dancing with ghosts

dancing with ghosts, 50 x 70 cm, collage on paper, 2012

One of my absolute favourites. There is quite a bit more white space around this work, so I recommend seeing it in the real world — after the end is showing at Anna Pappas Gallery until 7 July. Only one and a bit more weekends to go!

Please do pop in if you're in the area.

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an uncomfortable dream

 an uncomfortable dream, 2012, collage on paper, 32 x 42 cm

Now on show at anna pappas gallery, Melbourne. Inspired by the beautiful song 'Flowers' by Tinpan Orange (which might sound strange, but really it was!). You might remember me mentioning the song in a previous post, when these guys used some of my work to promote the single. I think they are currently filming the video for it, so keep your eyes peeled for the amazing shock of hair belonging to gorgeous frontwoman Emily Lubitz.

The majority of this collection was inspired by music, which you will probably see seeping through the titles as I post them. It was truly a joy to put together, so I hope you get enjoyment out of looking at them. On show until July 7 - anna pappas gallery!

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new work

Hello all!

I thought I'd share some new work with you today. It was originally going to be for an upcoming show, but I have changed my direction for that particular body of work, so I decided to pop it up here instead. 

Happy Tuesday!

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pocket rocket

Another sneak preview of some of the goods on offer from this Saturday. pocket rocket is a collage made from an exercising girl from a 1939 youth magazine, and hundreds of tiny bird tails and wings from a 1950s bird watching book. She's wild. Just look at those arms.

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I'm going to drink you

Up close at the platform show

Hello all! I know I have been terribly slack as of late, but it's coz I've been busy DOING THINGS! (Obviously) Don't you worry, new work is in the works, new work is at the framers, it's ALL HAPPENING. But, for the time being, here is a little closeup from my current show, Sudden Flushes of Unconscious Material at Platform art spaces. You can see images of the whole show here. It's only got ONE MORE DAY people! So get your arses down to the Flinders Street Subway TOMORROW, because my Awesome Parents of Joy are deinstalling the whole thing first thing Saturday. Yep, ONE MORE DAY!

and the spring air sparkled

cats from long ago

I was having a coffee with a fellow artist friend yesterday, who was telling me about some collages she'd made in the past of cats with the eyes cut out and more cats' eyes behind them. Spookily (and just plain spooky) similar (we seem to do this quite often - great minds think alike?) to these works, which I thought had cats' eyes in them too ... but turned out to be a raspberry, a flower, and two birds - ha!

evolution?

This is gonna seem really strange, given the size of this work (about 14 x 14 cm), but I have been working on this piece (in a sense) for over TWO YEARS! I know, that is really silly. But I started these little fairy sheep in my honours year and had no idea where to put them - they kept coming out of the collage-material vault (yep, I have a vault) for a play on my cutting mat, and then going back in again.

Finally this wee plant presented itself while I was in Berlin - I have this feeling that these poor little bird-sheep want to eat the nectar that is at the top of the plant, but their tiny little hoofs won't let them get at it - and now I feel mean for turning them into mutants when they could have stayed birds and flown up to eat the nectar. And now I feel a little bit crazy for discussing the welfare of my paper animals. 

coloured cockies.

Good morning All!

Here is the next stage of my cockatoo drawings, though I am dubious - I don't know what I was thinking with those colours ... however, one must soldier on. I'll keep working on these suckers and maybe eventually they might look ok again. I now need to reattach their heads to something ...

Though, this one seems to have more than meets the eye - baaaahahahaha! Get it?! I clearly need to leave the house.

a whole lotta cocky

Oh my god - I could have a field day with the amount of cock-related humour here. I will TRY to refrain (but know this, I will be giggling the whole way through this post. I can't help it.)

Here are some samples from my most recent endeavour (e.g., picking up a pencil yesterday), a study on my most favourite bird, the white Cockatoo. (Or in THIS case, Cockafive - HAHAHAAA!!!! I know, what a dad joke. I am a little ashamed.) There a billions of them up here in Daylesford, and they truly are a sight to behold. These sketches are part of a bigger plan I have (with a whole lot MORE cockies), but are still in experimental stage. So we shall see!

I am still kinda amazed at how different it can be drawing the same thing over and over again. Repetition. Fascinating stuff (for me at least).

Hope you enjoy,
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Laying down the law

Hello all! Here are some pictures of my work hanging in the Media Arts Lawyers (check out their website - it's awesome!) offices in Melbourne. Cool no? The lovely Romani Benjamin hung them for me, and don't they just look super cute? It's nice to have work in an unconventional place as opposed to the white cube. Loving their wooden in-trays too. Mmm. Gotta get me some of those!

And hey, if you're thinking you need some kind of law-like legal services, especially if your in the music/entertainment biz, these guys can sort you out.

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cook-up

I thought I'd slip in a sneak-preview of what's coming ... this is one of my most favourite kitchen items EVER, or at least 1 of. It comes from a set of 4 measuring cups of gorgeous-geesey-goodness. These little fellas (or chickies ... what's a man goose look like anyway? And what is he called?) are original 1950s/60s cups, made from that indestructible plastic that just doesn't break (no matter how hard you seem to accidentally fling it onto a the lino.)

I bought these cups years ago from the chapel st bazaar (when it still was reasonably affordable) - before I even moved out of home. I may have a domesticity addiction. I'm not ashamed. 


If you do not own novelty measuring cups, then I strongly suggest you start scouring bazaars, markets and online to secure yourself some. Because what's the fun of baking if you don't have comical yet functional tools?

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chicken lady

she crazy.

Prints now available!

Hello all! I have just added a run of prints to my shop! These are inkjet reproductions of my pussy wagtail collage, in a limited edition of 50, printed on lovely Arches paper - yum yum!

the secret

Yippee!! Apologies for my serious lack of posting. I have now relocated to Daylesford, land of the spa and overpriced lattes, gargantuan moths and now, the warming room! Boxes are unpacked (mostly), furniture in place (nearly) and internet heartily activated. So while I get settled, I thought I'd post this little number I created in my honours year, which somehow missed a place in the warming room hall of fame - I don't know why - I love this piece! It honestly spooks me out ... Creepy things. And stuff.

the meeting

fallen by the wayside

How this little number slipped through the cracks is beyond me. I think this is the first silly mutant I ever created. This cat duck (cuck?) in a way was the beginning of mutant land for me ... it's little head is so chubby, its duck legs so flappy! What's not to love?

I wish this creature existed. As if you wouldn't want to pinch it's cheeks. No? Just me then?

wrapping up

Getting close to the end of the trip now! Kent and I have been living in the same room for nearly 3 months, and if you want to see how that has effected our art practice, click here - we made these works at exactly the same time, without any idea of what the other was doing. Spooky, no?

don't think, just paste.

Well, as my trip is winding down, so is my will do do anything but bask in the sunshine. Spring is well and truly here in Berlin, and the prospect of sitting at my pathetic excuse for a table is quite dire. It's picnics all around, though I am now faced with a massive pile of collage material. So I have been having a few fun little sessions of random "grab a head, grab a body and stick it before you change your mind!" - sort of a speed-exquisite-corpse. Brings the productivity levels right up! Now ... to get it all home without blowing my baggage limit. Ew.

SWAPPED!