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Around this time last year, we did our first snapshot of some of the cool sites that we read on a frequent basis that deal with Australian and New Zealand art and other creative endeavours. Every day our editor, Facter, reads through a mountain of blogs and websites, looking for cool events, exhibitions and artists to speak to – it takes a lot of time and effort, mostly because there are so many great sites out there that follow Oz & NZ art – but its completely worth it!

Last year our roundup included such sites as Dont Sleep Magazine, Nothing To Nobody, Melbourne Art & Culture Critic, Everfresh, Nice Produce, Kompound, Just Another Agency, ArtistsWA, This Life, Design Federation, the sadly missed We Make Stuff Good and the ever inspirational weAREtheIMAGEmakers.

Again, this is not a top of the top, nor an indication that if its not in this list then its not the best! There are just way too many sites out there for that we read through, and each one of them offers something different. Instead, this is just a small collection of some of the sites we’ve come across in the last year or so that have piqued our interest, and we thought we’d share them with you..

So, a huge thankyou to all the blogs from our list last year, and to all of our recent favourites listed here. Without all of your amazing efforts in documenting all of this cool shit, our day to day reading here at Invurt would be all the poorer …

Six Years Later Magazine – launching this year, Six Years Later is a fantastic print magazine, but their blog is also pretty damn cool. You should take a look at both, they’re equally worth the read.

Land Of Sunshine – well, you know him either from here with his monthly Top 10s, or from his awesome blog, Land Of Sunshine – in terms of coverage of Melbourne street art, Dean Sunshine is the man. With a wide range of collections, events and snaps from visiting artists, this is one of our definite go to blogs to check out whats been going up on the street.

T-Squat – These guys go from strength to strength. Editor and resident photographer James Watkins has a great eye for the eclectic, and though they cover everything from music to sports and everything in between, they also do great coverage on both established and emerging artists from around the globe. It’s a one stop feast.

Curvy – We love girls, and we love girls doing art, and we love girls writing about girls doing art … okay, you get the drift! Curvy celebrates all that is feminine and creative, and their blog is absolutely fantastic. With a great crew of bloggers behind the keyboard, and with plenty of inspiriting work pumping through the site, we head to Curvy on a regular basis.

Artygraffarti – new kid on the block, Arygraffarti, is really starting to get up there. With regular, frequent posts from his wandering around both Melbourne and other cities (when he gets there) this is a mint little low brow look at new stuff thats appearing. He also has a bit of event info on there of stuff happening around Melbourne, and its well worth adding to your reader feed.

Chasing Ghosts – these guys have been off on a sojourn around the globe for a while, but they’ve now settled back in Melbourne and have begun documenting and putting up great photosets on their bog as well as on flickr. With great attention to detail and a wonderful eye for not only the artwork, but its positioning and surrounding environment, these guys have it down.

Acclaim Mag – after a major site redesign sometime last year or so, Acclaims online presence and quality of content matches its print version. With everything street, urban, music and fashion related, if you’re into your all round street lifestyle, this is where you should be checking regularly – a great aussie based mag that we love!

Strutten – we adore this collective! Having only launched earlier this year, Strutten already have a loyal following, and we go to them for art and design related news up in Queensland. They have a great bunch of people posting, who are all collective artists themselves, and they also delve into the cafe and music culture. They love the city of Brisbane, and they’re great champions of what’s going on there. <3

The Opening Hours – The Opening Hours has their finger on the pulse up in Sydney, and more besides – both the photos and coverage of events is superb – this is our kinda blog!!

Disassociated – John Lampard does an amazing job at tracking events across the country, across all genres of art, with the Australian Art Show List. There’s also some great blogs posts on there outside of the event stuff, following film and other creative industry stuff – its very much worth a read.

Street Arse – of course, lots of love for the crews over in NZ, and Street Arse is our favourite. Shows, news and bits and pieces galore from the New Zealand street art scene.

Wellington Wall Street – and, still on the NZ tip, representing Wellington street art, heaps of great pics of work springing up in the city.

Stupidkrap – though a little quiet lately on the news front, Stupidkrap is a great site full of awesome content. Not only that, but their online store has a huge range of artwork and prints from all across Australia.

