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The Yellow Sunshine event will be held on this coming Saturday, and it looks to be a feast of music and art on a pretty grand scale. A couple of artists from Rival Revolution studios and some of our friends and others will be in attendance, painting, playing and drawing up a storm as the beats filter through.

The Yellow Sunshine People Gathering will be held at the CERES Community Environment Park in Brunswick East.

“Ceres is a Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies, is an award winning, not-for-profit, sustainability centre located on 4.5 hectares on the Merri Creek. It is also a thriving community, an urban farm, Australia’s largest deliverer of environmental education, an event and conference venue and a place rich with social and cultural diversity. CERES is recognised as an international leader in community and environmental practice.”
This free Art Space, which is the first stop on festival arrival, incorporates live arts and music plus interactive adventure and installations, all amongst the outdoor freedom that is Ceres.

With a multitude of established and emerging street artists painting live, DJ’s pumping out tasty beats, kooky Carnival games and a pop-up gallery ta-boot there is heaps of fresh free fun for all.
Artists include: The Airbrush and acrylic Andrew Sieker, Mixed Medium Jianna Lucia, mixed media Mishke, illustrator, cartoonist, psychedelic Essig, freelance designer and illustrator Misprint, self taught digital Jemproduce, independent under-ground Amordios G-Smyth, mixed media James Flaxman, minimal muralist and screen-printer Max Well, Aerosol Acylic and Stencil ExRobot, and Psychedelic fine art Kuba Fiedorowicz.

Music provided by Techno/Minimal/Techhouse DJ and Producers: Steph Yeah, Starma (Hesperia), Craig James, Royce, Toby and Pete.”

If you like your beats, and love your art, what better way to spend a Saturday?

Who: ExRobot, Andrew Sieker, Jianna Lucia, Mishke, Essig, Misprint, Jemproduce, Amordios G-Smyth, James Flaxman, Kuba Fiedorowicz, Max Well.
What: Yellow Sunshine festival Arts Precinct
Where: CERES Environment Park, Brunswick East
When: From 2pm, Saturday 10th December 2011

Check out the Yellow Sunshine website for more information.

Look at this line up … who wouldn’t want to party at this party!

With artists including Drypnz, Cinzah Seekayem, Reckt, BMD, Wert 159, Trust Me, Ghstie, Kame and more Taupō is “set to break its’ conservative mold this Labour Weekend, when sixteen of New Zealand’s leading street artists descend on the Central North Island town.”

“Graffiato is a unique and dynamic street art festival, providing artists with an abundance of blank walls and a weekend to create vibrant and colorful permanent artworks. Curated by Cut Collective member, Ross Liew, Graffiato is a new festival delivered by Erupt Events, Taupō’s Arts Trust, who also deliver the nationally renowned biennial ‘Erupt Lake Taupō Festival’.”

“Graffiato is going to permanently change the face of street art in New Zealand,” said Mr Liew. “For some time now, street art and graffiti has been gaining an ever-increasing profile across the world. While certain names have cut through and now register for many within middle New Zealand, our own country’s practitioners have often been left overlooked. Graffiato will change that.”

We can’t be there, but if you’re in the country, you can – so get there  and support New Zealand’s massive pool of talent!

Who doesn’t like free shit? and when that free shit involves a trip to NYC to take part in a kick ass art exhibition, all for just submitting a piece of your own kick ass art then all the better.

Jeremy Gaschk, the curator of Rtist Gallery and one hard working dude, sent us a few words around the comp:

"The winner of this comp will be flown to NYC to paint a mural there, paint supplied by Ironlak. The top 20 entries to the comp will be exhibited at the The Boroughs festival. Where their work can be sold. The Boroughs festival is going to be dope, it’s a NYC inspired culture festival, featuring The New York Dolls + loads more music, the best skaters, film, fashion, surfboard shaping etc…

To enter this comp you just need to buy a ticket to the festival. It’s $60 and it’s running in every major city around Oz. It’ll be a dope day out, plus you can hopefully make some money out of it by selling your painting there, or even better still get flown to NYC. For dudes in NZ I guess you could give your tick to a friend in OZ? The comp will be curated by the curator of Rtist Gallery, and the art will be judged by the crowd and a selection panel.

For more info on this check out the comps website page HERE

The works must be A3 in size, with Black & White colour palate with a choice of either blue and/or red included. Photo’s of the work must be submitted by 26th of September."

Looks pretty mad, and if you’re artistically inclined and want to make your way over to NYC to paint up, best get onto it now!

Who: You!
What: The Boroughs Art Competition
Where: Submit online, then fly OS
When: Entries close September 26th, 2011!

Go here to enter and to get more info!

