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 .

The good people at Villain are throwing yet another art show with an impressive line up as always. It’s easy to take for granted the calibre of artists these guys get involved in their group shows regardless of the medium they get them to work with. So get on down and check out some quality work and support the villain crew who are constantly cooking up new schemes and exhibition ideas which give many artists a forum to have their work shown.

Cut Outs @ Per Square Metre Gallery in Collingwood. Catch the exhibition from the 30th May to 8th June 2008.

 

Sydney based photographer Cybele Malinowksi casts a crew of stellar Australian musicians in a new light in her first ever solo exhibition titled ‘Loud Light’ opening this Friday 18th April to 30th April 2008 at MTV Gallery, 4-16 Yurong Street, East Sydney.

The exhibition will feature massive translucent life-size photo prints on custom light boxes in a blacked-out gallery. Some of Cybele’s images feature artists such as Daniel Johns, Josh Pyke, Ben Lee, Bernard Fanning, Pnau and many more.

Head On is an innovative showcase of Australian portrait photography, reflecting a vibrant, diverse cross-section of new and traditional photographic practices. Now in its fifth year, the show includes the work of 40 finalists, competing for prizes worth over $30,000.

This year’s works have been selected by multi award winning photographer Stephen Dupont, Byron-McMahon director Sandra Byron and Head On founder and curator, Moshe Rosenzveig. Winners will be announced at the exhibition opening on 1 May.

The show’s main selection criteria are the quality and impact of the image, rather than the celebrity of the photographer or subject. As a result Head On is regarded by many as the most critically important photographic portrait prize in Australia.

The Head On exhibition runs from Friday 2 May to Saturday 7 June 2008 at the Australian Centre for Photography – 257 Oxford Street, Paddington.

The Big Screen Festival now in its eighth year, brings programs of contemporary and classic Australian films to regional, rural and remote Australian communities. First launched in 2001 as a Centenary of Federation project, the festival has played to close to 140,000 Australians in more than 50 towns.

Reflecting the AFC’s commitment to increasing access to Australian content, the 2008 tour will continue to visit remote centres such as Burnie in Tasmania and Karratha in Western Australia. Big Screen has also expanded through satellite programs such as a tour from Broken Hill through Silverton, Wilcannia, and Ivanhoe. The 2008 program will feature the latest Australian releases including The Black Balloon, Cactus, Death Defying Acts, Disgrace, Forbidden Lie$, Not Quite Hollywood and Unfinished Sky.

Regional, rural and remote locations for Big Screen festivals this year include Broken Hill, Port Macquarie, Nambucca and Gunnedah in NSW, Nanango, Blackbutt, Cairns and Pomona in Queensland, Darwin in the Northern Territory, Broome, Port Hedland and Karratha in Western Australia, Bendigo, Traralgon, and Briagolong in Victoria, Mallacoota, Quorn, Port Augusta and Woomera in South Australia and Burnie in Tasmania.

In 2007 over 16,000 people in 27 regional, remote or rural parts of Australia experienced Australian features films, short films and documentaries at a Big Screen festival and this year is expected to be just as big. Films screened on the 2007 tour include Rogue (world premiere in Darwin), Razzle Dazzle, Clubland, Lucky Miles, Noise, Bra Boys and Romulus & My Father.

School Screen organises free school screenings and include films such as Dot and the Kangaroo, The Magic Pudding, Hildegarde, Opal Dream and the newly restored Storm Boy. School Screen has its own web pages on the AFC website. The schools program features a selection of some of the best graduation films from students of the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). AFTRS classified the films specifically for Big Screen to cater for high school students studying English, media and communications in years 10, 11 and 12.

Join Two Flat Whites & our good friend Akina on Friday night as stupidkrap.com presents ‘Kids Today’, an international art exhibition at MTV Gallery, 4-16 Yurong Street, East Sydney from 7.30pm.

The show looks awesome and features a killer list of international artists including Australians Anthony Lister, Ben Frost, Jeremyville, Kill Pixie, Haha, Numskull, Beastman, Trent Whitehead, Jeremy Piert, Kareena Zerefos, EAMO, Love Ariel, Renee Herd, Ant Keogh, Creepy, Reka, Ainslie Fletcher and plenty more!!

Plus there will be live music from the Wahas and Yes Nukes. So bring your wallet down cause there is so much amazing artwork for sale. More information at stupidkrap.com . See you there!

Inspired by the Japanese story of Sadako Sasaki and the 1000 paper cranes , 1000 cans is set to be a brilliant debut exhibition for the japanese born melbourne based artist Hiroyasu Tsuri , locally known as ‘two’. In May 2006 two began painting old spray cans, turning them into 1000 separate works of art.

For two, the long term solitary project symbolises more than the opportunity to show his work, it represents a visual diary of how his skills and ideas have progressed over the intensive 18 month process. The exhibition opens in Sydney at the Global Gallery  from Friday the 4th April until the 18th April 2008. 

weAREtheIMAGEmakers and nice produce presents ‘May contain traces of Nuts’. An exhibition of new artwork by Ben Frost, Trent Whitehead, Beastman (pictured below), Jae Copp, Ainslie Fletcher, Sam Smith and Adrian Knott. It opens this Friday 14th March from 6pm & runs through to Sunday 16th March 2008.

And if you can’t get to Melbourne this weekend for the exhibition, why not check out the next issue from our friends at weAREtheIMAGEmakers it’s a good read.

An exhibition of new artwork by: –

Ben Frost – http://www.benfrostisdead.com/

Trent Whitehead – http://www.nudesoup.com/

Beastman – http://www.esnce.com/

Jae Copp – http://www.soopkichn.com/

Ainslie Fletcher – http://www.ainsliefletcher.com/

Sam Smith – http://www.blackbookno1.com/

Adrian Knott – http://www.myspace.com/adrianknottdesign

Paper Shadow Gallery at Miss Libertines,  34 Franklin Street, Melbourne.