Dangerfork – speaking of prints and all things inked, another newcomer, Dankgerfork, has been carving a niche for itself down here in Melbourne. We can see these guys going a long way, and their recent popup store in Collingwood is a great testament to the quality of their work. Check back here often for all kinds of limited edition works from a bunch of wicked artists.

Project4000 – Have spent some time growing up in the Far North, we love anything coming out of Queensland, and Project 4000, along with Strutten, is our lifeline to what’s going on up there in Brisvegas. They follow a lot of streetwear orientated news, but their art and event coverage is also pretty cool and they have a bit on Brisbane street art here and there.

Philthosophy – this site maintains a running list of all the art happens in Melbourne, listed out per date. Theres a lot there, and she covers as much of it as possible in the lists – its a handy reference if you want to check out the creative life in the ‘burn!

Knock Knock Magazine – a relative newcomer, this magazine is already busting out with its first issue and looks set for a really bright future. We love it already!

Ironlak – well, this one is a no-brainer, really – just follow their blog, alright?

Special Mentions – International Blogs We Love

We do read a hell of a lot of international blogs as well, and though we don’t cover international stuff, well, we don’t need to – there are so many great places that do that already. These are just some of our favourites …

• Arrested Motion
• VNA Magazine
• UnUrth
• Juxtapoz
• Fecal Face
• Urban Artcore
• Hooked Blog
• Vandalog
• High Fructose
• Wooster Collective

We hope you enjoy all of these blogs and websites as much as we do, and, if they have a facebook page, show them your support by liking them and following their efforts!!

We’ll be doing this roundup on a quarterly basis now, so if you have any sites you’d like us to check out that you think we’d love, just let us know.

Earlier this year, we heard about an ambitious project to transform Sydneys Harbours Cockatoo Island into a mecca of street art. When we first heard it, it seemed a long way away, and we weren’t sure exactly what it entailed. Over time, we started learning more, and getting an idea as to what it would encompass – and it was bigger, bolder, and more jam packed with awesome than we ever imagined. The Outpost project will be a showcase of Australian street art, and international street art, that outweighs anything that has previously been seen in Australasia.

Over the next five weeks, we’ll be focusing on the Outpost Project for our editorial content – we’ll still have our regular blogs, but we’ll also be running a string of content as we document whats going on up at the island. We’ve also been working with the wonderful ArtSeries Hotels to help coordinate several forums and artist showcases as well, and there will be all kinds of posts around those. The entire team here has been gearing up for this for the last few months – its here, and we’re totally amped!

So, this is your rough guide to the event – from here will be links to articles on each event, interviews, live blogging, photos and all the rest. Use this as your feed, or just keep reading as you normally would to keep on track – all the Outpost content will be tagged so you can always just check the tag feed … Outpost will be a ground breaking event in the Australian street art legacy – we can’t wait, because its going to be mad – so read on, bookmark this article, and keep checking back here for new content links.

This is only a guide, and we’ll keep it as up to date as possible, so if in doubt, please refer to the Outpost Project website.

Invurts Rough Guide To The Outpost Project

• What Its All About
• Whats Invurt Doing There?
• Where Its At – Cockatoo Island
• Outpost Project Festival Map
• Artists & Interviews
• Events & Exhibitions
• Outpost Forums
• Educational Programs
• Media Releases & Links

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Next week from the hands of one of Everfresh studios own, Makatron, comes an imaginative and illustrative universe on canvas ‘Mother of Millions’ with a collection of his new works, hosted by No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne.

Makatron, who is an emerging Melbourne artist, has been around the world and back many times, plying his trade and honing his craft using a variety of media, from acrylics to aerosol and oils.

“The themes and inspirations of Makatron’s work are as eclectic as the media he employs, but they tend to reflect a few signature dichotomies. The name “Makatron” itself is a paradox, combining a prefix meaning “from” (carrying connotations of place, history, tradition, and regeneration) with a suffix that suggests the machine-like, the virtual, the promise and threat of technology

Makatron’s work, too, often pulls in opposite directions. His street art is by its nature rooted in a particular place, inscribing itself palimpsest-like as an element in a site’s history, yet it also reflects the artist’s own nomadic existence, consciously participating in a global culture with a significant extension in the virtual realm. Similarly, his work is preoccupied with the interface between humans, beasts, nature and machines, reminding us that in a digital age, human nature itself is becoming ever more machine-like.”

