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A sunny day in Wellington seems to be a rarity, so they always call for a painting day when one comes along.

The Dowse Art Museum in Wellington had its first annual party last weekend, and celebration of Lower Hutt’s new civic square last weekend, and invited the Pie-Rats crew (Jon Drypnz, PNTR and Cast) to do some live-painting.

Enjoy the pics!

Photos by Claudia Danby-Scott.

We’re a little late getting this one off the rank (we’re running behind a bit after There’s More!) but if you haven’t seen it yet thencheck out issue #2 of the fantastic Knock Knock Magazine  below – oh, and check out Issue #1 if you haven’t seen it yet!

“Knock knock magazine profiles street level emerging and established Australian and international creatives doing their thing, and doing it well.”

This is the kind of shit we love.

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 Brunswicks 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’re after a couple of submissions for various parts of the event – namely, films, documentaries, short films and stickers – and it’s open to everyone!

Just a small smidgeon about “There’s More!” … and info for sticker freaks, marketeers and documentarians/filmographers below …

“An art event like no other ‘…There’s More!’ will bring some of the country’s best street and contemporary artists and DJs together to collaborate with projectionists, performance artists, poets, craftivists, designers and tech geeks to create an experience to remember. Over full four days Cocoa Jackson Studios will be transformed into a massive interactive art installation.”

Sticker Submissions

There’s More! is inviting you to be part of a large 3-day art event in Brunswick, Melbourne. We need YOUR stickers to be sent to us. We will slap them up on a giant sticker wall, as well as the surrounding area.

The event will be seen and recorded by some of Australia’s finest Street, Sticker and Graffiti artists. Anyone across the globe is welcome to send stickers, however DEADLINE IS BY MARCH 25. This isn’t long at all considering the shipping time!

This is a great chance for you to have your stickers in Melbourne!
We will post event photos online of the growing sticker wall,

Send ASAP to

c\o There’s More Stickers
Cocoa Jackson Studios,
32 Warburton Street,
Brunswick, Victoria, Australia
3056

Film Submissions

The 2012 THERE’S MORE FILM FESTIVAL is currently accepting Australian film from all genres (drama, documentary, animation, experimental, etc) with a focus on street art and graffiti. We encourage established and emerging filmmakers to submit their work for screening – DEADLINE MONDAY 12th MARCH 2012!

Entry Requirements

• Films from all genres will be accepted but must contain a central theme that focuses on Graffiti and Street Art.
• Films must be either made in Australia or by an Australian filmmaker
• Filmmaker must have copyright over music used in the film
• All films must be submitted by Monday 12th March 2012

Film Entry Costs: FREE!!

How to Submit:

• Print the ENTRY FORM – then fill it in and post it to us with a DVD copy (or online URL link) of your film.
• If you wish to enter more than one film, please submit separate entry forms for each film.

Our Postal Address:
PO Box 315
Seddon West
VIC 3011

Festival and Film Screening:

The film screening is a ticketed event, taking place Friday March 23rd, from 7pm at the Cocoa Jackson Studios, corner of Cocoa Jackson Lane + Warburton Street, Brunswick. This is a licenced event with food and refreshments available.

Please Note:

• We regret that we are unable to return preview DVDs.
• High Quality formats of successful entrants work will be requested for Festival Screening. (*Please contact us immediately if you are unable to provide a high quality format as DVD MPEGS are not acceptable for screening.)
• Photographic production stills will be requested for promotional purposes.

THe entire event will be a great showcase with a lot of Melbourne street art, and graffiti and other urban artists on board already. So, if you have stickers or films to send in to the event, get to it -  there’s no time to waste!!

Market Stalls

Alongside everything else, we will also be putting on some markets on the Sunday of the event!

CALL OUT FOR MARKET STALL HOLDERS

Sunday March 25th 1 – 6pm

$20 per stall, tables available, bring chairs. Art, zines, fashion, jewellery, anything handmade, vintage clothing, food, etc are welcome!!

Stalls to be outside or inside depending on the weather.

Contact Jackie at jackie.gwynne@gmail.com for more information and to register your interest in putting up a stall!

The news went out last Friday, Curvy is now open for submissions!

Sounds like they are planning an awesomely bumper issue for the next one, they’re teamed up with Semi-Permanent again and will be officially launching the next issue at this years SP in Sydney.

Curvy is a great place for emerging and established female artists to be seen by many, many people and has already featured a whole range of great artists. – so if you think your work is awesome (which we’re sure it is) then get a submission in before it closes on Friday February the 17th at 5pm.

You can find all of the information on how to submit here on the Curvy website.

 
(Courtney Brims)

Who: Open to all
What: Curvy Magazine Artwork Submissions
Where: Check the Curvy website for more details.
When: You have until February 17th, 5pm to send something through.

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 hold over the Xmas period – we will be continuing to do some Snapshots as well the rest of our Top 10s for the year; and one or two other special features ;)

2011 saw us accomplish a whole heap of goals that we set for ourselves at the start of the year. We got our new website up and running, we moved into the fantastic Rival Revolution studios in Prahran and continue to do a whole bunch of events and live art stuff with the artists and crew there, we got up to Outpost Project which was absolutely fantastic, we started our Revurt community painting project (check out a really cool article Broadsheet did on it here), we saw a heap of amazing shows and read about even more, met and spoke to some amazing artists, did and saw a hell of a lot of street art and just generally had a ball working on the site. It’s been hard work at times, and some really late nights but its all been totally worth it – all the amazing responses and support we’ve received from all of you have made that so.

