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The Guardian
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Hidden gems and secret corners: a rare glimpse inside Melbourne's most captivating buildings
Beneath an unassuming Collingwood apartment block, two Melbourne-based artists are preparing to open their studio to the public. Artists Rone (left) and Callum Preston are opening their studio to the public as part of 2025 Open House Melbourne. Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian Artist and designer Callum Preston has shared a studio with street artist Tyrone Wright, better known as Rone, for the past five years. This weekend the duo will allow members of the public inside their working space as part of Melbourne's annual Open House program. Preston jokes that even some local residents, unaware of who their neighbours are, may wander over. 'I don't think a lot of people upstairs even know that there's artist studios down here. It just looks like it could be an office or something,' he says. 'A visual overload': stacked shelves inside Rone and Callum Preston's studio. Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian The studio is the kind of hidden gem Open House specialises in. Since 2008, the event has given the public a peek inside secret corners and oft-unseen spaces around Melbourne. While the program tends to focus heavily on architecture, the frisson of excitement for the public is in seeing doors that are usually closed to them open, and the feeling of uncovering treasures concealed in plain sight. Across the three days, Wright and Preston will introduce their studio to visitors and roam alongside them. In-progress artworks and the pair's personal art archives dating back 20 years will be on display. The studio will also feature props used in Rone's installations, including 8,000 books nestled inside each other like babushka dolls, alongside works in progress and TVs playing video works. Wright describes the place as 'a chaotic space' and 'a visual overload', but Preston notes 'there's a method to all the madness'. 'Everything's sort of labelled in its own way. I don't think the National Gallery archivist would love the way we do it, but we have it all here,' he says. Items from past installations in Rone and Callum Preston's studio. Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian Wright grew up surrounded mainly by tradespeople and says he never met artists when he was young. Opening studios to visitors, and giving them a look at the process behind the works, can offer younger people a window into a creative life and make it more accessible, he explains. 'Talking to younger people, I've always just kept in mind [that] this might be important for them – this moment to meet someone who's doing something that they might aspire to, or they didn't even consider that could have been real,' he says. 'Seeing an artist do something just seems more doable [to you], because you see that they are just real people.' Past headliners of Open House have included the Myer Mural Hall and a limited lottery for rare access to the dilapidated century-old ballroom at the top of Flinders Street station (years before arts festival Rising secured use of the space). The 2025 program includes nearly 200 buildings, spaces and activities, from the new veloway in the West Gate Tunnel Project to a First Nations kayak tour down the Yarra River. Here are some other highlights. Cairo Flats Two apartments in Cairo Flats in Fitzroy will be open to the public. Photograph: Tom Ross/XYZ Fitzroy's most distinctive 1930s apartment block – 36 'bachelor'-style flats arranged in a U-shape around a central garden, with a communal dining room, lockable garages and famous cantilevered concrete stairs – was key to the growth of apartment living in Melbourne. It was described by the magazine Australian Home Beautiful in 1937 as 'a new solution of the problem of combining what are so often incompatibles – space-economy, comfort, absolute modernity, and minimum rentals'. Tours of the building, grounds and two apartments will be led by Cairo Flats owners. Younghusband Woolstore Younghusband Woolstore has been restored and redeveloped for 'adaptive reuse'. Photograph: Open House Melbourne Catching a passing glimpse from the train of the ghost signs that linger on the 122-year-old redbrick may be the only interaction many Melburnians have had with this industrial building. Broker Younghusband and Co bought the 1901 Kensington storehouse from wool seller R Goldsbrough Row and Co and operated the facility until 1970, after which it was used for artistic studios and costume storage for the Australian Ballet. The building has recently been restored and redeveloped for 'adaptive reuse', leaning into its heritage elements. The first stage of that redevelopment was completed last year. A guided tour of the revived site will be hosted by the architects Woods Bagot and contractor Built on Friday, while visitors can roam around it in their own time on Saturday. Visitors can roam around the building in their own time on Saturday. Photograph: Open House Melbourne Ziebell's farmhouse Built in the 1850s, this bluestone farmhouse in Thomastown – once known as Westgarthtown, or