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- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
It was almost dark by the time I found the number, the only indication of any type of habitation was in the form of a non-decrepit steel door all stickered, tagged and signed with various recognisable marks – names, logos,characters, and, of course, the stylised, almost runic arrangements of TwoOnes familiar font.
READ MOREWell, its been a pretty rough last two or three weeks here – fighting off a massive flu, followed by a super-resistant infection of plague proportions, coupled with some dodgy bastard breaking in to the office at a friends bar and stealing my laptop (privacy be damned, they have him on CCTV, give me a
READ MORENails has a second showing of his work from the SouthSouthWest show currently on at the No Vacancy Project Space in Fed Square. “If you missed my Biolume show at SouthSouthWest here’s a second chance to see it. We aren’t having an opening (maybe a closing though) coz I’m too busy getting ready for the
READ MOREWe’ve all heard rumours of its impending drop, but this weekend saw confirmation that the Everfresh Black Book is well and truly on its way. What’s sure to have been a labour of love for the guys at the studio, the Black Book “provides a rare and exclusive insight into the life of the studio,
READ MORELots going on in the next few weeks, and our updates have been slightly hampered by this damn flu thats going around! Sighted on the horizon come July however, No Vacancy has another great group exhibition on in the form of Wooden Foundations. Bonsai, Oh54, Nails and Twoone will all be putting stuff into this
READ MOREWow, what a weekend for art in Melbourne. Its a testament to both the popularity of the work coming out of here, as well as the hard work of all the artists, that several large events were able to be held on the one night with full crowds and interested fans at each. Some, like
READ MOREThere are a lot of great books on the market these days that deal with Street Art, and the past handful of years has seen upsurge in their popularity, mirroring the ever growing fascination that people have with the artists that participate. From small print runs of artist designed books, such as Dabs Myla’s recent
READ MOREIt seems the year for it. With several book launches already been and gone this year, its no surprise that there are plenty more on the way. Alongside the up coming Everfresh Black Book being released later this year, and the recent publication of Peace of Wall, another important publication is set to hit the
READ MOREWell known for her stencil and street art, Vexta is in a constant state of creative exploration. Whether it is painting her way across various far flung countries, or throughout the streets of Melbourne, her work embodies all the excitement that such exploration entails – and yet her work never seems to step across the
READ MOREIn amongst its pages, Chris Parkinson’s newly published Peace Of Wall presents a view of the nation of East Timor that has seldom been contemplated outside of its boundaries – that of one of its strongest social engineering methods; street art. In honesty, I just binned the editorial introduction for this interview, in which I
READ MOREI still remember, and have never returned, the very first Hype magazine I read. I’d been bumming around Cinema City in Perth with a few crew one Saturday afternoon, when someone surreptitiously pushed a copy into my hands. Strangely enough, it was seeing Australian graffiti from outside of our own little corner for the first
READ MOREWell known and long standing Melbourne artist Vexta has a new solo exhibition this month, opening tonight at Platform. Known in the past for her amazing portraiture incorporating stencil work , her latest exhibition, Extinction in Technicolour, moves into more experimental grounds for the artist – and we have to say, we’re pretty intrigued. “Extinction
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