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- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
As you know, we’re big fans of seeing artists take the plunge and put on their very first show. It can be an often nerve racking experience for someone to finally take that step, but usually it is just the first of many rewarding shows that they will have throughout their lifetime. We were pretty privileged to
READ MOREWhere Secret Walls Melbournes grand final was a battle between two street and urban art heros, tonights SW Sydney grand finale can only be described as the battle of the drawings – as two of Australias finest illustrators, the long time established Ben Brown vs the rising star of Dale Bigeni paint it out to
READ MORELast Thursday night we headed down to Just Another Project Space to check out Kaff-eines first solo show, Boneyard. What can we say? It was everything we had hoped it would be – fanfuckingtastic shit! Check out all the photos below from our man Dave Russell, bringing the goods again! [nggallery id=189 display_type=photocrati-nextgen_pro_masonry]
READ MOREWhen we think of something that has gone wild, or is wild, or exists in a wild state, our thoughts often travel back to those Sunday afternoons in front of David Attenborough, watching the beasts in their kingdoms via for supremacy in the ongoing cyclic battle between “eat or be eaten”. Sometimes, when we wake
READ MOREOur mate Hancock put us on to this one, and we’re glad he did – always great to see a cool show at one of our favourite inner city Galleries, No Vacancy – and what a show! “New links between audience and artist will be created through interpretations of this very concept; Half. The initial
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READ MOREWell, this is a first show that just can’t be missed – you all know her (well, most of you anyways), but who would have thought that such a prominently cool artist as Kaff-eine is only just putting on her first solo show? This is going to be totally cool. “KAFF-EINEs first solo show is
READ MORETrust Backwoods Gallery to put on one of the most interesting group shows, with some of the finest artists, that we’ve seen here in Melbourne for a while. Study Of Hands collects a bunch of artists who have previously shown at the gallery, as well as some who we hope to see showing solos there
READ MOREThe shows over at Just Another Project Space just get better and better – and for their next one, they’ve got a great treat for us with Alex Lehours very first solo show. We’ve been following Alexs work for quite some time, and he’s one of our favourite illustrators/designers/painters at the moment – the mans
READ MOREWhen we think of art that leaves us peering into another world and contemplating the multiverse, there is one artist we invariably think of – Itch. Massively multitalented, and known throughout for his perception challenging, colourful and highly technically adept aerosol work (both solo and as a part of the AWOL crew), Itch is, without
READ MOREThis show has to be one of the most amazing we have seen – Shohei Otomo; master of the ball point pen. His work left us spellbound, as all of those who have seen the show would agree. Thanks to Lesley Kehoe Galleries and Alexander Mitchell from Backwoods for bringing Shohei Otomo to Australia for
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