Germantown – has been home to five generations of dairy-farming families. The house was built by German migrants Sophia and Christian Ziebell in a European style, with 61cm-thick rubble bluestone walls, pitched roofs, adjoining rooms and a large inhabitable attic. It is situated in a rambling garden, alongside the original stone barn, washhouse and bathhouse, and Heritage Council Victoria says it is likely the earliest surviving dwelling of the migrant settlement. Ziebell's farmhouse in Thomastown dates from the 1850s. Photograph: David Johns The site has been restored by Whittlesea city council, and as part of Open House, descendants of Germantown families will provide tours, insights, reflections and readings about farm life in the area. Henry Ziebell in the home's attic. Photograph: Jason Cheetham Tay Creggan Tay Creggan in South Yarra is now a girls' school. Photograph: Strathcona girls' grammar This heritage-listed mansion in South Yarra, known as 'the house on the rocks', has had many lives: it has been a family home for the wealthy, a hostel for young women and, since 1969, a school campus. It was built to be a family home for architect Robert Guyon Purchas in the early 1880s, but he ran into financial trouble before it was finished and sold it to 'Hawthorn gentleman' Michael Spencer, while continuing to work on it. Spencer's widow sold it to the Catholic church in 1937, who themselves sold it to the Baptist Union of Victoria in 1969 for use by Strathcona girls' grammar school. Heritage Council Victoria describes Tay Creggan as 'one of most picturesque houses built in Victoria in the late 19th century' and 'one of the finest examples in Victoria of the Victorian Queen Anne Revival style, incorporating many Elizabethan-period features'. Tours of Tay Creggan will run on Saturday as part of Open House. Windows inside the heritage-listed mansion. Photograph: Strathcona girls' grammar Open House Melbourne runs from Friday 25 July to Sunday 27 July 2025
The Advertiser
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
Rone's global street art starts in this shared studio
Street artist Rone's multi-storey murals of female faces can be seen in dozens of cities worldwide but they have their beginnings in a nondescript inner-city studio. From the outside it looks like another residential property development hidden down a one way street in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood. But step inside and Rone, aka Tyrone Wright, is busy scaling up his next mural project, tracing a section of the design that's been projected onto the studio wall before going over his lines again using a high voltage perforating machine. "It's dangerous, you do get electrocuted every now and then," he says. "I had to import one from the US." Rone shares this studio with fellow artist Callum Preston, who is best known for his elaborate nostalgia-driven installations such as a replica video store from the 1980s that's currently on show at Melbourne's Immigration Museum. The studio will be open to the public for the first time in July for Open House Melbourne weekend, as part of a program of almost 200 open buildings and events. Overall more than 65,000 people are expected to participate in the program and fans of the city's renowned street art scene can also visit The Blender Studios in West Melbourne and Everfresh Studio, also in Collingwood. In Preston's section of the studio there's a globe, a megaphone, a skull, and several old telephones - parts of an installation built for rock band The Living End to launch their recent single at nearby music venue The Tote. The artist hopes to re-assemble at least some of the scene from The Tote for Open House, while his illustrations for other bands such as Parkway Drive, Violent Soho and Something for Kate will also be on display, as well as an elaborate mobile set-up for making two-minute noodles at COVID lockdown picnics. Both artists have worked in various studios in and around Collingwood for the past 20 years. There was the original Everfresh Studio, which flooded several times, and a studio near the Abbotsford Convent where artworks had to be protected from pigeons due to the missing windows. "Each building we eventually get kicked out of, whether it's getting developed or whatever other reason," said Rone. They may have cracked the code though, buying a commercially zoned space in a relatively new building. It could have been another cafe but in this part of Melbourne, coffee is an oversupplied market. The studio doesn't leak and there's no landlord to evict them. While many artists can work at home in spaces such as garages, inner-city studios are increasingly rare, especially for groups of artists such as Everfresh, Preston says. It's not just gentrification but people generally getting smarter about how to use marginal buildings. "The spaces that weren't useful to people became artist spots but now everything's useful because the way people shop and live is different," he said. Other attractions at Open House include first time access to the West Gate Tunnel Veloway, backstage tours of Melbourne theatres and admission to player areas at the Western Bulldogs Football Club and Melbourne Vixens. The Melbourne edition is