What’s next for 2011? We’ll be working on expanding the website with a bunch of new features as well as partnering up with a bunch of cool people to bring you a whole slew of intriguing content. However the big one for us next year, is that we’ll be making our first forays into print! We’ve been planning it all for some time and we’re really excited about it – fingers crossed all goes to plan! Of course, we’ll also continuing to talk to and find out about the best underground, illustrative, graffiti and street artists that Australian and New Zealand has to offer!

So for now, enjoy the Snapshots and other short posts over the holiday period (Blender Xmas photos up tomorrow!) and we’ll be back with our regular event updates come January the 9th. Have an amazing holiday and thank you so very much for all your support through 2011 – here’s to 2012 and huge things!

Theres always time on a Thursday lunchbreak to take a few minutes out and check out some cool assed videos from around Oz and NZ, and thats what the Transmissions are for! Watch on, viewers, as we compile this weeks videos we’ve seen around the traps …

 (image via The Conspiracies of Ha-Ha by Kieran Mangan)

Kieran Mangan has been doing a whole series of comics based on The Conspiracies of Ha-Ha lately, they’re fkn hilarious, and they want to turn it into a book – go and check it out, and donate to this more than worthy cause!! You should also check out this great video of Ha-Ha as he talks about his work, street art in Melbourne … and his theories on several conspiracies … but, seriously, if you haven’t seen the comic yet, you should!

Drypnz has a show coming up on Friday night, and he did this ultra cool preview trailer for it – take a look, its kinda fantastic as hell.

We missed this one a few weeks ago, but we wanted to put it up in light of his upcoming show – Drypnz does some silos. Nice

Michael Pecks show "The Landing" opened last night, and it was simply incredible. This is a really great short feature documentary on the artist and his work – also, check out the first part of our two aprt feature on Mr Peck here.

Just when we think we’ve seen everything that D*Face has been up to, Artygraffarti posts up some fun filled hotel room pasteup adventures from the man – very cool.

Prizm, Ben Frost and Anthony Lister teamed up recently for some tattoo mayhem. Mad!

Ben Frost Ghetto Ink from The Institute of Excellent on Vimeo.

"Acclaim Magazine sat down with Sydney born and bred, Tokyo based, Graphic Artist and co-founder of China Heights gallery Mark Drew to get the lowdown on his hat design for New Era" – he also has a show coming up in December, which we’ll let you know more about soon. Great collab this one!

I think that’s all we have for this week, apologies if we missed anything! You can send links through to any cool videos you may have or that you have seen here.Rockin!

"I Wish I Want You Have I Don’t" is the curious and slightly emotionally laden title of a new show coming up from Drypnz, one of NZs most vibrantly creative street artists, and definitely one we rank up at the top.

As he says about his upcoming Wellington show "This body of work is an examination of the ideas of Want, Need, and Have. As a consequence, the presence of Envy and Coveting are illustrated."

The title of the show surely is slightly cryptic, helped along by the statement "There will also be specified open days to be announced that correspond with title, one evening focusing on ‘I Wish’, one ‘I Want’ etc" …which leads us to believe that there will be several small pop up events associated with the show, possibly some live art?

We don’t know, we do like a puzzle, and we’re looking forward to finding out more!!

Who: Drypnz
What: I Wish I Want You Have I Don’t solo show
Where: 15 Courtney Place, Wellington, NZ
When: Opening Friday 18th November, at 7pm – Viewings after the opening will be by appointment with only some days being open to the public.

Check out Drynpz website, his facebook page, and the facebook event page for more details.

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.

Lots of things happening in the land of the long white cloud, not least of which are a bunch of community murals going up across the place. Its always good to see the support of local councils and transportation companies in beautifying the walls, and, having completed their work at Porirua train station, the artists involved are now holding an exhibition of their own individual works to showcase their talents.

"At the beginning of this year, Porirua Train Station was transformed into a visual art experience. Stunning murals painted by established local artists cover the giant walls of the station, bringing life and energy to the city, engaging with the people from the community and beyond.

The artists are Ranga Tuhi, Jo Cringle, Ian Taylor, Hideaki Katsumata, Rudy Whitehead-Lopez, Christopher Ulutupu, Ruth Taylor, Sue Smales, Tupe Rodgers, Tracey Waters and Xoe Hall and they are coming together once more to present "OFF THE WALL" an art exhibition showing a selection of art works created individually by each artist."

If you’re around Wellington this week, check it out.

Who: Ranga Tuhi, Jo Cringle, Ian Taylor, Hideaki Katsumata, Rudy Whitehead-Lopez, Christopher Ulutupu, Ruth Taylor, Sue Smales, Tupe Rodgers, Tracey Waters and Xoe Hall
What: Off The Wall – group show
Where: Pataka Museum , Bottle Creek Gallery, Wellington, NZ
When: Show commences from Thursday 28th July and runs til August 15th. The opening will be on Sunday 31st July at 2pm.

Check out for more info on the facebook event page and the Pataka Museum website.