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- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
Lush is the man. What else can you say? If you’ve seen his work, you either love it, or, if you’re someone without a sense of humour or some kind of sense of churchlike appropriateness, you’ll hate the work from this indomitable Melbourne graffiti artist. Walls, trains, burners, chicks, tits and all the bits in
READ MOREHa, love the flyer for the show coming up for Lush at Backwoods Gallery in Collingwood – it reminds me of an ad for one of those rug places that have been going out of business every weekend for the past ten years. I’m a big fan of Lushs work, its dirtycool – always fun
READ MOREOnce again its been a busy week in the lead up to the Xmas season – some last shows all over for different galleries, and a whole bunch of different events going on. This week we did a mini review of three shows, the A3 Small Art Show, that opened last week to a packed
READ MOREIts been a busy week in terms of exhibition announcements and various bits of news – looks like everyone is doing end of year shows, and its awesome to see so much happening in the lead up to the x(pissup)mas season – the more the better, as far as we’re concerned. So, here’s just a
READ MOREWell, I’ve had a nice and I think well deserved four day break from both work as well as the blog, but its now Wednesday and I’m looking at the backlog of stuff thats even gone up around the place in even that short amount of time so I best get back to to …
READ MOREAfter the Sweet Streets Urban Intervention opening, I dutifully hitched a quick lift over to Backwoods gallery to catch the last ten minutes or so of the opening for Elphs show, Dataloss. Walking in, I noted his illustrative-styled work splashed across the walls, and smaller sections of work placed amongst it. To say cool and
READ MOREPioneering old school graff and street artist Petro will be visiting our shores in November, with two exhibitions at both China Heights Gallery in Sydney as well as at Backwoods gallery here in Melbourne (I popped in to the Elph exhibition briefly on Friday night at Backwoods and it was great – loving the shows
READ MOREI have no idea how I missed putting this one up, all I can say is that its been a hugely busy last few weeks and I thought I had already put it up ages ago! Scotlands Elph is will be opening up at the awesome Backwoods Gallery tonight, with a range of works on
READ MOREYou’ve seen the announcements all over already, and if you haven’t, then I guess you’re not as much of a artnews junky as me – either that or you’ve been in a coma, (either/either) but this week sees one of the most amazing “lo fi sexy” photographers in the world right now – Yasumasa “Yone”
READ MOREFollowing on from their successful opening with the Meggs sole exibition, Backwoods have something new and cool up their sleeves with the opening of Josh Robenstones latest solo exhibition – urban photography at its finest. “NY/LA and other American Adventures’ is a retrospective journey and a portrait of contemporary American society, telling a story that
READ MOREWell, its been a pretty rough last two or three weeks here – fighting off a massive flu, followed by a super-resistant infection of plague proportions, coupled with some dodgy bastard breaking in to the office at a friends bar and stealing my laptop (privacy be damned, they have him on CCTV, give me a
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