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Archive
Tag Archives: #StreetArt
The Joys of Miso Paste
Street artist Stanislava Pinchuk (aka Miso) creates life-size hand-drawn paste-up projects. Most of her work deals with story-telling myths and folklore. Her work shows influence from her Ukrainian upbringing and eastern European folk and craft traditions. She is often inspired … Continue reading
The Yoyo diet of Yoyoe Bean
According to her website Josephine Bradley Scott Jo, aka Yoyoe is an eclectic Melbourne based artist working with ink, oil, spray can and body paint media. As a passionate body image activist, she has worked with respected organizations such as … Continue reading
Posted in StreetArt
Tagged #Melbourne, Josephine Bradley Scott, StreetArt, Yoyoe Bean
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Tom Civilian is Too Civil by Half
Street artist Civilian – (aka Tom Civil) is a Melbourne street artist. He came to Melbourne for the S11 blockades for the World Economic Forum in 2000 and decided to stay. Since then, Civil or Civilian has presented “empty shows” … Continue reading
Posted in SprayCanArt, Stencils, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, StreetArtists
Tagged #Graffiti, Civil, Civilian, StreetArt, Tom Civil
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Christmas in Hosier Lane
This is left over from last Christmas in Melbourne’s Hosier Lane – entitled “I’ll Empty Your Sack.” I chose not to show it last year because I thought it too rude: but I haven’t seen anything Christmas-sy in the street … Continue reading
Posted in StreetArt, StreetArtists
Tagged #Christmas, #HosierLane, #Melbourne, #StreetArt, I'll empty your sack
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Maybe MYMOnsters are your MOnsters too!
MYMO aka Mimo Mali, is a multi-disciplinary artist who is a painter, illustrator, muralist, installation and animation artist from Berlin who has shown her work throughout the world in various galleries and museums. She has delivered lectures at a range … Continue reading
The wonderland of Alice
I found the following information about Alice from her own website and biography. Alice Pasquini is a visual artist from Rome who works as an illustrator, set designer and painter. She has worked in England, France and Spain since graduating … Continue reading
A gnarly second anniversary
Lewis Kristian Marnell was born in Melbourne, Australia in, December, 1982. He was a professional international skateboarder who spent much of his life traversing between Australia and Sweden, due to his parents ancestry. None of this stopped him from pursuing the love of his … Continue reading
Posted in SprayCanArt, Stencils, StreetArt
Tagged aerosol art, Jonas Lewis, Lewis Marnell, mural, Nike, skateboarder, skateboarding, Skater of the Year, SLAM magazine, StreetArt
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Swoon is not for the faint-hearted
Swoon is a Brooklyn based street artist who uses paste-ups or wheaties for street art exhibits. Caledonia Dance Curry, (aka Swoon) was born in 1978 in New London, Connecticut and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. She studied painting at the … Continue reading
Posted in StreetArt, Wheat-pastes
Tagged #Wheaties, Brooklyn, Caledonia Dance Curry, grafitti, StreetArt, wheatepastes, woon
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This is Anything but Drab Art
According to various websites, Australian street artists such as Drab have spread their wings and left their footprint overseas. In particular, Drab has infiltrated East London and begun hitting the street art scene with a series of large-scale paste-ups which … Continue reading
Ruffling the fur on Hello Kitty
There has been much ‘to do’ this week which is enough to ruffle your fur. In case you haven’t caught up with the latest, it appears that the “Hello Kitty” cartoon depiction we are all used to seeing, is not … Continue reading
Posted in Cards, Collectibles, nostalgia, QuestionableArt, StreetArt
Tagged d, Dize, Hello Kitty, Sanrio, StreetArt, Yuko Shimizu
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Nimbin: The Joint Went Up in Smoke!
Sadly, on August 13, 2014 a disastrous set of fires demolished three iconic buildings in the northern NSW township of Nimbin. The fire engulfed the Rainbow Cafe along with two other buildings in Cullen Street, including a museum celebrating the … Continue reading
Posted in StreetArt
Tagged ., Age of Aquarius, Benny Zable, muralscapes, Nimbin, StreetArt, Vernon Treweeke
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A Burg-meister in street art
Burg is a street artist who is well-known around Melbourne and other places. After recent visits to the NSW coastal nirvana of Byron Bay, Burg has had some recent exhibits both there and back in Melbourne. An artist whose passion … Continue reading
Posted in SprayCanArt, Stencils, StreetArt
Tagged #LFC, #Liverpool, #Melbourne, Burg, Elsternwick, StreetArt
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Who gives a Hoot?
Australian sculptor, Thomas Dwyer Bass aka Tom Bass, was born in Lithgow, New South Wales, on 6th June 1916. He studied at the Dattilo Rubbo Art School and the National Art School. After his graduation, Tom developed a philosophy of … Continue reading
Compare the Pair #10
“Sometimes I sit and think… and sometimes I just sit,” is a bastardization of an old proverb or saying that escapes my recall for the moment, however; I use this to describe this street art piece. This has to be … Continue reading
Posted in Cover Art, Gallery Art, Paintings, StreetArt
Tagged #GalleryArt, Art, Hippolyte Flandrin, Oscar Wilde, Robert Mapplethorpe, StreetArt, Teleny, The Louvre
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Elvis Hooraffe – a pet subject
Tai Snaith – aka [Pets] is a female street artist as well as a more ‘conventional’ artist, who has been inspired by many children’s book illustrations, old books, stories, domestic crafts and found objects. One of her favourite characters is … Continue reading
