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This looks like a beauty! The Butcher Shop in Perth is hosting a sweeet opening next Friday -  the second solo exhibition by local artist Yohyo. We’ve seen some of his stuff before, and its super cool and detailed. The guy works in mediums such as pencil, acrylic, ink and creates some pretty crazy large scale murals in aerosol, so this show’s lookin’ pretty tasty …

"Following a successful exhibition in 2009, Black and Blue explores the perception of depth and colour using a strict palette of black and blue ink on paper. This collection of super detailed ink works portrays themes of exploration, science and violence. "

Yohyo delves into creepy and sometimes morbidly beautiful subject matter, and often draws his inspiration from wildlife, late night train rides and the grotesqueness of the human form itself. If you’re around it’ll be an awesome one to check out for sure!

Who: Yohyo
What: Black & Blue Solo Show
Where: The Butcher Shop, 276 William Street Northbridge, Perth, WA
When: Show opens Friday 18th May, from 6pm til 8.30pm and runs until the 4th of June.

Check out The Butcher Shop website and the facebook event page for more info.

Backwoods, as usual, are putting on an awesome new show next week by a super cool and talented Melbourne artist. This time it’s the likes of Ghostpatrol, a guy who was definitely one of Melbourne’s first and most inspiring street artists.

Ghostpatrol smashed it at his last exhibition in Backwoods last year, and we can’t wait to see the amazing magical things he has created this time. As an artist, he is most famous for the amazing worlds and characters he creates, each with such personality that they demand attention. He works across many mediums, and his works inspire each person who sees them to think in an alternate way, outside of the world as we know it.

Ghostpatrol’s quirky contraptions are seen not only on canvas and board, but most divinely on the streets of Melbourne, ranging from pasteups to eye catching large scale murals.

This show is comprised of 5 large scale works on linen, appropriate size to tackle the intense questions of the universe it seems..

‘Across this new series of paintings, the artist imagines shapes and forms created in the super future, beyond human kind in the great transformations of matter and dark matter in the cosmos.

That’s not to say that the work presented is intense in nature, with Ghostpatrol’s highly stylised worlds inhabited by characters as curious about their place on the canvas as their artist is about his in the cosmos. “My studies of cosmology and the evolving quantum theory set the scene for the worlds I create,” says Ghostpatrol, noting the recent work of scientists Michio Kaku and Brian Cox as inspirational touchstones.’

Here are some sneaky shots from the upcoming show..

Check out some more here – we’re totally excited for this! See you there!

Who: Ghostpatrol
What: Cosmic Scale and The Super Future Solo Show
Where: Backwoods Gallery, 25 Easey Street, Collingwood
When: Show opens Friday 18th May, from 6pm til 9pm and runs until the 13th of June.

Check out the Backwoods Gallery website and the facebook event page for more info!

It’s that time, people! Finally we will be able to get our hands on the next iteration of Curvy Magazine, that annual tome of gorgeous works from a selection of female artists from around the world. If you haven’t read Curvy before, you’re really missing out, its a great litmus of femme artists who are cool and awesome in todays underground, emerging and illustrative art land.

Alongside the show at aMBUSH Gallery in Sydney will be the first show from international artist Miss Van! More details from the release …

“CURVY is an annual book and exhibition that features the most exciting female artists from over 40 countries around the world. Join us in Sydney at aMBUSH Gallery as we launch the latest edition and group show as part of Semi-Permanent 2012.

Collaborating with women from design capitals including Paris, London, LA, NYC, Melbourne, Toronto and Tokyo – and from countries as far afield as Australia, Ecuador, Mexico, Moscow, Serbia, Latvia, Indonesia, Norway, Malta and Israel among many others, CURVY is a platform where the next generation of female creative talent can shine.
This edition, the eighth in the series, introduces the latest wave of exciting female visual artists in a new hard cover format and builds on the momentum of previous years with a new batch of boundary breakers.

