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- April 4, 2011
This is a sad post to write, for many reasons. One of the last bastions for independant art in the Melbourne CBD, Blender Studios, is closing its doors and moving to new digs down in Docklands. For fifteen years, their space at Franklin st supported hundreds of artists from all mediums and materials in their
READ MORELast years Blender Xmas party was awesome, and this year was right on par! As is usual with a Blender Xmas party, the artists studios were all set up with artwork for anyone to peruse, and Dark Horse Studio was arrayed with a rich collection of works by the same-said artists. I got down there
READ MOREI was having a cigarette outside a gallery opening some years back when I spotted my first Will Coles piece. No, it wasn’t in the gallery itself – it was stuck up high on a bit of guttering, glued in place – I’d only noticed it as I’d been half drunkenly staring up into space.
READ MOREThis Friday night, a whole bunch of Blender artists will be holding an exhibition at Dark Horse Experiment to show off their latest art. “Confine – Five Melbourne artists mine the possibilities of paint and sculpture through figurative deformations and social awareness. James Bonnici’s distorted figures have been receiving a lot of attention and this
READ MOREWith the behemoth that is Comic-con landing on the shores of Melbourne this weekend, there was no question that we wished to cover the event. One of the most exciting fields of art that is emerging into popular culture these days are comic books; the movie industry is full of comic adaptations, and the iconography,
READ MOREWhen we first heard word that Comic-con was coming down under last year, we were pretty damned excited. After that, we sat her in Melbourne and had to live vicariously off the photos and run downs of the inaugural event over in Adelaide – but now, finally, its Melbournes turn. If you haven’t heard of
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