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These two just don’t stop, and nor should they! We love seeing what Dabs Myla are up to over in the US, and look forward to seeing news of any shows that they are involved with.

Opening up this Thursday, Break Night Lovers see Dabs Myla showing work alongside another show, "Sketchy M%#herfuckers" from RIME and KC. Very, very nice – looking forward to seeing all the shots from the show!

Who: Dabs Myla
What: Break Night Lovers exhibition
Where: Known Gallery, 441 Fairfax Avenue, Los Angles, California
When: Show opens Thursday 5th May from 8pm til 11pm, and runs til 19th May.

Check out Dabs Myla and Known Gallery.

Vandal Spruce is an old favourite of ours, who we havent seen too much from recently – so we were pretty happy this morning when we saw that the ‘Spruce isn’t only back in action, but that there’s also a solo show coming up this week that is sure to be pretty damn interesting. Holographics? Nice.

"A collection of Vandal Spruce’s works including oil on canvas, glass works, holographics, stencils and live installations.. Music start from 6 and Vandal will be creating his major work throughout the night. Bar full of cold ones in the space and a few couches if you need a breather. Free entry of course, so bring your entire crew and support fresh ideas in local street art!"

There will be a whole heap of DJs playing on the night, and, of course, lots of beer -  but the cool part will be watching Vandal Spruce doing some live art (We assume it’ll be Spruce, anyways) – something we haven’t had a chance to see before!

So head down to Collingwood this Friday and check it all out!

Who: Vandal Spruce
What: Anonymity solo show
Where: 222 Johnston Street, Collingwood, VIC
When: Show opens Friday May 4th from 6pm til 10pm and runs til May 9th.

Check out the facebook event page and Vandal Spruce over at his blog – though, it hasn’t been updated for a while …

Holy freakin moly, this is exciting! This Friday night, Phibs and Beastman, two artists working out of Sydneys Higher Ground studios, are both having solo shows – on the same night, each mere metres away from each other in Collingwood! You know the work is going to be awesome.

“Spread across two galleries on the same Collingwood block, the duel exhibitions will present the the styles, connections, influences and friendship of two of Australia’s leading street artists.

The opening night party will take place across the neighborhood with the extension of murals between the two galleries.”

PHIBS

Phibs has been huge on the street scene for some years now, and his colourful detailed line work is found  heavily both in Melbourne and Sydney, as well as in the corners streets all over the world.

“Phibs distinctive style signifies the symbiotic, engaging the urban with the organic. He produces works across a vast variety of mediums and consistently reflects his own unique realms of symbolism, multiculturalism and mythology. Largely inspired by nature, his works have spawned a menagerie of signature characters.”

BEASTMAN

Brad Eastman, most commonly known as Beastman, presents a show continuing on from his exhibition “Cosmic Nature.” Having also painted globally, Beastman’s unique style can be recognised for its flowing, tribal style characters, bright fill in and heavy black outlines.

“Beastman’s innovative new paintings explore the futuristic and overwhelming idea of nature coming to life in a way we could have never imagined. The artist’s new colour palette and further development of his distinctive style reflect the different elements of our young world and the organic lines and often symmetrical geometric patterns found in nature. The deities featured in his ambitious new works are a representation of nature progressing beyond the boundaries of our imagination, when the cosmic forces of nature eventually reveal the irrelevance of humanity in the universe.”

This show will feature not only Beastman’s new works – but also an installation of drawings, sketches and other materials, which allow us to see into the thoughts, motives and processes of the work this artist has created over the last two years.

Can’t wait to check this out, so much artwork, both in the galleries and on the walls in between – this is major talent overload!!

Who: Phibs & Beastman
What: Perfectly Imperfect
Where: House Of Bricks, 40 Budd Street, Collingwood
When: Show opens Friday 27th April from 6-9pm

Who: Beastman
What: Natural Progression
Where: Backwoods Gallery, 25 Easey Street, Collingwood
When: Show opens Friday 27th April from 6-9pm

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

Looking through his work, Jasper Wong is a seriously talented guy. His illustrations are amazingly quirky, clever and unique, and with a heavy dose of asian-influenced pop culture. Jasper has a hugeeee portfolio of work, with involvement with people and themes such as Star Wars, Nike and Hypebeast, to name but a few … wow! He’s also the curator and organiser of the fantastic Pow Wow event in Hawai’i.

Jasper is Hawai’i and Hong Kong based, but has had shows in Japan, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, France, London, Chicago, Mexico, and now comes down here to Melbourne to speak at the Carbon Festival this weekend!