The 2012 exhibition features work from a selection of artists in this year’s book plus a special collection by Miss Van in her first Australian show. A range of works from over 30 artists are available for purchase exclusively via this one night only event ranging from $100 – $8,000.
The CURVY show kicks off Semi-Permanent 2012 and is not to be missed.”

Word is that there will also be some live painting happening on the night as well! This show is not to be missed, such an amazing display of artists on hand for the night, and Curvy itself is a great volume of art that should be on everyones coffee table!

Get to it, Sydney!

Who: Artists exhibition in the exhibition include Alice Amsel, Alyson Pearson, Andy McCready, Anne Cobai, Anne Numont, Brett Manning, Candy Yan Yan Ng, Carmen Hui, Cheryl Orsini, Christie Allison, Dominique Merven, Eskimoie, Felicity Gardner, Hayley O’Connor, Jo Ley, Kaff Eine, Kathryn Renowden, Lara Marshall, Lucy Hardie, Marcela Bolivar, Maria Mosquera, Maude Guesne, Melissa Contreras / Miss Van, Nat Carroll, Nom Kinnear King, Phoebe Johnson, Tiffany Rysdale, Venetia Cussen, Zan von Zed. Check the Curvy website for all artists in the book!)
What: Curvy Magazine Launch and Exhibition
Where: aMBUSH Gallery, 4a JAmes Street, Waterlook, Sydney
When: Wednesday 9th May 2012 from 7pm til 10pm.

Check out the Curvy website, the aMBUSH Gallery website as well as the facebook event page for more info!

So this dropped into our inbox the other day, and after reading it two or three times over, we think we’ve managed to work it out – this is a show about the weird shit that constitutes reality. More importantly, though, its about our place amongst the weird shit that surrounds us in this universe. Make no mistake, weird shit is cool (I mean,we  just repeated the two words three times because it sounds cool), especially when that weird shit delves into temporal concepts, photonic musings and pseudo-Schrödinger perceptions.

"Curated by Theodore Wohng at Dark Horse Experiment. Lux 0.27 consists of works by artists Kit Webster, Sam Fagan, Hanna Tai, Alex Purchase, Kate Stryker, Tiziana Borghese, Tim Sterling and Julia Francis. Pursuing the theme of void/nothingness and our perception of reality through light and technology.

"In science our perception of reality is limited to the finite speed of light, as it is in a linguistic system, reference to a present reality is forever postponed from the temporal delay of meaning. Our univocal universe is full of constant metaphysical flux of change, difference and becoming. When we gaze upon the stars at night, the multiple instants in time are seen as simultaneous from our vantage point on the earth, the very same set of events will occur in different time combinations from other perspectives in space, the concept of ‘now’ is irrelevant, the only two things that remain the same are the wave-particle duality of photon and our perpetual curiosity of what reality really is."

You know what? We have no idea what to expect from this – but it sounds really different, and that’s the kind of shit we love best. Plus, there’s familiar names in there that we just know are rad, and we’re looking forward to acquainting ourselves with those that we’re not.  We also just saw something pretty exciting on the event page on fb – apparently Jason Haebich will be doing a LAZER show. That’s it, this show just ramped up to awesome mode – fucking LAZERS!

A Dark Horse opening is always a really fun event, which you’d know if you’ve already been there – great art, great people, great place. Light. Reality. Void. Lazers. Weird shit is the new normal – go see it in action.

Who: Kit Webster, Sam Fagan, Hanna Tai, Alex Purchase, Kate Stryker, Tiziana Borghese, Tim Sterling and Julia Francis
What: Lux 0.27 group show
Where: Dark Horse Experiment, 110 Franklin St, Melbourne, VIC
When: Show opens Friday May 4th from 6pm til 9pm and runs for two weeks.

Check out the Dark Horse Experiment website and the facebook event page or more info on the show!

This weekend see’s this months return of the Bend & Snap Markets at 1000 £ Bend in Melbourne CBD – if you haven’t checked out this market yet, you should!

