Melbourne Empty Show - Feb 07

Damn. These have been a long time coming. They're from the Empty Show in the 3rd week of Feb 07, but my scanner was broken, and then then when it was fixed, I got too lazy to scan all of these. The Empty Show is an initiative that has been happening in Melbourne (and in other areas in Aus) for a few years now. Local artists take over an abandoned space (often due for demolition) and spend a week or so creating art. Then there's an 'opening'. where everyone runs around taking millions of pics. This site was an abandoned metalworks factory in the city near Flagstaff station. It's bizarre being able to paint through the day while passers by walk by absolutely oblivious. Awesome space, but I think I might have inhaled some asbestos......Cheers to Vexta and Braddock for all the organising.

Braddock

Opening


Opening


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Opening


Lio


Mask & Lio

Me

Vexta & Lio

Me

Miso and Lio

Yok

Natuk (I think...)


Miso

Ghostpatrol

Ghostpatrol

The aftermath....

Collab wall with Lio

I'd seen Lio's work at the Empty Show, and really liked his stuff. Got in touch with him and we'd soon organised a wall. It was a very last-minute arrangement. Luckily I had a day off, and fortunately Vexta tipped me off that Monkey was happy for us to do the side of St Jeromes.

Was a solid afternoon's painting. Then Rob (Pixxil) strolled by at precisely the right time laden with excessive amounts of camera gear and took millions of pics. Some nice ones in there.

Piece in Collingwood

Found this one right near my house on the way home yesterday. Trying to work out who the artist is. Looks like Sabre, AMN crew?

Love the linework on the character in this. I'm wondering whether it's the same artist responsible for the Munch-style female figures on Rose St.

Actually this character reminds me HEAPS of Silouette (USA), who also has an Art Nouveau influence, and similar faces on her characters.

Dskyzer Tees

Gaz (Dskyzer) is one of those people I met and had a good chat with a while back, then saw his work at the Letterheads exhibition at Wooden Shadow Gallery in Richmond last September, but didn't realise it was his. His was one of my favourite letters, and when I was trawling around and saw the same design up on his myspace page, I sent him a random complimentary note saying how much I liked his style. Then we put 2 and 2 together, and worked out we already sorta knew each other.

Dskyzer is of the old skool Melbourne graff scene that was going off when I was about 5 years old. Anyway, how wicked are his designs? These are some of his tees he's been selling (I'm sure he won't mind me posting pics up here), of which I have now purchased four. The best thing about buying tees from Gaz is that you also get the experience of hanging out while he prints them, which is always random, and always hilarious.

You can look him up and buy tees here: www.myspace.com/dskyzer

Latest stickers

Put these up before work this morning. Yeah I know stickers don't really count, but I'm grasping at straws right now, as I have no new work cut to put up.

These little guys haven't really seen the light of day until now, however. Did some canvases with them for the Stencil Festival last year, then sold them to some Prahran punters at Tusk Gallery before I got pics of them.