Posts tagged with Melbourne artist

January 19, 2012 | New Art | by Dave Mahler |

I’m a Melbourne-based music video director, cartoonist, musician and animator. I directed my first clip back in 2009 and I’ve been working towards my dream as a feature length film director ever since. Comics have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, and I’m just gearing up to put out the fith issue of Kahvillen Comics, a quarterly digest choc full of introspective tales, ‘witty’ observations and fart jokes.

October 29, 2011 | New Art | by Sam Octigan |

I’m an artist and illustrator from Melbourne, working across fine art, apparel, poster and album art. On top of that, I front the hardcore/punk band Iron Mind. Recently releasing our debut LP, I took care of the cover art and decided to produce some quality, limited edition prints. You can check those, along with the rest of my work here. Read more

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August 4, 2011 | New Art | by Jake Millar |

Melbourne-based artist Thomas Pavitte uses basic techniques to create complex artworks. For his take on Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, he carefully arranged and numbered 6,239 dots and then spent the next nine hours connecting them. The result is not only the (unofficial) world record for the most complex dot-to-dot drawing, but also happens to be a seriously cool piece of art. Read more

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June 30, 2011 | New Art | by Contributions |

Check out the awesome work of Australian artist Matthew Quick. His latest series, Introduced species, is very cool stuff indeed. Read more

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November 18, 2010 | New Art | by Casper Johansson |

Melbourne artist Maria Sirpis is interested in the intimate and the personal in art’, reflected in her melancholic but beautiful series of napkin art which trawls ‘childhood, memories, personal stories, the home, intimacy, privacy, sweetness, sadness and grief’. Read more

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April 7, 2010 | Video | There's video in this post. by Zolton Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

Created by Melbourne-based artist Marisa Lai, this claymation video for the single, A Greased and Golden Palm, by French pop singer Orouni, is simply stunning. [Read more about Australian art, design, and music at The Colour: Aussie culture in pictures]

June 27, 2009 | New Art | by Casper Johansson |

The beautiful oil paintings of Melbourne-based artist Anne Middleton capture a moist and bountiful environment, featuring strawberries drenched in dew, tulips weighed down with heavy drops of rain, slippery oysters and translucent loops of octopus. Read more

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June 11, 2009 | New Art | by Gerry Mak Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

Luke Kopycinski is a concept artist for a game company in Melbourne, but his fine art transcends any niche genre with its rough paint strokes converging into luminous and expressive figures. Read more

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Zac Freeman takes every day objects (such as buttons, remote controls, film canisters, circuits, gears and telephone parts) and puts them together. The result? amazing collage portraits. Now, this is what I call modern day impressionism! Read more

Ok, so you say you love Conan, but do you really mean it? I mean, really, really mean it? Oh, you do. So, go on then, prove it. In ink. Now! [wink wink]

Sufjan Stevens creates autistic music for introverts — soft, shy, naive, full of shadows, windows, and insecurities. Yet it all sounds slightly forced, his enigmatic songwriting as comforting as it is unsettling.

The street art in Berlin, where I’m living, is just amazing, as these photos suggest. Read more

A Chicken Growing Up! is a great blog on which science illustrator Mieke Roth posts one ink drawing a week of a chicken as it matures. Read more

These heady times call for heady music, something spaced-out, trance-y, weird, and devilishly ecstatic to distract us from reality. Chicago’s Cave heeds this call for musical escapism, channeling Hawkwind, Kraftwerk, funk, and tribal frenzy into their mothership-beaconing groove.

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Are you heading out for the night and wish to look at your girly best? Now you can not only pimp yourself, but also your vehicle. We proudly present to you car eyelashes. Simply install these inexpensive little accessories on the headlights, with a little automotive grade adhesive, and you’re good to rock the road. Read more

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Honest Food Preparation Instructions

Yes, we’ve all been there: the chinese food from last week that still looks edible amongst the bare surrounds of an empty fridge. But really, we shouldn’t. Just let it be. Or College Humor will expose you! Read more

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Never ever, ever, ever, ever park here

Some friendly advice for the neighbours, who simply don’t get it, or street art? You decide which one it is.

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Pencils made from recycled newspaper

The problem with awesome things like these pencils made out of recycled newspaper is that you almost don’t want to use them.

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Christoph Niemann illustrates a nightmare flight

New York Times illustrator Christoph Niemann has created a brilliant visual diary outlining the peril and pitfalls that beset the everyday passenger based on his recent experience flying from New York to his home town of Berlin. Read more

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Fashematics

Mathematics? Leave me out. Fashematics? Now you’re talking! This gem of a site is a runway equation that adds up to a whole lot of wonderful.

Inspired by the unique digital clock apps created by the designer, Sean Zoega, the i-toc watch is a colorful physical manifestation of digital ideas featuring bespoke two-disc Japan quartz movement. The outer gradient displays the minutes while the inner gradient shows the hours. The rings interact, creating an ever-changing pattern of design and colour. We have them for sale in our online store. Read more

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