Street meets modern art: Steve Smid

Venue : The Fox Hole
Address : Cnr Erskine Street and Kent Street, Sydney (entrance Kent Street)
Website : www.thefoxhole.com.au

The Fox hole presents an exhibition Street Meets Modern Art, in which Sydney based artist Steve Smid fuses postmodernism with street-art and cleverly mixes a wide range of techniques including oil colours, spray paint, marker pens, charcoal and stencils to create striking images that cross genres and embrace new ideas.

His fresh style has been exhibited around Sydney, London and Spain – and this next exhibition is set to be a rousing experience, running free in Sydney from the 29th May till the 29th June at The Fox Hole.

Dates : 29 May 2012 – 29 June 2012
Time(s): 8am-3pm Monday-Friday and 4pm-12midnight Tuesday-Friday
Opening night: 29 May 2012 from 5pm

2012 marks 10 years for Semi-Permanent. Over the past decade they have been bringing together some of the best creatives in graphic design, film, fine art, illustration, web design, interaction design, photography, visual effects, animation, graffiti, motion graphics, stop motion, and architecture and more to speak to captivated audiences. Some of the stats include; 33 events in 8 cities in 5 countries; over 200 speakers, over 200,000 attendees, 15 event books, 38 exhibitions, 11 installations and 33 after parties. And there’s no sign of the guys behind Semi-P slowing down.

The event in Sydney was top-notch as always, adding an extra 4 speakers to the line-up (16 in total), providing plenty of inspiration to the punters. Perhaps the biggest highlight was the Google+ Hangout with Roman Coppola and his friends (including a leopard…seriously). Semi-P has also been getting more interactive each year with audience members submitting questions to speakers via email, mobile or Twitter. This year saw Instagram added to the interactive party. You can catch the permanent record over at syd.semipermanent.com.

Semi-Permanent moves to Auckland, NZ next before heading back to Brisbane and Melbourne later in the year. Get all the speaker info, dates and ticket info at: semipermanent.com

Backwoods Gallery and House of Bricks, under the curation of Alexander Mitchell proudly bring you separate yet intrinsically connected exhibitions of two Australian street artists, Phibs and Brad Eastman, (Beastman).

Spread across two galleries on the same Collingwood block the duel exhibitions will present the the styles, connections, influences and friendship of two of Australia’s leading street artists.

The opening night party will take place across the neighborhood with the extension of murals between the two galleries.

27th April – 6May

Opening Night 27th April. 6-9
Phibs – Perfectly Imperfect – Backwoods Gallery
25 Easey Street, Collingwood

 Beastman – Natural Progression – House Of Bricks
40 Budd Street, Collingwood