part of Open House Worldwide, a network spanning 60 cities on five continents and reaching more than 750,000 people annually. Melburnians are encouraged to plan early as some attractions are expected to book out. Open House runs on Saturday July 26 and Sunday July 27. Street artist Rone's multi-storey murals of female faces can be seen in dozens of cities worldwide but they have their beginnings in a nondescript inner-city studio. From the outside it looks like another residential property development hidden down a one way street in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood. But step inside and Rone, aka Tyrone Wright, is busy scaling up his next mural project, tracing a section of the design that's been projected onto the studio wall before going over his lines again using a high voltage perforating machine. "It's dangerous, you do get electrocuted every now and then," he says. "I had to import one from the US." Rone shares this studio with fellow artist Callum Preston, who is best known for his elaborate nostalgia-driven installations such as a replica video store from the 1980s that's currently on show at Melbourne's Immigration Museum. The studio will be open to the public for the first time in July for Open House Melbourne weekend, as part of a program of almost 200 open buildings and events. Overall more than 65,000 people are expected to participate in the program and fans of the city's renowned street art scene can also visit The Blender Studios in West Melbourne and Everfresh Studio, also in Collingwood. In Preston's section of the studio there's a globe, a megaphone, a skull, and several old telephones - parts of an installation built for rock band The Living End to launch their recent single at nearby music venue The Tote. The artist hopes to re-assemble at least some of the scene from The Tote for Open House, while his illustrations for other bands such as Parkway Drive, Violent Soho and Something for Kate will also be on display, as well as an elaborate mobile set-up for making two-minute noodles at COVID lockdown picnics. Both artists have worked in various studios in and around Collingwood for the past 20 years. There was the original Everfresh Studio, which flooded several times, and a studio near the Abbotsford Convent where artworks had to be protected from pigeons due to the missing windows. "Each building we eventually get kicked out of, whether it's getting developed or whatever other reason," said Rone. They may have cracked the code though, buying a commercially zoned space in a relatively new building. It could have been another cafe but in this part of Melbourne, coffee is an oversupplied market. The studio doesn't leak and there's no landlord to evict them. While many artists can work at home in spaces such as garages, inner-city studios are increasingly rare, especially for groups of artists such as Everfresh, Preston says. It's not just gentrification but people generally getting smarter about how to use marginal buildings. "The spaces that weren't useful to people became artist spots but now everything's useful because the way people shop and live is different," he said. Other attractions at Open House include first time access to the West Gate Tunnel Veloway, backstage tours of Melbourne theatres and admission to player areas at the Western Bulldogs Football Club and Melbourne Vixens. The Melbourne edition is part of Open House Worldwide, a network spanning 60 cities on five continents and reaching more than 750,000 people annually. Melburnians are encouraged to plan early as some attractions are expected to book out. Open House runs on Saturday July 26 and Sunday July 27. Street artist Rone's multi-storey murals of female faces can be seen in dozens of cities worldwide but they have their beginnings in a nondescript inner-city studio. From the outside it looks like another residential property development hidden down a one way street in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood. But step inside and Rone, aka Tyrone Wright, is busy scaling up his next mural project, tracing a section of the design that's been projected onto the studio wall before going over his lines again using a high voltage perforating machine. "It's dangerous, you do get electrocuted every now and then," he says. "I had to import one from the US." Rone shares this studio with fellow artist Callum Preston, who is best known for his elaborate nostalgia-driven installations such as a replica video store from the 1980s that's currently on show at Melbourne's Immigration Museum. The studio will be open to the public for the first time in July for Open House Melbourne weekend, as part of a program of almost 200 open buildings and events. Overall more than 65,000 people are expected to participate in the program and fans of the city's renowned street art scene can also visit The Blender Studios in West Melbourne and Everfresh Studio, also in Collingwood. In Preston's section of the studio there's a globe, a megaphone, a skull, and several old telephones - parts of an installation built for rock band The Living End to launch their recent single at nearby music venue The Tote. The artist hopes to re-assemble at least some of the scene from