Sydney Street Art Tour & Book

Melinda Vassallo: author of Street Art of the Inner West

http://www.finelinedesign.com.au/books-street-art.html

Sydney’s inner west is uniquely rich in street art and has some of the best examples in Australia. This is despite the fact that many landmark pieces have disappeared due to high-density housing construction and increased renovation of buildings.

Street Art of Sydney’s Inner West a pictorial reference book is a celebration of 30 years of street art and the artists who create it.

Meet the artists and their crews in their own words and art.

Available at Better Read than Dead, Berkelouw Books Newtown +

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ABC article
http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2011/03/11/3161910.htm?site=sydney

audio file
Walking tour of Newtown street art

Mr Scribble

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http://vimeo.com/20702175

Spoof on Mr Sqiggle

Australian Stencil Art Prize

WHY A STENCIL ART PRIZE?
The Australian Stencil Art Prize began as just an idea in early 2008. It grew out of discussions about the calibre of stencil art in Sydney’s Innerwest and a desire to see more of it. Late in 2008 we received a small start up grant from Marrickville Council and an Art Prize was born.

THIS ART PRIZE AIMS TO:
• Recognise and reward stencil artists
• Provide recognition for stencil art as an artform in its own right
• Archive stencil art

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Okay folks, we’re excited to announce that the cash prize for the Australian Stencil Art Prize is $2000.

We’re excited. Spread the word. You can enter here.

Entries close 1 August 2010.

http://www.australianstencilartprize.com/

SafARI - Sydney

SafARI exhibits the work of emerging artists across multiple Artist Run Initiative venues during the opening weeks of the Biennale of Sydney, celebrating vibrant and dynamic grassroots cultural practice and where contemporary art begins.

This year the work of fourteen artists will be exhibited at MOP Projects, Firstdraft Gallery, Locksmith Project Space, Serial Space and the façade of FBi Radio.

SafARi is curated by Lisa Corsi and Danielle Hairs, with Alex Maciver.

website
http://www.safari.org.au/default.aspx

artists
http://www.safari.org.au/artists.aspx

Firstdraft
116/118 Chalmers Street
Surry Hills NSW

http://www.firstdraftgallery.com/

Locksmith Project Space

6 Botany Road

Alexandria NSW

http://www.locksmithprojectspace.com/

MOP Projects

2/39 Abercrombie Street

Chippendale NSW

http://www.mop.org.au/

Serial Space

33 Wellington Street

Chippendale NSW

http://www.serialspace.org/

FBi Radio

44-54 Botany Road

Alexandria NSW

http://www.fbiradio.com/

LTRHDS - Sydney

the LTRHDS show comes to Sydney. At Red Bull Gallery, 41 Bourke Rd Alexandria.

full story and pics on the blog
http://ltrhds.com/blog/

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The exhibition of the English alphabet

Letterheads 2010 brings together twenty-six contemporary artists to each re-envisioned a single letter of the English alphabet, creating a collection that explores the influence of the ubiquitous letterform in all aspects of contemporary art. The lineup of high profile and emerging artist, represent the fields of illustration, cartooning, fine art, graffiti, street art and graphic design from around the globe.

list of artists
http://ltrhds.com/

Laneways - Sydney

The Council of the City of Sydney invites curators, artist collectives and other groups to submit a curatorial proposal for the carrying out of up to eight temporary art installations for the Laneways Art Program 2010.

Applications close: 20 April 2010

Further information: http://www.lanewaysbygeorge.com.au/

Beastman - Sydney

6pm Mays Lane, St Peters
Friday 19th February

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

Beastman
http://www.beastman.com.au/

May's - Jumbo & Zap

MAY’S is excited to present ‘Panic Attack – Monster City’ – the collaborative work of Jumbo and Zap; two artists who endeavor to transform Sydney’s monotonous, drab billboards and hoardings into bright screens of menacing comic-style characters.

'The journey that Zap has undertaken is one of time and space, seeing way into the future to the megatropolis here monsters are flying in spaceships. Jumbo, in contrast, has taken the path of the people who inhabit the mega city, with paranoia and panic overtaking the airwaves. The alias JUMBO was created in 2003 as a result of a head collision-on with the art establishment. After the shock of seeing what was possible in the public domain I quickly made a beeline for some big scale poster paper and paint. The characters were comic and pop art, but the subject was and always will be freestyle and experimental. I have put up posters in the UK, Europe and Sydney.'
- Jumbo

ZAP is one of Sydney's more prolific and unique street artists. His work contains influences from 1970's graffiti, sci-fi imagery, abstraction and a distinctive colour palette. ZAP has shown at various galleries and institutions around Australia.

‘I was in various street gangs from the age of 10. I had to steal sometimes to eat - it was tough. That's where my passion for graffiti and skateboarding grew - I never fitted the sporty stereotype. Always into creative pursuits, I have developed a style which is unique. Psychedelic abstract forms, shapes and spaceships are symbols of my journeys through time and space.’
- Zap

Panic Attack - Monster City
An Exhibition of Poster Art, by JUMBO and ZAP

OPENING: 6-8PM FRIDAY 6th NOVEMBER, 2009

Please keep the date free to join us for this special event!!