As part of this years Carbon, Jasper will also be putting on a solo exhibition at No Vacancy Project Space in Federation Square. They get some crazy talented illustrators in that space, and Mr. Wong is no different! Looking forward to seeing what he’s contrived for this one, and stay tuned for the interview ahead …

Who: Jasper Wong
What: Solo Show
Where: No Vacancy Project Space, Federation Square Space, Melbourne
When: Show opens Saturday 28th April and runs until the 6th of May.

Check out Jasper’s website and the No Vacancy website  for more info, as well as the Carbon Festival website.

Last year, the team behind Carbon Festival bought out the legendary Futura to visit, and this year, they’ve kept the bar just as high by featuring the godfather of all that is cholo art, Chaz Bojorquez.

Whether you know it or not, but you’ve seen this mans work – or, you’ve seen the many many adaptations of his iconic pieces throughout popular culture – that stylised skull with the hat on its head? That’s pure Bojorquez. His letterforms have also become the basis for many varying styles, and you can see his influences pervading street culture of all forms.

This is one of those artists whose unique style has inspired, innovated and dominated across the decades, and in this coming show, you have the chance to see it for yourself for the first time in Australia.

"Carbon Festival in conjunction with the National Gallery of Victoria presents Chaz Bojorquez ‘LA Handstyles’. The show will feature a new body of work from the legendary Godfather of Cholo graffiti. Bojorquez has been practising typographic graffiti since the late 60′s, fusing the gang scripts of Mexican-American’s living in LA with the timeless art of Eastern calligraphy he creates beautiful works that are equally delicate as they are threatening.

A true pioneer, his influence on popular culture can not be understated. Bojorquez’s letter forms and their legacies can be found everywhere from skate culture, graffiti, contemporary design, as well as across the bodies of thousands of men in prison who’ve  inked his works on their skin permanently as protective charms.

Bojorquez’s work has been collected by many major institutions the world over, most recently he has contributed work to the Smithsonian, and was a featured artist in LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art’s seminal street art exhibition ‘Art in the Streets’. This is the artist’s first visit to Australia, and Carbon is proud to be a collaborator in this groundbreaking event."

Seriously an un-missable exhibition, alongside all the other awesome shit that is going on over the weekend – crazy!!

Who: Chaz Bojorquez
What: LA Handstyles solo show
Where: NGV Studio, The Atrium, Federation Square
When: Show opens 4pm, Saturday 28th April, til 7pm, and runs til May 5th.

Check out Chaz Bojorquezs facebook page and the Carbon Festival website for more info.

RONE has been really busy in the past couple of weeks getting ready to head over to London town for a show he has going with Tom French.  We’ve been following a lot of the stuff he’s been preparing on both his blog as well as on instagram, and we’re absolutely loving the colorful work he’s been putting together amongst a mountain of other cool shit.

“April 2012 will see two of the most exciting artist to emerge in recent year’s RONE (AUS) and Tom French (UK) link up to put on a joint show with Zero Cool Gallery.

Rone’s posters are some of the most iconic in Australia, hiding under overpasses throughout Melbourne. He is renowned for the stylised images of ‘girls’ faces – it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that he has had more posters in Melbourne’s streets than any other artist in the city’s history.

Tom French progresses his distinctive skull images, with the addition of previously unseen oil paintings, to be shown alongside his characteristic charcoal pieces.  These new works combine photorealism, abstraction and surrealism with a suggestive narrative, treading the fine line between the beautiful and the unsettling, focusing on the reflection of the conscious and subconscious mind.

For catalogue requests or to RSVP please email zerocool@zerocoolgallery.com”

Rone’s work just gets more and more refined – there is such a beautiful aesthetic emerging as he pushes through the envelop, taking his highly recognisable girls down new and exciting directions. We’re fans of Tom Frenchs work as well ,so together you’re in for a treat if you’re in ‘ol Blighty this week. Go see it!

Who: RONE & Tom French
What: Don’t Look Back duo show
Where: Zero Cool Gallery, 63 High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, NE1 6BX
When: Show opens Thursday April 26th from 6:30pm to 9:30pm and continues til

Check out Rone at his website, Tom French as well as the Zero Cool website, as well as the facebook event page.

When we first heard word that Faith 47 and DAL East would be coming to Oz to visit, we were pretty excited. Then, we heard that they would be doing a panel at Carbon Festival, we were even more so. Then we heard that they would be painting two massive murals in the heart of Prahran …

…. and on top of all that, a show together at RTIST Gallery next week? Mad.

