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.