Peer Gallery - Glebe

It is common for the written word to lack personality. Characters of the English alphabet are all formed around a skeletal structure that governs the basis of every font created, making them essentially the same. Over time, their simplicity has out ruled unnecessary detail due to their need for direct functionality. This often makes it difficult to interpret the personality behind words at the best of times.

Contemporary society uses fonts everywhere, every day and so it seems the craft and beauty behind what was originally a hailed art form has now been lost and somewhat taken for granted.

GO FONT UR SELF* is an exhibition exploring type based artworks that reinvent the uniqueness of our alphabet.

Artists
http://www.gofonturself.com.au/artists.html

This exhibition is the grand debut of the long awaited Peer Gallery. Peer Group has been bridging the gap between the cool and the keen since 2001. For the first time, Peer Group will be opening their doors to the art world to showcase typography in the first of its GO FONT UR SELF* exhibitions.

Sydney
6.30 Wed 25th February 2009

PEER GALLERY
153 Bridge Rd
Glebe 2037
Sydney NSW
P +61 2 9552 6333
E hannah@peergroupmedia.com

blog
http://gofonturself.tumblr.com/

Melbourne
6.30 Wed 4th March 2009
Dont Come Gallery, 314 Collins St

Stencil Art Exhibition

The “Your Kid Can’t Do This” Stencil Art Exhibition kicks off in Canberra from 6 February and will continue through to 14 Februrary. The exhibition will feature over 20 of the worlds finest stencil artists from Australia and abroad, including: Haha; A1one; Lucamaleonte; and Papermonster.

If you're not in the Nations Capital just have a Coke and a smile, cos the exhibition is touring nationally and will move to Melbourne (16-26 April) and then on to Sydney (20-27 June). To find out more of the who, what, where and when go to:

http://yourkidcantdothis.com/

Canberra 6^th—14^th February 2009 The Legislative Assembly

Melbourne 16^th—26^th April 2009 Famous When Dead Gallery opening night — Friday 17^th April

Sydney 20^th—27^th June 2009 North Bondi Sandpit select showing of works

• Orticanoodles Italy
• Vexta Australia
• Tesura Australia
• Deed United Kingdom
• A1one Iran
• Lucamaleonte Italy
• Joshua Smith Australia
• Kirpy Australia
• Papermonster United States
• Koleszar United States
• Haha Australia
• Czarnobyl Germany
• Penny United Kingdom
• Soule United States
• Snik United Kingdom
• Adam5100 United States
• Eyeski United Kingdom
• E.L.K Australia
• Jamin Australia
• Spizz France
• LECKOmio Germany
• Jef Aerosol France
• Byrd Australia

(not THIS Byrd ...)

PLATFORM 2 HIP HOP FESTIVAL

PLATFORM 2 HIP HOP FESTIVAL
A TWO DAY FESTIVAL CELEBRATING HIP HOP CULTURE
PRESENTED BY CARRIAGEWORKS

After the success of 2008’s Platform 1, PLATFORM 2 HIP HOP FESTIVAL will take over CarriageWorks’ urban jungle with two days of high-powered Hip Hop culture representing Breaking, Graffiti, Beatboxing, MCing and DJing.

Old skooler’s, hip hop novices and everyone in between can get into the vibe of true Australian Hip Hop culture at PLATFORM 2. Over 50 emerging and established artists and performers will be featured and everyone can join in the many free events, activities, workshops and two huge nights of entertainment.


