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- April 4, 2011
It’s 2004, Melbourne, and things for the cities vibrant stencil art community are about to change. For many years the stencil was king – so much so that books were written, international websites spawned and a global movement eagerly watched the streets come alive in nooks and crannies with cut and sprayed works of art.
READ MOREFor the past ten years, if you’ve looked at any walls in Melbourne, chances are you have seen some of the work from three artists who were there right at the start of it all – Sync, Ha-Ha and Dlux. Stenciling and painting their way across the city, these guys were all pioneers at a
READ MOREOnce again our mate Dean Sunshine has been out and about through April, traversing Melbourne streeta rt and graffiti looking for whats good and fine – and this weeks selection is damn fine indeed! [nggallery id=370 display_type=photocrati-nextgen_pro_masonry] 1. Alexis Dias – Collingwood 2. Shida – Collingwood 3. Sirum – Brunswick 4. Bailer – Northcote 5.
READ MORELast week Jurassic 5 were in town, and as he does, Charli 2na wanted to ahve a bit of a paint here in the ‘burn – so what did he do? Put on a painting session with a bunch of Mebourne artists over at Rubix in Brunswick! “A celebration of global street art hosted by
READ MOREWell, it’s always a little sad seeing an artist head off from the ‘burn on new adventures, but when its someone like Drewfunk its even more so! Drewfunk has been such a stalwart in the Melbourne art scene for so long that it’ll be hard to imagine not bumping into him all the time at
READ MOREWhenever I hear the words “Be Free” and “exhibition” in the same sentence, I start wondering which exciting location I’m going to be directed to this time. After a string of collaborative shows held from galleries to random abandoned houses around the city, we will finally be able to attend Be Free’s first solo exhibition
READ MOREIn 2012, local artist Wayne Tindall and Invurt began an epic multi-year project to transform a dilapidated laneway in the back streets of Windsor and Chapel St into a thriving mecca of street art on Melbournes south side. After a period of time running the project, dubbed, unofficially, “Aerosol Alley”, the laneway gained the attention
READ MOREEverywhere, thats where you’ll see his work. Phoenix, the street artist, is one of Melbournes most recognisable fixtures – no matter what laneway you have walked down, no matter what corner you peer into, there you’ll see one of his instantly recognisable works – cutouts and paste, collage and glue, entities hidden in the corners
READ MOREVexta has been a busy lady, with a whole bunch of projects in the past few months. One of the ones I found really interesting was her recent collaboration with snowboarder Scotty James for a new Samsung winter Olpympics campaign. Sure, its a little commercial, but that aspect of it all didnt even touch Vextas
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