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- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
After moving to Melbourne from Perth several years ago, Chris Hancock has had a number of solo shows here, with each one pushing a little further and a little more into his own artistic and psychological exploration. With his next show at Off The Kerb, this journey continues to refine his already formidable talent, as
READ MOREAfter shutting its doors in Franklin street last year, a lot of people were pretty sad to see Blenders run in the CBD come to a close – but there were always plans for a move, and now after having been up and running for a while, they’re about to celebrate their re-opening not only
READ MOREThis is a sad post to write, for many reasons. One of the last bastions for independant art in the Melbourne CBD, Blender Studios, is closing its doors and moving to new digs down in Docklands. For fifteen years, their space at Franklin st supported hundreds of artists from all mediums and materials in their
READ MORECreature Creature (aka Chanel Tang and Ambrose Rehorek) are back, with the dynamic duo putting on their latest solo show “Daggers” later this week! Read on for all the news on these guys rad new work and show … All photos below by the most talented p1xels “Creature Creature’s latest series of work is about bringing inward
READ MOREThis week sees one of Melbournes most prolific and long running street artists put forth his most recent solo exhibition! Junky Projects is known near and far for his repurposed junk sculptures, posted to any surface that will take them – and in this latest show, his tribe of creatures gets together and shows us
READ MOREFor many years Dave Russell has contributed to this site as our primary photographer, and over those years I’ve seen first hand how much his photography has evolved – when the date for 32k, his first solo show, finally rocked around, I knew I was going to see something damn cool. Yet for all of my
READ MOREIt’s 2004, Melbourne, and things for the cities vibrant stencil art community are about to change. For many years the stencil was king – so much so that books were written, international websites spawned and a global movement eagerly watched the streets come alive in nooks and crannies with cut and sprayed works of art.
READ MOREWell, it’s always a little sad seeing an artist head off from the ‘burn on new adventures, but when its someone like Drewfunk its even more so! Drewfunk has been such a stalwart in the Melbourne art scene for so long that it’ll be hard to imagine not bumping into him all the time at
READ MORELast Friday night I headed down to The Silent Army storeroom at Blender studios to check out the latest creative endeavour from Shida – the launch of his book A Call To The Spirits. The book itself is fantastic, I picked up a copy, sat down hung over on a Sunday and read through its
READ MORELast years Blender Xmas party was awesome, and this year was right on par! As is usual with a Blender Xmas party, the artists studios were all set up with artwork for anyone to peruse, and Dark Horse Studio was arrayed with a rich collection of works by the same-said artists. I got down there
READ MOREOh ho ho ho … excuse me, while I get all excited about this one!Once again, the Blender Christmas party has come around, that time of year when all things Franklin St and creative celebrates another massive year of accomplishments by all the artists involved down at one of the cities finest artistic establishment!! “The
READ MOREIn just over a week, I’ll be heading off for more distant shores (more on this later!), but, in the meantime, I’ve decided its high time to do something down at the amazing Blender Lane Artists Market . We’ve got a new shipment of stickers through, some tests of the new shirts we’re about to
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