PLATFORM 2 HIP HOP FESTIVAL INCLUDES:

FRIDAY NIGHT - FLEXING SKILLZ FREESTYLE JAM
Opening night brings over 20 of the best Australian Hip Hop artists together live on stage for Flexing Skillz - Platform 2’s high energy Hip Hop improvisation comp. Artists from each element form a crew and improvise on random topics, showcasing fearsome freestyle skills. Hosted by Morganics, accompanied by Metabass Allstars and judged by the crowd. ADULT $18 / CONC $15 / GROUP 8+ $12

SATURDAY NIGHT - FREAK THE TECHNIQUE | B*BOY / B*GIRL BATTLE
Australia’s hottest breaking crews battle it out for the Platform 2 title and $1000 prize money. Guest live acts include the Killer Queens, The Last Kinection, DJ Mathmatics and Good Buddha. Interstate judges are Demolition B*Girl (Demi from So You Think You Can Dance), Pepito and Granite Rock. Hosted by B*Boy Rely. ADULT $18 / CONC $15 / GROUP 8+ $12

SATURDAY | WORKSHOPS:

WORKSHOPS | BREAKING, POPPING, LOCKING, STREET FUNK AND MORE...
Skill up with the most experienced teachers in hip hop, beatboxing, MC technique and Graffiti Art conducting workshops all day. Tickets available through Ticketmaster soon.

SATURDAY | FREE STUFF:

CAN CONTROL | GRAFFITI DEMO & COMP
Sydney’s finest graffiti artists demo murals, throw ups and tags in a fierce competition. Check out open tag and sketch comps during the day, piece comp with quality writers, MC’s and DJ’s dropping tracks and more…. Hosted by local graffiti artists Chez and Days 1. Winners announced at 6pm.

CHALK IT UP | STREET ART ACTIVITIES
All visitors to Platform 2 can create their own chalk graffiti artwork on the CarriageWorks floor, supervised and guided by experienced street artists.

http://www.carriageworks.com.au/whats_on.php?event=platform2hiphop

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CHECK OUT FOOTAGE FROM LAST YEAR’S PLATFORM 1 FOR A TASTE OF THE ACTION

Check out what Artistic Director Nick Power had to say to 3D World about last year’s Platform 1
Footage of last year’s Platform 1 on CarriageWorks’ Facebook page
Street TV footage from last year’s Platform 1
Ubergroover.tv footage from last year’s Platform 1
Last year’s Freak the Technique finalists rip it up
All Consciousness Crew take out the Platform 1 title at Saturday night’s Freak the Technique Battle
Last year’s free Breaking Shakedown in the foyer

MAY'S LANE STREET ART RETRO

MAY'S LANE STREET ART RETROSPECTIVE
A FREE EXHIBITION OF AUSTRALIAN STREET ART
PRESENTED BY CARRIAGEWORKS AND MAY'S LANE

DATES 25 MARCH - 6 APRIL
OPENING TIMES MONDAY TO SATURDAY 10AM - 6PM,
SUNDAY 12 - 4PM
FREE

Street Address
245 Wilson Street Eveleigh NSW 2015
Corner of Codrington Street


The May’s Lane Street Art Project emerges from their renowned St Peters laneway to take over CarriageWorks’ vast foyer in a huge retrospective exhibition.

Curated by May’s director Tugi Balog, the exhibition will include a diverse selection of enormous artworks created at May’s Lane between 2005 – 2008 by legendary graff artists of Sydney as well as celebrated international street artists. Vibrant and immense, the retrospective will span a range of styles; New York graffiti, spray paint, paste ups, stencils and sculpture are featured in old and new panels.

Details of all exhibiting artists are on the way...

ABOUT MAY’S LANE
The May’s Lane Art Project is an outdoor gallery space located in St Peters in Sydney's inner west. Each month, several artists are invited to use the entire space as their canvas. The artwork is archived by Tugi and his team, creating a unique historical treasure trove of original Sydney street art.

May's Lane Street Art Retrospective will feature as part of Platform 2 Hip Hop Festival at CarriageWorks on the 27 and 28 March, 2009.

