City Girl Escapes to the Australian Outback to Capture Images of Amazingness
Imagine leaving it all behind – leaving your boring city job and failed relationship behind to escape into the wild Australian outback and embrace your...
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The Archibald Prize 2014 Winner is Fiona Lowry!
Congrats to Fiona Lowry who is the winner of the 2014 Archibald Prize with their portrait of architect Penelope Seidler. Is this a worthy winner?...
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Here are your 2014 Archibald Prize Finalists…
The 2014 Archibald Prize finalists have just been announced by the Art Gallery of NSW and here they are. As per usual, there are some...
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Artist Luke Cornish Stencils a HUGE Rhino On Melbourne Tram
Forget looking at a timetable while you’re waiting for your tram in Melbourne, Australia. You can instead check out this HUGE rhinoceros stenciled all over...
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Beautiful Sydney Transformed by Light for ‘Vivid Sydney’
Starting yesterday through June 9th, the city of Sydney is hosting an annual exhibition of light and music called Vivid Sydney. Dozens of light sculptures and...
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Bringing Mozart to the Kids… Spectacular Costumes and Props in the Magic Flute
Costume and effects guru Julie Taymor has outdone herself with Opera Australia’s latest production… Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”. With a particular focus of entertaining the kids...
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We Thought These People Looked Weird. A Closer Look Left Us Absolutely Speechless
OK well the title of this blog is a little misleading as we’ve known about Australian ex-pat Ron Mueck‘s works for some time and have...
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The World’s First Fully Sized Lego Car That Actually Drives!
A 20-year-old mastermind from Romania has built the world’s first full-size Lego car, with a compressed air-powered Lego engine. It has space for two passengers...
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40 Candid Mugshots of Dapper Criminals from the 1920s
Between 1910 and 1930, a series of 2500 ‘special photographs’ were taken by the New South Wales Police Department. As curator Peter Doyle of the Justice...
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Melbourne’s Famous Street Art Lane Covered in Blue Paint in the Name of Art?
As we’ve previously written HERE, street art in Melbourne, Australia, has come a long way since the days of “zero tolerance” where street artists were...
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Like a Kid in a Candy Store – Inside The Artist Studios of Dianne Gall and Jim Thalassoudis
We were lucky enough to be invited inside the artist studios of art power couple, Jim Thalassoudis and Dianne Gall in Bowden, South Australia recently. The pair...
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Street Art Painted Traffic Light Boxes in Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne’s streets and laneways have been alive with street art for a number of years now. In the early days, however, the city had a...
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INSTAGRAM: BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ARTISTS
Mindlessly double-tapping through Instagram can quickly turn into a black hole of nail art, puppies in costumes, and half-naked Rihanna. Looking for a more cultured...
