Snapshots - Heesco - Mongo Hustle
- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
Well this one kind of snuck up on us but we’re glad we saw it! This Friday New Zealand/Sydney artist Mark Alsweiler will be presenting his next solo show, “Wild Wood” at Collingwoods House Of Bricks. Alsweiler has held a large number of shows in the past, from solo shows at China Heights and Nine
READ MOREEven as the dark and wintered rain descends onto Melbourne, that doesn’t stop the art – and Dean Sunshine caught a hell of a lot of it over May. These are his Top 10 from around the traps during May! [nggallery id=129 display_type=photocrati-nextgen_pro_masonry] 1. Heesco, Prahran 2. Melbourne CBD 3. Avalon, NSW 4. Brunswick st,
READ MOREFriday night before heading over to Tom Civils show Long Story, we stopped in at Egg Gallery to see Ryan McGennisken and Hollie M Kellys show, Sleep & Wake. Cutouts, illustrations, girls, strange dreamlike scenery and elements of the fantastical pervaded both artists works, and though they both have very different illustrative techniques, common elements
READ MOREAfter having interviewed Tom Civil last week, we were really keen to get down and check out his show at House Of Bricks in Collingwood. What we saw sure didn’t disappoint. Street art meets folk art meets new meets old. Somehow, Civil managed to merge the best of all forms with his own aesthetic, creating
READ MORESuper cool creative things coming up this week in Collingwood! Rambler Collective is putting on a show featuring Hollie M Kelley & Ryan McGennisken, two amazingly talented fine artists. We’ve actually already had the pleasure of interviewing them in the past, and each artists style and vision are completely unique, and quite dreamlike in their
READ MOREAfter cruising down to the fantastic Ghostpatrol show last Friday night, we headed over to House Of Bricks to check out the “Magic” group show. As we mentioned earlier, we didn’t really know what to expect – obviously, themes of Magic, but we were pleasantly surprised that there was more than one form of magic
READ MOREMelbourne is in for a treat this week, with the return of Tom Civil with his show “Long Story” at House Of Bricks in Collingwood. Tom Civil is a name known to most of those who follow the Australian street art scene, and his work across the years with social advocacy and his immediately recognisable,
READ MORELast night we did our regular Friday night pilgrimage down to Collingwood to check out a few shows. First up, we saw Ghostpatrols latest solo show at Backwoods Gallery, Cosmic Scale and the Super Future. This was a great show – the work itself was a further refinement of the direction that Ghostpatrol has been
READ MOREBackwoods, as usual, are putting on an awesome new show next week by a super cool and talented Melbourne artist. This time it’s the likes of Ghostpatrol, a guy who was definitely one of Melbourne’s first and most inspiring street artists. Ghostpatrol smashed it at his last exhibition in Backwoods last year, and we can’t
READ MORELast Friday night we headed down to 69 Smith Street Gallery to check out the group show, Weird, OK! This show was a collection of work from an array of young emerging artists, many of whom are just at the beginning of their creative journey. It was a pretty mixed show, to tell the truth.
READ MOREThis Friday brings a collection of up and coming artists, many of them in their final year at uni, in a show that fits their demographic nicely. To use a popular vernacular, (even though we don’t necessarily believe in such labels) all of these artists predominantly fall within the realm of “Generation Z“, and, as
READ MOREAfter checking out Phibs exhibition, Perfectly Imperfect, we sauntered on down to House Of Bricks to see Beastmans show, Natural Progression. Stopping briefly along the way to check out TwoOnes awesome new piece, we arrived to a show in full swing. Colour seems to have been the order of the evening, and Beastmans show had
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