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

May's artists
http://www.mays.org.au/artists.htm

Urban Art Agenda #3

Urban Art Agenda is an invitation-only concept exhibition which brings together some of the most prolific artists from around the world in a unique showcase. The initial Urban Art Agenda#1 exhibition was presented in Shed 4 at the Melbourne Docklands as part of the International Design Festival in 2007. Urban Art Agenda #2 was shown later the same year in Perth, Western Australia, as part of the Alphabet City Festival at the ArtRage Complex.

Among the featured artists were Logan Hicks, Loomit, Ma'claim Crew, Evol, Stormie, Lucamaleonte, Boxi, Smatik and Ralf Kempken.

The 2009 instalment of the Urban Art Agenda will be launched at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, and then presented as part of the Fringe Festival in Melbourne, during the Arts&About Festival in Sydney and finally at the Brisbane Powerhouse.

A1one (Tehran), David Soukup (Chicago), ELK (Canberra), El Moocho (Melbourne), HaHa (Melbourne), Izolag (Salvador), Jana and JS (Salzburg), Jef Aerosol (Lille), Kenji Nakayama (Boston), Mandarina Brausewetter (Vienna), M-City (Gdynia), Orticanoodles (Milan), Ozi (São Paulo), Penny (London), Skran (Lisboa), XOOOOX (Berlin)
http://www.urbanartagenda.com.au/artists

Art Gallery of Ballarat
18 July - 23 August, 2009
40 Lyiard St, Ballarat, VIC

FamousWhenDead Gallery
24 September - 11 October, 2009
207 Victoria St, West Melbourne, VIC

Pine St Creative Arts Centre
1 - 25 October, 2009
64 Pine St, Chippendale, NSW

Brisbane Powerhouse
26 October - 23 November, 2009
119 Lamington St, New farm, QLD

http://www.urbanartagenda.com.au/galleries

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Previous Blakkbyrd post
http://blakkbyrd.blogspot.com/2009/06/urban-art-agenda-3.html

hammerhaus

excerpts from a performance by HAMMERHAUS (Hanfreich and Theinert) at "Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart" in November 2006.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUHN6g6qz1o

http://www.theinert-lichtkunst.de/klt_eng_start.html

The visual piano is an instrument which makes it possible to create moving images in a space. It is unique and was conceived and developed by the photographer and light installation artist Kurt Laurenz Theinert in collaboration with the software designers Roland Blach and Philip Rahlenbeck.

Using a MIDI-keyboard it is possible to generate varying graphic patterns which can be digitally projected onto one or more screens. These dynamic and immediate drawings in light are not (as with VJ soft-and Hardware) generated by pre-recorded clips, but every moment of the performance is being played and modulated live and in real time via the keyboard and pedals.

Initially Theinert projected his drawings in light straight onto one screen; the expansion of the projection into 360° allows him to expand the visual experience of the audience into three dimensions. The intensified visual experience is astonishing: The defining edges of the darkened space are replaced by big, moving structures of light and the viewer gets immersed in a totally new cosmos of moving lines and fields of colour.

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Hammerhaus is currently showing in Sydney as part of the Smartlight festival

http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/2009/05/smart-light-sydney.html

Editorial

Hi

Very excited about my new computer. Sexy blakk mac. Busy migrating files and setting it all up, so wont be able to post much for a while. Sorry.

My Amsterdam homies take note, you will be able to video chat with me now, we just need to set up a time via email.

(waving to the guys in the mac shop, very happy, thanx so much.)

