Get your Carnie on

"The Village is a beautiful, beguiling festival that exists to provide an intimate environment in which professional and non professional artists and audiences can meet each other in bliss. The programming esthetic is populist, accessible, quirky, and littered with the familiar and the exotic. Folks you know personally and things you never knew existed." 




This weekend for 4 days only allow yourself to be entertained in the wonderful Edinburgh gardens. With many stages and tents and performances running for hours, how/why would you not want to be involved


opening times 
Friday 6pm
Saturday 12pm 
Sunday 11am


Follow the link below to discover more


http://www.thevillagefestival.com.au/

The 2011 Australian Stencil Art Prize and The Outpost Project

The Australian Stencil Art Prize is an annual stencil exhibition that is this year taking place in collaboration with The Outpost Project which is a HUGE urban art festival in Sydney Harbor on Cockatoo Island. The event goes from 4th of November until December 11th. If your in Sydney at any stage during that time I highly recommend you check this out as this years line up includes some of Australia's best stencil artists:


23rd Key Aaron James McGarry Adam Obscene BAT Boo dale Danny Guinsberg DEAKZ Earwig El Lobo FUKT Gabriella Szablewska Giselle Baron Harry Warne Jared Gibson Jason McLeod Jay Medlen Jessica Row Jimmy Neilly Joshua Smith Justin Garnsworthy Karren Torrisi Katherine Jukes Lorenzo Fontana Michael Duncan Miss Link MR SWEET Ms. Slice Nick Hore Nigel Sense PAWA Pixel P Poncho Army Ralf Kempken Robyn Cross Shanta Skallywag TERRIBLE HORRIBLE Teschi Veronica O'Leary

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Australian-Stencil-Art-Prize/483252160716

You can also check out the complete finalist gallery here.

http://www.australianstencilartprize.com/?page_id=1199

And here is a link to the Outpost Project.

http://outpost.cockatooisland.gov.au/

Chatsworth Gallery Opening

Number 6 Chatsworth Rd, Prahran, has recently been renovated and transformed into a semi-professional gallery. What was once a filthy garage is now a legit as all hell gallery space where up and coming artists can showcase their work to an audience of like minded people. All of the art will be up so sale, and all of it will be affordable - There is a $60 sale price limit on any one piece of art.

Grand opening is on Friday the 4th of November from 6pm to 9pm. Come down, have a drink, check out some rad art and music. Also, follow the Chatsworth Gallery facebook to find out more and keep updated.

At Large Graff Jam

As part of High Streets Inaugural High Noon Festival http://highstreetnorthcote.com.au/events/high-noon/, At Large Gallery http://www.atlargegallery.com/ hosts its biggest ever graff jam yet with 12 Old and New School writers.  


Lineup includes:


- Keisha (QLD)
- Snotty
- Presto (NSW)
- Kaligs + Smeg
- Mupz
- Enix (WA)
- Ishi
- Getn Jigy
- Muchacho
- Ghosto (NSW)
- Rukkus


There'll also be DJ's AND a sausage sizzle and frivolities kick off from 10.30am tomorrow at At Large (

208 High Street 

Northcote)

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See the facebook page for more info http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=218496471539925

How many cafe staff does it take to change a light bulb?

Simple answer; two!

Semi Permanent

Semi Permanent the annual design conference hits Melbourne on 22 September and there's still tickets available.  Speakers include Kelly Thompson, Droga 5, Buro North, Sam Leach, Patrick Clair, Jurppa Hosk, Ken Taylor, The Entente, Benja Harney, Animal Logic, Scott Dadich and Platon.

In conjunction with Semi Permanent, Just Another Agency http://www.justanotheragency.com.au/ is bringing the second installment of of their annual Just Another Group Show on 22 September from 6 - 9pm at 1000 Pound Bend.

