http://www.invurt.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:44:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/09/artists-to-watch-itch/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/09/artists-to-watch-itch/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:44:42 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8388
There’s no way this list couldn’t contain him, and he was mentioned several times whilst we compiled it. According to Arty Graffarti, Itch is "Already quite the established graffiti writer, street artist, digital artist and a whole swag of all things creative, its about time Itch got some [if not, more] recognition and I’m hoping [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/09/artists-to-watch-itch/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/09/thursday-transmissions-shoe-zonk-magic/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/09/thursday-transmissions-shoe-zonk-magic/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:34:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8382
This weeks video wrap from across Australiasia isn’t too large, but it is big on quality. Shoe’s exhibition last week at RTIST Gallery was awesome – next weeks DMV show will also be amazing, but if you didn’t see this video with Shoe whilst he was down here on tour, catch it now – pretty [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/09/thursday-transmissions-shoe-zonk-magic/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/08/artists-to-watch-steven-rhodes/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/08/artists-to-watch-steven-rhodes/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:59:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8377
Next up in our daily Artists to Watch column is Brisbane based artist, Steven Rhodes. The team at Strutten suggested this great artist as someone who they think will be doing great things in 2012, and we have to agree. Steven Rhodes is an ".. illustrator and graphic designer creating quirky and playful images." I [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/08/artists-to-watch-steven-rhodes/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/08/international-fuck-art-lush-preview-nyc/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/08/international-fuck-art-lush-preview-nyc/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:19:43 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8370
Ever the traveller, Lush has hooked up with a bunch of other artists to put on a show at the Museum Of Sex (MoSex) in NYC. He sent us a bunch of pics from over there, a bit of an taste of what those of us here at home are missing out on … nsfw, [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/08/international-fuck-art-lush-preview-nyc/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/08/exhibition-da-mental-vaporz-le-venin-melbourne/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/08/exhibition-da-mental-vaporz-le-venin-melbourne/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:15:11 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8354
Are you ready for this? One of the worlds most renowned graffiti crews, DMV, will be heading down our way – next week in fact. If you’re lucky enough to be in Melbourne, you’ll be able to catch what is going to be one fucking amazing show at Prahrans RTIST Gallery. "February 2012: France is [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/08/exhibition-da-mental-vaporz-le-venin-melbourne/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/07/artists-of-2012-juan-mcarb/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/07/artists-of-2012-juan-mcarb/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:30:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8337
Yesterday we bought you the crazy cool skills of BMD, and the new Artists To Watch column is up and rolling. This is our daily dose of artistic talent that we think is rockin it in 2012 and beyond – up today is an artist suggested to us by the Street Advent team, Juan Mcarb. [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/07/artists-of-2012-juan-mcarb/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/07/exhibition-andy-thomas-synthetic-nature-melbourne/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/07/exhibition-andy-thomas-synthetic-nature-melbourne/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:52:15 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8330
Well, we love stuff that’s different, that’s probably pretty obvious, and we just saw this show at Kick Gallery, full of some fantastically weird and wonderful flora, from artist Andy Thomas . "Mixed-media artist Andy Thomas presents an extraordinary collection of intricate artworks, inspired by nature.Using a combination of digital technology and water colours, plants [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/07/exhibition-andy-thomas-synthetic-nature-melbourne/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/06/exhibition-pennies-for-the-ferryman-sydney/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/06/exhibition-pennies-for-the-ferryman-sydney/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:46:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8325
We saw this regretful news over at the Opening Hours and a few other places today – Kind Of Gallery, who in the past year have played host to a whole slew of great exhibitions, will be closing its doors until they find another space to display out of. "We are very sad to announce [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/06/exhibition-pennies-for-the-ferryman-sydney/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/06/open-submissions-curvy-magazine/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/06/open-submissions-curvy-magazine/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:28:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8319
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 [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/06/open-submissions-curvy-magazine/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/06/artist-to-watch-2012-bmd-1/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/06/artist-to-watch-2012-bmd-1/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:45:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8315
As we mentioned in our previous 1000th post editorial, we’ll be bringing you a small featured every day on an artist who we think has been, is and we’re sure will be, doing great things in 2012. First up off the rank is an artist from NZ who has been on our radar for some [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/06/artist-to-watch-2012-bmd-1/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/06/editorial-2nd-birthday-1000th-post-new-column/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/06/editorial-2nd-birthday-1000th-post-new-column/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:30:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8308
This is our 1000th post – believe it or not, that’s 1000 articles and interviews since I started up Invurt. That number may seem small, but when I think about it, that’s a couple of hundred words written for each article – so I went and did an "entire website" word count. Minus an average [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/06/editorial-2nd-birthday-1000th-post-new-column/feed/ 1 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/03/interview-caitlin-rigby/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/03/interview-caitlin-rigby/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:26:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8304
