale, and was a brilliant
READ MOREMost of you are probably familiar with Swoons work, but if you’re not, then you should start looking her up – we’re massive fans of her wood/lino block prints, and the scale of them is both impressive and inspiring for the level of detail that she puts into them. There’s something about block prints that
READ MOREWe covered news of this show way back in July, but thought that as it is opening this week, that we would post about it again – and include some special preview images for you that were kindly provided to us by the guys and girls at Metro Gallery. Since it was announced, Anthony Lister,
READ MOREWoah. I mean, look at the roster of artists in this show – Banksy, Stormie Mills, HA HA, Shep Fairey, Blek Le Rat, D*Face, Swoon, Nick Walker, Hush and Above – all influential and established artists, both local and international, being put up for a show of un-exhibited works. Its been rumoured for some time,
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