Ever more present in this new collection, is the artists beautiful escapist world – to which we are brought to the brink of in order to ponder it all with an objective eye, like a looking through a child’s viewfinder. These works are an illustrious combination of the organic and synthetic – or mechanical, incorporating into each piece naturalistic patterns and shapes bouncing of the humanistic qualities within.

Makaron is an artist inside an artist. His mediums alone speak of a truth, and strength, that blends well with any subject. He is more than capable of attaining artistic equilibrium on each venture, whilst keeping us, the audience’s, attention – no matter our tastes. One can only gander a guess at the title but to us it speaks volumes; the very earth-like projection tells of the mother, ‘mother earth’. And of “millions” being all things, including us and that which surrounds us.

Come and see for yourself what this diverse artist has got for us now. Don’t miss this, or you’ll be kicking yourself…to the moon and back!

Heaps of cool stuff posted up everywhere this week, hard to know where to start, but we’ll just put it out as it comes … hope you are enjoying your Saturday morning off work (and for those who are working, commiserations!)

Safehouse Studio Opening @ Dangerfork

We got down a bit late, but the Safehouse Studio Opening show was complete win – we can’t wait to see what these guys come up with next! Saw these over at Dangerfork …

Check out all the pics on the Dangerfork website, and theres some over at Dean Sunshines site too.

Twist & Amaze @ The Opening Hours

That purveyor of cool, and one of our favourite blogs, The Opening Hours, posted up some great pics of the new Twist and Amaze pieces in Sydney – totally dope.

Check out all the pics on The Opening Hours website.

Sirum @ Prahran & Swan Hill

We were leaving our studios the other day and were stoked to see a new piece by Sirum adorning the recently opened Smith, on High street in Prahran. Absolutely fkn gorgeous.

Check more pics here.

Sirum also recently hit the country recently, and did a bunch of workshops and a revitalisation of the Swan Hill George Lay Park – heaps of awesome photos from this, and some really great work.

Two sets of pics of both the workshops and the George Lay Park wall were posted up – here, and here. Also check out the Komplex Graphix website for info if you need any walls painted for your business.

Phibs @ The Standard

LoFis space transformed into The Standard, and they posted up a bunch of pics of Phibs doing some work, as well as their opening night.

Head to the LoFi website to see all the pics from the opening night!

Phibs @ The Opening Hours

The Opening Hours also posted up a heap of photos from Phibs latest show “Journey” – like them, we absolutely love the installation – looks like it was a great show!

Check out all the pics from the show over at The Opening Hours

Young & Free @ Ironlak @ Everfresh @ 941Geary

Probably the biggest slew of photos to come out this week were those from over in San Francisco, where a huge contingent of Australian street artists converged for the Young & Free exhibition. It was an important show, and one of the biggest Oz contingent ever to hit an overseas location, and was an amazing showcase of some great artists from across the Australian street art scene. …

New2, Mike Giant, and SleazyMcCheesy sent these pics to Ironlak who posted them up, you can see all of those here.

Everfresh threw a whooooleeee bunch of images and such up on their Tumblr (they unfortunately had a couple of issues with images in the past week, all seems to be fixed now though). Some absolutely mad work in it.

You can see all of the images over at Everfresh’s Tumblr site.

Lastly, the gallery where Young & Free was held, 941Geary, have been following the artists since they arrived, and have not only put up several posts of the installation process, but also a bunch of images from the street.

Part 1 of the install, and Part 2 of the install are at 941Geary.com.

That pretty much caps off this weeks roundup of pics from across the blogosphere, enjoy the rest of your weekend, and, if you have anything you’d like for us to cover in this section, just send us through the deets!

Welcome to our first Saturday Snapshots column! Like the Thursday Transmissions, we see a hell of a lot of photos and images posted up across the blogosphere, so here we will be doing a wrap and recap of some of the cool shit that’s been sent to us, or that we’ve seen during the week!

Hope you enjoy this new column, and that you find it a handy guide too the weeks photographic goodness on your Saturday morning …

Ill Logic @ Melbourne

First up, the guys from Ill Logic sent us these pics during the week from their event last week!

"The annual ILL-Logic art exhibition returned to Chapel Street, Fitzroy on Thursday night,  which showcased street artists Itch, Flake, Sex Panther, Rick Sweden and Taylor White, as well as 16 mm projections and video-mapping from Paul Rodgers and Charlotte McDonald."

