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“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 […]

Art: KERUPT Yo yo yo! The team at Ironlak would like to wish you an amazing holiday season! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from us and ours to you and yours. Tis the season to get busy. Thanks to all the writers, artists, retailers, and distro-errs for all your support this year. Thanks for helping

“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

As Australia hits record heat temperatures this week, it definitely makes us glad that we jumped across to Perth early with some September Spring in our steps, ahead of this summer-heat-monstrosity that we’re facing now! Spring, summer, or winter though – the Western Australian’s were delivering the heat regardless (insert mailman pun here – something,

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.

Cop the rewind and then buckle in for part two of ‘The B-Line Killers’ featuring Brisbane’s infamous TBK Crew. To rub the concept into your brain muscle a little more – eight graffiti writers from TBK painted four separate walls across Brizzy City. Each wall was a two-name join-up, with all four walls forming like Voltron for

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