On another exciting note, they have also announced that come May 5th, Bend & Snap will be setting up in Melbournes iconic Hosier Lane for a pop up market of most awesome proportions – check out the release below …

"Bend and Snap is back again for the month of April and we’ve got some new friends that have joined our family, along with some old favorites.

Pop M’art, Melbourne’s very own moveable art studio, will be popping up once more to give our patrons a chance to get crafty.
As always we’ve got killer tunes and tasty treats in our cafe.
Bend and Snap is also announcing our very own pop-up location. That’s right folks, on May 5th in conjunction with the City of Melbourne, Just Another Agency and Garage Sale Trail, our little ol’ market is kicking’ it in Hosier Lane.

Garage Sale Trail is a massive garage sale on a national scale. It happens all over Australia on one day, Saturday May 5th 2012
To join our regular Sundays or to secure your limited spot at Bend and Snap’s Hosier Pop-Up send an email to bendandsnap@getnotorious.com or apply online at http://bendandsnapmarket.wordpress.com/apply"

Two pretty cool markets within a week of each other – combine that with the upcoming Blender Lane market, and the Charles street markets, and the ongoing Rose St Markets … and you’ve got something to browse every weekend this month! Nice!

Who: A whole bunch of creatives, crafters and artisans.
What: Bend & Snap Markets

Bend & Snap @ 1000 £ Bend 
1000 £ Bend – 361 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne, VIC
Sunday 29th May from 11am til 4pm
Check out the Facebook event listing here.

Bend & Snap @ Hosier Lane
Hosier Lane, Melbourne CBD
Saturday 5th May from 11am til 2pm
Check out the Facebook event listing here.

Check out Bend & Snap, Garage Sale Trail and Just Another Agency for more details.

ArtBoy presents the debut exhibition of Melbourne artist and Illustrator BRUYN. This guy’s been doing some pretty cool things since we last saw his stuff at the Artboy vs Fanboy Exhibition!

BRUYN’s work comes from a background in illustration in the toy industry, an influence which is obvious in his work. It’s cute, yet kinda badass, funky work – most of which seems to have already sold before the opening of the show! We’re a fan of his crazy creations, characters and worlds of a darker existence. In this show it looks like he’s experimented with not only board and canvas but also skate decks, always interesting!

"In an attempt to seize control of Hub City once and for all, Rabbit has raised a cloned army of rabbits and is erasing all who oppose him. As always, it falls upon Bear and his band of brothers to quash this latest insurrection.

But now a new threat is emerging!

For within the inky depths of a nearby forest, a Sacred Acorn Tree has become contaminated, spawning an army of ferocious zombie squirrels!As brain-hungry rodents infest the city, Rabbit and Bear must put aside differences and unite to combat this new undead enemy!"

Whaaaaat! Here’s a small preview of the show …

Looking really cool, love it! We’ll see you there!

Our friends at Paradise Hills bring us another interesting talent filled show, this time featuring the first solo show of up and coming Melbourne artist Hamishi. We’ve seen some really cool work by this artist, and his style is geometric, colourful & fresh.

Despite being fairly youthful in age, this guy has already had his work included in quite a few exhibitions, not only in Melbourne and Tasmania, but in Berlin and San Francisco as well.

"Deterministically speaking, the present is an amalgamation of everything previous to it. Nothing superfluous and nothing special. In a broader sense the same applies to art and death. Hyper reality is a product of good art and good death. Hamishi weighs honesty and glorified hyper reality to prove the world shouldn’t doesn’t exist as he builds it."

Sounds hectic in all the right ways – and we’re looking forward to seeing what he’s been doing lately, see you there!

We’ve seen some pretty cool and crazy shit over the years, and this looks like one of those things too whack to miss! From what looks like the love child of all those kooky left-of-centre sci-fi movies from childhood, and terrible, badly engineered addictive video games – comes Hyper Reality Dimension XX – a group show taking us back to all the things that we loved and probably partially destroyed our brain cells in our younger years.

