The good team at The Lord Gladstone in Chippendale (Sydney) hit me up to gather some of the greats for an all-star line-up, on their rear wall for the ‘Sunday Walls’ event. Naturally, I took on the challenge and we brought the fireeee. I’d been looking for a motive to link with the steeziest style […]
Tech style master BASIX continues to push the boundaries of what is possible with aerosol. Double take, triple take. It’s okay, we did too.
Last year, Sydney-raised contemporary and mural artist Brad Eastman, aka Beastman, painted a large-scale mural in the centre of Sydney. The mural, spanning over 130 metres, features Eastman’s distinctive and colourful geometric design style, and “is a contemporary abstract interpretation of the repetitive patterns in nature, and the role humans play in its future”. While
A couple weeks back we hit Sydney city with a gang of paint, a BBQ and some beer in tow. It was time for one of our (these days) semi-irregular Ironlak BBQ Burners events. We started doing these events many moons ago, as a way to get some local writers together for a chill day
I was stoked to make it back to Wollongong, NSW on Friday for another edition of the ever-amazing Wonderwalls festival. Unfortunately I could only make it for one day as I had to breeze out to another destination. That said, the line up this year is excellent in terms of quality artwork – and quality humans.
November has been a busy month in Coffs Harbour with the second annual November Reign mural festival kicking off earlier in the month thanks to Open Studio. In addition to the main wall painted by SNARL, BASIX, George Rose, Otis Carey and PHIBS – the first weekend saw a mix of artists from around Australia,
With the second edition of the annual November Reign mural festival kicking off this weekend, John Kaye rolled through Coffs Harbour as an early bird arrival. Not wanting to waste any time, Mr Kaye finished his mural before the first beer was even cracked at the official opening event yesterday. We’re certainly not complaining. Wrap
In November 2015, Open Studio launched the inaugural November Reign mural festival – a congregation of graffiti and street artists painting murals on the Mid North Coast. The event ran smoothly over four stages, one stage each weekend in November. The festival saw 65 contributing artists from across Australia, and abroad, merging upon Coffs to
Before construction commenced at our new Sydney store, Ironlak Art & Design, we asked Brisbane-based artist Emmanuel Moore to decorate the temporary hoarding that sealed the site while the store was built. He created the piece in one day, on location inside the Central Park centre. Kicking off during trading hours, Moore used Sugar Artists’
circle /ˈsɜkəl/ (say ‘serkuhl) 9. the area within which something acts, exerts influence, etc. One of our early ambitions when embarking on our first Sydney store, Ironlak Art & Design, was to create a space that would inspire the art community and be a home for creativity. With this in mind, we wanted to leave
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Ironlak Art & Design Sydney represents a new breed of brick and mortar retail for artists, and marks the launch of our extended range of Ironlak art supplies. Setting up shop in the city that gave birth to the Ironlak dream, seemed like the right move for our first Australian flagship store. Although our HQ
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Jimmy Nice of Hip Hop duo Spit Syndicate, and collective One Day, presents his solo exhibition ‘Many Hands’ at Goodspace this coming Wednesday night. Known normally for his lyrical skills on the mic, the man is also nice at bending letters with his hands. The resulting ‘Many Hands’ show is a collection of works illustrating
