Snapshots - Heesco - Mongo Hustle
- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
Last Wednesday night our mate Heesco headed up Sydney way to open his latest show, Liminal, at The Tate. Edinfocus was also there on the night, and we’re glad too, as he had his camera out and captured a whole swag of fantastic photos from the show, which you can check out below! Looks like
READ MOREOur good mate Heesco has a new show coming up, this time at The Tate in Sydney! Its been a while since we saw a solo show from the man, who has been busy over the last year painting across Oz, Mongolia and NYC – and having seen the new direction that the work in
READ MOREOn Wednesday night, the amazing Vans The Omega will be holding an exhibition in Sydney, bringing his unique style and patterned brilliance to the walls of The Tate. Now, we shouldn’t need to introduce you to Vans, if you know your art here in Australia, but in case you haven’t heard of one of the
READ MOREThis week, Melbourne artist Cam Scale hits one of Sydneys coolest galleries, The Tate, for his solo show “Iron Oxied”. Iron Oxied will be a grand exhibition of small works on found objects, with Scale gathering a whole bunch of unique, and ohhh, mildly familiar, metal canvases on which he’s applied his more than sufficient
READ MOREThe whole idea behind Trespassing looks grand. A new series of documentary photography and video that aims to “See what the graffiti artist sees”, Trespassing will be opening up in Sydney tomorrow night at The Tate. As big believers in the documentation of the graffiti and street art cultures, Trespassing is a welcome addition to
READ MOREWe are, obviously, big fans of the work of Askew One. The NZ artist has garnered a global fan base for his work over the years, and is one of the best to come out of the antipodes – and coming up pretty soon, you lucky bastards in Sydney will have a chance to see his
READ MOREOne name that we seen crop up constantly over the years is stencil artist Poncho Army – having been a finalist in many rounds of the Australian Stencil Prize, her work is salubrious and follows a much more illustrative, and less photographic, bent with her cuttings – giving her work a unique character that’s quite
READ MOREAdmittedly, this is the first time we have heard of Skount – for which I am actually slightly dismayed – because his work both in the gallery, as well as out on the streets, is fucking rad. That bastion of brand spanking cool in Sydney, The Tate, will be playing host to this Spanish artist
READ MOREWe do love it when artists visit our shores from afar, and even more so when its an artist like Mr Penfold – someone whose work has both levity, humour and tight linework that really gets us inspired. Abstract art meets comicbook bliss, graffiti meets illustration, Mr Penfolds work is grand as. “Penfold has made
READ MOREAh man, zines! Love ’em! Seeing a whole slew of great artists, some familiar and some we want to find out more about, putting together a bunch of extremely limited edition zines for a one night only show? Damn fine. If you haven’t really gotten into the zine phenomenon, you’re missing out – they are
READ MORESuch a damn shame we couldn’t get to this show, we have heard so many great things about it – and deservedly so, the talent on board for the launch of The Hours was stupendously impressive. Our friend Yzus, however, was lucky enough to attend, and we were lucky enough for her to get a
READ MOREOne of the many things I have loved about graffiti and street art throughout my life has been that sense of discovering something, or someone, new – and not having the slightest fkn clue as to who did it. Though over the years I have had the pleasure of meeting many artists behind the veils
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