The Tote for Open House, while his illustrations for other bands such as Parkway Drive, Violent Soho and Something for Kate will also be on display, as well as an elaborate mobile set-up for making two-minute noodles at COVID lockdown picnics. Both artists have worked in various studios in and around Collingwood for the past 20 years. There was the original Everfresh Studio, which flooded several times, and a studio near the Abbotsford Convent where artworks had to be protected from pigeons due to the missing windows. "Each building we eventually get kicked out of, whether it's getting developed or whatever other reason," said Rone. They may have cracked the code though, buying a commercially zoned space in a relatively new building. It could have been another cafe but in this part of Melbourne, coffee is an oversupplied market. The studio doesn't leak and there's no landlord to evict them. While many artists can work at home in spaces such as garages, inner-city studios are increasingly rare, especially for groups of artists such as Everfresh, Preston says. It's not just gentrification but people generally getting smarter about how to use marginal buildings. "The spaces that weren't useful to people became artist spots but now everything's useful because the way people shop and live is different," he said. Other attractions at Open House include first time access to the West Gate Tunnel Veloway, backstage tours of Melbourne theatres and admission to player areas at the Western Bulldogs Football Club and Melbourne Vixens. The Melbourne edition is part of Open House Worldwide, a network spanning 60 cities on five continents and reaching more than 750,000 people annually. Melburnians are encouraged to plan early as some attractions are expected to book out. Open House runs on Saturday July 26 and Sunday July 27. Street artist Rone's multi-storey murals of female faces can be seen in dozens of cities worldwide but they have their beginnings in a nondescript inner-city studio. From the outside it looks like another residential property development hidden down a one way street in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood. But step inside and Rone, aka Tyrone Wright, is busy scaling up his next mural project, tracing a section of the design that's been projected onto the studio wall before going over his lines again using a high voltage perforating machine. "It's dangerous, you do get electrocuted every now and then," he says. "I had to import one from the US." Rone shares this studio with fellow artist Callum Preston, who is best known for his elaborate nostalgia-driven installations such as a replica video store from the 1980s that's currently on show at Melbourne's Immigration Museum. The studio will be open to the public for the first time in July for Open House Melbourne weekend, as part of a program of almost 200 open buildings and events. Overall more than 65,000 people are expected to participate in the program and fans of the city's renowned street art scene can also visit The Blender Studios in West Melbourne and Everfresh Studio, also in Collingwood. In Preston's section of the studio there's a globe, a megaphone, a skull, and several old telephones - parts of an installation built for rock band The Living End to launch their recent single at nearby music venue The Tote. The artist hopes to re-assemble at least some of the scene from The Tote for Open House, while his illustrations for other bands such as Parkway Drive, Violent Soho and Something for Kate will also be on display, as well as an elaborate mobile set-up for making two-minute noodles at COVID lockdown picnics. Both artists have worked in various studios in and around Collingwood for the past 20 years. There was the original Everfresh Studio, which flooded several times, and a studio near the Abbotsford Convent where artworks had to be protected from pigeons due to the missing windows. "Each building we eventually get kicked out of, whether it's getting developed or whatever other reason," said Rone. They may have cracked the code though, buying a commercially zoned space in a relatively new building. It could have been another cafe but in this part of Melbourne, coffee is an oversupplied market. The studio doesn't leak and there's no landlord to evict them. While many artists can work at home in spaces such as garages, inner-city studios are increasingly rare, especially for groups of artists such as Everfresh, Preston says. It's not just gentrification but people generally getting smarter about how to use marginal buildings. "The spaces that weren't useful to people became artist spots but now everything's useful because the way people shop and live is different," he said. Other attractions at Open House include first time access to the West Gate Tunnel Veloway, backstage tours of Melbourne theatres and admission to player areas at the Western Bulldogs Football Club and Melbourne Vixens. The Melbourne edition is part of Open House Worldwide, a network spanning 60 cities on five continents and reaching more than 750,000 people annually. Melburnians are encouraged to plan early as some attractions are expected to book out. Open House runs on Saturday July 26 and Sunday July 27.
