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Fundraising Auction – Close of the Festival

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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 local artists including Deb and Drewfunk, and a range of unique works created especially for the Charity Auction, by local and visiting artists, through the facilitation of the Collingwood Underground Artists hub – active throughout the three weeks of the festival.

We are also extremely lucky to present for auction, one half of a diptych by Mat Benote, US conceptual graffiti artist, and famous advocate of the ‘gifted’ art movement. The other half of this piece has been ‘gifted’ to famous New York museum, PS1- essentially making this unique diptych, a live conceptual art piece for one lucky bidder.

This is your chance to get a unique piece of art at a bargain price – as well as your last chance to view the Award exhibition at 1000 £ Bend.

Register your interest!

To pre-register to bid, please send our auction coordinator, Eleanor Brooker, your full name, email and mobile phone number and we’ll get back to you with your bidding number, where you can preview what’s on sale and where to collect your Sweet Streets bidding beacon. Email Eleanor rubyque@warpmail.net or give her a call 0404 847 643.

Fundraising Auction
1000 £ Bend, 361 Ltl Lonsdale St, Melbourne.
24 October: Preview from 3pm, Auction starts 4pm

Some pieces to be auctioned…

Mat Benote Diptych

Award Show Mural by Deb

Award show mural by Drewfunk

Award show mural by Beastman

Our workshops are sweet!

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Haha's advanced stencil workshop

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.

Mother & son doing JunkyProjects workshop

Josh Cleary's advanced stencil workshop

Workshops & Master Classes

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Work by Simon Ormerod

Work by Simon Ormerod

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 to book online.

Character Design & Development

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Cinzah

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 your style.

http://www.crackedink.com/ www.flickr.com/photos/seekayem

Session dates & Times: Thursday 14th  October 6pm – 9pm

Venue: Collingwood Underground Arts Park, 44 Harmsworth Street, Collingwood VIC

Cost: $25

Enquiries: Contact Debbie Hall debbie_hall@bigpond.com or call 0431363097

Character Design & Development

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Work by Simon Ormerod

Work by Simon Ormerod

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 suit your style.

www.flickr.com/photos/seekayem

http://www.crackedink.com/

Session dates & Times: Tuesday 12th October 6pm – 9pm

Venue: Collingwood Underground Arts Park, 44 Harmsworth Street, Collingwood VIC

Cost: $25

Enquiries: Contact Debbie Hall debbie_hall@bigpond.com or call 0431363097

Sweet Streets at BSG Event/Exhibition- WED 13 OCT 6pm

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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 New Zealand during the Sweet Streets Festival (8-21 october).

This cross-tasman show will feature artists working in comic illustration, stencil, free-hand graffiti, screen-printing, mixed media, and painting.

FEATURING:

Cracked Ink (NZ) -   Cinzah Seeyakem (NZ) -   Liam Moore (NZ)

PNTR (NZ) -   Rhys Burnie   -   Nate Gamble   -   Deb -   Jo Waite

Megan Dell -   Bados Earthling   -   Heesco  -  KA’a

Come party with the artists on opening night:

A free event on Wednesday 13th October, from 6pm featuring music by A DJ CALLED MATT!

Cracked Ink

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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 my style also has humor, it’s easy to understand my characters whether it be there personality, expression or plain and simple face value.

The name cracked ink came about after a series of characters I did when I first came ova to NZ, they were a little disturbed, visually and expression wise, and It kinda came through that, I thought the word cracked was quite relevant for the style that I worked in too, old objects that are pretty ruined, demolished, and the ink, well that’s were it all starts.

At the moment my Art work is not a full time career as much as I would enjoy that, my art is definitely a full-time affair, because it’s my life, no matter whether it’s something simple or complex I’m always thinking about or doing my work, it’s an addiction.

Check out Simon’s work in various festival events including:

- The Sweet Streets Award Exhibition: 8-24 October, 1000 Pound Ben

- Sweet Streets At BSG group show: 8-21 Oct (opening night 13 Oct), Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy

- Live Painting Street Murals (exact locations to be announced)

www.crackedink.com