Living Walls showcases the work of a diverse selection of street and mural artists, illustrators and designers. Featuring established and emerging, local and national artists whose work is sought after for public commissions, commercial product and private collections, Living Walls encourages audiences to think differently about the potential for street, graffiti and mural art to transform the texture and appeal of urban landscapes, and to reach into private and commercial spaces.

Living Walls aims to connect artists, businesses and local councils to stimulate collaboration and enhance the city’s vitality whilst generating new income streams for artists through limited edition commercial product. Featuring the work of a group of innovative young artists, Living Walls will also extend beyond the art gallery into the city through a series of commissioned paste-ups.

Participating Living Walls artists include Beastman, Jodee Knowles, Sean Morris, Shannon Crees, Andrew Nicholls, Anya Brock, Chris Nixon, Jae Criddle, Amok Island, Steven Christie and Chloe Spiers-Atherden.

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Animator’s Hour is a two month animated extravaganza on the Northbridge Piazza Super Screen.

Every Thursday night, 8:30 – 9:30pm, Animator’s Hour will promote local Perth animators and their superb work through a set of 8 free screenings. It will also be showcasing other animated work from Australia and the World, and the amazing talents, skills and imagination of around 100 artists.

BUNNY CAKES COMPETITION

Animator’s Hour doesn’t just want to you to watch, but to also get involved, by helping to create a brand new animation without doing any of the hard work of actual the animating. Enter our Bunny Cakes competition and submit your crazy, quirky and awesome ideas so they can find their way to the final film, crafted by a team of savvy animators.

Join in the fun, even if you are not an animator or an artist. You can enter the competition by simply drafting a script or by sketching your ideas for the animated film. There are three $500 cash prizes, a Wacom tablet and some awesome art books to be won!

So come to the city, grab a bean bag and join in the completely free Animator’s Hour screenings and competition.

Check out our website for more info and like us on Facebook

Thursday 23rd Feb – Thursday 12th Apr, 8:30 – 9:30pm

Northbridge Piazza Super Screen, FREE

Check out this upcoming show by Mike D. Pieces range in medium – acrylic on board, lead pencil on books, aerosol and paint marker on denim and water colour and inks on paper. Opening night is this Saturday the 4th @ 6-8pm. The shows runs until the 10th Feb and is open between 11am and 3pm.

Venue – Kurb Gallery, 310 William Street, Northbridge.

Edwin is a Western Australian artist whose work often deals with the trickery of suburban ideals, and the distance between objects and experience. His works engage with the intersection of culture and nature by a system of signs drawn and painted in a series of visual maps. The paintings and drawings that Edwin makes are a testimony to an innate questioning and critiquing of the world around him. Strong graphic compositions with bright colours and patterns that are influenced by indigenous paintings cross path with art history references and articulate the story of an artist with a mixed heritage.

Born in 1984, CurtinUniversitygraduate and Western Australian artist, Edwin has spent time as a youth worker, an art student, a bartender and has lived in Perthcity as well as some of WA’s remote communities.  A selection of paintings that articulate Edwin’s complicated world view, a distrust of suburban life and a questioning of the order of things will be unveiled for his first solo exhibition, ‘Not so fantastic now’, at Northbridge bar Ezra Pound on Tuesday 7^th of February 2012.

For more information, visit the Facebook page.

We’re stoked to announce our first event in 2012 to be a return flight to Cambodia give-away! For this project Relative will award a local creative a voucher for $500 towards a return flight to Cambodia to do what they do best; whether it be take photos, paint, draw, cook, write, make music, or whatever your creative outlet may be. The fruits of their journey will be published in issue six of Relative Magazine and will also appear on relativemagazine.com.

To be in the running, send through your 250 word submission outlining what you aim to achieve from the visit to Cambodia, along with low-res images of your work to contact@relativemagazine.com. Short-listed contestants will have their work exhibited at the event and the winner will be decided by silent vote from those in attendance on the night.

Entries close Friday January 6th 2012

Event Date – Saturday 14th January

Venue – Four5Nine Bar (downstairs @ the Rosemount)

Doors open at 6pm

Terms and Conditions
Relative will provide the winner with a $500 voucher towards a return flight to Cambodia, any remaining balance will need to be made by the winner.
Relative and the winner will arrange suitable dates and flights at a time convenient for both parties.
Flights must be redeemed by June 31 2012.
Relative takes no responsibility for your safety.

A massive thanks to everyone who made it down to the issue five launches of Relative Magazine at Grey Door Gallery and Ginger Nightclub, making them fantastic nights. Check out some of the photo’s from the night below. Issue five is now available around Perth at selected distribution points.

In addition to the Grey Door Gallery Issue 5 Launch in Claremont, Relative is stoked to announce the City Launch to be held at Ginger Nightclub on Friday December 16th. This second event allows those who can’t make it on the 10th at Grey Door Gallery to come down and kick… it in the City.

Come down and celebrate the launch of the 5th issue of Relative Magazine. DJ’s will be spinning their finest throughout the night, the magazine will be available upon entry and a few lucky punters will take home door prizes. This will be Relative’s final event for 2011, so come down and cap off the year with a party!

Doors open at 10pm, entry $10 at the door.
Venue – Ginger Nightclub, Northbridge
Date – Friday 16th December

Visit the FB page here.
Look forward to seeing you there!

To celebrate the depth of creative talent within our community, Relative host regular events that provide a forum for those with an open and creative mindset to congregate, celebrate, inebriate, and for the lucky ones amongst us procreate.

Come down and celebrate the lau…nch of the 5th Issue of Relative Magazine. Relative DJ’s will be spinning their finest, and the magazine will be available upon entry.

Local artists will also be creating large format pieces live on the night.

Doors open at 7pm, entry $10 at the door.
Venue – Grey Door Gallery, Claremont (enter through the car park at the back of the Claremont Hotel)
Date – Saturday 10th December

For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Check out this exhibition of up and coming artists at Cabin Fever on Saturday November 5th. Doors open at 6pm.

Club Sandwich is a new music series set to revitalise High Street’s most iconic and enigmatic clubs every Thursday in November. The series will run as an early Thursday session kicking off at 6pm and finishing at 9.30pm, with supper available and drink prices that belong in the 1970s. Get down and check it out!