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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Award show looking for custom toys!
The Australian Guild of Toymakers will be presenting Strange Forest as part of the Sweet Streets Urban Arts Festival. Strange Forest is an installation designed to showcase the creations of many talented toymakers in a playful and creative setting. Have a look at the photos here ht...tp://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=186644&id=144382499520 for pictures of the Forest at previous events. This is a fantastic opportunity for emerging →
Award Exhibition, 1000 Pound Bend
Artists from around Australia and the world were asked to submit works from any medium that relate to Urban and Street Art Styles including stencil, graffiti, illustration, collage, mixed media, sculptures, installations, knit graffiti, toys, paste-ups, etc... Judges Alex McCulloch (Director Metro Gallery); Din Heagney (Editor of Un Magazine, and former director of Platform Gallery); and Luke Matthews (director and founder →