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
As a Northern Beaches chick, I guess I can understand their “oh” moment when people ask where I take my photos (the majority being Sydney’s Inner West). Catching public transport is actually a really nice way to start and end my treasure hunts. A quick jump on the ferry, short walk to the train station,
You may have heard that along with a heap of other cool ‘heads we are helping to put on an event with the crew at Brunswick’s Cocoa Jackson Studios at the end of March. It’ll be a massively rad weekend! We’ll have the full press release for it out next week, but, in the meantime,
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
Well, it’s been a huge year for us here at Invurt, but its holiday, beers, sun and chill time now so we wanted to wish you all the best for Christmas and New Years on this warm Melbourne day! We wont be completely shutting shop but our regular event updates and Transmissions will be on
“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
Minigraff has been all over of late, especially with the Mays Lane Project that took her work from Sydney to Adelaide (check the video on the other weeks Transmissions), and now she has a bunch of work heading to our capital for a show at the Megalo Print Studio and Gallery. If you haven’t heard
Woooot yeah, here we go! Your Thursday afternoon viewing all in one getcha goggles watch and learn time. We’re back with this weeks Transmissions, and its been a grand ‘ol week … First up, ABC in Canberra interviewed the amazing E.L.K. – everyone should check this video out, there’s no embed (ABC seems to be
The guys at Red Octopus have been good friends of ours for, jesus, twenty years or so, since our days of kickin it back in the ‘ol FNQ. Over the last few years we’ve seen the grassroots business that they started up turn into something really, really damned cool, and we’re really proud of them!
At 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”.
How picking up rubbish came to be associated with the removal of art from public walls is perhaps a little beyond us, but those who don’t get it seem intent on making a day about the removal of harmful discards from our environment into a community-lead war against art. In response to this, some more
We 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