Perth Now
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Rone's global street art starts in this shared studio
Street artist Rone's multi-storey murals of female faces can be seen in dozens of cities worldwide but they have their beginnings in a nondescript inner-city studio. From the outside it looks like another residential property development hidden down a one way street in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood. But step inside and Rone, aka Tyrone Wright, is busy scaling up his next mural project, tracing a section of the design that's been projected onto the studio wall before going over his lines again using a high voltage perforating machine. "It's dangerous, you do get electrocuted every now and then," he says. "I had to import one from the US." Rone shares this studio with fellow artist Callum Preston, who is best known for his elaborate nostalgia-driven installations such as a replica video store from the 1980s that's currently on show at Melbourne's Immigration Museum. The studio will be open to the public for the first time in July for Open House Melbourne weekend, as part of a program of almost 200 open buildings and events. Overall more than 65,000 people are expected to participate in the program and fans of the city's renowned street art scene can also visit The Blender Studios in West Melbourne and Everfresh Studio, also in Collingwood. In Preston's section of the studio there's a globe, a megaphone, a skull, and several old telephones - parts of an installation built for rock band The Living End to launch their recent single at nearby music venue The Tote. The artist hopes to re-assemble at least some of the scene from The Tote for Open House, while his illustrations for other bands such as Parkway Drive, Violent Soho and Something for Kate will also be on display, as well as an elaborate mobile set-up for making two-minute noodles at COVID lockdown picnics. Both artists have worked in various studios in and around Collingwood for the past 20 years. There was the original Everfresh Studio, which flooded several times, and a studio near the Abbotsford Convent where artworks had to be protected from pigeons due to the missing windows. "Each building we eventually get kicked out of, whether it's getting developed or whatever other reason," said Rone. They may have cracked the code though, buying a commercially zoned space in a relatively new building. It could have been another cafe but in this part of Melbourne, coffee is an oversupplied market. The studio doesn't leak and there's no landlord to evict them. While many artists can work at home in spaces such as garages, inner-city studios are increasingly rare, especially for groups of artists such as Everfresh, Preston says. It's not just gentrification but people generally getting smarter about how to use marginal buildings. "The spaces that weren't useful to people became artist spots but now everything's useful because the way people shop and live is different," he said. Other attractions at Open House include first time access to the West Gate Tunnel Veloway, backstage tours of Melbourne theatres and admission to player areas at the Western Bulldogs Football Club and Melbourne Vixens. The Melbourne edition is part of Open House Worldwide, a network spanning 60 cities on five continents and reaching more than 750,000 people annually. Melburnians are encouraged to plan early as some attractions are expected to book out. Open House runs on Saturday July 26 and Sunday July 27.