200+ art lovers were treated to hip hop tunes, Grolsch beer, Gypsy Pear cider and Emma & Toms Juices. The night kicked on with punters mingling and checking out the artworks on display. Rick Sweden’s ‘The Battle for Flinders Street’ which was hung on the wall of the newly opened Juddy Roller Café, created quite the stir with its remarkable detail and engrossing scene.

 
Enjoy the pieces in person anytime at the corner of Johnston Street and Chapel Street (Fitzroy, VIC), and come check out Rick’s piece and have a coffee and lunch at the Juddy Roller from Monday to Saturday between 9am-4 pm."

For more images, check the Ill Logic website. Arty Graffarti was also there and got a heap of shots too.

Everfresh – "Where They Create" @ Collingwood

We had a look through all of these photos that were done of the Everfresh Studio by Photographer Paul Barbera – and they are amazing!

Click through to see all of the images, and get more info on the Everfresh website – Images via Everfresh.

Young & Free @ Fecal Face

You may have seen this great collection of work up for the upcoming Young And Free exhibition on Fecalface this week, or you may not have – some really amazing shots and preview of the upcoming show in the USA!

 Kid Zoom

Ben Frost

Check out the whole feature with a lot more awesome preview pics. Images via Fecalface.

Adnate @ Urbanartcore

Melbourne graffiti artist Adnate has been over in Berlin for a little while now, and he’s been painting up a storm! He recently had an article posted up on Urbanartcore.ea and they put up a whole bunch of studio shots of him preparing for his show there at Box32.

Check out the article here, as well as Adnates website.

Fintan Magee @ House of Giants

We interviewed the man just before  his House Of Giants exhibition, and he just posted up a "recap" of images and such from it this week. We love ‘em!

Check out Fintan Magees website for all the photos from his recap of the show.

Dvate @ Just Another Agency

On the whole studio visit tip, Just Another Agency had a cool studio visit and interview with Dvate, whose show "Something 4 Nothing" opened this week.

 Check out the full article and the rest of the pics here on the Just Another Agency website.

Dvate @ Rancho Notorious

.. and further, Dean Sunshine got some snaps of the show itself at Rancho Notorious – we thought it was a pretty great fkn show.

Click here for all the images on Dean Sunshines page.

Meggs @ Backwoods Gallery

We got down to Meggs show, Inner Demons II at Backwoods Gallery the other week, and we loved what we saw – beautiful works of light and dark juxtaposed on each side of the room.

Meggs posted up the above, and a bunch more images from the show on Everfresh – and you can check out the full set here.

If you have any info or photos on any projects, feature. Image, walls, exhibitions or events you’ve been working on that you’d like us to feature on the Saturday Snapshots, just contact us – include a bit of info about it, an image or two, as well as links to your site and any artists involved so that we can properly credit it!

This Friday we are hit with Meggs’ new show Inner Demons II, at Collingswoods Backwoods Gallery, which is a continuance of his earlier works involving the “inward exploration of duality” – no better way of putting it, really!

The previewed pieces give one goosebumps, and shudders of deeply frightening yet somewhat therapeutic thoughts. This brilliant collection is provocative in its look, feel and for the symbolism conveys.

“This time centring around the notion of ‘demons’ as symbolic reference of our inner most fears and desires; and the constant struggle we face in overcoming or empowering these vices. Although a demon is commonly used to portray a nemesis, Meggs’ pop culture twist on this subject implies that a demon can also be somewhat celebrated, and when vices are overcome or empowered they serve to make us stronger.”

One of the infamous and celebrated Australian Everfresh crew, Meggs has stepped out with this second part of his previous London show in an impressive way. Artistically graduating at stealth speed from the Melbourne Street art scene to yet another level, these works have brought together all the best components of his previous work, both on canvas and on the street. With a layered background of inspiration to pull from; skateboarding to graphic art, Meggs uses all the elements at his disposal to birth and rear his artwork, and for us to bask and contemplate in the viewing … and we thank him!

To see what all the fuss is about get down to the opening night and make your own inner appraisal, and trust that you will come away with something which keeps you delving deeper through the night!
Plus they look pretty damn funky fresh as well – just check out the previous of the show!

