I first noticed DREZ when he was pushing the boundaries of letter based graffiti acrosss Melbourne. I reached out, we started chatting and then started hunting down and documenting his earlier works with his new optical pulse / gradient linework that I thought was fresh and so exciting. In 2020 I invited him down to […]
Late 2020 I was asked to curate an exhibition on Melbourne street art for the Australian Embassy in Buenos Aires. This was to run for three months in early 2021 with artworks mounted on the exterior walls of the property. The artists had to have made some impact on the streets of Melbourne and Rone, […]
It’s been a decade of documenting street art and graffiti and over that period I have had incredible times, met and befriended loads of talented artists from Australia and beyond, curated and managed multiple projects across Melbourne working with awesome people, self published a couple of books, and taken tens of thousands of photos. Here […]
It’s not every day to get to see a huge collection of your favourite artists’ pieces in the one spot, let alone in your own backyard. Crossing Lines features over 200 works by Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat – the first time they have both been shown together like this. Both artists were based […]
The absolute highlight of my year in 2019 was organising this project. With amazing help from P1xels, we got a group of some of Melbourne’s most celebrated street artists together to create a large-scale mural eleven metres tall and thirty metres wide in Easey Street, Collingwood. The mural is a tribute to iconic New York […]
I’d heard of Buff Diss years ago but we only actually met in 2015 after he returned from a stint living in Europe. We immediately hit it off and spent some time together while he painted a large wall in South Melbourne. I loved this new original style he was painting with pixellated backgrounds overlaid […]
KAWS – graffiti writer, street artist, toy maker and contemporary artist from USA has a large collection of his artworks on show at the latest blockbuster exhibition at NGV titled Companionship in the Age of Loneliness. Pride of place is the commissioned GONE statue sitting in the forecourt, at seven metres tall and weighing fourteen […]
BSIDE gallery celebrates their third birthday with an epic group show and party check the video HERE
It’s not often that things just fall into place. I have been working on refreshing this wall for years. I was there when the mural was painted by legendary DMV crew from FRANCE in February 2012 for years it was one of my personal favourites and one of Melbourne’s best murals. Back in those days […]