“Over the past 7 years FAITH47 and DAL EAST have exhibited in over 15 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Now RTIST Gallery’s brings them for the first time to Australia showcasing the incredible talent of the duo in an exclusive show “Antenna Garden”. Displaying work from the artists’ individual collections, this is the first entire exhibition the couple have shown together. Weaving together found objects and materials from their Australian visit, the pair’s Antenna Garden will be constructed through unique surfaces, along with the painted stories of this prolific pair. For more information on the artists see the RTIST website HERE.

BOSS MURALS

A collaboration between RTIST Gallery & BOSS MURALS will see records broken when FAITH47and DAL EAST paint Australia’s tallest murals. Two Goliath 7 storey walls will be given to each artist at the Cullen Hotel, in Prahan. These walls are currently being painted  by each artist.

CARBON FESTIVAL

FAITH47 and DAL EAST have been asked to share their thoughts at the Carbon festival on: Commerce of creativity. The panel will also consit of West Coast Graffiti Godfather CHAZ BOJORQUEZ. For information on this special event and the entirety of the Carbon programme visit the website HERE.

FAITH47

FAITHS images reconstruct lost objects, broken-down cars, old factories and dusty side roads of forgotten towns. She investigates how humans interact with their environment; what scratches and memories they leave behind. Her interactions resonate with our fragility, with our innate understanding of symbols, dreams, textures and our inevitable impermanence.

DAL EAST

DAL EAST landed on this planet in 1984 in China, and soon after decided to live as an artist throughout this life. While studying sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts he became interested in street art and began to practice under the alias DAL. DAL EAST finds his inspiration in the way the material world evolves, how the spiritual world unfolds, life’s emotions and the infinite space around us. He employs different mediums, methods, disciplines and surfaces to create his work.”

All we can say, is that it all looks pretty amazing. We’ve also seen the beginnings of the pieces on the side of the Cullen Hotel, and they are looking amazing – the finished products that they’ll be working on at the Cullen Open House on Saturday are going to be breathtaking.

Man, what a month for street art in Melbourne – this is artgasm at its finest. Faith 47 and DAL East will be doing grand things here in the ‘burn over the next week, and we can’t wait to see it all. It’s been just over a year now since RTIST Gallery opened its doors, and in that time it has produced some of the best exhibitions we have ever seen – no joke. So many shows of such high quality artwork, and an opening there is always one of the highlights, especially when its two artists of this calibre.

See you at the show!

Who: Faith 47 & DAL East
What: Antenna Garden
Where: RTIST Gallery, 29 St Edmonds Rd, Prahran, VIC
When: Show opens Thursday 26th April from 7:30pm. Show runs until the 27th May.

Check out Faith 47s website, DAL Easts website, the RTIST Gallery website, as well as the facebook event page for more info.

The crew down at Juddy Roller are bringing it again, this time with the opening of a rolling outdoor exhibition "Brickwall". Looks like a pretty fun concept, if we do say so!

"Brickwall is an outdoor contemporary art space in Chapel Street, Fitzroy, that will feature some of the best local and international talent from around the world, showcased in an outdoor environment easily viewable to the public.

Our primary goal is not only to feature contemporary works by significant, up and coming artists, but also well established artists in a friendly, unpretentious and original way. The artworks will be rotated daily, and will all be available for sale. A catalogue detailing the pieces as well as prices will be available 7 days a week at Juddy Roller Studios.

Opening artists include: Jaws (DMV), Blo (DMV), Adnate (AWOL), Slicer (AWOL), Choq, Taylor White, Scott Laurenson, Blain McCallion and Shi Buffalo."

Nice! It’s good to see different exhibition formats, and as this one will be ever changing, it’ll be great to see what comes and goes over time.

If you haven’t been to Juddy Roller and seen all the amazing work that has gone up around it, now’s your chance – it looks like a great night!

Who: Jaws (DMV), Blo (DMV), Adnate (AWOL), Slicer (AWOL), Choq, Taylor White, Scott Laurenson, Blain McCallion and Shi Buffalo
What: Brickwall – rolling group exhibition
Where: Juddy Roller, corner Johnston Street and Chapel st, Fitzroy entrance on Chapel St, Melbourne, VIC
When: Show opens Friday 20th April from 6pm til 3am and will continue indefinitely.

Check out Juddy Roller and the facebook event page for more info!

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!

Well this one snuck up on us, and once again its great to see our kind of art thriving up on the Gold Coast.

Comb Gallery just celebrated their first birthday, and they have done a great job in their first year. Combs mission statement is to "provide the southern coastal region with a space for local, established and up and coming artists to display their work. Comb offers a space for cultural exchange and is a hub for the community to relax and share appreciation for art." – which is, obviously, right up our alley.