"Hyper Reality Dimension XX is an express ticket to the world of electric cult mythologies birthed during the antiquated age of CRT TV, VHS, and NES. Via various techniques and mediums 20 artists regurgitate and re-imagine the cult classics that they so readily devoured during their youth, expressing the oddities and splendour of the modern electric age that has shaped their early years and has infiltrated their art practice today.

Featuring artists Jodee Knowles, Chris Yee, Rebecca Murphy, HOUL, KID9, OX, Bafcat, Claire Orrell, Sam Octigan, Lizzie Nagy, Gerald Leung, Luke Marcatili, BOB, Iconica, Ala Paredes, Bryn Desmond-Jones, Jonathan Verzosa, Sam Hoh, Jacob Rolfe, and Jin Hien Lau. "

Plus, at the opening there’s live art, as well as future beats and rhythms provided by Misworthy and Alice Whyte – shweeeeet!

Who: Jodee Knowles, Chris Yee, Rebecca Murphy, HOUL, KID9, OX, Bafcat, Claire Orrell, Sam Octigan, Lizzie Nagy, Gerald Leung, Luke Marcatili, BOB, Iconica, Ala Paredes, Bryn Desmond-Jones, Jonathan Verzosa, Sam Hoh, Jacob Rolfe, and Jin Hien Lau
What: Hyper Reality Dimension XX Group Exhibition
Where: aMBUSH Gallery, 4a James St, Waterloo, Sydney
When: Show opens Thursday 19th April from 6pm til 9pm, and runs til the 30th.

Check out the Facebook event page and the aMBUSH Gallery website for more info!

WOW! Always love seeing art which is created from a totally new perspective. Bite Collective are hosting a Group show next week for NZ Music Month, and each of the artworks is actually inspired by NZ music. Lovely and interesting! Some familiar and some faces new to us will be showing their work, and there will be live music performances at the opening by Whitireia.

Artists included in the show are:

• Marty Vreede –  printmaker, paper pioneer, inspirational teacher
• Sheyne Tuffery – visual artist, gallery owner, fine art tutor
• Elliot ‘Askew1′ O’Donnell – graffiti artist, graphic design, illustration, photography
• Matthew McIntyre-Wilson –  jeweler and sculptor
• Basia Smolnicki - printmaker, art tutor
• Nestor Opetaia – painter and musician
• Christine Imlay-McLean – jeweler and creator of ‘Black Agnes’
• Spring Rees – jeweler
• Reweti Arapere – mixed media
• The Bite Collective – Fleur Ruth, Chloe Reweti and Rachael Gannaway –printmaking and 3D

Who: Askew One, Basia Smolnicki, Fleur Ruth, Chloe Rewati, Christine Imlay-Mclean, Marty Vreede, Matthew McIntyre Wilson, Nestor Opetaia, Rachael Gannaway, Reweti Arapere, Sheyne Tuffery and Spring Rees
What: Hear it, See it Group Exhibition
Where: Bottle Creek Gallery, Pataka, Wellington, NZ
When: Show opens Thursday April 19th from 6pm

Check out the Bite Collective website for more info!

We were wondering what the next show from the guys at Lo-Fi and The Tate was going to be, and we just saw this floating around the websphere. In answer to our wonderings, they’re giving us Girls Girls Girls! a showcase of – you guessed it – up and coming female Sydney artists!

"From vastly different corners of our city, fourteen young female artists traverse the wide spectrum between the most arresting segments of our reality and the surreal dream-worlds we create within our own consciousness.

Featuring work from Georgia Hill, Jacqueline Bui, Leena Leuanvilayvong, Elle Irwin, Lyndsay Noyes, Georgia Norton Lodge, Yida Jiang, Nina Gibbes, Kirthana Selvaraj, Ania Gareeva, Jessica Tjandra, Cjay, Lauren Sultana and Liz Macnaught."

That’s a whole lot of femme in one show right there, and it looks pretty cool – we love what the Tate is doing, and really enjoying their showcases of up and coming artists in and around Sydney. Go check it all out for yourself!

