Our coverage of Wide Open Walls mural festival in Sacramento, CA, continues. It’s been a wild ride, with many, many murals going up, we still haven’t made it to every wall yet. Here’s a look at yesterday’s places we went and people we saw. The festival finishes tomorrow, so if you’re close by, stop by. […]
On Saturday I arrived in Sacramento, CA for the first annual Wide Open Walls mural festival. After overcoming my zombie-like status, with a hectic Sunday sleep in, I (slightly) adjusted from AUS to USA timezone, and put rubber to asphalt to see some walls. The event started last Thursday, so even as I chilled in
We’re really excited to be a partner and the official spray paint supplier of the Wide Open Walls mural festival, which is taking place from 10 – 20 August, 2017. The festival will bring over 40 artists – local, national, and international – to the Sacramento, CA area. This year’s event adds to the region’s
Melbourne artists SHEM RDC F1 FBA and Steve Cross TFC come together to showcase their skills in Melbourne’s suburb of Windsor, the home of Ironlak retailer Union Heights. Shot: Crude Narrative Beats: Jase Beathedz (aka Shem) See the wall in person right near the Union Heights store on the corner of Chapel and Earl Street,
ASKEW has been spending a bit of time back in New Zealand recently. As part of his return home he participated in Boon Festival in Hamilton – a city in the Waikato region of New Zealand’s North Island. At Boon, he painted this mural – the centre piece a portrait of Te Ata. Here’s some
The PangeaSeed Foundation brought ‘Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans’ back to Napier, in the Hawke’s Bay region of New Zealand between March 19 and 26, 2017. With a fresh line up of 25 extraordinary contemporary international muralists the festival focussed on creating thought-provoking public murals aimed at shedding light on New Zealand’s pressing marine environmental
Returning for its fourth year, First Coat is back for three days of free programmed events and live mural painting this May. The festival has evolved to be one of Australia’s major public art events and is a must attend for anyone in southern Queensland. Ironlak has been the official spray paint sponsor of First
“I want to see people being themselves, and maybe it’s the internet. Maybe it’s me getting older but I feel like a part of graffiti is kind of dead, or dying, and maybe it’s people trying to be sponsored or professional or something like this. Maybe I’m responsible in a way of trying to live
Wonderwalls is back in Port Adelaide for 2017 with another heavy-hitting lineup of international and local faces. Featuring: Amanda Lynn, Brigid Noone, Claire Foxton, Elizabeth Close, Fats, Fortrose, Fuzeillear, Georgia Hill, Inti, Jake Logos, Jimmy C, KAB101, MASIKA126, MERDA, Mimby Jones, MUCHOS, Natalia Rak, NUMSKULL, Mimi, Rick Hayward, Sam Songailo, Telmo Meil, VANS THE OMEGA & ZEDR
Follow the artists on Instagram: BAFCAT: @bafcat JUMBO: @studiodennis
The Brisbane Street Arts Festival (BSAF) is back for its second year in February 2017 with an absolute stellar line up of local, interstate and international artists. With over 20 different locations around the city the BSAF 2017 program will offer a kaleidoscope of colour, sound and movement to capture the hearts and minds of
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