Back ASAP

Blakkbyrd

free wifi - sydney 3

Lists free wifi AND paid wifi


this one lists all the maccas

http://www.freewifi.com.au/region_nsw.php


this one includes all the starbucks

wifi you pay for

free wifi - sydney 2

• MYKP has a listing of tons of wifi hotspots http://www.mykp.com.au/hotspot/locations.htm
• CBD – "Wagamama Bridge Street", 38 Bridge Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
  Phone: 02 9252 8696
• CBD – "Wagamama Galleries Building", Level 1, 500 George St, Sydney, NSW, 2000
  Phone: 02 9264 9155
• CHIPPENDALE/GLEBE – "The Broadway" , 166-170 Broadway, NSW.
  Phone: 02 9212 2007
  http://www.thebroadway.com.au
• DARLINGHURST – "Odyssey Lounge", 191 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010
  Phone: 02 9360 3388
  (A PUBNET project http://www.public.net.au/core.php?section=locations.php)
• DARLINGTON – "The Royal Hotel", 370 Abercrombie Street, Darlington
  NSW 2008
  Phone: 0296988557 http://www.royal.com.au
  (A PUBNET project http://www.public.net.au/core.php?section=locations.php)
• HORNSBY – Thyme Square Cafe. Hunter St Mall, Hornsby, NSW, 2077
• LANE COVE – Longueville Rd & Lane Cove Plaza
  (Lane Cove Alive Project).
• PADDINGTON – "The Elephant & Wheel Barrow", 384 Oxford St, Paddington,
  NSW 2021
  Phone: 02 9360 9668 http://www.elephantandwheelbarrow.com.au
  (A PUBNET project http://www.public.net.au/core.php?section=locations.php)
• PYRMONT – "The Point Hotel", 59 Harris Street, PYRMONT NSW 2009
  Phone: 02 9660 1908 http://www.thepointhotel.com.au
  (A PUBNET project http://www.public.net.au/core.php?section=locations.php)
• REDFERN – "Blue Highway Internet Cafe", 135 Redfern Street, NSW 2016
  Phone: 02 83991094 http://www.bluehigh.net
• SURRY HILLS – "Cafe Mint", 579 Crown Street. NSW 2010
  Phone: 02 9319 0848 http://www.cafemint.com.au
• THE ROCKS – "Brew Espresso", 121 Harrington Street. NSW 2000
  Phone: 02 9251 1577
• SYDNEY DOMESTIC AIRPORT – "Virgin Blue Lounge", Sydney Domestic Airport, NSW

dmote - stupid krap

NEW STUPIDKRAP PRINT LAUNCH + WORLDS END OPEN STUDIO - Saturday May 9th

LIVE SIGNING BY DMOTE @
103A/342 Elizabeth St,
Surry Hills
Sydney

http://www.stupidkrap.com/home.html

st.peters 2.0 - Sydney

st.peters 2.0 (OST B-Real 1 Life feat. Sen Dog And Mal Verde - Smoke N Mirrors) graffiti



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj2dL7ZEpg4

St Peters Sydney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZi4J6i5lTg

Sydney Graffiti article

This documentary attempts to show that not all graffiti and street art should be deemed negative or a criminal act but shows and promotes the legal avenues graffiti and street artists can take to get their work up. It was shot in Sydney, Australia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktIqA5RTnVY


This was first blogged in June 2007
http://blakkbyrd.blogspot.com/2007/06/painting-with-permission-graffiti.html

lcbeats & Mays

This is a claymation of three young urban hip hop artists showcasing their art in the well known Sydney legal graffiti thoroughfare May Lane in St Peters, Sydney, Australia. They challenge the tradition of contemporary art by bringing their own pieces of graffiti and installing it in an elegant art gallery.
Some interesting encounters: a police chase, and a museum curator critical review ending in a mad frenzy of beatboxing.

Available at FIVE SIX SEVEN for $12 ( AUS), 567 King Street Newtown, NSW, 2042, Sydney Australia.
Phone: (02) 9517 3324

http://www.567king.com



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0VwihAj-kc

lcbeats
http://www.youtube.com/user/lcbeats

SmARTarts 2009

smARTarts Exhibition: Showcasing the best of local emerging artists from 25 March - 18 April.

WHEN: 12.30pm until 6.30pm, Saturday 4 April

WHERE: Pine Street Creative Arts Centre, 64 Pine St, Chippendale

COST: Free

WEB: www.pinestreet.com.au/smartarts

Celebrate the creativity of the 'youth of today' at the City of Sydney's annual smARTarts Festival on Saturday 4 April.

smARTarts is Sydney's funkiest one-day arts and cultural festival event produced by young people through the City's Pine Street Creative Arts Centre. It is the City's flagship community youth event.

"smARTarts gives creative young people the opportunity to share their talents with the wider community," Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP said. In its fourth year, smARTarts is part of National Youth Week which runs from 28 March - 5 April 2009.

This year's event will feature two stages of live music and dance, open mic sessions, free workshops, design art markets, stencil art and food stalls.

Live bands: CUTHBERT & THE NIGHT WALKERS, SuperFLORENCEjam, ALICE, THE FONTAYNES, MAD POLLY, The Bennisons, Mudd Club, TRUE VIBENATION and Junk Funk and more.

YOUTH ART EXHIBITION 25 March - 18 April 2009
Opening night: Wednesday 25 March 6pm – 9pm
First Floor Gallery, 64 Pine Street Chippendale
Pine Street Gallery will be closed for the Easter long weekend
Friday 10 - Monday 13 April 2009.
Usual gallery hours are:
Monday – Friday 9:30am - 5:30pm,
Saturday 11:00am – 4:00pm, Sunday Closed.

Ruban Rat - Sydney

Art shows, designer toy releases, live painting, and other special events at our Stanmore gallery and Newtown store.

Designer vinyl, mini-figures, plush, customs, prints, art decks, original art, books, magazines, and apparel.

Ruban Rat

Our store sits on south end of King St. Ruban Rat plays host to monthly art shows, toy releases, and other special events. Look out for the next opening in the Gallery section and come grab a drink.

Address:
423 King St
Newtown, NSW 2042

info@rubanrat.com

http://www.rubanrat.com