“Oh Really would like to thank everyone that’s made art, bought art, or looked at the art on the walls. Without you we’ll just be three guys sitting/drawing/laughing on a couch in an empty shopfront.”

This Friday, everybody’s favourite art-zine-turned-magazine-that-also-now-has-it’s-own-artspace, Oh Really on King Street, is celebrating the first birthday of its gallery and the fifth issue of its publication. Featuring work by Ben Frost, Beastman, Ape7, Claire Nakazawa, Creepy, Max Berry, Mini Graf, Phibs, Syke, Teazer, Yok and about fourteen hundred other local and international artists, the group show is an exhibition of handpainted book covers. A few are in the pictures above.

Hard Cover No Jacket is a double whammy too; it also celebrates the launch of Issue Five of Oh Really Magazine – 1000 limited edition magazines that themselves have hand-screened covers. We asked Jamie Nimmo, one third of Oh Really, about being one years old again…

Posted by steph in Art, Features

Tags: Ape7, Artist Run Initiatives, Beastman, Ben Frost, Claire Nakazawa, Creepy, Jamie Nimmo, King Street, Max Berry, Mini Graf, newtown, Oh Really, Oh Really magazine, Phibs, SYKE, Teazer, Yok

A new exhibition at Freshly Baked Gallery opens in an hour. Apart from that I know nothing about it. Which is actually making me kind of excited. I mean I know it’s an online 3D gallery based in Melbourne, and I know their past exhibitions have included art that you can browse online or buy and have shipped in a matter of days, but I know nothing about their new Winter Set which is launching in oh, an hour.

I like art, and I like art openings, but today I can’t be bothered to get out of bed and despite the fact that real art openings are probably more free drinks rewarding, all I really need to do is get Steph over with some cheap champagne and sit with me around the computer screen as we drink it out of plastic glasses, quietly judging each other’s outfits and murmuring about how much more we liked the artists’ earlier work. Way to cut out that pesky middle-man!

http://freshlybakedgallery.com/. In an hour.
And you don’t even have to put pants on.

Posted by amelia in Art, Events

Tags: Aida Sabic, Alastair Mooney, Ape Seven, Artist Run Initiatives, Baden Pailthorpe, Caitlin Rigby, Dan Foothead, Freshly Baked gallery, Max Berry, Mephisto Jones, Satta van Daal

At 11am this morning, four artists were locked inside Oh Really gallery, without food, water, clothes or air except for that we made up the last part because its Friday and we do what we want. But the locked-up part is true, and they’re not allowed to leave until 5pm tomorrow.

The idea of the Lock-In is to take artists out of their usual habits, processes and environments and see what comes of it. They might work together, they might work separately, they might feed off each other creatively, they might just eat each other. Jamie Nimmo is one of the trio behind the Oh Really collective, who are always trying new things to widen the walls of the creative minds they work with. He just called me up to tell me a bit about the Lock-In and accidentally found himself being interviewed while he was supposed to be at work (sorry Jamie Nimmo.)…

Posted by steph in Art, Events

Tags: Artist Run Initiatives, Chris Bennett, Claire Wieland, culture jam, Jamie Nimmo, Joe Purtle, Joe Wilson, newtown, Oh Really

Photos by Natalie Connolly.

Posted by steph in Art, Your Face

Tags: Alien Proof Construction, Artist Run Initiatives, Bauxhau Stone, Brian Paisley, Edward Horne, Franco, Jacq Sherry, Jamil Stone, Mekanarky, Perran Costi, Peter Strong, Pirate Photography, Rachel Lafferty, Raul Eduardo, Snowdroppers, Terry Archer, Token, Tortuga Studios, Warehouses

Two things are going to happen tomorrow night, of various magnitude depending entirely on your investment in either.

The first Thing is an astronomical dance, whereby the Earth tilts herself as far away as possible from the Sun, and the Sun responds in kind by halting in his path across her sky and then promptly changing direction. This will be called the Winter Solstice.

The second Thing is a multimedia group exhibition, where fourteen Sydney underground artists will bring new work to St Peters newest warehouse space, Tortuga Studios. This will be called “The Longest Night”.

We talked to Tortuga director H Morgan-Harris about the exhibition, the studio, and the warehouse utopia of which it was an offshoot – the legendary Mekanarky…

Posted by steph in Art, Features

Tags: Alien Proof Construction, Artist Run Initiatives, Bauxhau Stone, Brian Paisley, Edward Horne, Franco, Jacq Sherry, Jamil Stone, Mekanarky, Perran Costi, Peter Strong, Pirate Photography, Rachel Lafferty, Raul Eduardo, Snowdroppers, Terry Archer, Token, Tortuga Studios, Warehouses

Since its inception, the Biennale of Sydney(BoS) has showcased more than 1250 big name artists from over 60 countries in globally renowned exhibitions, symposiums, performances, workshops and panels. But when Swiss artist Frederic Post came along in 2004, he said to Sydney, “okay but… what else is happening?”…

Posted by steph in Art, Features

Tags: Archive, Artist Run Initiatives, Biennale, China Heights Gallery, Fringe Festivals, Gaffa Gallery, MOP Projects