Snapshots - Heesco - Mongo Hustle
- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
Tanja Jade, aka Misery, should be no stranger to those who are purveyors of all things illustrated, street and graff’d. Based out of New Zealand, she has, with a hell of a lot of diligent work, turned the fantastical world of her imagination into a mini empire of cool. With painting, street art, fashion and
READ MOREMelbourne’s well known and highly regarded street artist, Stabs, has brought the streets some of the coolest and originally distinctive works. After ten years of gettin around, he’s finally letting us into his inner world with some, sure to be, outstanding pieces up at Collingwoods Backwoods Gallery this October, with his solo show ‘Lite Works’.
READ MOREThe São Paulo street art scene is one of the best in the world, and it’s with a huge amount of excitement that we saw Collingwoods Backwoods Gallery has just released the info for Yusk Imai’s solo show. Yusk is a favourite of ours here and we’ve been following him for some time. We loev
READ MOREThis Friday we are hit with Meggs’ new show Inner Demons II, at Collingswoods Backwoods Gallery, which is a continuance of his earlier works involving the “inward exploration of duality” – no better way of putting it, really! The previewed pieces give one goosebumps, and shudders of deeply frightening yet somewhat therapeutic thoughts. This brilliant
READ MOREIn what may be one of the most anticipated solo shows of the past few years, Everfresh studio artist RONE will be displaying a range of work next month in his upcoming solo show, L’Iconnue De La Rue – the title of which, roughly translated to “Unknown Girl Of the Streets” – seems perfectly suited
READ MOREGhostpatrol (who we interviewed last year) has been pretty prolific lately, with his recent show in Adelaide, one coming up here in Melbourne, and then we believe Sydney and Brisbane are also in the works. Some of his work has changed in its direction slightly lately, as he appears to be following his exploration of
READ MOREJapanese artist Jun Inoue is down here visiting, and the artist will be presenting a show of new works at Collingwoods Backwoods Gallery early next month – “The negative space surrounding objects, the objects themselves and resulting delicate dialogue between these elements is the focus on Jun Inoue’s latest body of work. A classical theme
READ MOREWe’ve been fans of Rekas work for quite some time now, and have been looking forward to another solo show since we saw his last exhibition, Such Is Life, with the Yok back in 2009, at the Greenwood Gallery. Rekas style is unique, entertaining and emotively appealing – and, having loved all the output that
READ MORELooks like Backwoods gallery is back for 2011, with their first international show featuring US artists and illustrator, Zach Johnsen. “Zach Johnsen is a Portland, Oregon based multidisciplinary artist and designer working in graphite, watercolour, pen & ink, and mixed media on paper. His work is figurative, depicting people and characters in various states of
READ MOREWell, its been a really, really busy last two weeks for me, and today is my last day before I take a couple of weeks off work and head over to see family and friends in Perth. We’ll be taking a little bit of a hiatus during this time, or at least I will be
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