Snapshots - Heesco - Mongo Hustle
- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
Friday night before heading over to Tom Civils show Long Story, we stopped in at Egg Gallery to see Ryan McGennisken and Hollie M Kellys show, Sleep & Wake. Cutouts, illustrations, girls, strange dreamlike scenery and elements of the fantastical pervaded both artists works, and though they both have very different illustrative techniques, common elements
READ MOREDue for demolition any day now, this dilapidated Yarraville factory has seen an extraordinary amount of work placed upon its walls. Slicer, Kaff-eine, Lucy Lucy, Deams and Lush are just a very few of the artists who have work in there. Dean Sunshine got down to the factory the other weekend to document as much
READ MOREAt the end of summer, Heesco headed down to Union Lane to paint a tribute piece to the many Tibetan monks whom have self immolated themselves in recent times. We got down to check it all out, and got some behind the scenes shots from the day. The video and his work tells its own
READ MOREThe Invurt crew got down to RTIST Gallery last night to check out New York City Kings, a collection of canvases, sketches, prints and drawings on subway maps from a bunch of old school NYC graffiti pioneers including Ghost, Tracy 168, IZ the Wiz, and members of the The Death Squad, amongst others. With King
READ MOREThe final show we got to last night (there were four in all!) was Rekas exhibition, Primary Suspects, at Backwoods Gallery. As always, loving the vibe at Backwoods, and Rekas show was awesome. We particularly loved how he is broadening his style out and we really loved the painted cans (which were actually portraits of
READ MOREOur man Mick Rafferty, who will be taking over a bunch of our photographic duties, got down to Seasons of Change at Revolver Upstairs last night to check out the work from Sabeth and Frame. Mad show and some grand work from this talented pair! Always good to see such cool art up in Revolver,
READ MORESo you read our interview with Harold Mitchell, you saw it in the Herald Sun, and if you were in Melbourne over the weekend there’s the chance that you stood in line to get a tour to see the massive production that is Project Melbourne Underground. However, If you’re like me, and missed it (gah,
READ MOREIn the second part of our small feature of photos from our Sydney trip the other week, we have a bunch of walls that we saw on our wanderings. We really enjoyed our time up there, celebrated two close friends union and caught up with a bunch of others, briefly met a few new artists
READ MOREWell, as you probably saw from the interview, we got down to the Urban Scrawl exhibition for a quick preview of the show – as we promised, here are the shots that we took of the work! [nggallery id=64 display_type=photocrati-nextgen_pro_masonry]
READ MOREWe were sent these images from two of our favourite Perth artists, Miss Tones and Dibs – who recently finished a commissions piece for Dimattina Coffee in Osbourne Park. It’s a large piece and beautifully executed – we expect big things from both these guys this year, they’ve already hit Woolstores and Miss Tones huge
READ MOREWelcome to 2012 all! We’ve had a pretty restful break – lots of painting and a few ciders here and there and a hell of a lot of relaxing and doing absolutely nothing – just what we needed!! So, catching up on a bit of a backlog, we have a whole heap of snapshots to
READ MOREWell, we’re entering into the last stage of the Top 10s for the year, those for December – following on from these, we’ll be doing a special compilation of each of our Top 10 stars five picks for the year in a big “The Best Of 2011” post – that’ll come close to New Years,
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