Who: Georgia Hill, Jacqueline Bui, Leena Leuanvilayvong, Elle Irwin, Lyndsay Noyes, Georgia Norton Lodge, Yida Jiang, Nina Gibbes, Kirthana Selvaraj, Ania Gareeva, Jessica Tjandra, Cjay, Lauren Sultana and Liz Macnaught
What: Girls Girls Girls! group exhibition
Where: The Tate @ The Toxeth, 345 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, Sydney
When: Show opens Wednesday the 11th of April at 6pm and runs til Sunday the 15th April

Check out the Lo-Fi website as well as the facebook event page!

Something a little bit different, maybe a little bit twisted, but still cool, clean and captivating. Hilton Owen, an amazing artist who has been huge on the Australian scene since his first solo show at 17 years of age, and at 22 has already had many (and we mean MANY) solo shows around the country – and now he’s back for another!

"This collection, entitled ”New Paintings 2012” is Hilton at his best – showcasing a unique style which has been described as a ”wonderful mixture of figurative and abstract art fused together”

In Hilton’s work, the mundane and the ordinary become beautifully crafted modern works of art. There is a synergy in his work between the object and the person, the action and the ideas – interwoven with a nostalgic antique colour palette."

Hilton Owen produces interesting and Nuevo-nostalgic works, which totally invite you in to take a closer look – to decipher the message and meaning behind … if you’re in Sydney, totally worth checking out!

Who: Hilton Owen
What: New Paintings 2012 Exhibition
Where: 82 Marlborough Street, Surry Hills, Sydney
When: Show opens Thursday 29th March at 6pm, and runs until 15th April

Check out the Friends of Leon Gallery website for more info and to check out some of the featured works!

Creative collective Zonk Vision is hosting their long awaited group show, which if it’s anything like the preview videos -  will be totally trippy and kooky – and uniquely artsy in all the right, totally weird, totally uncomfortable ways.

Check out the mind boggling preview vids here and here.

The show features the insanely colourful and crazy personalities of Jason Galea, Danny Wild, Greg Holden, Instant (FYG), Leagues & Gore.

"The show will feature live VHS manipulation, works on a strange range of medium and a special live performance…
Not to mention a 30 min+ premiere of completely new video works from the whole Zonk Vision and Steady Bumpen family."

We’re super intrigued by this one … must go check it out!

Who: Jason Galea, Danny Wild, Greg Holden, Instant (FYG), Leagues & Gore
What: Zonk Vision presents Well Wisher, Group show
Where: House of Bricks, 40 Budd Street, Collingwood, VIC
When: Show opens Friday 30th March at 7pm, Screening starts at 8.30pm

Check out the Zonk Vision blog for more info!

Creatives rejoice! We’ve all been to some killer art and design conferences in the past, so we know just how amazingly inspiring and empowering they can be – well here’s a brand new one to stir up the ideas, passion and motivation that we may have – or have not – been lacking lately..!

Through a collaboration between creative ‘boss lady’ the Jacky Winter Group, who have been representing amazing illustrators across Australasia since 2007, and creative community Australian INfront, comes ‘Field Trip’ -  a creative conference doing things in a way that we’ve never seen before!

Who: Beci Orpin, Travis Price, Tong & Danny, Jeremy Ley, Tin&Ed, 21-19 and Toby&Pete
What: Field Trip creative conferance
Where: ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne
When: Friday, 20th April

For more info and to buy tix, check out the website!!

Sydney’s Lo-Fi Collective are no strangers to producing amazing shows and events that huddle together insanely talented individuals.

This event, "Canvas Cooler" features some of Australia’s top street artists in collaboration with Red Bull, who will be creating their artwork (of amazing proportion) in a totally different  and cool way. The project already hit London as well as also totally rocked White Walls Gallery San Francisco last year – and Sydney is next.

"The Canvas Cooler Project is decking out eleven of Sydney’s premier watering holes with original artwork by 11 of Australia’s leading street artists. Using Red Bull fridges as a new medium, some of Australia’s most recognised names in street art will transform the humble cooler into a work of art inspired by each bar’s décor. Venues include Upstairs Beresford, The Norfolk, Hunky Dory, Bucket List and Lo Fi."

