Yarn Wrap
Yarn graffiti artist, teacher and crafter. The ‘Yarn Wrap’s work has been found all around Melbourne. Last year she contributed a number of pieces to the ‘Big West’ Festival in Footscray. She has also tagged around Fitzroy, St.Kilda and Bayside Melbourne. She studied at Sydney University in the early 90’s and qualified as a Textiles & Design and Food Technology teacher. →
Banksy DVD Launch
Red Hot Shorts and Blow Up Cinema are pleased to present the DVD launch party of the Banksy Film, Exit Through The Gift Shop. This is a one-off screening of this brilliant film and it will be followed by a Red Hot Shorts VJ set and drinks at bar prices. All in the lovely surrounds of the Sweet Streets Festival 2010. Tickets: $15 →
Streets and Lanes presented by Anglicare Victoria
Sweet Streets Festival is happy to support Streets and Lanes - an annual campaign allowing you to show support for your peers living in underprivileged circumstances. Funds raised through the Streets and Lanes Appeal will assist in addressing serious issues such as violence, mental health and youth homelessness. STREETS AND LANES EVENT THIS SATURDAY AT 1000 POUND BEND (361 Little Lonsdale →
Sweet Streets at BSG Event/Exhibition- WED 13 OCT 6pm
Through a small bookshop, squashed between two kebab shops, and up some narrow stairs, you will find the hidden gem that is the Sweet Streets at BSG exhibition. Finding the place may be tricky, but it is worth the effort as Brunswick Street Gallery and the Sweet Streets Festival presents an amazing show of urban and street artists from Australia and →
Festival Street Art Tours – Book Here!
Come along for an exciting walking tour of some of the best (and often quite hidden) street art in Melbourne. As you are led by some of the most informed and involved local Street artists, you'll gain an real insight into this unique culture presented on our city's streets and laneways. Run by Melbourne Street Art Tours, the Sweet Streets →
Festival Street Art Tours – Book Here!
Come along for an exciting walking tour of some of the best (and often quite hidden) street art in Melbourne. As you are led by some of the most informed and involved local Street artists, you'll gain an real insight into this unique culture presented on our city's streets and laneways. Run by Melbourne Street Art Tours, the Sweet Streets →
Festival Film Night 14 October – Book here!
The Sweet Streets Film Night will feature four fresh short films about street art and by street artists. Three of these films will be having their premiere screening. Limited tickets available so book in early! Booking is easy - just follow the online booking system at the bottom of this page. DETAILS: 1000 Pound Bend Thursday 14th October 7:30pm Tickets $7 (+online →
Fab Family
FAB Family was established in 2005 and was a coalition of several graffiti crews to represent Bandung's (indonesia) graffiti scene at that time. The name F.A.B stands for Flagrant Act of Bombing which Cheztwo came up with. From tags to throw ups to pieces and productions , they maturely evolve and added Family to the name because it defines them →
Max Berry
Max Berry' work creates a world where every object has a life of its own, a daydream land where houses talk to clouds and characters float playfully in abstracted space. Interested in a imagined worlds, where his characters can exist in a heightened state of duality, exploring obscure lore and strange unknown lands. His characters appear in many forms, as →
Josephine Bradley Scott
Yoyoe Been is the imaginary friend of Melbourne based Artist Josephine Bradley Scott. Yoyoe splatters mystical children on large city walls with aerosol and intricately pens them down on smaller surfaces with ink. Josephine’s wild imagination grew up in an industrial town where the outback meets the sea. A degree in Visual Communication brought Yoyoe to the University of South →
Festival Street Art Tours – Book here!
Come along for an exciting walking tour of some of the best (and often quite hidden) street art in Melbourne. As you are led by some of the most informed and involved local Street artists, you'll gain an real insight into this unique culture presented on our city's streets and laneways. Run by Melbourne Street Art Tours, the Sweet Streets →
Submissions Closing!!
