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Snapshots – Blue Bar – Melbourne
Last weekend the WSW crew (Heesco, Pierre Lloga, Jack Douglas, Rad11, Facter) along with Irkle hit up the iconic Blue Bar on Chapel street to give it a fresh lick of paint as part of the ReVurt project. Great day, great tunes, good beer and some great work by all the artists involved – as [...]
Exhibition – SK8 – Katie Houghton-Ward – Melbourne
Artist and comic book creator extraordinaire Katie Houghton-Ward will be having her first show of the year, SK8, a collection of customised skateboards. The show will be held at Tetris studio, which has been making waves since opening up last year in the music and arts scene. "You are cordially invited to the opening of [...]
Thursday Transmissions – Marvel, Faces & Berry
We’ve had a quiet start to the year with the Transmissions column, we skipped last week as there weren’t very many videos released. However, it feels like we’re back into it and we have a bunch of video for you this week, so without further ado … DrewFunk, Mysterious Al and Heesco did a live [...]
Live Art – Free Tibet – Heesco – Union Lane – Melbourne
Over the last few weeks the laneway at Union Lane has been painted up by the Blender crew and a bunch of their friends, but this weekend brings something a little different. Aiming to bring attention to the current political situation in Tibet, Heesco will be painting a large, politically themed piece right on the [...]
Interview – Niels “Shoe” Meulman
Artist Niels "Shoe" Meulman (NSM) has pursued many different variations of creativity throughout his life; graffiti artist, calligrapher, advertiser and gallery owner – yet it may be now, brush in hand, that he has truly found his niche. Growing up in the Netherlands, Shoe picked up a spray can at the dawn of the graffiti [...]
Exhibitions – Mark Bodé – Melbourne & Sydney
Cobalt 60. Lizards. Cheech. If those names don’t ring a bell, then you sure as shit need to go and do your research, and do it now. "For two generations Mark and his father Vaughn Bode have forged an artistic legacy that has had a profound effect on graffiti, street art and underground comics. In [...]
Interview – Melbourne Underground – Harold Mitchell
CDH, a Melbourne street artist, recently sat down for a chat on behalf of Invurt with Harold Mitchell, philanthropist, business man, Melbournian of the year, and the man behind the highly anticipated and acclaimed Melbourne Underground project … Harold Mitchell is one of Australia’s most successful businessmen. He is a dedicated philanthropist, serves on many [...]
Exhibition – Love The Robots – Brisbane
Slightly off centre, yet still completely curious to those of us here who seek out new frontiers in art, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to let you all know about this coming show up in Brisbane (Plus, if you’ve been following us for a while, you’ll know how much we fkn love robots!) Having [...]
Snapshots – Underway Is The Only Way
Last week we got some photos from Jianna Lucia, who along with Maria Finna curated and organised the Underway Is The Only Way group exhibition at the Surf’n’ink exhibition on the Gold Coast. The show itself went down really well and it was busy throughout the convention. Here’s a great selection of pics from the [...]
Exhibition – Ryan McGennisken – Morwell
When we interviewed him last year, Ryan McGennisken had mentioned that he was working on a solo show – and now the time has come around! We’ve been enamoured of Ryans playful illustrations for a while now, and his work has been popping up for the past few yearsin group shows across Melbourne with some [...]
Studio Visit – Cocoa Jackson Studio – Melbourne
Not too long ago we took ourselves out to Cocoa Jackson Studios to have a bit of a look around, visit Junky Projects and to see first hand what him and his crew have been up to in the past few months with their new studio space. Somehow we hadn’t quite been able to get [...]
Exhibition – Climate Change – Melbourne
Metro Gallery will be back in action later this month with their first group exhibition for the year. With an all star cast of some of their artists presenting a wide range of art based on a topic that usually never fails to get everyone all riled up – climate change. "A creative response to [...]
Exhibition – Steve Cross – Melbourne
The last time we caught some of Steve Cross work was at last years Twitching group show, alongside Ken Taylor, Bec Winnel and Alex Louisa. Come Monday, this Melbourne artist, who is also well known for his work through Korpus tattoo (and some of those mad Bliss n Eso album covers, amongst many other things), [...]
Snapshots – Urban Scrawl
Well, 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!
Exhibition – My 2 Cent$ – Rena Littleson – Melbourne
When we interviewed Rena Littleson last last year, we had a feeling that whatever she came up with next was going to be as crazily cool as her previous projects, and My 2 Cent$ doesn’t disappoint! "You may remember a time when I was the 9 to 5 Arti$t $idekick to Mr Devil himself. [...]
Exhibition – 50/50 – Brisbane
We do love ourselves a good fundraising show, yet when it comes with a list of 50 artists, and fifty pieces of artworks, with some of Australias best on board – that especially gets us on the cheer-it-on bandwagon. "50/50 is a fundraiser exhibition bringing together emerging mid-career and developing artists. These artists donate their [...]
Interview – Urban Scrawl
I’m in my own zone as I make my way down to Melbourne City Library; I’ve just changed out of some abhorred work clothes and am entering the building, camera in hand, kind of wondering where the hell I am (an exhibition, in a library? huh?) when Kaff calls out my name. "Hey Fletch?" I [...]
Exhibition – Caitlin Rigby – Melbourne
"This Path We’re On" will be the first solo show from artist Caitlin Rigby in over five years, and we just couldn’t be happier to see it come up! "I will be exhibiting a range of my paintings from 2009, 2010 and 2011, some works have never been exhibited before." For us, having only seen [...]
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