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- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
What an absolute cracker of a day down at Blender Studios last Saturday for their inaugural artists market. Positioned along both sides of the lane-way and framed with existing murals by local and international street artists (if you haven’t been to Blender Lane before you need to check out Melbourne Street Art Tours), vendors offered
READ MORESo. Much. Awesome! We’ve been seeing these strips from Kieran Mangan, starring local Melbourne artist (and legend) Ha-Ha for quite some time – bits and pieces here and there, and we’ve loved them. They’re a perfect blend of Ha-Haisms, great art by both Kieran Mangan and Ha-HA, and the wonderfully … non-mainstream theories that the
READ MOREOn a sunny day just after Xmas, the Blender crew and some of the guys that paint with the Revurt project met in Union Lane to have a bit of a paint-up and refresh the street art on the walls. Absolutely mad day, everyone had a ball and the public seemed to really enjoy seeing
READ MORECDH, a Melbourne street artist, recently sat down with well known Melbourne artist and street art advocate Adrian Doyle, to talk about the past, present, and future of street art in Australia … Adrian Doyle is an artist, the director Blender studios, an arts grad student and a former employee of an inner city
READ MOREBack in October, we finally had a chance to get down to one of the Trails drawing sessions. Hosted by Braddock at the infamous Blender Studios, the theme behind Trails is simple – you turn up, take a pen, and draw your heart out alongside others in a mad massive collaborative fun fest. Held
READ MOREAdrian Doyle ’s first solo show in over a year is the boldly yet aptly named “You Are All The Same”. Exhibiting at Darkhorse Experiment in the beginning of November, Doyles art will coincide with other solo shows by Kim Guthrie on the Propaganda Windows and Max Burns in the Blender Studios. Doyle is an
READ MOREBorn in Hamilton, artist Regan Tamanui (aka HA-HA) lives and works in Melbourne, based out of the engimatic and infamous Blender Studios. “Entirely self-taught, Tamanui spearheaded the Melbourne stencil movement in 2002. He is now regarded as Australia’s most prolific and skilled stencil artist to date and is represented in major national museums, private and
READ MOREThis one at Melbourne’s Dark Horse Experiment crept up on us, but what a really great show – with a really intriguing theme! “In 2009 Facebook was ranked the most used social network service in the world with 750 million users. Its success is in no small measure due to the fact that it provides
READ MOREWe would have almost missed this one if we hadn’t just caught it on the Ironlak blog, but we’re glad we didn’t! Looks like the crew at Michael Koro Gallery are putting on a exhibition this Wednesday, in conjunction with Amnesty International. Any fundraising or exposure towards a worthy cause is grand in our books,
READ MOREFor the past few months, Drewfunk has been steadily, and diligently, working away in his studio on a new body of work – an ink centric collection that takes his familiar creatures into new directions, with variations of repetitious, but never repetitive, patterning and forms. With his highly anticipated Black Lingings solo outing opening this
READ MOREAs a purveyor of the weird and wonderful, its always a special thrill when we discover an artist whose work has that particularly skewed edge to it. Personally, I’m completely open to all styles and types of art, darker illustrative work will always have a special place in my heart – and that probably harkens
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