The event, curated by Marty Routledge, includes a crazy line up of artists such as Beastman, Numskull, Phibs, Roachy, Thomas Jackson, Will Lynes, Esjay, Brent Smith, Well Dressed Vandals, Kerupt and Peque.

Here’s a quick teaser video of the event …

The eleven works of brilliance in cooler form will be revealed at an exclusive exhibition event at Lo Fi Collective in Sydney’s Surry Hills, at the end of March.

Who: Beastman, Numskull, Thomas Jackson,Roach, Peque, Kerupt, Phibs, Well Dressed Vandals, Will Lynes, Brent Smith, and Esjay.
What: Red Bull Curates The Canvas Cooler Project Event and Exhibition
Where: Opening event will be held at Lo Fi Collective @ The Standard  Floor 3, 383 Bourke St, Surry Hills
When: Event is held on Thursday 29th March from 7.30pm.

Check out the facebook event, as well as the Lo-Fi Collective website for more info.

The problem with long weekends is that when we get back from them, there seems to be an avalanche of last minute news to put up about events! We only just saw this one in time for tonight …

Well, we’re not entirely sure as to what the show is about, but we are going to guess it has something to do with utopian ideals? We’re also not too familair with Gallery One Three – it looks pretty new? Who knows, because we saw the list of artists involved in this one, and damn, it looks cool.

Also, the image below from artist Joseph Flynn is well and truely enough to get us interested, and it should be enough to get you down there too! We’re sure there will be even more awesome work on display from this crew of great artists!

Who: Ry David Bradley, Hamishi, Michael Staniak, Katie Parrish Grandrabur, Josh Lord, Lopo Ekeroth Simoes, Joseph Flynn, Jackson Payne & Michael Stevenson
What: New Utopia group show
Where: Gallery One Three, 13 Somerset place, Melbourne
When: Show opens today at 6pm – but we’re not quite sure how long it runs for! Get down and check it!

Check out the New Utopia tumblr site as well as the facebook event page.

Something really different to what we usually put up, but given who and what it is, I don’t really give two craps – so please excuse me whilst I  deviate from our regular programming, just for a moment …

I have been a fan of the Dirty Three since I heard their first album, "Dirty Three" way back when I was living in a pretty dilapidated house in Machans beach, FNQ. To me, my memories of that time are interspersed with getting smashed on goon on Austudy payday, crazy crazy shenanigans at the art centre I used to hang out at, playing in my short lived but much loved band "Derick And The Cabbages" and, most importantly, discovering a whole new world of music the likes I had never heard before (Being in High School in Perth in the very early 90s, it had til that point, been hip hop and "techno" as it was called back then – not to be confused with what the genre is called now).

Mostly, however, I remember the exact moment that I first heard the Dirty Three – and moments like that in a musical journey that has been as diverse in its love as mine has been, is just fkn amazing (thankyou, Ben Stevens). From The Dirty Three, to Sad And Dangerous, to Whatever You love You Are, to the musical multitrack genius of Cinders and beyond, their music is often at the core of my creative processes – hundreds of articles on this site have been written whilst I’ve been listening to D3, and, when I paint, my music often alternates between Hospital Records (dnb) and Dirty Three.

So, I guess you get the picture that, in my world, the Dirty Three really ranks.

Over the years there has been a lot of remarkable artwork produced for the covers of the Dirty Three albums. I can’t actually recall when I started to notice the shift in artwork on the D3 covers, but it started getting .. really interesting, and befitting of the music. Turns out that it has started to be produced by by the D3s own Mick Turner, and, well, I then loved it even more.

I’ve always wanted a chance to see more of Micks work in the flesh, but always seemed to miss his shows, and I’m glad that we are all being given more opportunities to do so – it is whimsical, playful and often deeply emotive work with a almost imperceptible cliff hanging drop into the edged out depth. "Cover Art & Morsels" promises us a great glimpse into the mind of his talents, and a deeper look into the worlds behind the albums of the Dirty Three – even if it is mostly prints.

