Gideons Flower

After reading about Pro Hart painting the covers of Bibles, I painted this on the front of one of those little Gideon's Bibles back in 97. My faith was relatively new, and as you can see by this image, pretty simplistic and naive.

More Detournement

This was originally an ad for GPS systems. I pasted it up on the wall of an abandoned building in Brunswick. Came out orright me reckons

Detournment

For a while now, I've been collecting images from advertising and print media that I consider strange, odd or downright absurd!! In all probability, you'd see these kinds of images every day and gloss over them without a second thought. But when you remove them from their context you can almost see something of the (want to be careful with using this word) Evil they represent. (Perhaps death dealing is less loaded) Im trying to twist some of these images to show something of the sickness of that culture.


These ones were inspired by images from the local paper during the Royal Show last year.

Free

New things are bobbing up all the time...

The Newmarket Gallery

Pasted up some A1 stencils I had been working on the last month or so. Ran out of Wheatpaste, so didnt get up everything that I wanted to. A very cool looking dude and his girlfriend walked by as I was working. He didnt like it. A bunch of 13 year old kids walked by too. They thought it was, "mad."

Ke?

A little something that Ive been working on this week... I work therefore I am therefore I am therefore I am... I am?

Nil by Mind

The waiting room

Ages ago, I saw this woman in a corridor of the hospital reading a tiny prayer book. She was rocking back and forward slightly and stopped when she noticed me passing.

Eye for an Eye II

Eye for an Eye

Unfinished Business...

Still trying to work at the crusading violence theme and trying to transpose that onto our culture of acquisition and consumption. Have not made much headway with the last couple of drawings but this one is starting to head in the right direction. Still trying to take some small amount of inspiration from Goya's Caprichos. Not so much the style ( as if I could ever get near to him) but the ideas.

Not having much luck, really.

Noisy Miner

Bird of Death VII

Pilgrims II

Pilgrims on the Crusade Against Recession

Pilgrams on the Crusade Against Global Recession

Bird of Death VI

Bird of death V (Pilgramage)

Copy my rights...

Added this to the front of previous T - Shirt print, after I read this post. The legalities of copyright are pretty mind numbing to me, but I was struck by this phrase as I scrolled through a related link on the creative commons concept. That being to promote creativity people may willingly relinquish, "some" or "all" of the legal rights to their work. And as I thought about that phrase, I wondered about the broader implications... I thought it was quite a good counter point. The idea that we reserve no rights for ourselves. That we might willingly relinquish the "reservation" (protection - control - defence?) of our rights to give people the space and freedom to choose to give them to us? Looks great on a T- Shirt, how about when my "rights" are actually threatened? My standard of living? my work entitlements? My access to medical care? Theres a difference between rights being available, or given freely, and rights being "reserved." Are yours and my rights, as artists and people, "reserved,( thereby excluding others) or "upheld," thereby including others?

Interesting.

All things must pass...

Finally got this wheat paste up after months of riding past the spot everyday on my way to work thinking about it. Pretty much all the pieces (the ones I liked anyway) that I have put up have been painted over or stripped. So most of them no longer exist, except here. I like that fact. All things must pass. It keeps me sober.

And finally...

The Urbanmonk brand continues to expand:)

Double Girl..

yeah..

Back on the stencil bandwagon...Always was, always will be a binger in one form or another:)

Black and White

... is always better

Stencilin'

Havent done any stenciling in ages...Pinched... I mean "appropriated" this image from a photo of Tim Rogers in the local paper...

Bird of Death IV

Bird of Death III ( suffering and faith)

Bird of Death III

Four Birds

Sketch from notebook

Bird of Death II

Bird of Death II

This pic gives you a reasonable idea of the size of the paper Im using. Here I've used medium willow charcoal, Flat black Acrylic enamel paint and Gesso Canvas Primer on A1 cartridge. Havent used charcoal in ages!! To me, the point with art is, NEVER GIVE UP!! No matter how many bad pictures you do, or how many times you fail at what you want to achieve, or how many times you look at the skill of other artists and hang your head, sooner or later, something will emerge that is worthwhile... Or at least, seems to be at the time:)


This is the slop pile out of which things grow...It aint pretty. But Id have to admit that neither is the finished product, really:)

More Suffering and faith..

Bought some sheets of A1 cartridge, some cheap enamel acrylic from the hardware shop, (ok, Bunnings) and some Gesso primer. Like "drawing" with paint. In the words of Robert Klippel, "trying to free myself up a bit."

Suffering and Faith

The twins

Skull

Sculptural Thinking

Still trying to think sculpturally about the human figure... particularly the female torso... Thumbed through a book about Giacommetti in the NGV bookshop last week. INSPIRING!!

Another Sketch for "the shoppers"

Wanting to do some large drawings on A2 sized paper that express something powerful about the world we live in. Yet to move beyond the A4 visual diary/sketchbook stage, however.

Thumbnails

Made a random impulse purchase of some Derwent Graphic soft sketching pencils that were "on sale" ranging from an H to a 9B compound. Some thumbnails...

Expressionist Face

Loveistruelife

Inspired by someones profile name on a singles networking site. I think from now on, this blog will serve as the forum for all of my art work, instead of breaking it up into "categories." Not sure what I will do with the other one yet.

Paper Mache' Torso (work in progress)

Paper Mache' is still fun when your thirty five years old. And still really cheap too!!

Since its that time of year...

The Shoppers

The Ritual

Crap Figure Study...

Study of Intersection...

Eat this scroll...

Study of Kitchen Window

Fish head

Car head

No this isnt my own work. Snapped it a year or so ago some where in Brunswick or Northcote or somewhere...

Dont you love Slogans?

New T - Shirt design I printed yesterday on a second hand tee from Savers. Love is not the easy thing... Dont you love slogans?