Who: Meggs
What: Inner Demons II solo show
Where: Backwoods Gallery, 25 Easy Street Collingwood, VIC
When: Opening night Friday 19th August 6-9pm. Show runs until 4th September 2011

For more info on this exhibition and the artist himself check out Backwoods Gallery and The House of Meggs website, as well as the Facebook event page!

All great things must have a closing party! So that’s what the guys from Everfresh will be doing this Friday night. As they say goodbye to their temporary work space at the National Gallery of Victoria, the crew will be displaying a whole bunch of new work that they, and some of their friends, have produced in their time there.

Though its been cool seeing the crew and the studio displayed so prominently in the city at such a worthy establishment, its really about time that the fkn crazy mad graff mobile got on the road – so maybe we’ll just think of this as its launch party, instead of the studio closing party – champagne, anyone?

Who: Phibs, Rone, Reka, Meggs, Sync, Makatron, Wonderlust, Prizm, Miso, Stabs, Mayonnaise
What: Everfresh @ NGV Closing party
Where: NGV Studio Space, the Atrium, Federation Square, Melbourne
When: Show is this Friday, the 8th of July, 7pm til 10pm.

Check out the Everfresh website for more details, as well as the facebook event page!

CDH, a Melbourne street artist, recently sat down with the NGVs David Hurlston on behalf of Invurt, to talk about street art, as well as the new NGV Studio in Melbournes Federation Square  …

As the acting Senior Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery for Victoria, David Hurlston is the man responsible for the entirety of the Australian Art Collection in Victoria. The collection at the NGV includes the first non-indigenous Australian works, all the way through to contemporary art. On top of this, David has also recently taken on co-supervision of the newly opened NGV Studio in Federation Square (with Deborah Ratliff),

You may have heard of this space in recent months, and the very first exhibition in the new studio space is a month long residency by Melbournes Everfresh crew. Everfresh competed against three other crews (AWOL, SDM and the Formula One crew), by painting a 25m long wall inside the space. Votes were then cast via new media (Twitter and Facebook) to determine who would occupy the space –with the Everfresh crew taking out the honours.

David is a champion for street art in Melbourne; someone who is helping it to be recognized as a legitimate part of our culture and true art movement. He’s also a really nice guy – halfway through the conversation that I had with David last week, an elderly Chinese man came up and asked for assistance sending a text message – and David patiently helped him for a good 15 minutes …

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Woooot yeah, here we go! Your Thursday afternoon viewing all in one getcha goggles watch and learn time. We’re back with this weeks Transmissions, and its been a grand ‘ol week …

First up, ABC in Canberra interviewed the amazing E.L.K. – everyone should check this video out, there’s no embed (ABC seems to be dinosauric), alas, but just click through here and watch it.

Jack Douglas. We love this man. He’s taken freakin –bed sheets- to a new level with this preview for his upcoming show, Airing Out Your Dirty Laundry …

Next up, Everfresh had a bit of a spot on the weather – background uber cnts indeed haha …

The brilliant street artist Drab has a great video of his process for his big paste up characters – awesome shit, we love process videos!

Check out the newest show on the block, Bright Things TV, first episode has a cool spot on Secret Wars, but its chock full of great cultural and lifestyle shiz – worth the watch.

.. and, because we were a little late to the party, here’s episode 2 of Bright Things – the latest episode has a cool feature on the recent Just Another Female Skateboard exhibition – really, this is just a great show on what’s going on.

We do love a bit of light graff, projector graff, what do you name it .. but here’s something cool, they’re using a Kinect to do it – mad.

That’s pretty much all we have this week, pending last minute oh shit we missed something – hope you enjoyed!

If you’ve followed Melbourne street art, or indeed Australian street art, at any stage in the past decade, then there is little doubt that the name RONE is already a very familiar one.

As a part of the illustrious and well respected Everfresh crew, RONE has received all number of accolades for his street art, as well as his fortitudinous design skills – so much so that he was featured alongside many of Australias street art luminaries in last years Space Invaders exhibition at the National Gallery in Canberra.

Having been involved in last years brilliantly executed Underbelly Project in NYC, he has also garnered a fair amount of media attention in the past few years, as this beautiful story from The Age testifys. Along with the rest of the crew, RONE will also be a part of the Everfresh @ NGV event, to be held over the next month in Melbourne Federation Square.

