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- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
For many years, creatives from all across Australia have pulled up stumps, waved tearful goodbye to their home towns and headed south (or east) to seek their fortune amongst the streets and lanes of Melbourne. Since way back when, Australians with a creative bent have often looked towards the city as an artistic mecca, one to which
READ MOREShida has been a busy man lately. After having lived over in Poland for some time this past year, he’s back in Australia and already doing a bunch of rad shit. In one of his biggest pieces yet, he goes massive in Brisbane with a beautiful aerial piece – gotta love this age of drones when
READ MOREWe spotted this rad show coming up this weekend, from the skillful hand of Knock, who has been visiting Melbourne over this gorgeous summer. Looks like a damn fine place to be this Friday night in Fitz! “The Library Gallery presents ‘Chimera X’ a recent body of works from international visual artist KNOCK. The work
READ MORESince moving down to Melbourne from Sydney, Alexandra Lederman has already made herself at home. Working out of the renowned Juddy Roller studios, she has wasted no time in putting on her first Melbourne solo show down at Collingwoods House Of Bricks. This show, LandEscapes, showcases Alexandras surrealistic abstracted linework, juxtapozed with images of landscape
READ MOREMan, so fkn glad I saw this before it was up and on! Tomorrow night (Wednesday 4th June) Burg, whose work we’ve seen all about the place, will be having a show at The Vic for the month of June! “Burg is an emerging illustrator with a unique sense of visual and conceptual problem solving
READ MORESomething a little bit different, maybe a little bit twisted, but still cool, clean and captivating. Hilton Owen, an amazing artist who has been huge on the Australian scene since his first solo show at 17 years of age, and at 22 has already had many (and we mean MANY) solo shows around the country
READ MOREWell, we love stuff that’s different, that’s probably pretty obvious, and we just saw this show at Kick Gallery, full of some fantastically weird and wonderful flora, from artist Andy Thomas . “Mixed-media artist Andy Thomas presents an extraordinary collection of intricate artworks, inspired by nature.Using a combination of digital technology and water colours, plants
READ MOREClick here for Part #1 of this feature interview with acclaimed Melbourne Artist Michael Peck. Even though not always directly pictured in the products hanging on the walls, the aircraft of World War II are the most obvious objects that are associated with Michael Pecks recent show at Melbournes Metro Gallery, The Landing. “It’s definitely
READ MORELast week we had the absolute pleasure of attending Michael Pecks solo show ‘The Landing’ at Metro Gallery – what we saw, blew us away. Its one thing doing the interview, talking about the artwork and delving into these things like we did with our Feature Interview, it’s another to see it all the flesh
READ MOREArt has the innate and enviable position of being defined by the eye of the viewer – its many permutations and renderings are nothing without an inner sense of self and the modified overlays we place on a painting with our imaginative musings. Many artists chase this ideal within their works, and, for many, it
READ MOREA walk down Hollie Kellie’s memory lane is a beautiful thing; her hand drawn illustrations show moments suspended in time, not yet tainted by that loss of innocence we know as ‘growing up’. Her spirited childhood is the basis for many of her works, often spurred on from old photographs found lying around, which are
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