Following a trip to New York by Melbourne artist Tiffaney Bishop, a member of tiffaney bishop and the SCUMPUPS, an exciting international art project is being planned. Tiffaney visited the New York based Tim Rollins and KOS art collective in 2009 in a bid to inspire her own collaborative arts project – a 3 year [...]

Planning is underway to bring 30 year old New York art collective, Tim Rollins and the Kids of Survival, to Australia during 2012/13, to work with young artists in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra.  Check out the “Call for Artists” post for more details. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this [...]

We are proud to announce another finalist nomination for hoodie magaZine!!!  We have just been shortlisted in the 60th Annual Australian Publishers Association’s Book Design Awards for – The Best Designed Specialist Illustrated Book.  We are one of 5 nominees which include, the John Kaldor Family Collection: Art Gallery of NSW, Interiors, Manangatang and Love [...]

Arts Victoria’s Graduate Program has been carrying out a research project into youth arts projects and their engagement successes and tiffaney bishop and the SCUMPUPS was selected as one of the research subjects. The other groups included were HighWater Theatre – Who Owns me Today?, Antiracism Action Band (A.R.A.B.) – Northern Trax, FReeZA – Youth [...]

Check out the post on the hoodie magaZine site about the recent nomination the mag received for Best new youth publication! Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Bookmark in Browser

www.hoodiemagazine.com Check out the dedicated website for hoodie magaZine for a sneak at what’s going on inside the mag! Site still in development so stay tuned for updates. hoodie magaZine out September 2011. We’ll keep you posted. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Bookmark in Browser

The SCUMPUPS are playing around with exhibition conventions and installing their work in the public spaces that the work originated from. Despite the resulting destruction of the images, several hours of positive engagement with the works occurred. (We know this because we hung around, watching – for 5 hours). Stay tuned for further installments. For [...]

hoodie magaZINE has been through an intensive establishment phase – one that has involved around 100 young people, art teachers, designers and supporters in content development and selection. We are currently working with around 50 young people to realise the design and production phase of the project. Final contributions will include poetry, writing, photography, performance, [...]

Today the SCUMPUPS attended a community meeting hosted by Chief Commissioner Simon Overland. It was an opportunity for the community to give Victoria Police feedback on a 5 year strategic policing plan that began in 2008. SCUMPUPS raised the issue of young people in our community and the success of the positive police presence model [...]

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