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- April 4, 2011
We get more excited than Rebecca Black [ed –who??] on a Friday whenever we hear of something fresh in the world of stencil art. A relatively new medium of artistic expression, stencils have created a new and significant niche within the urban arts culture, and in our opinion, have paved the way for some of
READ MOREThere is no doubting the strength of New Zealand artists. With such treasures as Ha-Ha, Urban Cake lady, Drab, Stabs, and Snotrag gracing the streets of Melbourne to name but a few! Thankfully for NZ, not all its talent leaves its shores. So to kick off what will be a continuing closer look at the
READ MOREWe have a complete complete fascination with artists working with stencils at the moment, as is obvious by some of our recent interviews. Having spoken to Joshua Smith from Adelaide, Bennett in Sydney (who uses stencilling in his amazing multilayered words) and having spent some time talking to and hanging out with Canberras E.L.K. who
READ MOREThis is what happens when you have so many balls in the air – whilst we were putting together the interview that we did with Kirpy a few minutes ago (yep, that’ll be up today!) we went to link to the actual event information … and, to some dismay (we hate missing stuff!) realised that
READ MOREAt one of those openings, the ones that seem to consist of my entire social life these days – beer on an empty stomach, still suited up from work and the taste of too many cigarettes in my mouth, a friend and I got to talking about artists who we felt were “on the rise”.
READ MOREJoshua Smith is a busy man; between coordinating exhibitions, teaching creative classes, fundraising through art auctions and opening hugely anticipated gallery spaces, he somehow also manages to create artworks with a larger-than-life visual effect. Drawing inspiration from varying cultural aspects of classic film, Japanese culture and well, anything that proves awesome to look at, Joshua
READ MOREFrom her past and present stencil based art, to her work with Ruby & Sage on jewellery, as well as her renditions of characteristic artwork on reclaimed surfaces, Megan Dell is an over flowing glass of creativity. Her work evokes a sense of the urban, yet with deep, reflected and contrasting motifs from more a
READ MOREWe cant say how excited we were (yeah, we know we get excited a lot these days!) when we saw this drop on E.L.K.s Facebook page yesterday – and we cant wait until his show “Look what you made me do …” opens up at the Brunswick Street Gallery next month. E.L.K. has been doing
READ MOREI posted a fairly generic notice about this some time ago, but now that the festival is upon us its time to post again, this time with a little more detail. Sweet Streets is the new incarnation of the Melbourne Stencil Festival, reinvented by a new committee to traverse and cover all aspects of the
READ MORESo I’m playing catch up for most of this week, but I saw this and thought it’d be worthwhile to post for anyone looking at something to do over the weekend. IRENE is an underground arts festival in Brunswick, running for all three days of the long weekend, and will incorporate everything from live painting,
READ MOREWell known and long standing Melbourne artist Vexta has a new solo exhibition this month, opening tonight at Platform. Known in the past for her amazing portraiture incorporating stencil work , her latest exhibition, Extinction in Technicolour, moves into more experimental grounds for the artist – and we have to say, we’re pretty intrigued. “Extinction
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