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- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
Croft alley saw a complete re-do last week, celebrating Ironlak’s 10th anniversary, with a stellar line up of some of Australia’s best graffers. We were down there on most of the days, checking out the work as it went up. Artist’s such as Dvate, Sofles, Vans the Omega, WANE, Phibs, Dem 189, Sirum and many
READ MORENot a whole heap on the video release front this week, but what there is is golden and good. So without too much preamble from me, here’s this weeks run down. Acclaim and Carbon Festival put out their video recap this week, great to see the whole thing in slap shots – so much happened!
READ MOREIt’s always great to see the NGV studio space’s walls covered in amazing art, and Chaz Bojorquezs show, LA Hand Styles, featured wonderfully on them. We sauntered between this show and Jasper Wongs throughout last Saturday evening, and we were totally spoilt for imagery. We actually managed to sit down and have a really great
READ MORELast Saturday, after the first of the Carbon forums, we headed down to the twin-header shows from Jasper Wong and Chaz Bojorquez. It was great to be able to see Jaspers work here in Melbourne. After having interviewed him the other week, we weren’t too sure what to expect (given a missing suitcase debacle) but
READ MORELast Saturday we headed down to the Cullen Hotel in Prahran as part of the Art Series open house, the first event in the Carbon Festival. We gave a couple of tours to the public of all the street art throughout the hotel, including pieces by Blek Le Rat, D*Face and Swoon. Also on the
READ MORELooking through his work, Jasper Wong is a seriously talented guy. His illustrations are amazingly quirky, clever and unique, and with a heavy dose of asian-influenced pop culture. Jasper has a hugeeee portfolio of work, with involvement with people and themes such as Star Wars, Nike and Hypebeast, to name but a few … wow!
READ MORELast year, the team behind Carbon Festival bought out the legendary Futura to visit, and this year, they’ve kept the bar just as high by featuring the godfather of all that is cholo art, Chaz Bojorquez. Whether you know it or not, but you’ve seen this mans work – or, you’ve seen the many many
READ MOREHot on the heels of our previous article on the Cullen Open House day, here’s the full run down on events at this years Carbon Festival – got your tickets yet? We were are Carbon last year (check here for last years wrap up of the event) and we have no hesitation in saying that
READ MOREAs you’re all probably aware, Carbon Festival 2012 is fast approaching, so we’re kicking off our coverage of the event this week – we’ll hopefully be bringing you some interviews, lots of pics and all the info you’ll need to check it all out over the next few days. First up, however, Art Series Hotel
READ MORE“Anthony Lister’s work references street art, pop art, expressionism and all things “low brow”. His 2011 exhibition at Metro Gallery promises to be a special event – an amalgamation of influences, including graffiti, stenciling, installations, pop art, comic book imagery, cartoons and his recollections of childhood”. Last time Invurt encountered Australian born artist Anthony
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