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- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
After the Sweet Streets Urban Intervention opening, I dutifully hitched a quick lift over to Backwoods gallery to catch the last ten minutes or so of the opening for Elphs show, Dataloss. Walking in, I noted his illustrative-styled work splashed across the walls, and smaller sections of work placed amongst it. To say cool and
READ MOREKA’a are no strangers to these pages, having just caught up with them last week for an awesome interview. They have also been very active in the streets and throughout the street art community in the past year, so getting a chance to see any of their work in a gallery setting is a real
READ MORESweet Streets powers on through its last week of events, and tomorrow night sees another big event event with the opening of the Collingwood Underground, a massive converted underground carpark and one of the major hubs of the festival, to artist and purveyors alike. This interactive event will showcase a massive variety of artists who
READ MORELast night I did the dual mission between Fitzroy and the city to go and check out both the opening of Sweet Streets @ BSG as well as to see my first Secret Wars heat. Neither disappointed, and I got a couple not so crappy shots from both … Sweet Streets @ BSG So much
READ MORETonight sees the much loved Secret Wars series hit Melbourne for round two of the Australian series! This battle style live art event pits some of the best artists from around Australia against each other in a no holds barred artistic smack down. I’ve heard awesome things about this event from both its overseas counterpart,
READ MORELast Friday night was the opening of Sweet Streets, the 2010 Melbourne street art festival. I was there most of the night at the Awards exhibition helping out with the show (as semi-official red-dotter and general run-around-er), and got a glimpse into all the hard work that was done in the background for both the
READ MOREInternational battle for artistic kudos hits Melbourne next week, with the very first heat in the second Australian Secret Wars series. This event has a world wide following, and there have been some amazing battles carried out over the series so far across several continents, and this one will be no exception. First up off
READ MOREBusy Friday this week with the opening of the Sweet Street festival, and several other exhibitions – not least including a solo show from Melbourne’s Aramas at the Brunswick Street Gallery. “Evanidus is a collection of paintings and sculptures looking at the vanishing of some the important things in our life; the passing away of
READ MOREI posted a fairly generic notice about this some time ago, but now that the festival is upon us its time to post again, this time with a little more detail. Sweet Streets is the new incarnation of the Melbourne Stencil Festival, reinvented by a new committee to traverse and cover all aspects of the
READ MOREFollowing on from last years showing of paintings in his great “Revenge of the Teddybugs” show, Jason Howe returns to Melbourne and the At Large gallery for yet another show, this time one laden with drawings, sketches and experimental animations. “Returning from Sydney, fine artist Jason Howe conducts his 2nd solo show at At Large
READ MOREOkay, so the word dynamo comes to mind when I think of Twoone, and now I’m just going to apply it to Thomas Jackson as well. Only a two or three weeks after their last duo show, they are hitting back again with yet another one – again at the Lo Fi Collective space. This
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