"Whole" looks like a pretty cool group show, with representation from artists all around Australia and New Zealand, many of whose names you are more than familiar with! The theme, though fairly simple, is one with a huge range of creative scope.

"The circle is a powerful symbolic form that holds a vast array of different associations throughout visual culture. This universal shape embodies our physical reality, from minute microscopic structures like the atom to the grandiose scale of the planetary giants. The circle has also been utilized to help understand and define our inner worlds as a symbol of balance and wholeness in psychological and spiritual practices. For ëWholeí we have asked a variety of artists from different backgrounds and stylistic approaches to create a work using this motif."

Sounds like a real smorgasbord of great art, and we’re sure it’ll prove an absolute hit – nice job, Comb crew.

Who: Reka, Jae Copp, Max Berry, Phibs, Yelz, Drypnz, William Harden, Seekayem, Bennett, Daniel Foothead, Megan Cope, Lexi Land, Mica Still, Sascha Bravery, Kathryn Dolby, Dick Fineman, Walter Gethrey Peach, Angella Connell, Stabs, Siana Butterfield, Eek, Evan Lole, Yoannah Elyse Dieudonne, Robert Wallace, Rory Harnden, Gunter Muller, Christie Wright, Keegan Davis, Daniel Loorparg, Benji Bradley,  Liz Bird
What: Whole group show
Where: Comb Gallery, 23 McLean St, Colangatta, QLD
When: Show opens Friday 20th April from 6pm and runs til 2nd May

Check out the Comb Gallery blog, their facebook page and the facebook event page for more info.

Higher Ground studio artists Bennett and Tom Ferson have teamed up together to bring you this weeks exhibition, Double Take – an exploration between styles and imagery of the two artists.

"‘Double Take’ is the latest collection of artworks & installations from Sydney based artists BENNETT & TOM FERSON. Within this new collection the artists explore both the similarities and differences between their works and practices.

The artists have created two stylistically disparate bodies of work, but through a penchant for abstraction and nostalgic imagery have created an evidently tactile series of artworks that encourage a ‘double take’ – the alteration of the surface mirroring the alternative concept that lays behind."

They’ve also released a preview video for the show, you should check it out:

Looks like another great show by two great artists, at a great gallery – very nice run of great shows you have this week, Sydney.

Who: Bennett & Tom Ferson
What: Double Take duo show
Where: Kind Of Gallery, 118 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, Sydney
When: Show opens Thursday 19th April from 6pm til 9pm

Check out Bennett and Tom Fersons websites for more info, as well as the facebook event page.

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!

What’s up next for the gallery that just doesn’t stop giving us all the goods we could ever need? How about an all female exhibition, with both local and international artists?

Amongst the list of names, here are a bunch that are familiar, and some cool up and coming artists as well. There’s no doubt that Les Dessinatrices, translated to "The Cartoonists", will be yet another amazing group show put on by Josh Smith and co at this most excellent venue.

Who: Elisa Mazzone (Paris), Lisa Vanin (Toronto), Rebecca Murphy (Sydney), Yvette Tziallas (Sydney), Kaitlin Beckett (Melbourne), Luka Va
(Melbourne), Nicole Tattersall (Melbourne), Jelena V, Caitlin Millard,
Katie Johnson, Emmaline Zanelli, Jenny Allnutt, Fruzsi Kenez, Tiff
Rysdale, Lilian Choo, Sally Jo Cook, Kerri Ann Wright, Lindsey Bryant,
Olya K, Meaghan Coles, Pip Kruger, Ellie Kammer
What: Les Dessinatrices (The Cartoonists)
Where: Espionage Gallery, Suite 1, Level 2, 93 Rundle Mall, Adelaide, SA
When:

Check out the Espionage Gallery  website as well as the facebook event page for more info!

Vexta is back with a new solo show up at the Edwina Corlette Gallery in Brisbane, this time delving deep into the structure of the universe and how we are all connected, with In-Between worlds. As always, this next show will be a whole range of creatively inspired works spread over the gamut of installations, sculpture and paintings.

"A suite of new work examining our relationship to ourselves, evolution, the mysterious interconnectedness of all living things and the atomic particles that hold it all together…clustered… but possibly ready to shatter into a million pieces, transcend and reform into the the new… in the next world, at any moment.

Sydney-based artist Vexta will have her third solo exhibition at the gallery in April 2012. Vexta has been making artworks since the mid 2000’s and is best known for her street paintings and wheat-pastes, which draw from cultural visual debris, a self-taught aesthetic and an ongoing exploration of mixed media and printmaking techniques explored through painting.