"Mick Turner is a Melbourne artist and musician, known primarily as guitarist with internationally acclaimed instrumental group Dirty Three. He has however been a painter for as long as he’s played music, and his artwork features on the covers of Dirty Three and his own solo album releases. These cover-art paintings exist as a visual accompaniment to the music of Dirty Three and Turner’s other projects, possessing a similar wild beauty.

To coincide with Dirty Three’s upcoming Australian tour, guitarist Mick Turner is hosting a travelling art exhibition.

Limited edition reproduction prints of cover art images from Dirty Three albums, along with a selection of Mick’s recent works, will be available at the exhibitions. The Melbourne show will also have a canvas of the cover image for the new album Toward The Low Sun on display."

As we said, this doesnt’ fall into our usual kind of fare, but, to be honest, we like cool art, and Mick Turner is definitely cool. We wouldn’t mind getting a print ourselves, finally, so we’ll definitely be heading to Tinning Street.

Oh yeah, on a sad note, I actually missed out on tickets for this latest tour of the Dirty Three, and it pissed me off royally. Anyone got hookups to the Palace for the 16th? Beuller? … Beuller? … well …

Who: Mick Turner
What: Cover Art & Morsels

Melbourne 8th March -18th March
Tinning Street Gallery
Lot 5/29 Tinning Street, Brunswick
Featuring recent paintings, prints and sculptures

Sydney 20th March – 3rd April
Mart Gallery
156 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills
Featuring cover art and recent work

Perth 7th March – 11th March
Joint exhibition with Jo Darvall
‘Graceful Wings of Travelers’ Jo Darvall / ‘Covert Art and Morsels’ Mick Turner
Showcase Space Gallery, Cnr Aberdeen & Beaufort St, Perth
Featuring cover art and recent work
Gallery open Wednesday 7^th, 8^th, 9^th and 10, 3 to 6pm, Saturday 11 to 4pm.

Check out Mick Turners website, and if you are crazy enough to not have heard any of the Dirty Threes music before go to their site and find something to hear!

We got this last week, but we got a bit delayed in putting it up – it’s about time we saw a market down at Blender, though! You should all be familiar with this bastion of Melbourne street art and other underground creativity in the CBD , Blender Studios by now, and this market will be a great day out

"Introducing the ‘Blender Ln Artists Market’, a new city market located in one of Melbourne’s most iconic street-art covered lane ways. For more info on the space please visit the website.

Stall Criteria: Art and Design
Stall Dimensions: About 1 by 3 metres.

The market starts at 11am and closes 4pm. Setting up begins as early as 9.00am if you need it so please allow yourselves enough time to set up.

Parking: There is parking available across the road at Wilson Parking with a flat rate of $7 on Saturdays. Street parking is also available, if your lucky :)

Stall Price: $20 (First time special)."

If you are an artist or artisan and want to sell some of your wares, get in contact with them – it’s cheap, and, honestly, the laneway itself is an amazing work of art – what better place in the city to sell some of your stuff? Here’s hoping that this continues on as a regular event (it sounds like that’s what they have planned) – we’re even thinking of setting up a stall there in the future ourselves … we also love that its supported by the Charles St Artists Markets – those guys are rad and do a great job!

For those of you wanting to head down and check it out, there are some really cool artists putting their work on display for sale!

Who: Melbourne creative artists and artisans!
What: Blender Lane Artists Markets
Where: Blender Lane, 110 Franklin St, CBD, Melbourne
When: Saturday 10th March 2012, 11am to 4pm

Check out the Blender Studios website as well as the facebook event page for more info, and get down on Saturday to check it all out!

We got to Paradise Hills last night as well for Melbourne’s Burning – fantastic fkn show as always, Josh Lord did a great job of putting it all together, the crowd was rad and the art was superb.

Get down and see it if you didn’t get there last night, its on for a bit!