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- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
Down in the heart of Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley lives the Nine Lives Gallery, no better home to host this very special group exhibition of intricate ink illustrations. Next Thursday is the opening night of ‘Three Winter Coats and a Dirty Knife’. Taking its name, and the inspiration for for its works, from Neko Case’s song
READ MOREWe were ecstatic to learn of an incredible opportunity to see, and experience, a body of work created by four extremely talented ex-artists of the iconic, and uber-influential surf brand, MAMBO. “These artists have contributed to Mambo as the highly influential culture maker of the 90s and early 2000s – with their designs filtering down
READ MOREFloods, cyclones, rain – its all just another week of mayhem across Oz, and if I wasn’t such a cynic I’d be shouting global warming doom from the rooftops (okay, so 2012 is obviously the end of the world via zombie apocalypse, but I’ll hold out on my scepticism til then). The other week saw
READ MOREA little late off the mark on this one, but its still going! In the wake of the QLD floods, there have been some amazing stories of communities pulling together to assist and give aid to those who were affected – and it has been particularly cool to see the creative industries get together and
READ MOREWell, its been a really, really busy last two weeks for me, and today is my last day before I take a couple of weeks off work and head over to see family and friends in Perth. We’ll be taking a little bit of a hiatus during this time, or at least I will be
READ MORELooks like Nine Lives are wrapping up the end of the year tonight with a gourmet trove of work, with their end of year group show Standard Service. Nine Lives are moving down the road after this show, setting up a new gallery space – so this will be the last show at their current
READ MOREAs a P-towner, I’ll probably never get used to the schizophrenic Melbourne weather, and its been a rainy week this week here in Melbourne – amongst it though, there have been some cool things going on, and theres even more cool stuff coming up here and elsewhere in Oz – read on for more info
READ MOREAll great things must, alas, come to an end, and so it is that the amazing series that is Go Font Ur Self* will be starting its final run starting this week. Over the last two or so years, Go Font Yourself has been highly instrumental in not only promoting Australian artists, but it has
READ MOREThe folks at Nine Lives Gallery have a showing this Thursday of the second part of Sam Smiths Mad Dogs exhibition. His patterned and semi-chaotically rendered pieces always remind me of large scale etchings and woodcuts, but done with a cool tribal-esque style. It’d be great to be able to get along to see this,
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