I popped along to a House Proud installation last night. The series is part of
Melbourne’s Next Wave Festival, and basically it’s artists teaming up to kind
of create an art exhibition in someone’s living room. Yep – it’s in someone’s
actual house. Art on the walls, punters wandering round with plastic glasses
of goon, and the family dog running about. The one I saw featured Miso and
Ghostpatrol, who I both fell in love with a little bit, particularly all the cute paper
designs and creatively vandalised books. Sadly, I only had time to take one quite
awful photo before my camera died – believe me it was better in the flesh! If you’re
in Melbourne over the next week or so, you can see for yourself. There’s four more
House Prouds to go: Friday May 23rd (Emile Zile), 6-9pm at 37 Rupert Street,
Collingwood; Sunday May 25th (Conrad Dudley Bateman), 2-6pm at 373 Howe
Parade, Port Melbourne; Tuesday May 27th (Kotoe Ishii), 6-9pm at 4/61 Little
Oxford Street, Collingwood; and Thursday May 29th (Rowan McNaught), 6-9pm
at 263 Wellington Road, Collingwood. It’s free and you get to have a secret sticky
beak at other people’s houses while indulging in a bit of culture. Thumbs up.

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frankie photographer and general favourite lady Natasha Cantwell – she shot
the cover and the denim shoot for our current issue – is gearing up for a solo
show at Auckland’s Seed Gallery as part of the city’s Festival of Photography.
It’s called Rotten Teeth and Halloween Candy and riffs on scary and violent
motifs becoming “cleaned up and de-fanged” into suburban cuteness. Pop
it in your diary if you’re NZ-inclined: it’s opening tomorrow (Monday June 3rd)
at 6pm and the show runs from 4 – 15 June. Swing by Seed Gallery,
23A Crowhurst Street, Newmarket, Auckland to have a look-see.

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Just have a gander at these pretty birdie baskets from Emma Davies’ exhibition Brocade. Emma is a Melbourne-based artist who works experimentally with industrial polypropylene, which she manipulates and brocades into the delightful shapes you see below. Her first Sydney show is on at Pablo Fanque galleries at 1 Oxford Street, Paddington, Sydney until June 21. Worth a little look.

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Fat is turning 10! To celebrate their birthday they are holding a one night only
exhibition and auction called Ten on Tuesday 17 June. The Great Fat Art Auction
with all proceeds being donated to The Immigrant Women's Domestic Violence Service
– a state-wide service in Victoria that provides support and crisis intervention to women
and children of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds who experience
domestic violence. The exhibition will include works from 13 artists such as Rhys
Lee, Matthew Griffin, Elke Kramer and Beci Orpin. There will be 16 pieces up for
auction ranging from works on paper to sculpture. The event starts at The Murray
White Room (Sargood Lane, off Exhibition St, Melbourne) with the auction starting
at 7:30pm sharp. For more info x

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The creative cats at weAREtheIMAGEmakers are yet again bunging canvas-loads of loveliness up on gallery walls for the general amazement and amusement of the masses (that’s you and me by the way). In their new 12x12 exhibition, 12 Australian artists show 12 artworks each, all on 12x12 inch canvases. There’s treats from Apeseven, Ghostpatrol (art pictured below), Jae Copp, James Hancock, Jeremyville, Junior, Luke Feldman, Miso, Paul Meates, Plump Oyster, Sam Smith and Smc[3] on display in two shows in Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney kids: your 12x12 is on at the aMBUSH gallery, 4A James Street Waterloo. It opens tonight, June 20 from 6-9pm and runs Wednesday to Saturday from June 21 to July 5. Melbourne kids: you can have a look at No Vacancy Gallery, 27-33 Red Cap Lane. Opening night is July 18 from 6-9pm, then it runs from July 19 to 25. All that, and we promise not to say 12 any more. Oh, maybe just one: 12!

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Gillian Benke's label Bencke has finally opened an on-line store with Made It. Still
being early days the little store has just a handful of unique pieces but there will be
regular additions so stay tuned as they arrive. Bencke is also involved in two exhibitions
this month. Wangaratta VIC : A Red World opened on Saturday 21 June at 4pm at
Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery. This runs until July 27. Fremantle WA : The Divided
Self opens today, June 22 and finishes July 6 at the Remedy and Footpath Gallery,
95 High Street, Fremantle.

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Ever feel like throwing on a hot jazz album, dressing like a flapper and pretending
the Great Depression is right around the corner? Well, OK, you don’t have to go that
far, but let’s not beat about the bush: the Roaring Twenties sound like great fun, and
a little bit of them will be coming to Melbourne from tomorrow in the shape of the
Art Deco 1910-1939 exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria. As well as art,
there’ll be ceramics, glassware and furniture on display, fashion from Chanel, jewels
from Cartier, and a period car. The exhibition’s on from June 28 to October 5.
Oohhh ... the glamour.

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