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- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
For many years, creatives from all across Australia have pulled up stumps, waved tearful goodbye to their home towns and headed south (or east) to seek their fortune amongst the streets and lanes of Melbourne. Since way back when, Australians with a creative bent have often looked towards the city as an artistic mecca, one to which
READ MOREAs a Northern Beaches chick, I guess I can understand their “oh” moment when people ask where I take my photos (the majority being Sydney’s Inner West). Catching public transport is actually a really nice way to start and end my treasure hunts. A quick jump on the ferry, short walk to the train station,
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 MOREMinigraff has been all over of late, especially with the Mays Lane Project that took her work from Sydney to Adelaide (check the video on the other weeks Transmissions), and now she has a bunch of work heading to our capital for a show at the Megalo Print Studio and Gallery. If you haven’t heard
READ MOREWoooot yeah, here we go! Your Thursday afternoon viewing all in one getcha goggles watch and learn time. We’re back with this weeks Transmissions, and its been a grand ‘ol week … First up, ABC in Canberra interviewed the amazing E.L.K. – everyone should check this video out, there’s no embed (ABC seems to be
READ MOREAt one of those openings, the ones that seem to consist of my entire social life these days – beer on an empty stomach, still suited up from work and the taste of too many cigarettes in my mouth, a friend and I got to talking about artists who we felt were “on the rise”.
READ MOREWe cant say how excited we were (yeah, we know we get excited a lot these days!) when we saw this drop on E.L.K.s Facebook page yesterday – and we cant wait until his show “Look what you made me do …” opens up at the Brunswick Street Gallery next month. E.L.K. has been doing
READ MOREWell known Canberra stencil artist E.L.K. is having a solo show come March, at Oh Really gallery. “This Is Why We Cant Have Nice Things” will be running with the theme of “exploring sacrifice in the new millennium … maybe.” Checkout this great writeup on E.L.K. on his website, done by Art Monthly Australia –
READ MORESweet, looks like I finally have something in the Canberra category, and what an awesome show for the first one! The National Gallery is no stranger to its understanding and collecting of street and urban art – they got on the bandwagon a long time ago, well before all of this stuff started leaking into
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