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We first saw some of Lisa Kings work back in July when we saw news of her show at Paperhorse Studios, and we vowed to keep an eye on what she’s been up to. The other day she sent us this flyer for her next show – our diligent eyes almost missed it, how’s that for powers of observation!

We’re lucky we saw it though, and those of you in Adelaide are lucky you have it on in your midst – this next show from Lisa will delve into an “exuberant world of playfulness, innocence and escapism through the works of wood sculpted longboards, decks and paintings.”

Sculpted longboards? Decks? Paintings. Yep, that sounds about perfect.

Who: Lisa King
What: Gazing Heroes solo show
Where: Magazine Gallery, Clubhouse Lane (Off Hindley), Adelaide
When: Show opens Friday 25th November from 6pm til late

Check Lisas facebook page and the facebook event page for more info.

Man, Espionage just keeps on bringing it! This time they’re showcasing a bunch of their favourite artists in, yep, an all star lineup!

With artists from both Adelaide and Melbourne featured, this is an eclectic range of some really top notch names – and something that those of you in Adelaide should definitely get down to see whilst its on!

Who: 23rd Key, E.L.K., Alysha Menzel, Michael Carney, Ebony Heidenreich, Emmaline Zanelli, Fletch, Gary Seaman, Hailet Lane, James Dean, Jordan onasson, Peter Fong, Pip Kruger, Sean Thomann
What: Espionage Gallery Allstars Group Show
Where: Espionage Gallery, Suite 1, Level 2, 93 Rundle Mall, Adelaide
When: Show opens Thursday 24th November from 6pm til 9pm, and runs til the 29th November

Check out the Espionage Gallery website, and the facebook event page for more info.

Prolific artist, and the man behind Adelaides amazing Espionage Gallery, Joshua Smith, is having another solo show this Thursday night – and its one for everyone.

Josh is a phenomenally cool stencil artist, up there with the best of them . Often feminine in nature, his work is vibrant and alluring, belying the effort that often goes into the design and cutting processes behind each piece. When we caught up with Joshua in an interview a few months ago, we got the overwhelming impression of a creative, hard working and passionate artist – and this next show looks pretty damn cool.

"Internationally renowned stencil artist and gallery director Joshua
Smith is unveiling his newest solo show, 300, with the premise of making his art affordable for everyone.

As the title suggests, all the pieces in the exhibition will be market at
that price, creating equal opportunity for all to get their hands on a Joshua Smith original. The work Smith does on the streets is for all to enjoy, and instead of making art on canvases to cater only for collectors, he felt it was important to hold an exhibition of work that was affordable for everyone. With his extremely collectible art, and over 104 exhibitions worldwide, Smith is a force to be reckoned with. Furthermore, he recently took out the 2011 King of Canvas aerosol art
prize, in addition to being a 2011 Australian Stencil Art Prize
finalist.

Needless to say, this exhibition is not to be missed."

The last sentence says it all, really!

Who: Joshua Smith
What: 300 solo show
Where: Espionage Gallery, Suite 1, Level 2, 93 Rundle Mall (Entrance off Lindes Lane)
When: Show opens Thursday, November 10th at 6pm and runs for two weeks.

Check out the facebook event page, and the Espionage website for more info.

We last saw him here in Melbourne teamed up with Jack Douglas with Taradiddle, and this time the illustrative genius that is Adam Oehlers has another solo show coming up in Adelaide, this weekend.

Showcasing a whole heap of images from his book, Celeste, Nick and the Magical Tea Party, if you Adam an artist to follow if you have an illustration proclivity, but his work has to be seen in the flesh!

"I’ve got my second show coming up with the good folks at The Greenhills Gallery in Adelaide. The collection is made up of work from my new children’s book ‘Celeste, Nick and the Magical tea party’ and some of my own stories as well."

The show will be on this Sunday – a nice lunchtime launch event, for a great show of amazing drawings.

Who: Adam Oehlers with guest speaker Jim Schoff
What: Celeste solo show
Where: Greenhills Gallery, 140 Barton Tce West, North Adelaide SA
When: Show opens Sunday 30th October, 11:30am and runs til Tuesday 22nd November.