Yahoo
28-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Kauai councilmember sounding 'emergency alarm' on coconut rhinoceros beetles
LIHUE, Hawaii (KHON2) — A Kauai councilmember is sounding the alarm on the coconut rhinoceros beetle, calling it an an 'all hands on deck' emergency. She says the destructive beetle has been spotted from Hā'ena to Waimea. Wahine water polo wins Big West championship In April 2024, KHON2 shot video of the Wailua Golf Course containing plenty of healthy-looking palm trees over the course. But now, community members and leaders are sharing photos of several trees on the course showing signs of coconut rhinoceros beetle infestations. 'Once you start to see it, that means they were doing that work six to nine months ago,' explained Landon Rone, who has been trying to manage the beetles on Oahu for years. 'They're just waiting for that palm frond to open up and then that visual cue is anywhere from six to nine months behind the curve because the beetle has already been eating at your tree.' And that's why newly-elected Councilmember Fern Holland, who is also the Parks and Recreation chair, is concerned.'I'm pulling the emergency alarm trying to get attention and support as I've realized this is spreading really quite rapidly,' she said. Holland also said she has received calls from tree trimmers across the island saying trees showing no signs of the beetle six months ago are now showing signs in almost every tree in certain areas. 'It spreads rapidly, you don't know how bad it is until it's there,' she added. 'I spoke with people in Guam who said the same thing, 'We didn't take it seriously, and now we have no coconut trees.' So I'm doing everything I can for Kauai to take it seriously.' Photos taken by KHON2 on Oahu's North Shore in 2024 show plenty of healthy palm trees, compared to the same trees today only having one, two or even zero palm fronds remaining. The beetle was first detected on the Garden Isle in May 2023. Download the free KHON2 app for iOS or Android to stay informed on the latest news 'I've been trying to get everyone to understand that this is an all hands on deck issue,' Holland said. She said most counties don't have the experts, funds or necessary means to respond to a biosecurity threat, so she went to Washington D.C. to try and get funding from the Department of Defense, since the bug was first detected at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam back in 2013. 'Unfortunately, due to cuts we've seen, we've actually lost people who were helping,' Holland said. Earlier this month, Kauai County launched a new website for residents where they can report sightings and learn more about high risk materials. Holland and Rone said mulch management is key. 'It's laborious, it's tedious, and it's a long-term commitment, but that's what it's going to take to control the population and breeding cycle,' Rone said. He said turning the mulch over and exposing it to sunlight can help kill the larvae. Experts say the specific type of netting needed to successfully capture the beetles is an illegal fishing net and hard to get sent to Hawaii. Anyone with coconut rhinoceros beetle sightings on Kauai is urged to report it immediately. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Miami Herald
27-03-2025
- Miami Herald
Strange bird leaves hunter ‘speechless' as they cross paths in Mississippi wilderness
An odd-looking creature seen only on trail cameras in Mississippi proved to be even more stunning when it finally crossed paths with a hunter, state officials say. What Glace Rone encountered was a completely white turkey, except for a single black tassel hanging from the bird's breast. 'I'm speechless! This is the most beautiful animal I've ever had the opportunity to chase and it's impossible to be any more grateful,' Rone said in a March 15 Instagram post. 'A man couldn't trade me a gold monkey for this moment!!! I have no clue how to express how thankful I am.' The unusual harvest came on the first day of turkey season in Mississippi, and among those lauding Rone's hunting skills was the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. 'After seeing this unique leucistic turkey on camera, Glace was on the lookout when he hit the woods,' the department wrote in a March 18 Facebook post. 'The rare presence of leucism is a genetic condition that affects pigmentation resulting in white, pale, or patchy skin, feathers, hair, etc.' Rone lives in Kosciusko, about a 70-mile drive northeast from Jackson, and he didn't reveal where the hunt took place. Multiple hunters were in the same area to find the bird, but it was Rone who looked up to see it '50 yards away and coming straight toward' him, the Clarion Ledger reported. He pulled the trigger on his shotgun when it got 20 yards closer, the outlet said. 'I've hunted my whole life, and I've heard about them, but I've never seen one. It's like hunting a unicorn,' Rone told the Clarion Ledger. Among the outlets that have covered Rone's hunt is Outdoor Life, which called it 'a once-in-a-lifetime' turkey.
