News giclee print by The Yok, for sale on nice.

Highlights from the massive and Villain Toy Show currently on display at No Vacancy Melbourne. The show stars a series of customs based on a new figure designed and produced by Melbourne artist Claudio Mantuano, amongst the usual collection of Qee’s, Trexi’s and all other crap that people customize for these shows. The sheer creativity and craftmanship of this show sets it apart.

Claudio’s work seen here in mighty bronze.

System Error ~ Claire Tennant.

PHIBS. In the style of his No Comply boards. (Click here to see)

Itch

Photos of the entire show up on the Nice Produce Flickr.

Check out this stunning work by Sao Paulo artist Yusk.

The plan is to bring Yusk, along with Horoiwa and Miss G to Australia mid next year.
Hopefully for 6 weeks while Horoiwa and Yusk create a show which will tour in Melbourne and Sydney. It’s a sketchy blueprint, but more news soon.

Enjoy.

On a totally unrelated note, apart from the fact that the title of this post reminded me of it, if you havn’t checked it out already check The Tuss. Aphexs new project, good for a laff. Never fear, the tuss is here.

Was in Sydney last week for the now postponed No Comply launch, which at this stage is looking like it’ll be relaunced on Friday 13th of Feb when construction is finished. But i digress.

Highlight of the trip..

The rooftop of 1,000 drunken throwies.

Beautiful scene, but you get a spooky feeling from that door in real life, like the residents are in there busily mutilating their genitals while listing to enya.

Alphabet was the last show of the year from Monster Children gallery, a gathering of associated artists working their way through the alphabet which launched last night to the usual shinanigans despite the miserableness of the weather.

A is for Andy Jenkins

B is for Ben Brown

C is for Andrew Cowen

D is for Mark Drew

E is for Edward Woodley

F is for Ben Frost

G is for Mike Giant

H is for Evan Hecox

I is for Luca Ionescu

J is for Jeff Canham

K is for Kelly Searl it’s also good for a fun night in.

L is for Anthony Lister

M is for Reg Mombassa

N is for Numskull

O is for Beci Orpin

P is for Pam

Q is for Mickie Quick

R is for Robert Moore

S is for Sarah Larnach

T is for The Idiots

U is for Steve Uren

V is for Vaughn Dead

W is for Ozzie Wright

X is for Stefan MarX

Y Is for We Buy Your Kids

Z is for Jonathan Zawada

<b> THE DRAWING MACHINE II</b>

Ghostpatrol and I are again curating The Drawing Machine, featuring our favourite Melbourne artists.

Opening night: Thursday, 11 December  – 6-8 pm

Green-Wood Gallery, 1 Hotham St, South Melbourne {112 tram, stop 127}

Featuring:

ACORN
AL STARK
BONSAI
BRADDOCK
CHARLOTTE LANCE
GHOSTPATROL
HANA DAVIES
HYPER COLOR CASTLE
JAMES REKA
KAORI KATO
MEGGS
MISO
NIOR
NATHAN GRAY
TRISTAN JALLEH
TWO ONE

*BUMP* DONT FORGET THIS THURSDAY.

Drawing Machine II
curated by miso and ghostpatrol

acorn
alstark
bonsai
braddock
charlotte lance
ghostpatrol
hana davies
hypercolorcastle
james reka
kaori kato
meggs
miso
nior
nathan gray
tristan jalleh
two one

11th december
green-wood gallery
1 hotham st
south melbourne

miso and ghostpatrol will also give a curators talk on
sunday dec 14th at 2pm

Villain puts on a show to round up the year, featuring a massive lineup of artists customising everything from Munnys, Teddy Troopers and Coin Ups to a blank by Melbournes’ own Mad Scientist of low brow Claudio Mantuano.
As well as all the custom toy goodies there will be artwork and prints by many of the artists.

FEATURING
AI, ADNATE, BECK WHEELER, BEN LANDERS, CAT RABBIT, CEJIA, CLAIRE TENNANT
CLAUDIO MANTUANO, DAEK, DAVID DUBOIS, DAVID GILL, DABS, DEAM, DEB, DREWSTER, DVATE, ERIN
GHOST PATROL, IKIN, ITCH, JASON JACENKO, JORZZ, KATHERINE DRETZKE, KATIE PAYNE
KID ZOOM, LAZER FIST, LOUNGE KAT, LUKE FELDMAN, LUKE KOPYCINSKI, MATT WHITE, MEGGS
MEPHISTO JONES, MISO, MOTHRA, MYLA, NICK KOCSIS, NIOR, PAVEL, PHIBS, PNUT, POISE, PORE, QEE
REKA, RYAN BOSERIO, SCOTT JANSEN, SCALE, SEAN KELLY, SEAR, SEEKAYEM, SIDE PROJECT
SLEEP, STABS, STEVE CROSS, STINK, SUBWAY SUDS, TEAMKITTEN, TIM MURTAH, ZODE
& THE VILLAIN CUSTOM TOY COMPETITION WINNERS

Show opens Friday 12th of December and runs till the 22nd
No Vacancy Gallery
27-33 Red Cape La
QV, Melbourne.

Timelapse video of the latest Berlin wall by BLU.

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Dope track by Sius Mo too.