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- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
International street artist and painting maestro extraordinaire, ROA, visited Melbourne over the past few weeks, endowing us with a whole bunch of amazing works both out on the streets, and in the gallery. His solo exhibition at Backwoods, Carrion, was a confronting experience – which was a big part of its brilliance. Having seen work
READ MOREIt’s a day of photos here, and what better way to end up the week than with a catchup on everything that has been happening over the past two weeks? Mike Makatron, what can we say? The man is fkn talented, and his show proved to be everything we had thought it would be. Infused with beautiful
READ MORESydney powerhouse Numskull brought the heat for his latest solo show ‘Survival Tactics’ at the Tate last week. The show follows on from a previous exhibition the artist had in Brooklyn NYC earlier this year, as part of a collaboration he did with Brooklyn based streetwear label MNWKA. With one of the best looking shows
READ MOREFollowing on from the successful first exhibition, ‘Don’t Grow Old It’s a Trap’, the people behind the Fuck You / I Am project showcase a photographic journey entitled ‘The Future Just Happened.’ A display of works from Sydney-based photographer Sam Stephenson, explore the subculture of DIY tattoos, via raw black and white imagery. The confronting
READ MORELast Wednesday night we made out way over to Metro Gallery to check out the latest exhibition from E.L.K., Not With It. This has to have been possibly one of the best shows of stencil art that we have ever seen – the mans technical skill is amazing, and we absolutely loved the combination of
READ MORELast night we headed down to the newly minted “Litre Space” off Franklin st for the solo show from Dangerfork/ID/Safehouse stalwart, Chris Drummond. Firstly – we fucking love Litre Space. It’s perfect. Where some galleries go for wide encompassing spaces, Litre has played to its strength – its a mad space, in miniature. Seriously. I
READ MORELast week saw the opening of Stormie Mills latest solo show, People & Places, at Melbournes Metro Gallery. As to be expected, Stormie brought his “A game”, with a delectable array of his stylised, emotive characters spread across the walls of the gallery. Something else we loved, was the “cityscape” piece that heralded the show
READ MORESuch a damn shame we couldn’t get to this show, we have heard so many great things about it – and deservedly so, the talent on board for the launch of The Hours was stupendously impressive. Our friend Yzus, however, was lucky enough to attend, and we were lucky enough for her to get a
READ MOREWe have been following TwoOne for quite a while now, and, for good reason, he is one of our favourite artists practicing here in Australia. Since interviewing him two years ago, his work has just gone from strength to strength, and his next show finds him harkening back to his own personal influences in the
READ MOREMelbourne graff artist Gramizm has been putting great letters and assorted colourful shit up on the walls for some time now – we’ve seen it, and we fkn love it. The mans tumblr really says it all, so check out the images over there. We’re really enjoying this run of show at Nicecat from a
READ MOREOh we’re late with these, we know – we’re about a week or two behind on practically everything right now! But, you know, its not about how fast it all gets up, you can just be sure that we will get up everything we can – eventually! haha. We absolutely loved Taylors show, Base Nature,
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