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- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
Last Friday night was a big one, and I started the night out down at Dark Horse Experiment to check out James Bonnicis latest show – In-Between Spaces. James work has always really impressed me, the man can fkn paint and has an absolute mastery of light! With the show almost completely selling out, it
READ MOREI’ve been enamoured by the work of James Bonnici for quite a while now, his beautifully rendered and contorted blurs of portraiture especially – and this Friday night he’ll be putting on a solo show at Dark Horse Gallery in the Melbourne CBD. “Through portraiture and landscape, my work explores how distortion, blurriness, light and
READ MOREMagda_C is back with another NZ update – this time she’s grabbed a bunch of pics of all the latest work around Auckland, from KRoad (Karangahape Road, but everybody calls it K Road) and the inner city suburbs of Ponsonby and Newmarket. Some great New Zealand street art talent including Component, Cut Collective, Dager, EnforceOne,
READ MOREBlender studios is a constantly evolving melange of talent and ambition, one of the cornerstone hubs of art in the Melbourne CBD and an icon unto itself. In my many visits there (countless, really), I’ve been privileged to meet artists from all walks, styles and creativity. From new artists, to those who are established, there’s
READ MOREI can pinpoint where I met E.L.K. to the exact moment, and I can remember quite clearly, exactly, what was said and what happened. In fact, I wrote about it, so even if my memory had of, by chance, been a little hazy its all there. It was, truth be told, something of a “moment”
READ MOREMelbourne artist Miso has a new show coming up tomorrow night at Hugo Mitchell Gallery in Adelaide. Pushing further into her cut out paper phase, Misos latest work is an absolute delight. Intricate, fragile and beautiful, her new pieces look to be an absolute labour of love and cutting. Some of the details on these
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 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 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 MOREBrisbane artist Sarah Hickey brings her gorgeous, enamouring new solo show ‘Horned Lace Idols’ to Fortitude Valley’s White Canvas Gallery this October. After completing a bachelor degrees in fine arts and education, and subsequently teaching art in Queensland high schools for five years, Sarah Hickey started to produce art again after a long hiatus from
READ MORESafe House studios in Richmond is opening their doors this September, with their first exhibition, of which we are sure there will be many more to come. This wonderful creative collective is comprised of a slew of artists and businesses, who will all be combining various talents that cross the breadth of expression. Having their
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