In the lead up to his first solo show at Backwoods Gallery, we managed to snare some of RONEs more than precious time, to talk to him about his upcoming show, and the beautiful, emotion laden women that he portrays throughout his work …

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We like to stay away from any bias here – we do love Melbourne street art, and if you take a look through the pages here, sure, there are a shitload of events and such happening in Melbourne – but the same can be said for every other city in Oz too, its fkn heaving. In the past few weeks there has been so much going on across the country that its been hard to keep up, and it doesn’t look like slowing down any time soon. Australia’s street art scene is rocking, as is its entire “low brow” scene – and it has been for some time. Adelaide is pumping, Perth is producing swath of great artists, Brisbane creatives and the cities galleries are putting on amazing shows, Sydneys scene is, without a doubt, one of the best in the land and the rest of the country is following suit!

Why do we mention this? Well, two reasons – one, someone mentioned to us that we’re pretty Melbourne-centric. Fair call, but shit, you can see how much is happening here for yourself, and we cover as much as possible outside of here at every chance we can get! Secondly? Well, because in each city across Australia there are small havens of explosive art dotted amongst the metros areas – and, in the coming weeks, we’re going to be doing exposes on suburbs around Australia that have a high concentration of creative oomph. We have a few lined up, but at this stage they’re mostly Melbourne, because that’s our ‘hood here, but if anyone out there has suggestions for places you’d like us to cover elsewhere, or if you’d like to do a small write up and send us some pics of one of your favourite suburbs, adorned with mad art, then just contact us … because as much as we do love Melbourne, and as much as we cover a lot of the ‘burns shit here, it aint the be all and end all of all the cool stuff happening, both continentally, and across the ditch …

Oh yeah, and on that, you may have noticed that our love isn’t confined to just these shores any more, and as of last week we are full swing into our coverage of New Zealand street art and its ilk – we already have some great interviews, event and exhibition news, and we hope you enjoy our new section!

Anyways, hey its been a while between shit-talking – on to the wrap!

News and Miscellanea …

• Askew has opened up a new online shop – lots of cool merch from a very cool artist!
• So it was released a few months ago, but we saw it up on Nice Produce, so we’ll link to it too – Rackgaki is a great Japanese graff doco from a  few years ago – watch!
• Acclaim put up another Carbon recap video – this one is grand! Very inspiring and great to watch. Oh yeah, they also just went digital as well, woot!
• We’ll throw it into next weeks Transmissions, but here’s the preview video for the Everfresh studio at the NGV that starts next week.
• Nice Produce have a sale going on right now – you can get a whole bunch of dope Aussie artist wares for cheap – some amazing clothing on there!
• Support the amazing Dont Sleep magazine by going to buy some of their new shirts!
• We’re so not beyond pimping our mates – that’s what the wrap is for! haha … and our good friend Fergus, a well known local DJ and internationally acclaimed music producer,  has just released a bunch of new tracks in a glitch-hop-ish side project, Oddphonic. We recommend a listen, stat.

Pics And Images From Around The Traps …

• Those cool Prahran cats, T-Squat, have put up a great bunch of pics of recent street art activity in the Prahran area – things are definitely a-changing …
• We love Drab, what can we say? And we also love what Heesco painted, live, at Urban Art Throwup at the BSG last week (the show is still on, get down and see it!).
• The Opening Hours posted up some great pics from Makatrons latest adventures. They also have some great pics of Listers upcoming work for his Europe show.
• Check out this great bunch of pics from Ironlak done by members of the TMD, RTR and FDKNS crews over in New Zealand – mint.
• Dean Sunshine posted up some really cool stuff this week as well. Pics from the Fibre Femmes opening last Friday (which was an amazing show!), as well as a new collection of Melbourne Paste Up images – love this site.
• Lo-fi posted these grand images that Numskull and Roachy did on the El Capo cantina in Sydney
• Those wicked West Coasters, Last Chance, put up a bunch of pics from their recent exhibition up at Port Headland last month!
• Strobed also put up some awesome images from Bennets Oranges & Lemons show up in Sydney at the now, sadly closed but never forgotten Oh Really Gallery.

