Hard Cover No Jacket – Oh Really Gallery turns 1
Oh Really Gallery – Hard Cover No Jacket
Opens Fri Sept 4th
@ Oh Really Gallery, 55 Enmore rd, Newtown
14 Shows + 9 Culture Jams + 1 Issue of Oh Really Magazine = 1 big first year
Oh Really Gallery is celebrating its first year and launching Oh Really Magazine issue 5 with a group show of hand painted books.
Over the past twelve months Oh Really has carved out a new space for art in Sydney’s inner west and has brought the creative community together around a diverse program of exhibitions and events. In it’s first year Oh Really presented over a dozen exhibitions from artists including Phibs, Beastman, Mini Graff, Simon Degroot and Ape7, played host to the Australian Stencil Art Prize, held half a dozen Culture Jams (improvised jams for artists and musicians) and more than a few productive artist lock-ins, launched the art-buying frenzy that was Cardboard City, produced a sold-out edition of Oh Really Magazine issue 4, and collaborated with local projects as Creative Sydney, CarriageARTSworks and Poliform for Design Sydney.
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Melburnian Artist Michael Steele
Michael Steele, from Melbourne, produces some exhilarating work.
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Beware of “Israeli” door-to-door art scams!
If you recently bought art from a charismatic art student selling his wares door-to-door, chances are you have been duped into buying a worthless piece that is mass produced in China.
A handsome young man with a French accent recently paid my parents a visit in Western Sydney, claiming to be an Israeli art student from the University of Jerusalem. He was carrying a portfolio which he said contained the work of he and his fellow students. Despite the work being unremarkable, my parents – always eager to support the arts – were willing to part with $120.00 for an oil painting depicting two boats docked against a wooden pier. Continue reading about door-to-door art scams →
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Kirpy Grayscales… @ 696.
Greyscales is a culmination of 10 months work during which over 400 blades have been blunted through the hand cutting of each stencilled piece. The black and white artworks all possess a distinct Melbournian undertone with a strong graffiti influence through the depiction of crowds, streets, lanes, buildings and trains, including collaborations with Aeon, Shem, Dvate and Deam. The result is Kirpy’s first solo exhibition.
Greyscales opening night party Friday12 December at 696.
Exhibition runs December 10 – 23
696 – 696 Sydney Rd, Brunswick VIC
Open Wed to Sun 11am – 7pm