Check out Adam Oehlers website and the facebook event page for more details.

Buckle up all – we’ll be taking a small hiatus next Thursday from our Thursday Transmissions, but, never fear – we’ll have something even better for you; live blogging, photos, video and much more goodness all from the wonderful Cockatoo Island in Sydney.

For today though, check out some of the goodness that is in video land this week …

This new documentary about Melbourne Street Art will be showing at ACMI over the next few weeks. The documentary focuses on one of the pivotal cities amongst the Australian graffiti and street art scenes, and traverses its scene over twenty one years – it looks amazing, and we can’t wait to check it out

This video from Peter Drew and Ronnie Chin that we had sent to us is damn cool – outlaws pasted up across Adelaide …

Sofles and Vans The Omega hit up Boardshop not so long ago, checkit!

Brisbane Heat? No worries!

Ahh… yeah, its been quite this week, we tried! Hope you enjoyed these ones though, and see you in Sydney next week …

Leeloo – an online design store and blog – has put the call out for Aussie artists wishing to showcase their styles for an upcoming exhibition. The show will be held in conjunction with The Finders Keepers December Sydney Market “the bi-annual market which supports independent design, art and music with attendance in the thousands”.

“After the success of last year’s exhibition this year we present another instalment of On The Wall!! The artworks will be displayed at CarriageWorks within the foyer for the duration of the markets and will celebrate our ongoing mission to support independent Australian artists.  Artwork will be for sale during the exhibition and there may be the possibility of selling prints of the artworks.

Submissions will be open from…October 18th 2011, for two weeks, with the closing date being November 1st, 2011 with no exceptions.”

Check out the Submissions Page of the LeeLoo website for all the criteria and contact deets and Good Luck with your entries … stay tuned right here for an article on the exhibition soon!

Who: YOU
What: On The Wall – Exhibition Submissions
Where: onthewall@leeloo.com.au
When: Entries close November 1st

Check out their fine Facebook for more info!

“The rah collective is a small group of artists working together to help forge our own place in the art world. Working almost exclusively on paper, the six artists that currently make up the rah collective all have a strong focus on the creation of their work, either drawing, printing, cutting or folding their work by hand.”

Artists who will be right along side you in the pages of this stylin publication are Qwux, Luke Burcher, Jessica Minervini-Eringa, Kirst Ohh,  Jess Cally, Thom Bransdon and Kara Nissen.

Rah Collective will be taking submissions for their new art book  from anyone who fits the following criteria:

• australian born OR australian based
• student OR emerging artist (that is, within the first 5 years of your creative career)

To get your submission in, simply email: book2@rahcollective.com

By popular demand submissions have been extended to 31st of October 2011, so if you want your art on the book shelf – get working, and get it in soon!

Who: qwux, luke burcher, jessica minervini-eringa, kirst ohh,  jess cally, thom bransdon, kara nissen and YOU
What: Ra Collective Art Book Submissions
Where: book2@rahcollective.com
When: Entry by 31st October 2011

Check out the Rah Collective website for more info.

No matter how busy things get, there’s always time for some video goodness! This week, what a roundup of grandness!

TwoOne, Al Stark and Nails got down and painted at RMIT the other week – and this is a really cool video from the day – its not embeddable, alas – so click through to watch it on the site.

First up, good friend and talented artistic maestro Ed Bechervaise has a feature video up! We loved the show, and we love this mans work.

Makatron has a show coming up real soon, and this is a great video preview for it – lots of footage of Maka in Brazil, Melbourne, Adelaide and Alice Springs.

Mike Maka Art show trailer from Mike Maka on Vimeo.

The guys at Ambush Gallery teamed up with The Galeries to bring Transient – and this great feature interviews all of the artists involved – Beastman, Max Berry, Mark Alsweiler, Phibs, Jumbo and Numskull.

TRANSIENT from aMBUSH Gallery on Vimeo.

Just Another Agency did an awesome job at getting Sniders lane in the Melbourne CBD all painted up by a host of amazing artist.

