Design Federation

Everfresh still doing their thing at the McCulloch Gallery

NEW2’s Entropy exhibition on at Per Square Metre

Opening 18th July 6-9pm

Are you a web designer/developer?
Then why not enter your latest website to the McFarlane Prize.

Now in its third year, the McFarlane Prize, named in honour of Australian open source and web standards pioneer Nigel McFarlane is now open for nominations.

You may nominate your own work, or the work of others, but please familiarise yourself with the entry conditions before nominating.

The Prize will be awarded to an Australian designer or team for a site launched or significantly upgraded between August 1 2007 and August 31 2008. Sites may be designed for Australian or non Australian individuals, organisations, companies or governments, but must be designed by a team which works in Australia for an Australian company, or by Australian citizens or permanent residents. Anyone may nominate a site, and there is no cost for nominating or being nominated for the prize.

Nominations must be received using the official nomination form by August 31 2008.

http://mcfarlaneprize.com

 

Nate Holmes Trapnell (aka. The Southpaw) is a talented Melbourne Illustrator & Co-currator of new Melbourne Gallery ‘Gorker’. One week after the succesful opening of the gallery’s group show, Nate has announced his debut solo-show ‘The Fine Line’.  It will feature some well-wicked large scale illustrations created with a trusty fineliner pen! Nate takes his comic book, graffiti & hot rod influences chews them up and spits them out with his own twist. Put this one in your diary kids!

Opening Night:
Thurs 3 July 6-9pm
Gorker Gallery
Corner of Gorr & Kerr St Fitzroy

Show runs:
3 - 23 July with wine tasting every wednesday from 6-7pm.

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is an off-beat, cabaret-style piece currently showing at the Opera House. An entertaining performance blending genres, periods and mediums to titillate the eager audience, the play is the brainchild of new, UK performance group 1927 Cabaret which was born of the creative collaborations between designer/film-maker Paul Bill Barritt and writer, Suzanne Andrade.

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Creepy is having a show in Perth, entitled Let’s Start a Fire! It runs 25th of June ’til 11th of July at the Keith + Lottie Gallery. Also, why not visit Creepy’s website.

‘Prom queen’, ‘trailer trash’ and ‘sporty type’ are exposed in all their floral glory when Allure opens at Storm Gallery in Surry Hills on 16 June 2008.

Artist Sue Jardin has captured the erotic qualities of flowers and their lifecycle via 30 stunningly sensual and intensely vibrant digital photographs, exhibited for the first time.

Allure is a free exhibition at Storm Gallery, 2/65-67 Foveaux St, Surry Hills, from 16 June to 12 July 2008. All photographs are for sale. Ph. (02) 9211 3193

Sue Jardin will conduct a free gallery talk on Saturday 21 June at 2pm

http://www.suejardin.net.au
http://www.giclee.com.au

For all you Aussies in England feeling homesick, why not go check out ‘Golden Brown’, a show brought to you by Edtn magazine which features amongst other artists, 9 Aussies and 1 Kiwi!

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Contrasting notions of eternity with sequence NEVERNESS – Part 1 subtly frames the exploratory nature of a global group show. Although multiple perspectives inevitably create a kaleidoscope, a considered choice of photographers has developed an atmosphere where contrasts create harmony, and where the group and the individual are naturally balanced.

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