Festival Opening Night and Annoncements of Winners!
What an awesome opening we had at 1000 £ Bend, with over 1,000 people attending. A huge thanks to all who gave up their time to make the festival opening a happening thing; our volunteer management & operations team, the NZ crew (Cinzah, Cracked Ink, Liam Moore) who created a collaborative masterpiece along with some other spontaneous contributors. Great Earthquake & →
Workshops & Master Classes
This year our workshops embrace and celebrate the many different forms of street art catering for different skill levels and areas of interest. Join some of our leading street artists for workshops on stencils, character development, street sculpture, illustration, yarn wrapping. Places in each workshop are limited, so bookings are essential. Go to http://www.sweetstreets.net/workshops-book-here/ to find out more details and →
Street Art workshop using Recycled and Upcycled Materials
Join renowned Australian street sculptor Daniel Lynch of the 'JUNKYPROJECTS' in a street art workshop with a difference. Make your own creatures, critters and cretins using nothing more than garbage and a few nails. Learn innovative techniques to turn an endless resource of everyday waste into amazing art pieces for all to enjoy. Participants are encouraged to bring along any found →
Stencil for Beginners
Join Daniel Lynch, renowned street artist from Junkyprojects, to learn how to make quirky stencils. This workshop starts at the very beginning, so if you’ve never picked up an art knife before, never fear. From cutting to spraying all the secrets of this DIY process will be revealed and you too can make your own two-toned stencil masterpiece. Bring along →
Street Art workshop using Recycled and Upcycled Materials
Join renowned Australian street sculptor Daniel Lynch of the 'JUNKYPROJECTS' in a street art workshop with a difference. Make your own creatures, critters and cretins using nothing more than garbage and a few nails. Learn innovative techniques to turn an endless resource of everyday waste into amazing art pieces for all to enjoy. Participants are encouraged to bring along any found →
Advanced Stencil Class with Josh Cleary
Stencil artist Josh Cleary leads this advanced stencilling workshop designed specifically to show you how to create multi layered stencils using Photoshop. This workshop is targeted at those who have had experience in creating single layered stencils and have basic skills using Photoshop or similar image adjusting software. To get the most of this session, bring some images (1 could →
Advanced Stencil class with Haha
Join Ha Ha, one of Australia’s most notorious and prolific stencil artists, for an advanced stencilling workshop designed specifically to show you how to add more depth and detail to your creations by using multi layered stencils. This workshop is targeted at those who have had experience in creating single layered stencils. To get the most out of this session →
Illustration and techniques for works on paper
Join renowned illustrator & Street artist, Michael P Fikaris, for this 3 hour session on illustration and techniques for works on paper. Explore illustrative techniques with applications for gallery works, paste-ups, stickers, and murals. Discover & develop your own style to convey rich stories. www.fikarisart.com Date & Time: Saturday 23rd October, 9am - 12pm Venue: Collingwood Underground Arts Park, 44 Harmsworth Street, Collingwood →
Stencils for Beginners
Join Daniel, renowned street artist from Junkyprojects, to learn how to make quirky stencils. This workshop starts at the very beginning, so if you’ve never picked up an art knife before, never fear. From cutting to spraying all the secrets of this DIY process will be revealed and you too can make your own two-toned stencil masterpiece. Bring along a →
Yarn Wrapping & Bombing – getting the knitting done
Join Jude Yarn Wrap to learn about and experience the joys of yarn wrapping & bombing. This session focuses on preparing your yarn wrapping materials, knitted pieces. This workshop will suit anyone who has never knitted before or if you have picked up needles but cannot really remember what you do next. We cover all the basics you will need →
Creating Large Scale Murals Using Stencils
Join Civil, leading stencil artist, activist, illustrator and publisher, for this 3 hour session focusing on using interlocking smaller scale stencils to initiate a narrative that others can build on. Create stencils based on hand drawn images, develop your own cutting style, optimise the use of colour, and build collaboration. This session is most suitable for people who have some →
Stencils for Beginners
Learn how to make extraordinary stencils with Melbourne’s eminent super stencil making heroine Boo. This workshop starts at the very beginning, so if you’ve never picked up an art knife before, never fear. From cutting to spraying all the secrets of this DIY process will be revealed and you too can make your own two-toned stencil masterpiece. Bring along →
Character Design & Development
Join some of New Zealand’s leading street artists, Cinzah & Simon Ormerod (Cracked Ink), for a 3 hour workshop exploring character design & development using a range of different mark making materials & techniques. This session is designed to increase your appreciation of creative expression and finding your own unique style, and how to use available materials to best suit →
Character Design & Development
Join some of New Zealand’s leading street artists, Cinzah Seeyakem & Simon Ormerod (Cracked Ink), for a 3 hour workshop exploring character design & development using a range of different mark making materials & techniques. This session is designed to increase your appreciation of creative expression and finding your own unique style, and how to use available materials to best →
Deb
Deb currently based between Melbourne and Sydney is an extremely pro active artist, with constant project on the go. She is also at the forfront of the Australian Street Art scene. Deb has spread her work throughout many parts of the country as well as other parts of the globe, as well as engaging in public art programs, workshops, design →
Volunteer!
It will be bigger than ever and we would like you to be involved. Sweet Streets is an all volunteer organization so we are looking for more volunteers to join us to run the festival. __ Art Installation __ Invigilating __ Admin __ Opening Night __ Bump in / Bump out __ Sales Desk __ Bar / Hospitality staff __ Auction assistant __ Education Officer for Workshops __ Party assistants Volunteers can →
Youth Workshops @ Signal
Sweet Streets has partnered with Signal, City of Melbourne’s creative arts studio in the heart of the city dedicated to people aged 13 to 20. Over the first weekend of the festival, 9th & 10th October, Sweet Streets will be hosting a series of 3 hour street art workshops focusing on advanced stencilling techniques and creating street sculpture from found objects →
Stencil Master Class for Secondary School Art Teachers
Join Josh Cleary, a practicing street artist and secondary school art teacher, for this master class designed to better equip art teachers with knowledge and practical skills relating to the latest street art trends and techniques. Incorporating this style of art into your teaching will instantly engage your students. Learn how Josh has successfully incorporated contemporary stencil art into the curriculum →
Megan Dell
After growing up in coastal Victoria, Megan moved to Melbourne at the age of 17 to study Graphic Arts. She had admired the street art in her many trips to Melbourne and started dabbling in it once she moved to the city. Her artwork almost always incorporates spray paint and markers, with a preference to paint on reclaimed wood as each →
the JUNKYPROJECTS
Crafted from arcane rites encoded with the capitalist symbology of the modern corporate global battlefield, the 'JUNKYPROJECTS' is a powerful magikal curse which once placed upon any particular area, then empowers any garbage and waste contained therin to become animate and in many ways spring to life. The myriad of intruiging creatures which have arisen due to this strange set of →
Sweet Streets Underground Artists Hub
Once again the Collingwood Underground Arts Park will be an integral venue for the Sweet Streets 2010 Festival. This unique space, which was once an underground car park and is still adorned with street art on the walls from last year’s festival, will provide a studio base for our artists, a venue for workshops, and an exhibition space for →
Apeseven
George Hambov aka Apeseven grew up in the 1980's Sydney skateboard scene . Spending most of his time exploring industrial areas , listening to hip hop, he grew up on a healthy dose of anime , skateboard art and graffiti . Apeseven predominantly approaches work with a street art perspective, utilising stencil, freehand aerosol and traditional →