Adrian Doyle has a show coming up, and this is an ultra cool expose on the man himself as well as his story and a bit of an expose on the infamous Blender studios – must see tv!

We are starting up on our big Outpost Project coverage next week – but for now, if you haven’t seen it yet – this is going to be absolutely amazing. We’ll be there, and you should be too. Watch this video!!

Jianna Lucia and Ollie Lucas teamed up with Steve Lamattina for the Grolsch Grid events, and came up with this hilarious and cool video featuring their art – and a kewpie doll …

Finally, well, I have a show opening up tonight (hence my less that prolific posting on here the past few weeks) – Carl Allison did up this video preview for it – hope you can make it down if you’re in Melbourne.

That’s it for this weeks roundup – if you have videos, send the links to us! Ez.

As we head into the 35th week of our regular Transmissions video coverage, we can’t help but think that things just get better and better every time we do it – this week is a great cross section of cool art, events and videographers … checkit.

The big one this week is Colin Days video recap of the Young & Free show, and the widespread urban painting adventures from earlier this month. If you haven’t watched this one already, its a must see.

Young & Free x 941 Geary x San Francisco from Colin M Day on Vimeo.

Next up, in the same vein – Day has also posted up a piece on Anthony Lister whilst he was over there. Lets hope this is just the first of a bunch of these videos – who knows what will come next …

Lister x Young & Free x 941 Geary from Colin M Day on Vimeo.

FBI Radio hosted the Changing Lanes festival not long ago, and they have all the video to show us how it should be done!

FBI’s Changing lanes festival / ‘Live Wall’ & ‘Movement Stax’ 2011 from Daniel Repeti on Vimeo.

We love Vans The Omega, and so do Redbull – here’s a short video of Vans doing up a wall for them.

Red Bull || Revitalise (Vans the Omega) from Daniel Principe on Vimeo.

Those cool cats over at Acclaim Mag posted up this video earlier, Loius Mitchell and Backwoods curator Alex Mitchell teamed up to do a feature video on visiting Shinganist Toshi Nozuka. Dope.

TOSHIKAZU NOZAKA from Louis Mitchell on Vimeo.

T-World, we love you, and we love that your next issue is coming out soon. We also love that you’ll be putting on the only T-Shirt exhibition that’s been seen in these parts for … hmm, if ever? … at the amazing Outpost Festival thats’ coming up (more on that reeeaalll soon). Rock on – and watch this video, its grand. T-shirts rules.

T-world 7: New York tee-ser from T-world on Vimeo.

.. and saving some of the best for last, Adnate has been absolutely killing it over in Berlin. This is a video of him and Cuke painting .. yep, thats a hot air balloon! Fuck me, so damned cool.

CUKE & ADNATE – Balloon Painting from Jay Decay on Vimeo.

Well, that’s it for this week – if we see any more in the next day or so, as usual we’ll update it – until then, Transmissions will be back next week – and send us your vids if you’ve got ‘em!

“You should expect great things from dudes who hide their identity! (even from each other). Come and enjoy art that is a playful and childlike homage to graffiti, cartoons, comics and pop culture! And art that isn’t!”

Big fans of Josh Smiths Espionage gallery, such good things coming out of Adelaide lately!

A quick one this week, with some of the favourites we’ve seen around the traps, so without further ado, this weeks transmissions …

Six Years Later magazine have a great video interview with Vexta. Awesome artist, awesome mag, awesome video.

SIX YEARS LATER: Vexta Interview from Rachel Goldsworthy on Vimeo.

If you havent seen this gorgeous piece of work already, here it is! A beautiful Labyrinth (25 years old!) inspired piece. A very cool Ironlak production with some amazing artists.

Sirum did a great video showcasing Ironlaks new markers – and another fine production from Carl Allison! Check the pics of the final piece here on Ironlak.

Another gorgeous video of Suki and her rain girl, from Dave MSA.

Suki and the rain girl from Dave MSA on Vimeo.

