Nic Bezzina @ The Standard
Nic Bezzina takes amazing photos. We’re fans. You may remember our coverage of his “Newtown Shopkeepers” exhibition last year? Well then, you should remember. So, it is with great sadness that this talented photographer is deserting Australia in search of bigger fish in London. We’ll miss your work! For his final hurrah Bezzina held a farewell show at The ...
Rising – The Tattoo Movement @ M2 Gallery
M2 Gallery, we finally made it! We’ve been meaning to visit this spot on Elizabeth St for a while and it, well, hasn’t happened. Until now! Rising was an exhibition from The Tattoo Movement, an international group of tattoo artists led by Deepak Siamese IV. Rising featured work from Deepak Siamese IV, Ruben Alvarez and Ash ...
Kozyndan @ Outré
After 2 years Kozyndan have come back to Australia with a suitcase full of new artwork. Outré hosted the opening and after such a fun show last time we were keen to check it out. The exhibition featured digital work in the recognisable Kozyndan style. Also interesting were some bright and bold neon paintings that stepped ...
Kingdoms of Obsolescence – Andrew Ensor @ Newsagency Gallery
Kingdoms of Obsolescence was a retrospective collection from Andrew Ensor. The walls of Newsagency Gallery were beautifully hung with work from Ensor’s back catalogue. Ensor’s delicate drawings featured anthropomorphic birds, castles, text musings and floating figures. We are big fans of these kinds of shows. They give a peek of the evolution of the artists and give some amazing work ...
My Goodness, My Gocco @ Sweets Workshop
Japan in the 70s: an economic decline after crazy economic growth, people flocking to mega-cities, the rise of Japanese fashion, and then in 1977 came Print Gocco. Print Gocco is a screenprinting system that uses flash bulbs to create an image. It seems really complicated, is apparently rather unreliable, and is no longer manufactured. Perfect for ...
Chippendale Precinct Night
It’s March, so for all you art lovers that means Art Month Sydney! Unfortunately for us, it’s also meant a month of colds and flus that have been generously shared in every office in Sydney. Blurg. So, in an effort to bring you a taste of the action before we’ve literally sneezed and missed it, we ...
Group Show @ Firstdraft
Photoblog only today. And visit Firstdraft for some words and Dunbar’s Tumblr for something interesting.
Face Apart 2 @ Salerno Gallery
STROBED. is back for 2013, bigger and better than before. Actually, just the same as before. We’ve missed you. Please keep sending us your tips and events – we thrive only with your love. We returned to Glebe’s Salerno Gallery for our first outing for a group show sequel, Face Apart 2, which followed a ...
Wisdom in Hindsight – Halinka Orszulok @ Flinders Street
Halinka Orszulok’s latest exhibition opened at Flinders Street Gallery a couple of weeks ago. This series of eerie night time landscapes are painted from photographs taken around her home town on the South Coast. There is a sense of irony that these public spaces are lit for safety, yet the lights seem to deepen the ...
Art Pharmacy Pop-Up on Oxford Street
Art Pharmacy is usually locked in cyberspace. But they’ve jumped the gap, Tron style, to sell art and promote new Australian artists in the real world. They kicked off in August 2012 and decided that every few months a pop-up store and exhibition would get the work out and into your face. And here it ...
The Noughties…WTF? – David Quoy @ Gallery Red
The Noughties… WTF? was printmaker David Quoy’s first solo exhibition. Gallery Red proudly displayed Quoy’s works which used familiar icons of modern life from TV aerials to teapots to create surreal images. The exhibition featured Quoy’s works from the past few years, both during and after his stint a COFA. They collection displayed a variety of printmaking techniques and ...
Ink Dots Black Spots @ The TATE
Ink Dots Black Spots is a group project from 15 tattoo studios with work from 50 Australian tattoo artists. The exhibition featured A3 screen prints in signed edition of 20, with $10 of each sale going to the Cancer Council Victoria. If some amazing and bargain priced ($60 a print) art wasn’t enough to get ...
Sophia Flegg @ Platform72
Platform 72 has been open for about a year now and we have finally made it! Better late than never, right? Hidden out the back at a little space set aside for exhibitions. On this particular night Sophia Flegg was showcasing her latest. Out the front, the store provides artists with a space the sell their ...
A Study of Hands @ China Heights
Last Friday a travelling show arrived at China Heights Gallery. A Study Of Hands is a project from curator Alexander Mitchell. The first unveiling of the works was in Melbourne at Backwoods Gallery. Mitchell has brought together a group of amazing artists to participate in an allegedly long term project that will see them produce art works ...
Weaves, Painting Paintings – Ben Barretto @ Gallery A.S.
It’s been almost a year since Gallery A.S. popped up at the old Paramount Pictures Building in Surry Hills. Last week she was back. The artist in the spotlight was Ben Barretto with a new series of woven wall hangings and abstract paintings. In comparison to Barretto’s past work the show did seem a little tame: no performance, ...
Katabasis: Come on Down – Sal Higgens @ Salerno
After visiting Sal Higgen’s debut solo show at Sheffer Gallery earlier this year, it was love. Her bold, sometimes splashy, sometimes quirky, and always nightmarish works drew us to another world. Her new works have a brighter and more electric palate. It is likely to lull viewers into a false sense of comfort: neon and candy pinks highlight demons and violence rather ...
Rewrites – Kate Sheldon @ A-M Gallery
It was a busy night at A-M Gallery last week for the opening of Kate Sheldon’s exhibition Rewrites. Maybe it’s the start of daylight savings, but there’s a summer buzz in the air that is getting arty folk out and about. Kate’s minimalist and abstract style is bold and engaging. This body of work explored ...
TwoOne (Hiroyasu Tsuri) @ MiCK
We’ve been a big fan on TwoOne’s work for a long while now and catch his work at group shows in Sydney when we can. It’s impossible not to love his delicate illustrative style. When we heard that TwoOne, aka Hiroyasu Tsuri, was having his first commercial Sydney solo show at MiCK we knew we had to ...