Hustle

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The Sustainable Business Network…

I have been meaning to post images of this work for some time. This was a three panel painting i completed for display at the annual Sustainable Business award ceremony and showcase which took place at Shed 10 on the water front.
The work was commissioned to represent Meridian energy at the showcase and the paint was supplied by Resene with the exception of a clear gel medium which I used to produce different levels of opacity and texture…

More fighting!

From the exhibition ‘Small Town’ at the Nine Lives Gallery Brisbane…

Public Gallery

A little while back you may have seen me post up the Rock cat drawing I painted for my friend’s birthday. Well now…much to his annoyance…you can buy it as a T-shirt from the good folk at Public Gallery. If you follow this link you can read a short interview with yours truly too. The design is available in men’s and women’s in a few different styles including a baseball T.

Small Town exhibition: Nine Lives gallery, Brisbane

I’m lucky enough to be part of this group exhibition ‘Small Town’, at the Nine Lives gallery.
Opening this Thursday the 15th of December.
Have a look at the artists involved too if you get a chance; they’re all goodies:
Hollie Martin
Justin Lee Williams
Mia Taninaka
Hannah Smith

Cut Collective’s Cracker Christmas

I just finished installing a whole heap of work I had lying around the studio at the Cut Collective studio.

Seriously I mean loads of work.

Cash and carry.

Their having a Christmas Cracker Stocking Stuffer with all art/prints $200 and under. It’s at 39 Poynton Tce (behind Saint Kevin’s arcade on Aucklan’d sunny K’rd) from 9am. You can see more details here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/events/195463547199922/

Normally I would post a pic but my camera’s decided to have a tantrum so you get this instead…From some website called ‘Holy Taco’…and that’s the only thing you’ll hear from me on the subject of holiday cheer

Canberra Part Three: Finished product

A late start meant a late night but I got the job done…phew!

I’ve nick-named the wall Snakebite or Guacamole Snake. 

Had some weird thoughts when I was finishing up in the wee hours of this morning like ‘a line is just a line, I have drawn so many, perhaps they are all an extension of the same line that I have been drawing my whole life’ and ‘figurative drawing and painting is all about anatomy. The anatomy of the thing you are representing. The anatomy of the materials you are using. How you use your anatomy to produce the work’.

Here are some pics:

I was pretty pleased with it all particularly with the girl with the snakes and the crazy cat, actually all of it haha. Post taking these photos added in a little La Di Da in the La Di Da cholo style font in the puddle that the snake is spewing out…

Thanks La Di Da bar and Canberra. Good times!

I’m going to sit in the sun, drink a cider and wait for my taxi to begin the 7 hour transit back to the green green grass of home.

A sneaky update: People at bar La Di Da open!!!

Canberra Part Two: Making Progress

This is where I left off late last night. I’ve had the fabulous challenge that often comes with using acrylic of painting at least two but sometimes up to four coats over each section to get a nice solid consistency. It’s coming together nicely. Which is good as I only have today for completion!
Below are a few more flicks that illustrate the progress made on completing the mural yesterday.

Here you can see my lovely assistant/host Aaron helping me out big time by filling in part of the design. Thanks Aaron!

Geometric cube background complete: Tick

The wall at the start of the day. All masked up with not allot going on.

Sheesh, better make this last day count!

Canberra Part One: Sketches in the burbs

I arrived in Canberra around midday AUS time on Thursday after 7 hours in transit. It’s green, sunny and peaceful. I’m over here painting a bar called ‘La Di Da’ which is scheduled to open next weekend in Belconnen. It is an extension of a bar called HaHa . Located upstairs from the original bar it has a wrap around balcony overlooking lake Ginninderra. I am being hosted by one of the young proprietors who set up bar HaHa three years ago, Mr Aaron Ridley. The two of us have been in contact for some years without ever meeting. He used to import aerosol paint and he was one of the sponsors for my first exhibition in Australia (back in 2006) at the Somedays gallery in Surry Hills, SYD.

It’s a 6x2m wall I am responsible for and I’ve got till Monday midday when I leave again to get the job done. So straight after his post I am going to get hustling. It was a slow start; got my sketches done on Thursday night, colour swatches Friday morning and finally got my outline and started the background last night. Went walk abouts in the sunshine while the bar had its official inspection for liscencing and got some flicks. Will try and get some photos of the city proper this morning.

Couldn’t resist visiting the Salvos. There was this amazing toy there which I might just have to go and get today. Didn’t notice it was Matchbox till this very second!

Portraits of suburbia. I was feeling the excer-cycle and the flag. 

Flet just like Rene Vaile when I took this shot

Canberra is definitely the greenest city in Australia I have visited so far. It was built for the purpose of a capital city in much the same way as Brazilia was built in Brazil. When considering the layout for the city they decided to deliberately include allot of ‘green spaces’. These divide up the five main centres of Canberra and also wind their way through the residential areas. Not a shoddy idea although for those without motor power getting around this sprawling city can be  difficult, so many stay in their own little section, particularly the youth.

There a few solar panels around which apparently represent a controversy throughout Australia which I was not aware of. The government subsidises the purchase and installation of solar panels and once they are set up the owners receive payment as the power they produce is fed into the power grid. However this means that less power is being consumed and as a result electricity providers have increased their prices. So the people who cannot afford to install solar power pay the rebate to the people who can and now have to pay an increased amount for their own power supply. CONTROVERSY

Take what you will from that. I’m off for coffee and off to work!

Cassette turns 3!

The AO version for the lovely Mel x

The A0 is already up around town…