Over in Dunedin, NZ, Create and Skate was an amazing skateable art installation. Very, very cool.

Create and Skate Dunedin from firstfloor on Vimeo.

ASIIK City is a creative project bridging the urban communities within Melbourne and Jogjakarta, Indonesia – this video profiles LoveHateLove, a street artist, puppeteer and Hip Hop Mc. Rad.

ASIIK City artist profile: LoveHateLove from ILP on Vimeo.

This one has been doing the rounds this week as well, Lister in San Fran for Young & Free! rockin.

A great little video from the fun that was the Mi Casa Su Casa show at No Vacancy!

Mi Casa Su Casa Launch from Andrew Chew on Vimeo.

If you didn’t make it to the opening to Things To Come at Metro last night, you really should – amazing, amazing work. Heres the video preview of some of the artists in the show.

Looking forward to all the goodness that will come in the next week, what with Semi Permanent on this weekend and all!

“ARE YOU AN ASPIRING ARTIST? A roar goes out to all designers, illustrators, photographers, painters and graffiti artists – Tiger Beer invites you to enter Tiger Translate 2011. Tiger Translate competitions are run annually around the world to celebrate the talents of emerging artists.

THE COMPETITION: Entries open from August 8th 2011 through till September 20th 2011. Open to all Australian residents over the age of 18. Submissions are to be entered through Tiger Beer’s Facebook fan page, at www.facebook.com/tigerbeerau and elements for your artwork can be downloaded at www.tigerbeer.com.au

THE PRIZE: Winner notified October 6 before being announced at Sydney’s exclusive VIP Tiger Translate party in November featuring an explosive mix of DJs, live art and street artists. You will fly to Asia in 2012 to collaborate with other Tiger Translate winners from around the globe, beckoning international exposure.

YOUR ARTWORK: Tiger Translates Australian theme in 2011 will showcase the artist’s interpretation of ‘GROWTH.’ Capture what ‘GROWTH’ means to you as an artistic visionary in an A@ size artwork. See the Facebook fan page for more details – www.facebook.com/tigerbeerau”

Calling all aerosol artists! It’s you, and your crew, against the rest of the world! Break out the Ironlak cans and get ya game on, the prize is worth is weight in paint. All your rule and regulations, stipulations and reservations are below -  put this at the top of you list of things to do this year! Werd!

Information regarding the competitions rules and regulations was posted up by Ironlak the other week, and are as are follows.

"Regions:
1. Australia/New Zealand
2. North/ South America
3. UK/Europe
4. Asia.

Entries will be judged on quality of pieces and letter styles, overall theme and composition, background elements, characters and originality. All entries will be judged by The Ironlak Family.

Prizes:
GLOBAL WINNER: 800 cans of Ironlak.

GOLD PRIZE: 500 cans of Ironlak.*
SILVER PRIZE: 240 cans of Ironlak.*
ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD: 48 cans of Ironlak.
*ONE GOLD and ONE SILVER will be awarded for EACH REGION – TOTAL 8 regional prizes)

HOW TO ENTER:

Grab a bunch of Ironlak, get together with some friends (1-5 people) and rock a fresh production wall.
Email a large photograph of your finished production AND photographs of your used cans in front of the wall (compulsory) to: competition@ironlak.com

Pieces must be painted with 100% Ironlak paint
(roll/ buff paint is allowed as a base).
Enter as many times as you like. Be sure to include the names of the artists involved plus the city and country where the wall was painted.

COMPETITION CLOSES 30th NOVEMBER, SO DON’T SLEEP!
Keep a close eye on the blog for regular updates…
To view last year’s winners click here."

This looks like a great competition, and we can’t wait to see all the pics that will be coming out of the competition entrants, and, of course, cheering on all those involved! Game on!

Image: The 2010 WINNER of Category 1 – BEST PRODUCTION in AUSTRALIA/ NEW ZEALAND: RASE, DV8TE and ASKM – Melbourne, Australia.

Who: The general public
What: Ironlak Graffiti Competition
Where: World wide
When: Entries close November 30th 2011

For Further info check out the Ironlak official website.