Shida x TwoOne
A few snaps of the latest collab between Shida and TwoOne.. Completed over 2 days in East Brunswick, Melbourne.
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Australia’s premier contemporary style and culture event, CARBON festival, kicks off its third year of forums this April with a lineup of inspiring creative entrepreneurs and artists hand-picked from all over the world.
Speakers flying in from around the globe to share their stories of struggle and success include founder of the acclaimed streetwear brand, Stussy; the one and only Shawn Stussy, who, apparently, has spent the last 12 or so years surfing in Hawaii, as well as the recently-turned septuagenarian senator of street art reportage, Martha Cooper.
Joining the melee will be the best daredevil duo since Batman and Robin, Dabs & Myla, and www.booooooom.com creator, Jeff Hamada, as well as Aussie artist and one-man social glue factory, Mark Drew, graffiti powerhouse, Barry Mcgee, and a whole host of other amazing minds.
Our old favourites New Era’s Australian brothers and sisters will be getting down and Adidas are slinging some weight behind the organizers at Acclaim Magazine too, so it looks like a monster weekend in Melbourne is to be had.
We’ll be down there bringing you daily round ups in between our daily beer intake and naps.
More info below:
CARBON Festival
Saturday April 13 – Sunday April 14, 2013
RMIT Storey Hall Auditorium, Melbourne CBD.
Tickets ‘here’.
Website ‘here’
Steve Cross – Speed Painting
A quick one from Steve Cross for Mayo’s black book…
…The Korpus big boss turned out this bad boy in two hours!
Visit Steve Cross on fb for more prints and originals.
Beastman & Phibs – In Our Nature
Beastman and Phibs open their new joint show, In Our Nature, this Friday 22nd March at aMBUSH Gallery, Sydney.
A series of new paintings by Beastman and Phibs will be available at the exhibition and they will be painting live at the gallery on the afternoon of Saturday 23rd March.
Wrap your visuals round The Opening Hours for exclusive preview shots leading up to the opening.
More info here:
Alex Lehours – The Defectors Rooftop Mural
Recent video of our man Alex Lehours painting a rooftop mural at The Defectors marketing agency, Sydney.
Video by DR Photographer
Organized Chaos
Organized Chaos – Slicer – Backwoods Gallery
Founding member of Melbourne’s AWOL Crew, Slicer, kicks off a solo show at Backwoods.
A hectic mash of paint, paper, canvas and burnt wood, the show explores an emotive landscape of violent graffuturism.
Organized Chaos will be opening on Friday the 15th of March at Backwoods Gallery and running until Sunday the 31st. Private viewing: Thursday the 14th of March.
Inquiries: info@backwoodsgallery.com
Ben Frost – The Perfect Drug
Our favourite pop-bashing Aussie artist, Ben Frost, launches his latest solo show, The Perfect Drug, in Singapore.
In an exploration of social obsessions and relationships with mass-consumerism, Frost questions products we’ve grown up loving, whilst harbouring addictions for.
Painting directly onto fast food and pharmaceutical packaging, Frost plays with themes of sex, drugs and the darker side of popular culture.
The show runs from 22nd Feb – 18th March 2013 at Kult Gallery, Emily Hill, Blk C2-5, 11 Upper Wilkie Rd, Singapore 228120
Lush Bashes Sofles
Latest news from Aus. This is what happens when you start beef in the graffiti world. Warning: NSFW.
Vexta – Trading Places
Vexta is one of the most interesting artists to come out of Australia. She was picked up by some guy called Banksy to feature in his ‘Cans’ Festival and subsequent film, Exit Through The Gift Shop. Recently, while every other wannabe was shamelessly networking at Miami Basel, Vexta was over on the other side of the world, working hard at India’s first Contemporary Art Biennale. Despite some near catastrophic events and a very temperamental internet connection, we managed to connect with her for a few words while she painted…
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Cross Words
Steve Cross is a multi-talented artist, working across many mediums, including spraypaint, pencil and tattoos. Originally from Perth, Wild Western Australia, he now resides in Melbourne, where he co-runs Korpus Tattoo Studio. We caught up with the all-round b-boy for a chat about his murky past and inky fingers.
Tell us about your studio, Korpus…
Korpus was founded in 2007, in Brunswick, Melbourne. My good friend, Brian Graydon, and I came up with the concept of an art studio that would also run as a tattoo studio. We figured that if we exposed new images, ideas and concepts to people, we’d break away from that clichéd idea of what a tattoo and a tattoo studio should be. We hoped customers would respond with more of an open mind, which, in turn, would expand the possibilities of what they would want, and what we could illustrate on them. To start with, it was tough, as, initially, we learnt how to tattoo for 12 years, but now we were thrown into the business side of things. Five years on, we have great artists working with us, and we’ve had some amazing people come through. All the people who work, or have worked, at Korpus have been artists that Brian and I have looked up to and wanted to either nurture or learn from.
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