Luke Shirlaw

Welcome to ‘Get to Know’ where we interview both established and emerging artists from across the globe and take a moment to go deeper and learn about their thoughts, processes, experience, and creative approach. Today we feature Cam Scale. Cam Scale is an Australian fine artist and muralist who started his creative journey as a graffiti […]

“I try not to paint anything that is going to ruin anyone’s day.” We just came across this clip of Jurne’s interview from YME Crew’s Film: Year-round Metal Enjoyment: A New England Freight Train Experience.In the interview, Jurne goes deep in a discussion about his motivations for painting and his love for freight trains as

“Sometimes you can try really hard to make walls like that happen and nothing works, you know. That day, with not much effort, everything seemed to go our way.” –MILE MEMOS, MILE, PORNO, DAVE, and PKUE keeping their calm and emptying some scraps at a cutty spot in Newcastle, NSW. It was a challenge to get

Silk Roy is a Melbourne-based abstract expressionist. Using paint, and a variety of tools, he pushes and pulls the paint across the surface, creating layers and forging his own blend of artistic compositions. The gestural motions he uses to make his abstract paintings work are grounded in his graffiti beginnings, evolving over time to become

Welcome to a spot on ironlak.com called ‘Your Favourite Writer’s Favourite Writers’. The concept is super simple – we’re talking to some of the best in the game and asking them to list writers or artists who they consider some of their favourites. ASKEW from Auckland, New Zealand is up next sharing his favourites. We’ll let

It’s a lazy Sunday here in Australia, and I’m looking for some low hanging fruit for today’s post so I can finish some other work, chill with my kids, and go watch the UFC later. Enter, the throwback!! HA! Well, in all seriousness, the video and artwork I’m presenting today have nothing lazy about it. Taking us

SIRUM from Melbourne recently spent a week in Darwin for the 2019 edition of Darwin Street Art Festival. He recruited DEM189 and AKUZE for the jaunt, and together they got up to some extracurricular activities. We’re breaking the flicks across two posts, along with some words from SIRUM about his affinity for the top end.

Emmanuel Moore and John Kaye braved the brutal summer heat to paint this scorcher in the Brisbane suburb of Grange. One for the people. The two artists have been painting together for over a decade now, starting as kids doing graffiti and grateful to be still painting together, even as their individual artistic practices have

Mr Wany, Weik, and Verbo burning rubber at Autodromo of Imola for the seventh edition of RestArt Urban Festival. The street art and music festival took place at the Enzo and Dino Ferrari racetrack in Imola, Italy which opened way back in the 1950s. I don’t know what to do with my hands… Follow @restarturbanfestival, @mrwanys, @weik_, and @v3rbo on

This week in Miami, DOES has unveiled the latest sculpture in his ‘BRIQUE’ series. Titled ‘AKOSUA’, BRIQUE N°7 contains elements which were gathered from the spot where DOES first started painting graffiti in 1997 – the isolated overgrown location where he returned recently to paint a tribute for his wife, which you may remember from his recent

Filmmaker Selina Miles is the guest on this week’s episode of Benchtalk Podcast. Originally from Brisbane, Australia, and now using Sydney as her homebase, Selina joins host Tom Gerrard in a discussion about her career which started after stumbling upon a love for filmmaking by hanging out with graffiti writers in Brisbane.  They talk early

The Museum of Graffiti opened its doors yesterday in Miami’s Wynwood district. The museum opens amongst the chaos that is Wynwood during Art Basel, positioning itself as the world’s only museum dedicated exclusively to graffiti art. Ahead of this week’s celebrations, MAST, CES, YES2, and DOVES teamed up to create one of 11 murals commissioned