Hot on the heels of her duo show with Adelaide illustrator and artist Kara Gillette, Nish Cash is busy preparing for her upcoming solo show, Lush Science", to be held at the Cold Krush store and Gallery in Unley as a part of the South Australian Living Artists festival.

"Under the SALA Festival is an exhibition for all lovers of Aerosoul Dynamics. This debut solo show by Nish is set to showcase some of her finest work in recent times.

As one of Australia’s most respected female graffiti writers, Nish has been crafting her skills on many a public wall. Her organic and fluidic ‘soft style’ of lettering and characters will now be on display at Cold Krush Store/Gallery for the first time. Studying the science of beauty through the projection of aerosol paint on walls and canvases, luscious ladies and letters will intertwine to bring you the divine.

The walls will [also] be jam packed (in and outdoors) featuring a massive piece, and over 50 canvases and accessories. "

We interviewed Nish the other week, and loved her work – this will be a grand, grand show.

Who: Nish Cash
What: Lush Science solo show
Where: Cold Crush Store & Gallery, 109 Unley Road, Unley, South Australia
When: Show opens Thursday 11th August, 6pm til 9pm

Check out the facebook event page, the Cold Krush website as well as the SALA festival website.

We’ve been wondering when another cool art event like this was going to pop up – the StreetCube Street Art Project is providing the general public of Surfers Paradise with a fantastic opportunity to watch and interact with some of the hottest talent in urban art forms.

An all-ages Workshop featuring Beastman and Shida will be held at Neil Shannon Park, Surfers Paradise on Thursday 9th July, starting at 11am and running until about 2pm. (hopefully longer)

Later on in the evening, artists Gimiks Born, Beastman and Shida will be at Festival Community Gallery (Circle on Cavill, 9 Ferney Ave, Surfers paradise) for an arts forum, taking questions and giving an insight into the life and experiences of a seasoned street artist.

The forum starts at 5.30pm and will go until 7pm.

If you’re near the GC, be sure to get down there for this brilliant opportunity to meet some fantastic artists, and see some incredible works. With FREE entry to both events and door prizes at the forum, how could you resist?

OneWay Project Music Festival

As if all that wasn’t enough live art for one weekend, Sydney artist Beastman then returns with local artist’s Shida, Gimiks Born and Jae Copp to tackle the OneWay Project Music festival.

It can be expected that the combined force of incredible and varied talent, will transform one of this surfing cities blandest alleyway walls, into what is sure to be a masterpiece.

With DJ’s pumping from 2pm, along side a smorgasbord of funky stalls that will feature both exclusive and up-and-coming designers, a huge array of local art installations and exhibition spaces, and of course, live art, this is definitely one to get out bed for.

Check out this teaser video for the festival and the OneWay project.

Oneway Project Teaser from salvador73nomadiX on Vimeo.

Who: Beastman, Shida, Gimiks Born, Jae Copp.
What: Streetcube Live Art Event @ OneWay Project Street Party.
Where: Alison + Appel Streets, Surfers Paradise.
When: 9th July, Live art will begin at 2pm and run until 9pm.

Check out the StreetCube street art Project, details on the workshop and the forums, and all the other activities happening at the Surfer Paradise Festival. Also check out the facebook event page for OneWay, and the entire shebang – man, we want to go to Surfers next weekend!

Wow, this one has really caught our eye – the guys at Acclaim are really out doing themselves – the line up of artists, designers and other cultural ambassadors is varied and amazing, and seeing the word Futura there also is just the icing on the cake.

If you are interested in art, design, culture or style, the Carbon Festival is probably right up your alley. We are all over stuff like this, and can’t wait until it comes around so that we can sink our teeth into it and check it out – and we’’ll try to keep you updated on everything going on.

“Between April 29th and May 1st, Melbourne’s Federation Square will play host to Carbon, an event that brings together some of today’s most interesting creative minds to present, discuss and share their experiences with local audiences via a series of four discussion forums, each focused on a specific aspect of contemporary street fashion, design and culture.

The first round of confirmed guest speakers includes: Futura; one of the world’s most renowned street and modern artists (NYC), Noah Callahan-Bever; editor in chief of Complex Magazine and complex.com (NYC); Bobby Hundreds; co-founder of one of the most successful independent clothing labels today The Hundreds (LA), Matt Thomas; co-founder of the highly successful Highs And Lows sneaker boutiques (Perth, WA), Frank Liew; owner and founder of internationally renowned boutiques Qubic and Quarters, blogger for hypebeast.com and cultural influencer (Auckland, NZ) and Greg Rivera- Founder of highly successful street label Mishka (NYC).”

