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- April 4, 2011
Do you guys remember when the word LOV3 appeared overnight on top of the silos in Collingwood last year? I still have no idea how Bode Klein managed to paint those perfect letters at that height! Well he is now back in Melbourne for a while and he’s got an exhibition opening up at House
READ MOREAdmittedly, this is the first time we have heard of Skount – for which I am actually slightly dismayed – because his work both in the gallery, as well as out on the streets, is fucking rad. That bastion of brand spanking cool in Sydney, The Tate, will be playing host to this Spanish artist
READ MOREThe other night I was home reading blogs, when my good friend Thomas Spiteri messaged me… “Dude… Vhils is in Australia!! He’s in Sydney” he said. If he’d been speaking I know he would have been screaming, I could tell he was excited, and shit so was I! I immediately started googling and found out
READ MOREWe do love it when artists visit our shores from afar, and even more so when its an artist like Mr Penfold – someone whose work has both levity, humour and tight linework that really gets us inspired. Abstract art meets comicbook bliss, graffiti meets illustration, Mr Penfolds work is grand as. “Penfold has made
READ MOREWay back in 2010, we had the chance to chat to Numskull about what he’d been up to – fast forward to now, and we have to say, this man has been doing some great shit over the past two years. Coming up this week at The Tate, he will be presenting his new solo
READ MORESo, something special for you in the lead up to the weekend – a few preview pictures for you before tomorrow nights massive swath of shows all across Melbourne, the highly anticipated Multiple Reality Disorder from Bryan Itch. This is only a very small slice of some of the fucking magic that we’ve seen shaping
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 MOREIt was a wintery night, but that didn’t stop us from getting down to Backwoods Gallery the other week for Fred Fowlers show, Decorating The Apocalypse! Lots of colourful works, and stuff that make us go “oh hey now!”, but our favourites were definitely the sculptural works – eeiry and cool, and really intriguing pieces.
READ MOREWe’ve been loving the work of James Jirat Patradoon, and we interviewed him last year – at the time, he was loving his black and white, but for this next show, he’s loving the colour. “Bored with heavy black and white linework, James takes a time out and explores his surrealist cyberpunk aesthetic through mediums
READ MOREFriday night we had a brief chance to get down to Backwoods Gallery in order to check out Stephen Ives show, Jet, and to get a few photos of the work. There was no disappointment – the man is a master of transforming every day models and toys into otherworldy, complex pieces that tell unique
READ MOREThis Friday night, a whole bunch of Blender artists will be holding an exhibition at Dark Horse Experiment to show off their latest art. “Confine – Five Melbourne artists mine the possibilities of paint and sculpture through figurative deformations and social awareness. James Bonnici’s distorted figures have been receiving a lot of attention and this
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