Prêt-à-Voir Exhibition Launch

I've got a small show of paintings opening tomorrow at Art2Muse gallery in Double Bay. The gallery website has all the size details of the works.

Even More New Paintings

Some more of the paintings that I've finished recently for my upcoming show.

More New Paintings

New Paintings

I haven't posted anything recently. I've been busy with, well, I'd like to say my art, but just life really. I have managed to finish off some new works for a show of paintings I'm having in June. I'm calling the show Prêt-à-Voir, and it's going to be at the Art2Muse Gallery in Double Bay.

Blue Paintings

This is a series of paintings that I've referred to elsewhere. I've only recently finished the last of the panels. The first four that I finished are included in the Liverpool City Art Prize, which continues until February. They have been temporarily joined together as the last image shows.
Each work is acrylic and carbon on panel, 15 x 20cm.

Liverpool City Art Prize Entry

The Liverpool City Art Prize entries are closing Friday, October 2. I'm entering a series of paintings. I've been working on these for awhile. I had 5 paintings planned, but have only finished the 4 which I'm entering. I wanted to show the whole series when I finish the last one, so for this post I'm showing preparatory sketches for the paintings.

The first one is a work I showed here when I included it in a Match Box Project show. It's called The Artist Renounces His Decadent Profession.


This work is He's a Rebel.

This work changed from the sketch, mainly because I thought the writing was too small to paint. It's a reworking of a quote from Jenny Holzer (Abuse of power comes as no surprise). Even though the quote is not in the painting, the title is still Abuse of Children Comes as no Surprise.

This is, not surprisingly, Curb Your Animal Instincts.


The four works above are the ones for which I have completed paintings. The one below is still in progress. The title, Scouting for Boys, is also a book by Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scouts movement. No-one seems to have noticed the ambiguity of the title at the time.

Kill Me

This is a new painting I finished the other day. I'd found that an acrylic paint I had was cracking when it dried, so I thought I'd use that as a feature of the work. The text came from a friend, possibly dyslexic, or maybe just deranged, who misinterpreted the earlier painting which follows which says MILK. This is on an 8x10" canvas board.

Let Down Your Hair

This is a Rapunzel-themed work called Let Down Your Hair. I've exhibited it three times in two different versions. The first show was at COFASpace, in a show of Sculpture students' work (the photos with the wooden floor), and the same version was then shown in my Honours Year Graduation show. The long plait is made from human hair matted together then braided to create the rope hanging from the ceiling. The brown paper is hand made and has hair embedded in it. Printed onto it are versions of the Rapunzel story, or commentaries on it, or poems with a similar theme, as well as a few hair-related texts.





Here are 16 of the original 25 prints. The others didn't scan so well, what with the small printing on some of them, and the hair in the paper...

















The brown paper was quite thin, which is one of the reasons why I displayed it on the ground. For a show in Melbourne at MARS Gallery I decided to reprint the text onto white paper which also had hair in it. I then had the paper on the wall so that the text could be read behind the hair plait. It's in the centre of this image, in the corner.