Her psychedelic, neon-drenched images are influenced by a personal symbolism and a greater urban mythology which connect the dots between the personal and the universal, our waking lives and the dreams beneath them and between an acute cultural commentary and beauty.

Vexta’s work has been shown in exhibitions across Australia and is held in numerous public & private collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Artbank and the University of Queensland Art Museum.She frequently travels and her works can be seen on walls in Sydney, Melbourne, Paris, Berlin, London, San Francisco and Bogota."

If you are a fan, and live in Brisbane – this is the show for you. If you’re not a fan of Vexta yet, now’s your chance to check her out – you’ll walk away wondering why you didn’t get onto her work earlier, that’s for sure!

Who: Vexta
What: In-Between Worlds solo show
Where: Edwina Corlette Gallery, 555 Brunswick Street, New Farm, QLD
When: Show opens Thursday 19th April from 6pm til 9pm, and runs until 3rd May 2012

Check out Vextas website, the Edwina Corlette website,  as well as the facebook event page for more info on the show!

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’ve got a two parter event for you today, as the talents of Australia’s most skilled ‘graff’ ladies come together this month in Perth! Babe collective Ladie Killerz is having their 5th exhibition, and it’s looking to be a treat, with works from talented ladies Australia wide.

"Graffiti inspired artworks by Australia’s most prolific graffiti, street and lowbrow artists. A searious swag full of ladies in the lineup!

Artists: 23rd Key, Brooke Bobridge, Damsel, Deb, Chez, Fleur, Gemma Jones, Heart, Hiden, Ishk, Isis, Ilsa Bennion, Jianna Lucia, Joske, Keos, Lady Bananas, Maiden, Meows, Nicole Tattersall, Poise, Poison Ivee, Rachee Renee, Rebecca Murphy, Sakie, Searious Jones, Skies, Snot Rag, Thorn + Toots Magee"

We’ve seen the amazing skills of these artists on our walls, signs & street corners here in Melbourne and across the country so many times over the past few years, and we can’t wait to see this next iteration … Perth, don’t miss the opportunity to see this one!

Who:  23rd Key, Brooke Bobridge, Damsel, Deb, Chez, Fleur, Gemma Jones, Heart, Hiden, Ishk, Isis, Ilsa Bennion, Jianna Lucia, Joske, Keos, Lady Bananas, Maiden, Meows, Nicole Tattersall, Poise, Poison Ivee, Rachee Renee, Rebecca Murphy, Sakie, Searious Jones, Skies, Snot Rag, Thorn + Toots Magee
What: Ladie Killerz #5 Group exhibition
Where: HQ Gallery, 60a Frame Court, Leederville, Perth
When: Show opens Friday 20th April from 6 – 9pm, and closing party is on Friday 27th April, from 5-8pm

Ladie Killerz Wall Jam

… aaaanndd then there’s also the Wall Jam also happening! Two days of only ladies getting down for some live painting action!

"A searious swag load of ladie writers; Argue, Chez, Damsel, Diva, Fleur, Heart, Hiden, Ishk, Jesone, Joske, Keos, Lady Bananas, Maiden, Meows, Poise, Sakie, Sear, Skies, Snotrag + Thorn! BBQ + beats on demand – bring your chump change for a snag.

PS. secret additional paint spot to be announced at the ART EXHIBITION closing party, Friday 27th April – don’t sleep!"

Good times, good beats and good skills.. what more could you ask for!!??

Coming to you from the residence formerly occupied by the much missed At Large, NiceCat is a more than worthy successor to the Northcote underground art crown. We headed down to the newly minted establishment the other week to partake in their beautifully priced Montana paint.

While we were there we got to have a good chat, and take a look at one of the previous shows, and hear a bit about the plans for the place – and it sounds pretty promising! Not only will they be selling paint up in the north (at good hours, they’re open from 4pm til 8pm every night!), but they have a whole range of shows that are sure to be grand.

Tonight, however, they have the opening of the Dredded Malice – featuring work from artist and tattooist Dred, aka Malice. Touting the show as a "transformation of tattoos and aerosol" – which looks pretty cool.

Nice to see things firing back up in Northcote – so head down to the show tonight to check it all out.

Who: Dred aka Malice
What: The Dredded Malice solo show
Where: Nicecat gallery & store, 208 High Street, Northcote
When: Show opens Friday 13th April from 7pm til late, and runs until the 27th April.

Check out NiceCat on facebook!