1000 Pound Bend will also host the Semi Permanent after party on 24 September from 8 - 12pm.

Check out the full program http://www.semipermanent.com/sp_melb_program.pdf and the website http://semipermanent.com/event/Melbourne/#section-259 for more details.

Paradise Hill

Paradise Hills First Birthday is being celebrated this month with a lottery fundraiser, exhibition extravaganza!
With artists including....
 Kevin Chin, Rus Kitchin, Jasper Knight, Morten Lassen (Denmark), Justin Lee Williams, Song Ling, Josh Lord, Aaron McDonald,  Krishnamurti Suparka, Alisa Tanaka, Mark Threadgold, George Whelan, Paul White, Xoy Zoy and many more, wih Bands and DJ’s taboot, this is sure to be a very cool event.

When: Saturday, 17th of September. 7pm till late!
Where: Paradise Hills Gallery, 1-9 Doonside St, Richmond, Victoria

This week at the Bend

With last week's NoteMaker sale still in mind, we present to you this week's calendar courtesy of a 2011 Moleskine diary. 

Peter and Paisley Present: Two Knights Only

1000£Bend regulars Peter and Paisley are performing a comedy show at ours as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival and we can’t wait for the medieval spectacular these two gentlemen will bring.

Directed by Harley Hefford, their show fortunately runs for more than just two nights but does indeed only feature two knights. It tells a tale of epic medieval adventure featuring an array of characters played by Peter and Paisley themselves. Let yourself be whisked away a few odd centuries and delight in what only two men pretending to be knights, as well as peasants, villains and kittens (so we’ve been promised) can offer.

Check out their official Fringe Festival page for tickets, or for fun medieval facts and more info, check out their Facebook and event page.

Show runs from 19^th September til 9^th of October, upstairs at the Bend. 

Outpost Project

The Sydney Biennale this year will play host to a free street art festival Outpost Project at Cockatoo Island from November 4th until December 11th.

The festival is the largest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, and will feature over 100 local and international street artists and collectives. Its biggest drawcard is the exhibition of the private collection Oi You! which contains 23 works by the infamous Banksy.  Other exhibiting artists include Faile, Swoon and Micallef as well as Melbourne's Miso and Just Another Agency's very own Beastman http://www.justanotheragency.com.au/_beastman.

...worth the plane ticket me thinks

Check out these sites for more info:

http://www.pedestrian.tv/arts-and-culture/news/cockatoo-island-to-host-largest-banksy-exhbition-i/51496.htm, 

http://www.au.timeout.com/sydney/art/events/27208/oi-you-art-by-banksy

FUGLY

Its Melbourne FRINGE time again. A time to celebrate all forms of art and music and what better way that with some Drag


"This ain’t drag like your grandaddy did it. FUGLY is a one-night art-drag armageddon, where you can tranny-out alongside the crème de la femme of Fringe.
The world’s most successful and beloved theatre company SIXXTERS GRIMM are challenging a few of their artist-friends to step out in drag for the first time, alongside Melbourne’s finest/foulest alt-trannies. "


This shows will excite most, inspire some and entertain all. The show is on at Fringe Club- Arts House, North Melbourne Town hall, Saturday the 24th of September starting at 9pm for a fantastic 4 hours and best of all its FREEEEEEE!


more deets at http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/fringe-festival/show/fugly/

C3 in September

Contemporary art space C3 opened Exhibition Number 36 their new show last night.

Exhibiting Artists..

Gallery One

Foyer Space

"Of Invisible Them"

Eleanor Butt

Space A

"Nature Prints"

Ann Cunningham

Space B

"Need to Seem  to Glimpse"

Amber Wallis

Paul Philipson

Warwick Baker

Ross Taylor

Lisa Young

Project Room

"Sun in The Sky, You Know How I feel"

Tai Snaith

Gallery 2+3

"9112011: A Deccenalia"

Andy Hutson

Mia Salsjo

Linda Tegg

Peter Thomas

Show runs from 31st August - 18th September. 