Also, don’t forget to check out the Transmissions for lots of cool Oz-centric videos from the past few months! That’s a wrap from us this week, have a good one!

After little bits of teasing rumour over the past month or so, the guys from the Melbourne street art crew Everfresh have released the news of their impending visit to the NGV.

This is going to be amazing – it will give everyone a crazily cool insight into the working practices of the Everfresh crew, as they temporarily relocate from their Collingwood studio to the NGV studio in the heart of Melbourne. Everfresh are at the top of their game, and if you’ve ever been curious as to how they do what they do (and you shamefully haven’t read their book yet!), well, now’s your chance to find out more.

“EVERFRESH STUDIO are moving into the NGV STUDIO next week.
Artist from Everfresh will be there for about a month, so feel free to drop in and say hi.  At the end of our residency we are going to have a bit of an event to show case works made during our time there.”

Who: Phibs, Rone, Reka, Meggs, Sync, Makatron, Wonderlust, Prizm, The Tooth & Special Guests!ironlak, ngv,
What: Everfresh at the NGV studio
Where: NGV STudio – Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC
When: Starting Monday 6th June and running until the 8th of July, when they will have a show of the work they’ve produced whilst in the studio.

Check out the Everfresh website for more details on this awesome event!

Well, its a bit of a visualgasmfest like last week, and this weeks videos are grand.

First up, we have something different– our friend Dynamik (Paul Wright) did this time lapse piece for us of a wall that we organised in Perth at the Platinum Zone, featuring NVS, Pore, Poise, Suloh, Tonitones, Dibs, Deej. Assisted by Gems and Dynamik. We have a full story about this wall, and a whole load of pics, coming up over the weekend, but for now, heres the roughed out ‘lapse … complete with (ever so slightly unmastered and incomplete) preview music from Hesperia.

Invurt @ Perth – Platinum Zone from James Starma on Vimeo.

Next, we have to put RONEs preview video for his upcoming show – absolutely love watching his process, its pretty damned cool.

RONE – l’inconnue de la rue from Everfresh Studio on Vimeo.

The guys at Petty Thieves in conjunction with Lo-Fi put up a video from last weeks charity event, Give Heart. Sweet.

Lo-Fi Presents ‘Give Heart’ from Petty Thieves on Vimeo.

Zonk are back once again, this time with a time lapse animation from Nufevah and Insto.

Animation 1 from Zonk Vision on Vimeo.

Woah. Dcypher from New Zealand and Putos from Australia recreate the classic Rampage video game in LA – amazing!

Heres a rad timelapse video of Jun Inoune doing a piece of work for fashion store, Assin, at Backwoods the other week. Such a lucky store to have this in there!

JUN IOUNE TIMELAPSE FILM from Philip A Einwick on Vimeo.

Lastly, there’s a cool piece that we saw over at Stupidkrap that has an expose on psychedelic art! No embed, so just click through to check it out …

That’s it for now! Til next weeks round …

In what may be one of the most anticipated solo shows of the past few years, Everfresh studio artist RONE will be displaying a range of work next month in his upcoming solo show, L’Iconnue De La Rue – the title of which, roughly translated to “Unknown Girl Of the Streets” – seems perfectly suited to the work of a man who has been putting up visages of alluring, beautiful women around the cityscape for years.

“My recent work has been focused on two styles that I love to work with: the stencilled girls I’ve become known for and the screen-printed posters reminiscent of the designs that originally inspired me to make art. L’inconnue de la rue is inspired by the story of L’Inconnue de la Seine, in which the body of an unknown girl was pulled out of the Seine River in Paris. Her peaceful expression added to the mystery surrounding her death.

L’inconnue de la rue (The unknown girl of the street) is my adaption of the story, in which an unknown girl deals with the death of a loved one.

Exploring the juxtaposition between the beauty of my paste-up girls and their natural deterioration on the street led me to use layered and torn billposters as my canvas. The illegibility of the destroyed billposters signifies our inability to focus and make sense of life when faced with mortality.”

Backwoods. Totally bringing the goods.

Who: RONE
What: L’Iconnue De La Rue  solo show
Where: Backwoods Gallery, 25 Easey Street, Collingwood, VIC
When: Show opens Friday 17th June, 6pm til 9pm, and runs until 26th June

Check out the facebook event page, the Backwoods Gallery website and RONES blog for more info.