ABOUT PLATFORM 2 HIP HOP FESTIVAL
Platform 2 Hip Hop Festival will transform CarriageWorks into an inner-city hip hop playground with two days of high-powered action representing Breaking, Graffiti, Beatboxing, MCing and DJing. More info about the activities, workshops and two massive nights of entertainment CLICK HERE.

http://www.carriageworks.com.au/whats_on.php?event=mayslane

http://www.mays.org.au/

http://au.myspace.com/maysprojects

On at China Heights

-NEW LOCATION -
257 CROWN ST
DARLINGHURST SYD
NSW AU 2010

http://www.chinaheights.com/html/

Pop the Question

A collision of pop music and graphic art.

Opens Fri 27th February @ 6.30

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BLACK SUN (the Art of Dying)
Photography by BEN ALI ONG
Opening from 6.30pm, Friday Feb 20
Continues 11-5pm Saturday - Wednesday.
257 Crown St, Darlinghurst.

"In this my most recent - and still ongoing - body of work, the themes of death, mortality and consciousness are revisited. Recurrent also are the negative sandwiching, inscription of scratches and the particular sequencing of the images, which encourages a conversation between the landscape and portrait."
-The Artist

http://www.benaliong.com/

"Ben Ali-Ong is going to be a major player in the photographic arena. At only 26 he has achieved a great deal in the way of prizes and awards for his work. He has participated in numerous group shows and has had six solo exhibitions in three years. For such a young artist he shows incredible focus and vision. Using film and his own images, he shoots, scratches, scans, retouches, layers and mixes the works, until the final result yields a mysterious and beautiful black and white world."
-ARTHERE

coming up:
Feb 27 - POP THE QUESTION
Mar 13 - MIKE OMEALLY
Mar 20 - PIERS GREVILLE

On at Urban Uprising

“hunks, spunks & b*boys” art by trademark

Special preview and launch party - Wednesday 18th February 2009 Public Viewing - Thurs 19th Feb – until Sat 7th March 2009

This February, as part of the official Mardi Gras Arts Festival, Urban Uprising gallery diverts from its usual path and takes a walk on the wild side to host a solo show from internationally renowned UK artist Trademark. This, his first Australian exhibition and a slight deviation from the gallery’s normal “urban” art to a more “pop art” slant, and the gallery will be filled with some of the sexiest male images and art in town.

more
http://www.urbanuprising.com.au/currentShow.html

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The SOS Collection
Previews on Wednesday the 18th of March 6.30pm – 9.00pm

For the first time in Australia a copy of every print to come out of the legendary Souled Out Studios will be displayed and on sale in a unique and comprehensive collection of all of their artist’s iconic works.
This SOS retrospective will combine some of these hugely collectible works with the latest and greatest prints and canvasses from their stable of artists. Canvases and highly collectible prints including rare items such as printers proofs and artist proofs and previously sold out editions by Beejoir, MauMau, Mantis, Cyclops, K-guy, AMP, Galo, and BON will be all be available, including works such as Beejoir’s infamous “LV Child”, “Little Red Riding Hoodie” by Mau Mau, “Walrus Boy” by AMP and “Shell Oil for Blood” by Beejoir, which is printed on original Iraqi dinar notes featuring the face of Saddam Hussein.
Created in 2004 (by a revolutionary, politically active vegetarian anti-capitalist American and a true steak eating politically blind capitalist English pig who were brought together by their love of graffiti, art and printing), Souled Out Studios have become a second home for a growing band of some of the most inspiring and exciting urban artists on the planet.
Works from the Souled Out Studio’s collective can be found in galleries and on walls around the world, and often feature commentary on world events, history, philosophy and politics, meshing social and environmental commentary with a tongue in cheek twist.
Urban Uprising are privileged to host this unique and exciting collection, which offers a unique opportunity to see all these fantastic works together in the “flesh” and a rare opportunity to secure one of these collectible “must have” prints.

http://www.urbanuprising.com.au/comingSoon.html

Ghostpatrol And Miso

A walking journey through Melbourne's inner city laneways to witness the unique offerings of two rapidly emerging young street artists, Ghostpatrol and Miso.

