Matt and Shaun recently had the honour of giving a presentation to the super talented creatives behind the awesome toys the come out of Moose. Moose is an inspiring company, based in Melbourne, Australia. They are the 3rd biggest selling toy company in the US and all thanks to the awesome team here in Melbourne!
It was really amazing to see Kit Bennett flex his illustrative prowess for this one. When we were asked by Opiuo if we wanted to help him with a new animated film clip for his track Slug a Bug, featuring New Zealand EDM heavyweights Shapeshifter we knew Kit was the one to make it happen. That said, i think he blew us all away with the end result. Awesome job by the guys at Round 3 Creative shooting and editing. You all did an incredible job!
It was an absolute pleasure to meet such a nice, humble guy with such a fresh style. Great decision by the guys at Wonderwalls Festival to bring him out as the guest international artist for this year’s event.
Pantone is a super cool guy and we can’t wait for him to come back and visit us here in Aus. You can check out his work on canvas at Backwoods gallery right now!
Photo By Selina Miles
Tree Spirits is a culmination of work that Ears has produced during a month long residency at Juddy Roller, using the entire gallery space as his studio to produce a mix of large format and smaller mixed media paintings on canvas and wood panel. This is Ears’ first Melbourne solo show in over 4 years.
Tree Spirits delivers a series of imagined landscapes that reference mountainous Australian bush lands, accompanied by floating portraits warped by playful line work offset by sparse graphic elements.
In his latest body of work, Ears uses bold colours and geometric lines to create compositions born of a street context yet taken further into ideas of symmetry and form, utilising the tension between the man made world and the natural environment.
Tree Spirits opens at Juddy Roller Studios Friday July 3 at 6pm and runs until Sunday July 12.
With the support of CitiPower Powercor, The Neighbourhood Justice Centre and City of Yarra, Juddy Roller transformed the Collingwood power substation at the corner of Easey Street and Wellington Street into one of Melbourne’s most iconic pieces of public art.
The graffiti treatment was a collaboration between some of the most sought after and influential contemporary street artists including Rone, Adnate, Mayo, Guido Van Helton and Askew. The monochromatic artwork was carefully curated, balancing community aesthetic and implementing subtle graffiti deterring features. Background and portraits by Askew, script by Mayo and photo realistic portraits by Rone, Guido and Adnate.
The power station is an stand-out example of how street art and graffiti aesthetics can be combined to create a lasting, positive impression on the community whilst having a strong anti graffiti and impact.
