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- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
For many years, creatives from all across Australia have pulled up stumps, waved tearful goodbye to their home towns and headed south (or east) to seek their fortune amongst the streets and lanes of Melbourne. Since way back when, Australians with a creative bent have often looked towards the city as an artistic mecca, one to which
READ MOREMiKoniK – The Westside Puzzler As Told To Mario Varricchio Photos by allthoseshapes.com A few years ago, having recently moved to this side of the Maribyrnong, I discovered a large stencilled art work under the Bunbury St rail bridge below the Footscray Community Arts Centre. It was of a little boy looking up at 99
READ MOREWell this one kind of snuck up on us but we’re glad we saw it! This Friday New Zealand/Sydney artist Mark Alsweiler will be presenting his next solo show, “Wild Wood” at Collingwoods House Of Bricks. Alsweiler has held a large number of shows in the past, from solo shows at China Heights and Nine
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 MOREAfter cruising down to the fantastic Ghostpatrol show last Friday night, we headed over to House Of Bricks to check out the “Magic” group show. As we mentioned earlier, we didn’t really know what to expect – obviously, themes of Magic, but we were pleasantly surprised that there was more than one form of magic
READ MOREWell, we don’t know too much about this event beyond the info we’ve found on the Facebook page – “HOB will explore the world of magic, myth & ritual, from the infinite origins of………….//” It also includes a slightly mysterious quote form Magic Johnson. “My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I
READ MOREVandal Spruce is an old favourite of ours, who we havent seen too much from recently – so we were pretty happy this morning when we saw that the ‘Spruce isn’t only back in action, but that there’s also a solo show coming up this week that is sure to be pretty damn interesting. Holographics?
READ MOREMister Lister is back and bogan as ever with the exhibition “Bogan Paradise” – presented by Gallery A.S.in Sydney this Friday. Anthony Lister is an artist that all of us are fond of. Locally born and now living in NYC, Lister is known for his crazy cool art antics (yes we are talking about the abductions!)
READ MOREOver the last few days, D*FACE has been traversing the streets, pasting up and leaving his mark on the ‘burn in the leadup to his show at Metro Gallery tomorrow night. Accordingly, much of it was documented along the way … the team at Bright Things TV caught up with him on Saturday and sent
READ MOREThe impact on the arts of the technological age gets centre stage in November with Melbourne’s first digital festival – ‘Pause’. “Pause Fest is about the new, innovative, interactive, exciting, creative and contemporary. The week-long festival will start with small events, exhibitions, projections, open studios, installations, product launches and interactive projects dispersed through the city
READ MOREAs part of Art Week Auckland, tomorrow Spencer Harrington’s (Random) colourful spectacle exhibition “The Colour of Originality” will be held at Kerr St Art Space at the Foothills of Mount Victoria, Davenport. “…a young urban artist who has exhibited widely in the short time he has devoted himself to being a fulltime artist. He uses
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