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The Brunswick Street Gallery has, for some time, been a bastion of visual innovation amongst the sidewalk-bustle of Melbournes creative hub, Fitzroy. With numerous exhibitions revolving around both solo and group works, as well as competitions for emerging and established artists, it is no surprise that their next endeavour is helping to foster the expanding interest in gallery displayed urban art. Having begun her position as Assistant Director at the BSG in October of 2009, and as a member of the board for the Melbourne Stencil Festival, curator Tessa Yee has wasted no time in putting together a showcase of works traversing an undeniably complex, and continually evolving style.

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Two of Melbourne’s finest, Ghostpatrol and Miso,  have produced their own map of the cities best known street art – its in a downloadable PDF which lets whoever wants to go around exploring M-towns art to just print it out on a piece of paper, jump on a tram and go …  such a great idea!

You can download the map here and here.

Via Ghost Patrols website

So after having been online for a year, and having only posted articles up from all the archives, I’ve decided its time to start writing new material in this blog, and actually using it for the purpose it was originally intended – to act as a conduit for looking at music and art here in Australia and around the world ..

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Sounds like the girls from over at We Make Stuff Good (who are totally rad), are putting together an event to celebrate the opening of their new online store – these girls have done some very cool stuff recently,  so get down and support them in their endeavours if you can :)

“The girls from We Make Stuff Good have been behind recent street art and cultural events such as Don’t Ban the Can, We Make Stuff Good Street Art and Bar Tours,  Sketch City and street art exhibitions at the We Make Stuff Good Gallery in Berlin.

Who: Rachee Stuff, Krystal Stuff, Cammy Stuff, Verona Stuff, Ania Stuff
What: Gallery Opening Night of ‘My Girls’
Where: Dazzleland Studios 25 Eastment St, Northcote. Tram line 86, stop 31.
When: March 5 2010, 6pm. Works also on display at the ‘Ladies Luv’ Sketch City March 13, 4pm.”

Via We Make Stuff Good

For those in Melbourne and Sydney, coming up real soon is the LTRHDS Exhibition, a celebration of the alphabet by some of the worlds top street artists.

THE EXHIBITION OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET

“Letterheads 2010 brings together twenty-six contemporary artists to each re-envisioned a single letter of the English alphabet, creating a collection that explores the influence of the ubiquitous letterform in all aspects of contemporary art. The lineup of high profile and emerging artist, represent the fields of illustration, cartooning, fine art, graffiti, street art and graphic design from around the globe.”

MELBOURNE EXHIBITION

from 26th February until 26th March at 1000 £ Bend, 361 Little Lonsdale St Melbourne.

OPENING RECEPTION

26th February, 6pm until 10pm

SYDNEY EXHIBITION

from 16th April until 17th May at Red Bull Gallery, Huntly St and Burke Rd Alexandria.

OPENING RECEPTION

16th April, 6pm until 10pm

Included as luminaries of this list are the following artists: 26 ARTISTS, 26 LETTERS - Graeme Base (AUS) Mark Bode (USA) SheOne (UK) Shun Kawakami (JAP) Craig (KR) Costello (USA) Meggs (AUS) Ghost Patrol (AUS) James Reka (AUS) Greg (SP.ONE) Lamarche (USA) Mr Jago (UK) Kami (JAP) Luca Ionescu (AUS) Anthony Lister (USA) Kid Zoom (AUS) Sasu (JAP) Sync (AUS) James (Jagi) Greenaway (AUS) Scott (Bonsai) Neo (AUS) Usugrow & Bene (JAP) TwoOne (AUS) Kano One7two (AUS) Shohei Takasaki (JAP) Phibs (AUS) French (UK) Yusk (BRZ) Puzle (AUS)

Looks to be a pretty awesome exhibition from some mighty talented artists, and there are also a swath of fantastic interviews with the artists over at the LTRHDS blog.

Via the LTRHDS Website

Coming up next week  in Collingwood, Gorker Gallery has the third solo show by Melbourne artist TWO ONE on display.

You can also find more information, pics and graphics by TWO ONE him at his website.

Via Gorker Gallery

The guys from At Large Gallery have another exhibition coming up this Friday the 19th of February in the form of 3rd Degree, A group show of new works by three of Melbourne’s upcoming artists: Sink, Ikin and Mupz.

Opening Reception from 8-10pm, and it will be sponsored by Holgate so get down early for a free brew and what’s sure to be an exciting art collaboration!

At Large is located at 208 High Street in Northcote.

Exhibition Runs Until the 4th March if you can’t make it to the opening,  theres some great shows being put on by this relatively new gallery, so go check it out.