Submissions close this weekend! So send through your images and details by midnight on Sunday 22nd August for a chance to have your work in Melbourne's Urban and Street art event of the year! Go here for more details and to get your entry form for the award show at 1000 Pound Bend, or here for more details on the Street →
Artists Gathering – an Invitation!
Do you want to be involved with the festival but not sure how? The Sweet Streets Team is holding an Artists' Gathering on Saturday the 28th August at the Collingwood Underground. We invite all artists to come along if you want to get a bit more info on the festival, and express your interest in various festival activities such as →
Cracked Ink
I grew up in the North of England for most of my life. I'm 30 years old and based in New Zealand about 1 hour north of Auckland in the sticks. I started painting about 9 years ago, when I was an Art student. My stylz are crazy, monsterish characters, pretty much everyday observations, but twisted ever so slightly. I think →
Sponsorship Opportunities
Your sponsorship opportunity! Melbourne’s premier urban & street art festival invites you to get involved. Sweet Streets is a 16 day festival of exhibitions and events across Melbourne’s world famous street art precincts. We are looking for sponsorship partners interested in engaging with contemporary urban and street art and a range of sponsorship opportunities are available. Sweet Street is a not-for-profit community →
Cinzah Seeyakem
Cinzah ‘Seekayem’ Merkens is an Auckland based Artist/Illustrator. Over the past 5 years he has exhibited in numerous exhibitions and expeditions throughout Australasia, South East Asia and the U.S. Cinzah quite often draws directly from his own imagination and past experiences, exploring familiar themes such as Childhood Nostalgia, daydreaming, nature, travel, and studies of slightly deranged city folk. In 2007 Cinzah →
PNTR
I currently reside in Wellington, where I work as a visual artist as part of ‘I WEAR THEM’ studios; after completing a BFA at Otago School of Art in 2008. Several areas of my current practice step outside of conventional means of galleries and into quintessential public space which forms a dialogue outside co modified media. The street being an area →
DRYPNZ
Drypnz is a New Zealand based paint mover. For the past five years he has been creating murals and street works that imitate experiences, and the people he finds surround him. The output is characters called Drypppls. They try and explain and expand the notion that, ‘the human race is in a state of dis-evolution, revealing exaggerated aspects of the →
Artists Pages
Check out the new artists pages - to be updated as we put together more info on a number of key artists involved in this years festival! See - http://www.sweetstreets.net/artists/
Ears
The Sydney born Painter Daniel O’Toole also known as ‘ears’ works both on the streets and in the studio with a loose abstracted portrait style that plays with lyrical line work and bold colours. Often Whimsical his male faces appear to be lost in thought and overwhelmed by the world in general. Described as an exploration into →
DrewFunk
Graduating with a Bachelor in Multimedia & Design from RMIT University, Malaysian born Illustrator/Artist Drewfunk now resides in Melbourne after deciding to quit his full-time job as a designer to live his passion. He draws his inspirations from the city streets whilst staying true to his oriental heritage and has been known to have an aerosol addiction. Check out DrewFunk at: →
Beastman
Beastman is an artist based in Sydney. Influenced by the beauty and symbolism behind nature's repetitive geometric patterns and its eternal struggle against man-made adversities, Beastman's tightly detailed, symmetrical paintings depict a parallel world of hope and survival inhabited by his beast-like, yet beautiful and emotive characters. These instantly recognisable and loveable creatures reflect human nature and the everyday burdens →
Rehgan De Mather
Death Metal (evolution and afterthoughts) "Rehgan De Mather’s paintings replicate the traces of industry, and the cryptograms of graffiti, on walls of contemporary spaces. They flash with comic book exclamations, bleed with paint scrawled behind alleyways, and are seared by an essence of New York grit." - David O’Halloran, Curator, Glen Eira City Gallery "Much like a musical sample →
Call out for knit-graffiti pieces for the Award Exhibition!
This year the Award show at 1000 Pound bend will feature a knit-graffiti installation! We are looking for artists who wish to submit their work to contribute to the piece. This will be an awesome collaborative installation piece to represent the large, but relatively unknown community of knit-taggers who present us with (arguably) the most inoffensive form of graffiti all →