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- April 4, 2011
Man, another really busy week – cramming, openings, planning and getting things well underway for the year! I wont bore you with what we’re up to, beyond to say to try and keep Thursday April 21st free, as we’ll be having our official launch party (okay, so its a little delayed ha!) that night in
READ MOREMark Whalen, otherwise (or formally?) known as Kill Pixie, is no stranger to Australias urban art scene, having been a mainstay for many a year. As a proclaimed “former” street artist, he has branched out into all different manner of styles as he further explores the geometric themes, that, over time, his work has evolved
READ MOREOh yeah, a Friday Wrap! We know we say this every now and again, but apologies for the lack of a weekly wraps lately – things have been a little crazy in the last two or three weeks. Between work trips, setting up our new workshop & studio space in Prahran, working on a new
READ MOREWe’ve been fans of Rekas work for quite some time now, and have been looking forward to another solo show since we saw his last exhibition, Such Is Life, with the Yok back in 2009, at the Greenwood Gallery. Rekas style is unique, entertaining and emotively appealing – and, having loved all the output that
READ MORELooks like Backwoods gallery is back for 2011, with their first international show featuring US artists and illustrator, Zach Johnsen. “Zach Johnsen is a Portland, Oregon based multidisciplinary artist and designer working in graphite, watercolour, pen & ink, and mixed media on paper. His work is figurative, depicting people and characters in various states of
READ MOREHis work is amongst some of Melbourne’s finest, and definitely a favourite of ours around here – and TwoOne just gets better and better. This time he’s having drinks and a launch of the new artwork that he has done for Wasabi Salon in Collingwood – we saw some of the early preview pics and
READ MORELush is the man. What else can you say? If you’ve seen his work, you either love it, or, if you’re someone without a sense of humour or some kind of sense of churchlike appropriateness, you’ll hate the work from this indomitable Melbourne graffiti artist. Walls, trains, burners, chicks, tits and all the bits in
READ MOREHa, love the flyer for the show coming up for Lush at Backwoods Gallery in Collingwood – it reminds me of an ad for one of those rug places that have been going out of business every weekend for the past ten years. I’m a big fan of Lushs work, its dirtycool – always fun
READ MOREIf you haven’t seen her work around the streets, then you probably don’t live, or haven’t been to Melbourne in the past year or two– or, you don’t pay attention to all the blogs and websites that track down her work when it goes up. She’s been quite prolific in recent times, and her work
READ MOREOnce again its been a busy week in the lead up to the Xmas season – some last shows all over for different galleries, and a whole bunch of different events going on. This week we did a mini review of three shows, the A3 Small Art Show, that opened last week to a packed
READ MOREAfter the Sweet Streets Urban Intervention opening, I dutifully hitched a quick lift over to Backwoods gallery to catch the last ten minutes or so of the opening for Elphs show, Dataloss. Walking in, I noted his illustrative-styled work splashed across the walls, and smaller sections of work placed amongst it. To say cool and
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