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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 […]

On Sunday, 1 December, the National Gallery of Victoria opened its doors to a world-first exhibition offering new and fascinating insights into the unique visual languages of art world icons, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Titled, ‘Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines’, the NGV invites attendees to travel back in time to the New

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

The B–Line Killers was formed loosely in 1995 by a small breakaway group from Brisbane’s notorious THC crew.  Namely REALS, DCIDE, BORE, DEOHE, and ACHE, and a few others that have come and gone over the years. TBK take their name from the train line they all grew up on – the Beenleigh Line, or

Bombing Science is back with another graffiti session video. This time HEST1 is in the spotlight rocking a nice crispy style piece in Montreal, Ironlak spray cans in hand. Almost mimicking the autumn leaves scattered on the pavement, the piece fades from pink to yellow, complete with a super clean outline to bring it all together. We see HEST’s

Graffiti art and b-boy pioneer, Doze Green’s latest exhibition in New York arguably epitomises a fundamental theme of his journey, the energy of movement. Hosted by the Allouche Gallery until December 8 this year, the exhibition titled Doze Green: A Volta marks the artist’s first solo show in New York since 2014, celebrated by a collection of

DOES shares with us an ode to his wife, painting over his first illegal piece from 1997 in the Netherlands. DOES tells us the story: “Born on a Sunday. This little magical human being. Adventurous but focused. Funny and caring. Akosua is her name. Back in the nineties she and I would sneak out to

The latest episode of Benchtalk Podcast is Mark Chu, an artist who calls New York home. Mark joins host Tom Gerrard for a discussion about the emotional journey of the creative process, his history as a classical pianist and how that informs his art practice today, and also his eventual rejection of the classical world

Martha: A Picture Story opened yesterday in Australian cinemas. The film follows the life of photographer Martha Cooper, an icon in our world, and a person whose photos are the reason that many of us were exposed to graffiti culture in the first place. Beyond her work in the arts, the movie also showcases the additional

SAGE, PILFER, and SAVER going HUGE in Melbourne with our new Limited Release Chrome Cans. And by HUGE, we mean MASSSSSSIVE with a capital everything. Our man Carl was there with camera in hand, he drops the story on us: “Always a good time with these Melbourne ratbags.” “The boys had been wall-hunting for a

SUBURBAN PRIMITIVE – an upcoming pop-up art show at the Juddy Roller Gallery in Fitzroy will be the largest solo show to date for independent Melbourne artist Steve Leadbeater. Steve kindly took the time to fill us in ahead of his exhibition that showcases ancient primal wisdom brutally expressed in the offhand tone of contemporary Australia.  Howdy Steve, can