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Graffiato is a unique and dynamic street art festival, providing artists with an abundance of blank walls and a weekend to create vibrant and colorful permanent artworks.

Curated by Cut Collective member, Ross Liew, Graffiato is a new festival delivered by Erupt Events, Taupō’s Arts Trust, who also deliver the nationally renowned biennial ‘Erupt Lake Taupō Festival’.

“Graffiato is going to permanently change the face of street art in New Zealand,” said Mr Liew. “For some time now, street art and graffiti has been gaining an ever-increasing profile across the world. While certain names have cut through and now register for many within middle New Zealand, our own country’s practitioners have often been left overlooked. Graffiato will change that.”

What: Graffiato

Where: Taupo

When: Labour weekend, 2011

The Dirty 13′s work has won awards, shown up in galleries and private collections and also on many, ahem, non-commissioned sites in and around our fair city.

Featuring: Deus, Tanya Jade, Flox, BMD, Cut Collective, Xoe Hall, Drypnz, Mica Still, City, Cinzah, Erin Forsyth, Frey Jones and Josh Monoghan

What: The Dirty 13 group show

Where: The Basement, Lower Greys Ave, Auckland, New Zealand

When: Show opens 28th September at 6pm til 11:00pm, and runs until October 22nd.

Each artist involved has been asked to create a single piece of work showcasing their unique style, formatted to a square.

Including:

23rd Key – Aida Sabic – Apeseven – Ash Nolan – Bec Winnel – Beccy Brown – Bridge Stehli – Caitlin Rigby – Cam Scale – Deb – Does – Drypnz  – Dvate – Fat Ankle Gary Seaman – Gimiks – Itch – Jack Douglas – Jungle Myth – Kaitlin Beckett – KID9 – Kirpy – Kitty Horton – Lauren Carney – Leisha Muraki – Luke Ryan – Matthew Dunn – Makatron – Maria Finna – Max Berry – Michael Steele – Nate Holmes Trapnell – Nom Kinnar King – Pierre Lloga – Poise – Rebecca Murphy Rena Littleson – Sam Octigan – Sear – Shida – Sirum – Steven Rhodes – Taylor White – Zoran Nova

What: Just Another Group Show 2011

When: Opening Night Thursday 22nd September 6-10pm, Show runs till the 26th September.

Where: 1000 Pound Bend , 361 Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne

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Known for their alluring liquid form & elegant gradients of flowing color, Slopes works bring to life true retro beauties.

These melted metal ladies have never been so complex.

What: SLOPE 2011 – an art exhibition of new works by Welly artist Slope

When: Thursday September 8th – 6 til 7pm interested buyers viewing 7pm til 10pm General Public

Where: Manky Chops Gallery, 166a Cuba Street WGTN

More info here

Working around the central theme of “Picture Perfect in a World of Chaos”, this show deals with the representation of a world that is a palpable fantasy, and looks to explore the ridiculous nature of the variant realities we receive through multiple media channels. Something we here at CC have come to call “The Gap”.

When couched amongst the cataclysmic events that nature has brought to bear upon the world over the last few years, man made calamities such as the ongoing global financial crisis almost pale in comparison, almost. It could be said mother nature has provided the perfect scenario in which to obscure the devastation we inflicted upon ourselves. Or more accurately, the harm that few have inflicted upon many.

Through chaos we can achieve control, in the vacuum of order we can implement change. With the dissolution of community we champion the individual, it’s isolation through adversity and who wins when the village falls apart?

Joining the core cast of Cut Collective for the show is Hone Stjohn, a photographer and filmmaker with a focus on documenting street life and music related activity. Having worked with Homebrew, Scratch22 and most recently the @peace project on a variety of music videos, he’s now collaborating with Cut Collective to produce a moving image piece for Public Access 5.

Public Access 5 is one of three components hosted within Oi You!, a major street art event taking place under one roof at Founders Heritage Park, Nelson. The other parts are an exhibition of works from Banksy, Faile, Micallef, Os Gemeos, Swoon and others. And the Oi You! competition exhibition featuring the work of the competition finalists.

What: Public Access 5 – Picture perfect in a world of chaos.

Where: Founders Heritage Park, Nelson.

When: September 23 – October 24.

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In a similar state, GLASS OWLS have an entire host of new material to betroth your ears. Sounding a little less Folk/Rock, and a touch more Doolittle-era Pixies, this band will destroy your preconceptions and warm your ears.

What: Clap Clap Riot and Glass Owls

Where: Kings Arms Tavern, Auckland

When: Saturday 10th September

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All you need to do is make a video response to the statement ‘We are all human beings navigating the maze of life’.

You can make anything from a simple journal-piece in front of your web-cam to a moving-image work of art, a spoken word performance piece, a music video or a short film. The Literatti are working with musicians, artists and dancers to tell their sides of the mental-health story.

All finalist entries will be exhibited at Corban Estate Art Centre. The top finalists will be incorporated into The Literatti’s reTHiNK Possible Worlds show during Mental Health Awareness Week in early October. And the overall winner takes out the Grand Prize – their very own Ideos X5 Smart Phone!

Visit www.theliteratti.com to check out the reTHiNK Possible Worlds guidelines and upload your entry.

1. To punish (a person) by covering with tar and feathers.

2. To criticize severely and devastatingly; excoriate.

To be tarred and feathered was an unofficially sanctioned form of public display. It was designed as a punishment and to force the subject to change their ways or run them out of town.

Karley Feaver works across a range of disciplines including painting, sculpture and taxidermy. Her works offer a vision of a world where fantasy and reality merge into infinite possibilities, uncertainty, and wonder.

Chris Dennis’ paintings are perhaps best described as ‘Narrative expressionism’ or ‘internalized portraiture’. The stories behind these ‘Therianthropic’ pieces have been carefully obfuscated and invite the viewer to create their own narrative, bringing to mind facets or emotions that maybe more difficult to confront if not disguised behind a mask.

What: Tarred and Feathered

When: August 1st – 14th, 2011.

Where: 22 McColl Street. Newmarket. Auckland.

More on Tarred and Feather here

Taking Space will include new sculpture by contemporary NZ artists Scott Eady, Andrea du Chatenier, Aaron McConchie and Ryuzo Nishida. Between them, this group of artists has worked with sculpture in the form of object, installation, assemblage and ready-made. All four artists interrogate the thorny territories of 21st century social order with innovation and experimental courage.

What: Taking Space; Scott Eady, Andrea du Chatenier, Aaron McConchie and Ryuzo Nishida

When: 6 – 23 July 2011, preview 5 July 6-8pm

Where: Seed Gallery, 23a Crowhurst St, Newmarket, Auckland

More info here