Wood Works
MIRANDA FREEMAN has a chat with local arty type Anna Horne. It’s not often you’ll find artists that tackle the three-dimensional, which is why it’s always exciting to find someone amongst the hordes of canvassed, paint-stained and turps-smelling arteests who finds their creative comfort in sculpture. Introducing TwinBEE Studio...
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Gold Coast Music Industry Association AGM
Into music, passionate about our talented local scene and want to rock out with some of the coolest kids in town? You'll find a heap of like-minded muso's at the GCMIA's AGM, and this is a great way to get involved. After the official part of the evening it's party time with entertainment by Mark Aboulle and plenty more. If you're a member of GCMIA...
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The Alley Fish Fry
The 4th Annual Alley Fish Fry is nigh and while it sounds delicious, it's not a barramundi BBQ, it’s more a feast for the eyes than the belly. The gathering is a non-commercial, non-competitive day for all those passionate about the fish surfboard, to celebrate the style and check out advances and experiments in twin-keeled shaping and design...
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ForceFed
Always a crowd favourite, ForceFed is on at Ruby Tramp Friday night, Mar 5. A propermerge of local art and great music featuring DJ Boogs. BigManDJ Boogs is coming back to Surfers Paradise toget yougroovin' at the next ForceFed on March 5th, it'san art focused night that should bein the minds ofeveryone in the 'creative appreciation society'. A...
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Art from Annika Evans
Annika Evans' work is like that sticky lump of shock in the back of your throat when you see your ex at the pub. Evans' sculpture and installation is all about those bizarre emotions you haven't got the mettle to articulate.
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Art from Nick Ashby
Nick Ashby is an artist on the move, who scored a sabbatical with Bundanon Trust Artist in Resiodence program - When he was studying he won a couple of awards and then expected it all to go well, but it wasn't quite like that. He tells us "I think the main thing is persistence, and do things that are meaningful to you. Do it for yourself, don'...
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Art from Lara Merrington
Merge recently caught up with Adelaide photographer Lara Merrington after a summer sojourn toMarion Bay, Tasmania -where she was cheeky enough to talk her way into the annual Falls Festival as an Official Photographer. This was her first event as an official photographer after working last year with musician Cookie Baker. Her access to the pit ...
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Surf 'n Ink
The International tattoo convention featured over 160 of the world's best tattoo artists, motorbikes, clothing and of course plenty of peeps with plenty of ink. We ventured in to the Gold Coast Convention andExhibition Centre to scope out the art, the weird and the wonderful event that is Surf 'n Ink.
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Floating on Forever - Lachlan Hansen
Moseyingon to soak up the visual feastat thecurrent exhibition at the Gold Coast City Art Gallery we stumbled on a piece bylocal street artist, Lachlan Hansen Part of the Stan & Maureen Duke Art Prize exhibition, it's titled 'Floating on Forever' and is intriguingly sinister, all wrapped up in a cutesy-liddle-bunny-wabbit-toy-balloon-hybrid...
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Places That Don’t Exist
Thom Buchanan is living in a dream world. No, really, Buchanan constructs beautiful, haunting paintings of deserted cities that don’t exist. There is something of the disquiet of a dystopian horror film in his work. Not to mention, Buchanan is a hyperactive exhibitor, so you are bound to find his work at show around Adelaide, or even in Darwi...
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