A couple of years ago, I purchased a painting by an artist who, until that moment, I was quite unfamiliar with. Beautifully flowing, almost organic, autonomous lines forming an ever so slightly forlorn and contemplative character. The piece, by Melbourne artist Caitlin Rigby, is, unabashedly, a personal favourite in my meagre collection. It sits centre [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/03/interview-caitlin-rigby/feed/ 1 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/03/snapshots-niels-shoe-meulman-rtist-melbourne/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/03/snapshots-niels-shoe-meulman-rtist-melbourne/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:49:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8282
Last night we had an absolute ball down at the opening of Shoe‘s exhibition at RTIST Gallery. A cool bit of performance art as he got completely covered in gold paint, lots of book signing, heaps of heads and good times. Afterwards, we headed down to Rooftop for the screening of Kroonjuwelen – seriously, if [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/03/snapshots-niels-shoe-meulman-rtist-melbourne/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/02/thursday-transmissions-sear-punk-squish/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/02/thursday-transmissions-sear-punk-squish/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:25:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8278
Oh have we seen stuff this week, and oh have we loved it. One of the best things about following all this kind of art these days is the amazing documentation of it all – so many people doing videos, so many great little productions … err, and lots of amateur stuff, that we love [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/02/thursday-transmissions-sear-punk-squish/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/02/exhibition-espionage-gallery-first-birthday-adelaide/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/02/exhibition-espionage-gallery-first-birthday-adelaide/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:15:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8274
Has it really only been a year since Espionage opened up in Adelaide? The gallery feels like it’s been such a mainstay with event in South Australia over the past year that we could swear its always been there. Josh Smith and his crew have done amazing things for the art scene over there in [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/02/exhibition-espionage-gallery-first-birthday-adelaide/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/02/international-pow-wow-hawaii-2/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/02/international-pow-wow-hawaii-2/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:02:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8267
Tropical paradises seem no brainers for big outdoor art events, and we just read over at Everfresh that a bunch of the crew, and other Oz artists, such as Kid Zoom, are getting ready to head over to the islands to participate in Pow Wow. Seriously, What we saw of this last year looked absolutely [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/02/international-pow-wow-hawaii-2/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/02/intercontinental-kyle-hughes-odgers-creepy-berlin/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/02/intercontinental-kyle-hughes-odgers-creepy-berlin/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:36:10 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8254
Looking like all the international shows are starting to ramp up for the year, and we’ll cover whatever we see of Oz and NZ artists doing it large out in the world! First up for the year is a new solo show from Kyle Hughes-Odgers, affectionately and better know to all of you as Creepy. [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/02/intercontinental-kyle-hughes-odgers-creepy-berlin/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/01/documentary-screening-kroonjuwelen-melbourne/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/01/documentary-screening-kroonjuwelen-melbourne/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:45:21 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8248
By now you’re all probably aware of the Upside Down Tour from Amsterdam artist, Niels "Shoe" Meulman (who we interviewed last week!), which had a successful opening up in Sydney, and will be opening up in Melbourne tomorrow night. There is, however, another part of the tour – and that is a very special screening [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/01/documentary-screening-kroonjuwelen-melbourne/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/01/event-trails-drawing-session-melbourne/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/01/event-trails-drawing-session-melbourne/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:42:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8227
The fabulous Cocoa Jackson Studios, who we featured a few weeks ago will be playing host to the next Trails drawing session. Trails has been running for some time, now and as a previous attendee, we can say with certainty that its a hell of a lot of fun. All are welcome – all you [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/01/event-trails-drawing-session-melbourne/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/01/exhibition-cheech-sanchez-girls-got-kicks-melbourne/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/01/exhibition-cheech-sanchez-girls-got-kicks-melbourne/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:53:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8231
This is one of those rare times we post up something about a photographic exhibition – but we have absolutely no qualms about this one. Girls Got Kicks looks to be not only a great night of entertainment, but there will be some luscious imagery from Cheech Sanchez of kicks and chicks, oh, and there’s [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/02/01/exhibition-cheech-sanchez-girls-got-kicks-melbourne/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/31/snapshots-sydney-walls-and-paint/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/31/snapshots-sydney-walls-and-paint/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:24:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8223
In the second part of our small feature of photos from our Sydney trip the other week, we have a bunch of walls that we saw on our wanderings. We really enjoyed our time up there, celebrated two close friends union and caught up with a bunch of others, briefly met a few new artists [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/31/snapshots-sydney-walls-and-paint/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/31/exhibition-board-melbourne/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/31/exhibition-board-melbourne/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:04:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/2011/11/11/exhibition-board-melbourne/
All good things must come to an end, and BOARD will be closing up this coming weekend. Toby from Just Another Agency posted: "So it’s finally here! The end is neigh! Yep you’re reading right… ‘Board‘ is finally closing and to celebrate we are having a closing party on Friday 3rd February from 6pm! Head [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/31/exhibition-board-melbourne/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/31/exhibition-worship-nothing-lo-fi-sydney/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/31/exhibition-worship-nothing-lo-fi-sydney/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:40:32 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8211
We’re definitely well and truly into 2012 now, and Lo-Fi has already swung into action. This next show has a whole bunch of familiar names in it as it and explores a theme that engenders all forms of debate and opinion.  "Freedom of religion has given way for a departure from traditional religions to more [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/31/exhibition-worship-nothing-lo-fi-sydney/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/31/exhibition-miked-dermographic-perth/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/31/exhibition-miked-dermographic-perth/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:39:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8206