ABC1
10:05pm Tuesday, 24 Feb 2009

Artscape - Paper Cuts: The Art Of Ghostpatrol And Miso

Urban Art Auction - UK

The strength of Banksy and other 'grafitti’ artists will be put to the test at Bonhams next Urban Art Sale on 24 February which highlights Marilyn Monroe, Kate Moss and Hurricane Katrina. Six Kate Moss prints by Banksy estimated to make £100,000 to £150,000 at this Urban Art Sale is one of the top items featured.

more

Urban Art Online Catalogue

Reface Street Art - Perth

At the heart of Re-Face is a website that allows established artists and unknowns, anyone who creates or experiences art, to share their work, their attitudes and their opinions about each other’s work and the value and the future of art in Western Australia.

In addition to the website that allows users to upload, view and comment on art from around Western Australia and the world, Re-Face takes the art to the public via two weekends of night-time projection exhibitions designed to challenge audience perceptions of art, street art and public space. How do people’s attitudes to street art change if the images are impermanent? And are people’s responses to everyday urban spaces made more vibrant?

The building-size projections are a mix of slideshows, interactive screens, curated collections and the backdrop for interactive panel discussions about art and public space.

www.abc.net.au/reface

Art for the Public - Grant

Grants of up to $5000
Recreate our urban landscape!

We are seeking to fund visual artists who are undertaking projects delivering free art outdoors or in prominent indoor public spaces. Our intention is for these art pieces to become a form of social commentary, communication, and inspiration, between the artist and the general public. The art must be made available at no cost to the observer and be displayed with consent from the management of the required public space.

Apply Here
http://www.sonicbids.com/thejbseedaftp

Projects supported could include, but are not limited to:
• Artistic responses to social justice issues
• Issues of significance to the community
• Murals
• Exhibitions
• Sculpture
• Graffiti pieces
• Stencil work
• Photography
• Multimedia
• Print
• Paint

website

Please note: You will need to upload a completed version of this form during the submission process.

http://www.thejbseed.com/

Lil' Shy - WolfandPack Amsterdam

Happy February to all of the pack,

The new month brings another show at the Wolf And Pack gallery. As you might have heard, the worlds economy's are falling apart, so in a effort to save ya a few bucks Lil Shy is going to get ya "High On Life".

All the way from the cabarets of Paris, to the rainy streets of Amsterdam, Lil' Shy (lilshy.net) is here for you with some of her own take on life distilled in to art form. A collection of mixed media with that Lil' dash of color perfect to chase those mid winter blues away.

The show opens this Friday February, the 13th from 6PM (18:00 for yall who count to 24). There will be music, booze, art, people, as well as future memory's to share with your kids. Come spy some good art and meet someone you will want to hate, love, ignore, talk about for years to come, its all here, its all possible.

See ya on the day,

Scoundrels@Wolfandpack.com
www.Wolfandpack.com
232 Spui Straat 1012VV
Amsterdam NL
Telephone Machines~
Store- 020-427-0786


Waving to you from Sydney ..... Blakkbyrd

Electronic Frontier Foundation

From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990 — well before the Internet was on most people's radar — and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.

http://www.eff.org/about

blog
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archive

Darwin Stickers

These stickers are being introduced to spread awareness and appreciation of Charles Darwin, whose theory of natural selection provided a simple, non-supernatural explanation for how life evolves. Although this stickering project is probably futile, it will hopefully delay our slip into Dark Ages II by several days. Maybe a week. Instructions and tips can be found below, and examples of stickers in action on my flickr site. And if you're into Facebook, there's a group
there, too.

More info
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/evolk12/posse/chazhasaposse.htm





Darwin Fish

The Darwin Fish is a Darwinist's version of the fish (Icthus) symbol used as a bumper sticker by some Christians. The various designs are intended to promote Darwinism, and to show the owner believes in evolution rather than creation.
write on our wall at Facebook.



More info
http://www.darwinfish.co.uk/