Thursday 29 October 2009

10% Pending


This is the 10% Pending homeless ARI in action down at Salamanca Square. I have a work in this gallery that travels about Hobart and Australia. It's flat packable but it's getting pretty big, they tell me.




this my work in said mobile gallery. It's called I have 810 Facebook friends

Check the 10% Pending blog out over here

Wednesday 28 October 2009

Wednesday 7 October 2009

Theme and variation



Kvlt

I miss analogue

Two images in this post.
Both were created using Analogue printing technology.



This image, The Card, is a color photocopy using an analogue copier that would find amazing colours in anything it touched. I loved the thing, and it was used to make lovely band flyers around Hobart by the savvy. There's a version of The Card below that's quite different - it's a manipulated via digital wizardry scan. This just came out like that - somewhat arcane to my mind.



This is Peril On The Sea.
It's a photocopy onto light blue card using brown ink. The poor assistant at the copy shop would have to pull out a huge ink roll and put in another and I would make ten cards for her trouble. I made very few of these and have but one left. It's precious in it's way as the technology is outmoded and gone, which I shall miss as I love the feel of these things. This lone print has survived much and has a few little creases; the back of it features the delicate filigree nibbles of silverfish as well.

The irony that I can share them readily due to digital technology doesn't escape me though.

the Peril print is For Sale, by the by.

Grunge (old school)



This Image is a relic from sharehouse days. I found it and it's primitive and silly and I like it, so up it goes. It reminds me how I've always made art and scribbled on things long before I thought it was art.

Saturday 3 October 2009

No Art Yet, but...

I am stoked as I'll be having a solo exhibition next year. At this stage, it's to be called "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" and it will be an expansion of the construction (see below) I made for the Real Good Drawer show (also see below).

It'll be at INFLIGHT A.R.I.

The idea is to take up the entire space and make a huge environment that will be sort of a forest, a mountain range and a throne. All in the firmest lo-fi traditions of course, unless I get some kind of high paying job and can pay people to dress as trolls.