welcome to the newset staff member
-thanks to tai for super gifts

pasted from the super team at This is vandalism

Painting insides on a window is one thing – pulling down a whole art deco building just so you can widen one of Melbourne’s historic lanes to get bigger trucks to deliver more shit to Myer is another. Not to mention the piece of shit building they are putting up in it’s place with a giant TV screen on the ouside.

Because if there is one thing people need it more TV right? Fucking hell.

Just goes to prove that the people who talk about graffiti riuing this city don’t really get it, real vandalism is destroying your cities history, not painting on it.

Nokia and Mine holding it down on the building in question.

the amazing TWOONE at No Vacancy Gallery (melbourne)
review below by Sean Whelan

TwoOne “So Far”
A short review by Sean.

After his first successful solo exhibition, 1000 cans, TwoOne has returned with a vast, equally ambitious and exciting body of work for his new show “So Far”.

Filling the entire gallery space are hanging installation works of various size and shape, all with painted motifs of god-like animals, patterns and bones. Instantly you are drawn into the mysterious teachings of TwoOne’s gritty spirituality and there is a sense of wandering through a hallucination. There is beauty and warmth in the earthy tones of paint, flow in the playful lines and forms of the gesturing animals and figures, and a curious contrast in the triangle shaped boards and compartments that house metal parts and images of bones, spines and skulls.

As if on the road to seeking an East-Asian old world spiritual deity, “So Far” exhibits TwoOne’s discoveries thus far.  A massive dream catching satellite dish channels thoughts and visions to the walls as clinical compartmentalised boxes. Each is made of found wood and board, discarded and or used skateboard parts, wire and bottles of noxious liquids. Everything that was used along the road now becomes part of his spiritual collections. Skate trucks become a spine, a tense wire becomes a sinewy tendon, worn down wheels form the cells of travel weary flesh. There is something very fragile and human about it all. Each object been chosen, categorized and enshrined with a painted animal, looking over or intertwining with the object like a guardian protecting sacred treasure.

TwoOne’s exhibition “So Far” is currently showing at he No Vacancy gallery, off Jane Bell Ave. 3rd Level QV building until 27th September.

here’s a small section of pickings from my sketchbook

a quick trip to launceston

here’s a fe nice pick from the super nice Allen Moyle
Allen took some photos in my studio for a show in Launceston
i’ll post more pics of my installation for the show later

just aquired this amazing werk by nior
from the 40 thieves show at gorker gallery

my buddies at everfresh have finally put up some great photos of their new wall
I think it’s super fantastic
check it all out here