Fundraising Auction – Close of the Festival
Come along to one of the most anticipated events of Sweet Streets, as we close the festival with our Fundraising Auction. Help raise money for the future of Sweet Streets as well as the Collingwood Housing Estate Arts Community, and Anglicare Victoria - our chosen charities. Featuring signed prints donated by Obey, Acorn and Josh Cleary, the Award Show murals by well-known →
Live Walls – Presented by Napier Studios Productions
This weekend (16 & 17 Oct) there will be live painting in Richmond on post office lane just past Lennox on Victoria street. Come after lunch... yo see the Napier crew shred there stuff. Ha ha Broddock and Civil will be getting down...at the same time in the same place. On Monday (18 Oct) the Amnesty International wall will →
Artist Run Street Art Exhibition
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 host an artist run street art exhibition. Come to the opening party on Wednesday 20th October 6pm →
Opening of the Collingwood Underground
Come join Sweet Streets to celebrate the opening of the Collingwood Underground Wednesday 20th October 6 – 10pm. This is an exhibition of co-creativity between artists, and all involved with the festival, workshop participants, staff and audience. Free flow is the name of the game. We all need to play with this underground thing coz it’s real and does not →
Underground Artists Hub Opening times
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 →
Our workshops are sweet!
Since the festival opening on Friday 8th October we have run 7 brilliant workshops over 4 days, facilitated by our amazing street artists at Signal and the Underground Arts Park. There are even more workshops to come, to find out more go to the ‘workshops – book here’ page.
Stencils for Beginners
Our stencils for beginners workshops are filling up fast, so we have scheduled another session on Sunday 10th October 10am - 1pm @ Signal Youth Art Space, Flinders Walk, Northbank, Melbourne VIC. Go to the 'Workshops - book here' page to find out more and make bookings.
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →