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- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
Correct us if we’re wrong but in our memory, there hasn’t ever quite been a show like this here in Australia – and, as their press release says, possibly even outside of the USA. There have, of course, been solo shows and group shows by many great galleries featuring top calibre artists from both the
READ MOREDedicated to the “documentation of Paper Expressionism”, The Paper Convention are a collective of paper enthusiasts keeping the artistic medias message and practices in full force and full light of the public. Supporting workshops, talks, exhibitions and events, The Paper Convention are presenting a festival-esque series of events that is “Cut.Slice.Fold” – brilliantly titled we
READ MORE‘Page Girls’ is the lovely new exhibition by Kate Macleod, tomorrow at Lamington Drive in Collingwood. Based on her original ‘Michi Girl’ illustrations from previous illustrated books (‘Like I Give a Frock’ and ‘What On Earth Are You Wearing?’, Kate, has brought Chloe Quigley and Daniel Pollock’s fictional weather girl and fashion commentator out of
READ MOREThe Paper Mill are revealing a banquet of delectable pieces of abstract art for you all to feast on in the form of The Kids Are All Right. Opening tonight, you will be able to begin sampling the delights of Emma Beer, Fernando do Campo, Courtney Foote, Minna Gilligan, Miles Hall, Greg Hodge, Dionisia Salas-Hammer,
READ MOREComing this month to the new Colour By Numbers Gallery space in Newtown is the massive group show Paper Thin. We’ve been looking forward to the opening of Colour By Numbers for some time, and now its here! Featured are such international and local fine and street artists as; Ankles, Twoone, Boneface (UK), Lucy Lucy
READ MORESo very often, the inception of love in an individuals life is noted only by inner reflection, and the desire to recognise a continual feeling of passionate warmth emanating from within. For an artist, the beginnings of a life long affair of the heart with their own creativity often takes them by surprise – too
READ MOREAs a name already synonymous with Australian graffiti, Sofles has also begun to cement his reputation within the urban art gallery arena. With his upcoming show “Fragments Of Consciousness”, Melbourne will have a chance to see his work in all of its exhibited glory. “Sofles has had a colourful and at times eventful time in
READ MOREMost reputable artists might tell you [when prompted], that the most critical and underlining feature of “great art”, is in its ability to concisely and effectively convey a message to its viewer, or the wider public. So, when we stumbled across the Paper Mill’s upcoming exhibition “Known/Unknown”, we found ourselves asking: what exactly is so
READ MOREThe other month, the majorly talented Stephen Ives had a show with a whole bunch of cool custom toys, aptly named “TOY” at No Vacancy – amongst the show, were several other two dimensional pieces, that fascinated us. So, upon seeing news this morning that Stephen has been working on a drawing orientated exhibition, 36
READ MOREMichael Koro Galleries new exhibition ‘”Frequency” is a collaboration from Melbourne based artists Ry David Bradley, Stephanie May Eather & David Wakeham. These three artists bring forth some pretty cool illustrative works, whilst pushing the limits in their investigation of digital mediums. Delving into the semi-lost realm of digital print and paper, much first and
READ MOREIn what may be the last show at the current LoFi venue, they couldn’t have chosen a better way to end up the year – this time with Sofles putting out a bunch of work for this end of year show. “Sofles has burst from the anonymity of the graffiti world onto a public stage
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