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METALHEADS - FORMAT

As part of this year's Fringe onslaught Logan Macdonald has curated a group of artists together for a show celebrating heavy metal influences at Format gallery.
Paul Sloan, James Marshall and myself each presented works reflective of our metal passions. Here's a vid that I made a few years back that was included in the show.

SHAW HENDRY'S AMAZING SIMPSONS COLLECTION

In February of 2011 AC Arts gallery played host to an exhibition of Shaw Hendry's amazing Simpson's collection. It's the largest collection of Simpson's memorabillia in the southern hemisphere, and TRULY amazing. A number of artists responded in kind.
Here's a couple of snaps of my paintings.

CITY WEST CHILDCARE CENTRE MURAL

During January of 2011 I held a Summer School through the University of South Australia. I had 25 students from all disciplines of the art school for 10 days and introduced them to stencilled aerosol, spray gun techniques and a bunch of other skills required for pulling off murals. Here's a few shots of the finished work.

KING ADZ - STREET KNOWLEDGE

My pommie mate King Adz has been up to his usual business.
His latest publication is a bible of all things street culture from across the globe.
It features a number of Australian artists, myself included.





You can buy it here...

THE NEW NEW - VIDEO INTERVIEW

Here's a little vid of yours truly waxing lyrical about my picnic tables.
The Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia has interviews with almost all of the artists involved with the New New project on their YouTube page.

PICNIC TABLES - THE NEW NEW

Opening late in October of 2010, the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia is staging possibly one of the most significant overviews of contemporary SA artists ever to be undertaken. Including 47 artists, numerous sites across Adelaide and a hefty publication this is a project that has been a long time coming.

My contribution to the project is a series of picnic tables that have been altered and placed in both Victoria and Whitmore Squares. They have images of significant Australian paintings from the Art Gallery of South Australia's collection carved into their tops, which double as printing plates. For me, this project is an exploration of the values placed on cultural residues such as graffiti. I find the scratchings on various public furniture to be as engaging as some of the greatest paintings that are in major institutions. I have adapted images from Roberts, Gould and Boyd, each of which portray particular notions of Australian colonialism and social identity that can still be reflected upon today.

One of the tables is to be carved on site, allowing the opportunity to interact with the general public and extend the project via discussion. Viewers are invited to add their initials or names to the surfaces of the tables.

Here are a few pics taken during the development of the work.

BOAB INSCRIPTIONS - PART TWO

Here are a few more shots of my show at the Fremantle Arts Centre.

BOAB INSCRIPTIONS - PART ONE

Here's a few shots of one part of my Boab Inscriptions show at Fremantle Art Centre.
There are some other rooms that I will have shots of for you soon.
You can download a PDF of the zine for the show here -
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The plastic sheets that you see in each of the shots are tracings taken directly from both the Derby Prison Tree and Wyndham Prison Tree. Each piece of plastic wraps around the outside diameter of the tree.

BOAB INSCRIPTIONS - WORK IN PROGRESS

Here's a few shots of some of the work in progress...