Who: Futura, Bobby Hundreds, Qubic/Hypebeast’s Frank Liew, Mishka’s Greg Rivera, Matt Thomas (Highs And Lows) and Complex magazine’s editor-in-chief, Noah Callahan Bever and much more ..
What: Carbon Festival of Contemporary Style, Design and Culture
Where: Federation Square, Melbourne, Victoria
When: The event runs from Friday April 29th, and runs for the weekend until May the 1st

Check out Acclaim for more info, as well as the facebook event page for up to date news on the event!

Last night I did the dual mission between Fitzroy and the city to go and check out both the opening of Sweet Streets @ BSG as well as to see my first Secret Wars heat.

Neither disappointed, and I got a couple not so crappy shots from both …

Sweet Streets @ BSG

So much going on with Sweet Streets at the moment! BSG opened their show last night, the Festival Film Night is on tonight with a bunch of new short films on street art, and tomorrow night is the Urban Intervention street art sculpture exhibition and art trail opening at Yarra Sculpture Gallery .. that and all the things happening at the Artists Hub in Collingwood, as well as all the workshops and the many events coming up on the program makes for a busy time.

Anyways, I got to BSG fairly early and moseyed around and checked everything out …

More on our facebook page …

Secret Wars

Wow, damn that was cool. Scale and Itch battled it out last night in the first heat of the Melbourne round of Secret Wars, and it was a great show – Scale just made it past the mark and beat out Itch to go into the next round of qualifiers. I personally wouldn’t have liked to have been the judges, and as it was their votes were equally split between the two and it was left to the crowd cheer-vote to decide.

Great job by both, amazing work – congrats dudes.

All the rest of out photos are up on our facebook page, as per the usual …

Last Friday night was the opening of Sweet Streets, the 2010 Melbourne street art festival.

I was there most of the night at the Awards exhibition helping out with the show (as semi-official red-dotter and general run-around-er), and got a glimpse into all the hard work that was done in the background for both the opening, and the next two weeks of the festival. The committee really needs to be congratulated for putting it all together – it was packed out and there were so many unique and amazing pieces in it. A special yo also has to go out to the other volunteers, who all did a great job too.

As a pretty shitty critic (You may have noticed that I tend to love anyone who puts anything up on walls!) I wont comment too much on the content, but suffice to say there wasn’t anything there that I didnt like, I picked up a piece from a favorite artist, loved another massive four panel work that had awesome robotech-ish spacecraft across it (that was a little out of my price range), that Junky Projects rules, that the music was great, the crew doing the live drawing was amazing, and that all the winners of the prizes were well deserving of their kudos – as were all of the artists involved.

Theres some more on the opening over at Melbourne Art and Culture Critic – I had the chance to meet and chat to the affable and friendly Mark, whose blog I’ve been a big fan of for a while, and we took a good look at the show together before the opening, and he sums it up nicely. I’m looking forward to the next installments over the coming fortnight, starting with both the show at the BSG on Wednesday as well as the film night on Thursday … not to mention all the other events and workshops happening!

So heres photos from Friday pre-show as well as the opening, with my oh so ultra awesome camera skills haha .. its on at 1000 pound Bend for the next two weeks, so get in there and take a look!

The layout …

Toy Mountain with the panel I mentioned in the background ..

The Hand!

Some of the awesome work up for auction at the charity event!

Crowded room …

Live art!

One of my favorite urban sculptors, hands down. Finished live art product, up for auction (excuse the crappy photo!)…

Sick night, sick art, sick festival.

Download a copy of the entire festival guide and get to it!

The guys organising the upcoming Sweet Street festival have put an open invitation out for people who are interested in getting involved with the festivities. Any who are interested in helping out at the festival can attend a meeting they are putting on at the Collingwood Underground, Saturday 28th August, from 4pm til 6pm.

From the festival committee:

“Do you want to be involved with the festival but not sure how?

The Sweet Streets Team is holding an Artists’ Gathering on Saturday the 28th August at the Collingwood Underground. We invite all artists to come along if you want to get a bit more info on the festival, and express your interest in various festival activities such as – live painting, collaborations, open studios, workshops, forums, the film night, or your own project.  So come along for a bit of a BBQ, some beers, and meet the other artists and the festival team involved this year!”

More info on the Sweet Streets website – if you’re interested in helping them make this the best festival yet, make sure you get down there on the day!

Absconding from a nearby East Perth residence, we arrived just in time to see Elite Force in full flight. Simply amazing. His mixes were perfect, his selection was second to none and the energy he displayed behind the decks was commendable. It’s always great to see someone playing who is enjoying themselves as much as the crowd, and as the first set of the day, it was a remarkable introduction to the festival – yet it was, upon reflection, the best set of the entire festival. (more…)