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Throughout June

Betty Airs Residency @ OAF, Free

with various and diverse supports.

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Until 17th June

Monstrosity Portraits Exhibition @ Monstrosity, Free

Darren Wigley, Rebecca Murphy, Todd Fuller and a whole host of incredible artists from Sydney and beyond, set the walls on fire with their provocative / beautiful / weird approaches to the age-old genre of portraiture. Among them there's a giant rabbit, a furry woman, a spider/woman, a woman covered in ash and tar, a futuristic caveman, a man with a box for a head, and chairs as well. Open 10 - 6 every day except Tuesday.

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Until 26th June

Vernon Treweek - UV:3D @ CarriageWorks

Avatar hasn't got shit on this amazing LSD style 3D trippy art by Vernon Treweeke.

READ MORE HERE

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Friday 11th

Abducted Teddybears' Picnic @ Monstrosity, entry by donation of plush toy

A picnic on the floor of the gallery for you and your beloved teddy or fluffy creature.

Selected artists featured in the PORTRAITS exhibition will give a floor talk about their work, and finally, all applicable fluffy toys will be ABDUCTED and imprisoned inside a perspex lightbox, becoming part of our permanent collection, on the front of the Gallery!

Picnic foods and rugs are provided.Entry is by donation of plush toy/s (Old, new or handmade!)Children are welcome, and must be accompanied by an adult.Bookings essential. Please email info@monstrosity.com.au Subject: Teddybear. Numbers are limited!

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Thursday 6th

Secret Wars 8 Artist Battle @ Name This Bar

Amuse vs. Max Berry

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Friday 25th

Believe You/Me - Philip Soliman @ Monstrosity, free, 6-9pm

On Friday June 25, from 6-9pm, Monstrosity Director Philip Soliman launches his solo exhibition of photography, video and installation entitled Believe You/Me.

Philip Soliman uses the traditional "documentary" media of video and photography, combined with immersive installations, to ask questions about human beings, and our fundamental beliefs about ourselves, each other and the world.

His solo show Believe You/Me brings together three of his current projects.

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Wednesday 16th

Bridezilla, Domeyko/Gonzalez, Step Panther @ OAF, $5, 8pm

Bridezilla headline a show at OAF for next to nothing!

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Thursday 17th

Here We Go Magic @ OAF, $45, 8pm, supports TBA

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Upholstery is Cool :: IKEA meets fashion

...10.07.09

Do you need a new couch? Is your old couch just not celebrity enough? Do you sit on your old couch and think about how nice it would be if you could tell your friends that the money you spent on it went to charity?

…Then boy do we have the thing for you.

The IKEA Home Project is getting a bunch of artists and creative people and designers to re-upholster IKEA’s affordable KLIPPAN couches, and they’ll be on display at Carriageworks from the 28th July-4th August and auctioned off at Grays Online. Jasper Knight, Akira Isogawa, The Glue Society, Sydney street artists Mini Graff, Phibs & Deb, Romance Was Born, Del Kathryn Barton, her hilariously rhyming peer Catherine Martin and a bunch of other Australian artists will be covering some couches, with all proceeds going towards the Victorian Bushfire Appeal. It’s kind of like that time when a bunch of people painted the cows, except you can sit on them.

Below is Del Kathryn Barton & Romance Was Born’s collaborative couch creation.

couch

Posted by amelia in Art, Events

Tags: Akira Isogawa, Carriageworks, Catherine Martin, cows, Deb, Del Kathryn Barton, Grays Online, Jasper Knight, Mini Graff, Phibs, Romance Was Born, the Glue Society, Victorian Bushfire Appeal

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