Abbotsford Convent: 1 st Heliers street, Abbotsford, Vic 3067.

For more Info check C3 blog 

introducing ROBERT SCHOLTEN: 1000 Pound Bend Cafe Arist of the Month

 

1000 Pound Bend is excited to have Robert as September's cafe artist. All of his works are for sale. Come on in, grab a coffee and check out his amazing pieces.

Robert Scholten is an artist based in Melbourne, Australia. With diverse influences such as ukiyo-e, typography, comics, printed ephemera and flemish paintings (to name a few), Robert integrates the contrasts of human experience in his own visual style - the sublime and the profane, the reality and the immaterial - while having a lot of fun in the process! His work invites you into a layered world of weird fantasy mixed with comic realism, building strange narratives within the viewer.

Bioperspective

Here’s something for all you scientifically inclined art aficionados. Biomedical artist Beth Croce, the brains behind Bioperspective, creates fine art and jewellery with a biological perspective in mind. What results are pancreas cufflinks and uterus earrings to sketches of human skeletal bats.

You can check out her website here, but you can also see her jewellery range in the flesh at the Bend as we play host to Melbourne Spring Fashion Week’s ‘Spotlight Emerging Designer Exhibition’. Beth, as well as 11 other local designers will be showcasing their SS11 range for the next two weeks. Come by and see the hard work of Melbourne's emerging fashionistas.

The show runs from 29th August until 11th September.

What do YOU listen to in the studio?

Studio Music http://www.studiomusic.fm/ provides an insight into the creative process of visual practitioners around the world, through the music that they listen to whilst working.  Studio Music is a site intended to review, critique and endorse music, it's not for profit and two new artist playlist's will be added to the site at the beginning of each week.  If you would like any more information, or to submit a playlist, email wearestudiomusic@gmail.com 


And if it were me...right now its gotta be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WJFjXtHcy4&feature=player_embedded 

Watch this space

Melbourne has such a huge list of galleries and more are always opening. One more to watch out for is Rooftop Art Space which opens with its first show on 1st of September at 6pm. All details are "coming soon" but as its so central at level 7 Curtain house, 252 Swanston street and if you are both curious and a regular gallery hopper make sure to check it out.

NOTHING (but flowers)

"Its a strange landscape"

Sculptor and installation artist Benedict Ernst currently has a show at West Space gallery. His work has been influenced by bouquets and botanical studies leading him to create "flowers" using objects such as bottle caps, saucepan lids, moss, wire and other collected debris. Its fantastic to see what can be created from what once was rubbish. Dont miss out

The show runs until 17th September at West Space level 1, 225 Bourke Street.

LAZER FIST @ RTIST

English born graphic designer LAZER FIST was basically inspired by everything skateboarding, rap music, graff and design culture. Solo exhibition "Real Rain" opening on Friday, 26th of August from 6pm at RTIST gallery 29 St Edmonds Road, Prahran make sure you stop by and check it out.

Have a look at LF'S blog here..

Paper Thin @ Colour By Numbers

Colour By Numbers Gallery is proud to present 'Paper Thin', a group exhibition of new works on paper by some of the best emerging and established street and fine artists from both Australia and overseas. After a successful fundraiser earlier this year, Colour By Numbers Gallery has found a fresh new space to call home in Newtown.


Opening 25th August from 6-9pm @ 55 Enmore Rd, Newtown, Sydney

Pound's Cafe Artist: Cassandra King

For the last couple of weeks, mixed media artist Cassandra King, has graced Pound's cafe wall. Studying Illustration at NMIT, King uses a variety of mediums and finds inspiration in trying new and unconventional mediums. Her works are 2D and influenced by her surroundings.

"I am passionate about travelling and I often find myself in different places. This change of scenery forces me to notice things that may seem part of the everyday to others."

Be sure to take a look at her work. All pieces are for sale, $50 for the smaller pieces and $80 for the mediums.