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I recently spent a month in New York City and managed to paint some rooftops, street walls and also a few public mural projects for the City Reliquary Museum in Williamsburg, Crest Fest and The Bushwick Collective in Brooklyn. I ate heaps of food now I’m fat. More pics after the jump. more pics on my instagram here
In the low brow art world, some galleries stay, some go, some linger and grow old, but there’s one gallery in Melbourne that has stayed true and has always been at the forefront of the Melbourne gallery circuit. That’s No Vacancy.
The gallery, who’s main space is in the heart of the city, and also has two satellite spaces, has recently just celebrated their 5th birthday!
Featuring a stellar line up that was Meggs, Ghostpatrol, Ben Frost, Miso, Two One, Nior, Beastman, Makatron, Tom Vincent, Jasper Wong, Max Berry, Numskull, Adnate, Sheryo, Nails, Stephen Ives, Luke Lucas, and many many more (too many for me to re-type)… the show was packed full of both recent work and un seen old work that the artists contributed to a killer show. For us, we think there needs to be more of these group shows. Big celebrations of what’s happening right now in the young art world.
Thanks to the NV team for sending over the great photos (taken by Caitlin Muscat). Click below for the full set (there are ALOT of photos)…
Melbourne based Ghostpatrol recently opened his show “Scale Meditator” at Hugo Mitchell in Adelaide, and once again has put together a killer new body of work consisting of large paintings and his smaller hand crafted sculptures. See more at the Hugo Mitchell Facebook, and HERE for an in depth explanation of what the show was about.
Click below for a full set of photos.
More info on Oi You! Adelaide here
Last month saw the completion of the first mural for The Hours Tower Mural Project at The 4217 in Surfers Paradise, Australia. Curated by The Hours, the ongoing art project aims to bring well known Australian artists to the Gold Coast to collaborate together using the three storey high lift-shaft at The 4217 as their canvas, providing Surfers Paradise with a truly unique large scale and evolving piece of public art.
The first collaborative mural for the project was painted by Beastman (Syd) and Jae Copp (GC) last month, and the local guys from Digital Cinematix were there to film it all.
Big thanks to The 4217 for supporting public art on the Gold Coast, and for providing the huge wall to paint. The 4217 will be opening in a few months, keep an eye out for more Hours activity there in the future. Please visit their website for more information – www.the4217.com.au
Beastman & Phibs are both artists that are synonymous with each other. Both share the same birthday, both have lived together, both have a similar approach and style to their work, both have exhibited together and both have painted numerous walls together over the years.
Recently the duo teamed up again for an exhibition titled “In our nature” at Ambush Gallery in Sydney. The show was comprised of a series of the same size paintings, a large scale mural installation (coupled with sound designed by Daniel O’Toole aka Ears) and a spontaneous live painting of two cars outside the gallery during the weekend. The artwork on show was a typical glimpse into their overall bodies of work, however this time instead of completely filling the spacious gallery, only small 7 paintings were displayed by each artist.
If you missed out, you might be lucky to see the mural at the next Ambush Gallery show, which has become a permanent fixture. Click below for a full set of photos. More on Beastman here. More on Phibs here.
Fintan Magee recently opened his show “Storm Water” in Sydney. The show was made up of a series of paintings on paper, and an epic mural installation that bled onto the floor. All of the work was focused on the recent floods that engulfed his home state of Queensland. A solid body of work from the new resident of our home town of Sydney.
See more photos below. More info on Fintan here.
Local sydney duo Jumbo & Bafcat have been busy painting a handful of walls recently, and last week they took that energy and funneled it into a two man exhibition at The Tate. It was a tight collection of small, intricate and colourful paintings on paper. Click below for more photos.
Mural festivals have become part of the norm these days, and one that sticks out for us is most definitely Pow Wow Hawaii. What better environment to hold and art festival, than the paradise that is Hawaii.
This year saw a handful of the Everfresh studio artists, including Rone, Meggs, Phibs and Wonderlust make the journey over to leave their mark. And as always, they didnt fail to impress. Check out these large scale walls below, and a process video of the Rone / Wonderlust wall.
More info on Everfresh here.
Rone X Wonder – Kaka’ako from Everfresh Studio on Vimeo.
More photos of this wall here.
More photos of this wall here.
More photos of this wall here.
