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- Framing Heck | The Hijinks of skr3am and Jinks1
- A Backview of Caspar Friedrich’s Art
- This is why Maka’s is so popular…
- When Art Begins to Imitate Art
- Born Free | To Be Free
- Suki’s Anything But Kookie
- They Are Redheads | Not Deadheads!
- Pop Art | Dot Art | Appears to Tear the Heart
- On the Street Man with Beastman
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Category Archives: StreetArtists
Framing Heck | The Hijinks of skr3am and Jinks1
skr3am and Jinks1 of Redlight Studio have created a number of framed street art images across Melbourne, using pictures of famous icons. So far, the likenesses of ’60s fashion icons such as Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton have graced the … Continue reading
This is why Maka’s is so popular…
Mike Maka or Makatron (born 1979) is a well known Australian street artist and painter easily recognised by his large scale murals inspired by mechanical machinery, flora and fauna. Maka uses a mix of aerosol and acrylic water-based paints, whilst … Continue reading
Born Free | To Be Free
Be Free is a street artist who began her street art in September, 2010. She uses stencils and free flowing acrylics for installations and street painting and pasting adventures around Melbourne; which she is slowly introducing around the world. … Continue reading
Posted in Stencils, stickers, Stickers&Slaps, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, StreetArtists, Wheat-pastes
Tagged Be Free, female street artist, street artist
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On the Street Man with Beastman
Sydney based prolific street artist Beastman (Bradley Eastman) is influenced by beauty and symbolism behind nature’s repetitive geometric and symmetrical repetitions, glyphs and tribal images. Beastman’s instantly-recognisable style has graced walls throughout Australia including a commission to paint the frontage … Continue reading
Posted in SprayCanArt, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, StreetArtists
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Btoy Will Never Be Coy
Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1977, Andrea Michaelsson (aka Btoy) is a female street artist known for creating extremely fine and detailed stencils. Michaelsson studied law for four years before realising it was not the career she wanted and began … Continue reading
Posted in SprayCanArt, Stencils, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, StreetArtists
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How to become a Walker Stalker
British street artist David Walker likes to paint around East London. Walker aims to challenge preconceptions about fine art and urban art painting within the gallery confines and the public domain. According to his website, Walker’s works are mostly in … Continue reading
A Dash of Ash | Up in a Flash
Ash Keating (born Melbourne, 1980) is a male artist born in Australia, currently working in media, sculpture, painting, photography, installation and screen-based performance. Keating painted a 19 m x 7.5 m vinyl billboard on the North Wall of the National Gallery of Victoria … Continue reading
Posted in SprayCanArt, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, StreetArtists
Tagged Installation art, installation artists
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Some Scenics by Phoenix | The Street Artist
Phoenix the Street Artist has been making collage installation street art in public spaces around the Melbourne CBD and beyond since the 1980s. Phoenix works with a combination of drawing and photocopying using cardboard, paper, pencil, pens, box cutters, transparencies, … Continue reading
Posted in Stencils, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, StreetArtists
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Ha-Ha | ‘It’s better than sex’
Ha-Ha the street artist is also known as Regan Tamanui. As a street artist he has been using spray can and stencil art in and around Melbourne since 2001. He is also a professional artist and gallery curator with several … Continue reading
Posted in SprayCanArt, Stencils, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, StreetArtists
Tagged Ha-Ha, Regan Tamanui, street art
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Chrissy Amphlett | You’re Not Like the Rest
The late Divinyl’s singer Chrissy Amphlett helped put Australian rock music on the international map and is recognised with a permanent accolade to her in the form of a renamed lane off Little Bourke Street between Spring and Exhibition Streets, … Continue reading
These Conor’s Are Probably a Gonner
Street artist Conor Harrington was born in Cork, Ireland in 1980. These days he is living and working in London, where he considers himself as a ‘painter’ rather than street artist or gallery artist, to which he is both. Harringon’s … Continue reading
Compare the Pair #19 | This is Wild Man
Australian sculptor Ronald “Ron” Mueck (born 1958, in Melbourne) grew up in the family business of puppetry and doll-making. After spending time working in the family industry, Mueck turned to sculpture. He first came to public attention with his sculpture … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, Sculpture, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, StreetArtists
Tagged #Melbourne, Hyperrealism, Oksep, Ron Mueck, street art, street artists, Wild Man
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Adelaide’s Landmark Car Park | For Member’s Only
[Car Park: Members Only by Matej Andraž Vogrinčič 22m wide and 22m high was created and commissioned for the Telstra Adelaide Festival of Arts in 2000.] This public installation comprises 15,000 Matchbox toy cars stuck to a brick wall close … Continue reading
The amazing 3D chalk art of Eduardo Relero
Argentinean 3D street artist, chalk artist (“chalkie”) Eduardo Relero has created worlds of wonder on pavements all over the globe. He is based in Madrid and his work requires a specific viewing point to achieve the magic of a third dimension. … Continue reading
Posted in ChalkArt, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, StreetArtists
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By the look of this work – I think he Nailed it!
Street Artist Nails (aka Fers) is the alternative name for Niels Oeltjen who was born in Germany in 1976. Niels moved to Australia at the age of 6 with his family, growing up in the Huon Valley in Tasmania. He now … Continue reading
Posted in SprayCanArt, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, StreetArtists
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