‘Melbourne, A Love Affair’ will be ready for purchase oh so soon mip lovers! We can’t wait! Pre-order yours now in store or at www.mattirwin.com.au for $89 and you’ll get the limited edition sexy slipcase version (valued at $109) hand signed by Matt!

psssst…rumour has it there are FOUR different covers to choose from!

Solar energy is amazing. On a sunny day like this the panels on our roof generate enough energy to power 15 hundred watt bulbs for 10 hours! We are so proud to be moving towards being 100% green and hope that this new found popularity that the green movement has is here to stay.

So many companies now gush about how ‘green’ they are that it seems like the latest trend. Whatever the reason, we need to keep this happening. We need to keep asking questions and pressuring the people we buy from to stay on the path towards sustainability.

Last month’s sustainable living festival was absolutely inspiring with everything you need to know about respecting this humble little planet we live on from eating for your health and the health of the environment to mindful travel ideas. We can’t wait for next year!

For more infomation on what you can do to help out check out www.sustainability.vic.gov.au and just keep on googling – there is tonnes of info out there to help you!

New graffix 7 x 7 inch canvases are too cute for words! No really – too cute. So we’ll just let the images speak for themselves!

$69 each or $149 for three of these baby canvas wonders!

Our wonderful gallery manager Anna has returned to full-time study and as we wipe our eyes and bid her the fondest of farewells we look to the silver lining and welcome our new gallery manager – Michelle! You might have met her before on a saturday but if you haven’t, get on down to our Flinders Lane gallery and introduce yourself. She’s super friendly!

Matt hopped a plane to Hong Kong and nabbed these amazing images of the unique city! Covered in smog yet somehow strikingly illuminated, Hong Kong is not a city for the feint hearted and not a city to be missed! Have you been?

Our once a year sale is about to begin, have you been saving your pennies to buy the perfect piece for blank wall? Good news – starting bright and early at 10AM on April 21st at Matt Irwin Photography HQ in Gardenvale we are having our annual garage sale! Huge savings to be made, boys and girls – you don’t want to miss this one! Loads of stock has to go so we can make room for our exciting new coffee table book! We will open up HQ on Saturdays just for the sale but once it’s over and done don’t come a knockin’ on a Saturday morning in Gardenvale as we won’t be around!

Also as a special treat, all canvas in our Flinders Lane gallery will be 50% off! We also still have a few 12 x 16 prints framed in stunning black wood on sale down from $209 to $89 but get in quick – those babies are running out the door.
Can’t wait? Neither can we! See you there!

Matt trekked out to Frankston last week to shoot the developing transport hub that’s popping up in the Frankston City Centre.

The goal of the project is to invigorate the precinct by creating a social hub with apartments, offices, shops and cafes, and Matt is out there documenting it for us. Frankston’s redevelopment has long been in the works, so we’re super keen to see it grow! Here are some of pics of the ‘Heart of Frankston’ in progress.

Last month we gave you a little taste tester for Matt’s very first and highly anticipated coffee table book, Melbourne: A Love Affair. We are currently working hard on plans for an amazing launch and cannot wait to show you this collection of works from over the years. Watch this space for more info on this exciting project!

Mongolia, In The Footsteps Of The Nomads is opening this Saturday downstairs in our city gallery! As you may have read in last months newsletter, Cope was invited by World Expeditions and his brother, adventurer Tim Cope to produce a series of photographs in Mongolia’s far west, where little has changed for centuries. Along with receiving recognition in multiple photography competitions, Cope’s travel work has been published in both Get Lost Magazine and Backpacker Essentials. This is set to be an amazing day you don’t want to miss! Get down to our Flinders Lane gallery at 3pm-4pm to be there for this awesome event!

See you there!

The 12th of Feb was a classic Melbourne ‘four seasons’ kind of day and more importantly it was also Festival Sunday! Matt was once again honoured to be an official photographer of St Kilda Festival and got some amazing snaps of the vibrant colour and culture that comes to life every year for Festival Sunday, the 12 hour celebration that concludes the week long party. Highlights were World’s End Press and Brothers Grim, not to mention countless others and Humphrey B. Bear for the little ones!

Were you there?

If you turn to the profile section of the Melbourne Review you might just see a familiar face! Wendy Cavenett sat down with Matt to talk all things Melbourne and MIP. The article has some info about Matt’s upcoming book, Melbourne: A Love Affair read it here!

Matt Irwin Gallery and Exhibition:Underground proudly presents The Crossing, an exciting debut exhibition by Melbourne digital painter Sean Layh. The exhibition is a collective of alluring imagery exploring symbolic and method narrative through which Layh utilizes conceptualized folklore ideas to tell his story.

Come along to the opening! These images are presented in spectacularly large format and the impact is breath-taking. Don’t miss this one guys!

Opening Night 6 – 8pm Friday 16 March

16 -29 March

Matt Irwin Gallery

Scott Alley (off Flinders Lane)

Melbourne

The folks from Investec dropped in to be photographed by Matt and came out looking pretty schmick!

Looking good guys.