These days, there are plenty of great shows on in Perth – and this year we’re betting that there’s going to be some crazy cool shit going on, like this one we saw the other day from tattoo, graff and illustrative artist Mike*D. We contacted Mike the other day to get a bit more of [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/31/exhibition-miked-dermographic-perth/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/30/snapshots-sydney-stickers-paste/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/30/snapshots-sydney-stickers-paste/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:26:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8171
Not too long ago we had a chance to get up to Sydney for the weekend, and whilst we were there we took a whole bunch of snapshots of various shit that caught our eye. First up from this swath of snaps that we’ve been sorting through, we grabbed photos of the various stickers and [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/30/snapshots-sydney-stickers-paste/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/30/exhibition-preview-bennett-sydney/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/30/exhibition-preview-bennett-sydney/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:38:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8183
Sydney artist Bennett has been on our radar for some time – we actually interviewed him before his last show last year. He emailed us over the weekend with news of his next show that opens up this coming Saturday, "Can We Fly". We’re big fans of Bennetts multilayered work, in his interview he said [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/30/exhibition-preview-bennett-sydney/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/27/snapshots-blue-bar-melbourne/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/27/snapshots-blue-bar-melbourne/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:44:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8156
Last weekend the WSW crew (Heesco, Pierre Lloga, Jack Douglas, Rad11, Facter) along with Irkle hit up the iconic Blue Bar on Chapel street to give it a fresh lick of paint as part of the ReVurt project. Great day, great tunes, good beer and some great work by all the artists involved – as [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/27/snapshots-blue-bar-melbourne/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/27/exhibition-sk8-katie-houghton-ward-melbourne/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/27/exhibition-sk8-katie-houghton-ward-melbourne/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:21:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8151
Artist and comic book creator extraordinaire Katie Houghton-Ward will be having her first show of the year, SK8, a collection of customised skateboards. The show will be held at Tetris studio, which has been making waves since opening up last year in the music and arts scene. "You are cordially invited to the opening of [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/27/exhibition-sk8-katie-houghton-ward-melbourne/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/26/thursday-transmissions-6/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/26/thursday-transmissions-6/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:02:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8160
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 [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/26/thursday-transmissions-6/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/26/live-art-heesco-union-lane/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/26/live-art-heesco-union-lane/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:50:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8142
Over the last few weeks the laneway at Union Lane has been painted up by the Blender crew and a bunch of their friends, but this weekend brings something a little different. Aiming to bring attention to the current political situation in Tibet, Heesco will be painting a large, politically themed piece right on the [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/26/live-art-heesco-union-lane/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/25/interview-niels-shoe-meulman/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/25/interview-niels-shoe-meulman/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:32:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8094
Artist Niels "Shoe" Meulman (NSM) has pursued many different variations of creativity throughout his life; graffiti artist, calligrapher, advertiser and gallery owner – yet it may be now, brush in hand, that he has truly found his niche. Growing up in the Netherlands, Shoe picked up a spray can at the dawn of the graffiti [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/25/interview-niels-shoe-meulman/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/24/exhibitions-mark-bod-melbourne-sydney/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/24/exhibitions-mark-bod-melbourne-sydney/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:21:29 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8054
Cobalt 60. Lizards. Cheech. If those names don’t ring a bell, then you sure as shit need to go and do your research, and do it now. "For two generations Mark and his father Vaughn Bode have forged an artistic legacy that has had a profound effect on graffiti, street art and underground comics. In [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/24/exhibitions-mark-bod-melbourne-sydney/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/23/interview-melbourne-underground-harold-mitchell/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/23/interview-melbourne-underground-harold-mitchell/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:16:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=7974
CDH, a Melbourne street artist, recently sat down for a chat on behalf of Invurt with Harold Mitchell, philanthropist, business man, Melbournian of the year, and the man behind the highly anticipated and acclaimed Melbourne Underground project … Harold Mitchell is one of Australia’s most successful businessmen. He is a dedicated philanthropist, serves on many [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/23/interview-melbourne-underground-harold-mitchell/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/23/exhibition-love-the-robots-brisbane/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/23/exhibition-love-the-robots-brisbane/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:33:14 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8032
Slightly off centre, yet still completely curious to those of us here who seek out new frontiers in art, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to let you all know about this coming show up in Brisbane (Plus, if you’ve been following us for a while, you’ll know how much we fkn love robots!) Having [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/23/exhibition-love-the-robots-brisbane/feed/ 0 http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/23/snapshots-underway-is-the-only-way/ http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/23/snapshots-underway-is-the-only-way/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:10:00 +0000 Facter http://www.invurt.com/?p=8028
Last week we got some photos from Jianna Lucia, who along with Maria Finna curated and organised the Underway Is The Only Way group exhibition at the Surf’n'ink exhibition on the Gold Coast. The show itself went down really well and it was busy throughout the convention. Here’s a great selection of pics from the [...]]]> http://www.invurt.com/2012/01/23/snapshots-underway-is-the-only-way/feed/ 0