st kilda artists: annual exhibition

never mind that full time job that gets in the way, it’s time to get ready for the summer show season in melbourne! first up is my studio’s annual exhibition in November. Since this is also my birthday month, it’s a nice treat to have work on display. I suppose this birthday has me reflecting [...]

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st kilda artists: open studio day

Summer is coming and tradition is our studios hold an open house in October. This year is also the 10th anniversary of the gardens and studio so lots of folks turned out. I was pleasantly surprised to sell two pieces and meet some great peeps during the day. But about the time the band started [...]

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beer garden

One of the local St Kilda pubs sponsored an art competition, theme of ‘beer garden’. I used this as an excuse to make art from some of the beer labels I collected while traveling. This is the first piece created out collage materials I collected from the road. It’s time to start telling that story…

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ibid: your documents please

I sent off a piece to this travelling exhibition that starts in Japan, then hits Hungary, Germany, Slovakia, Mexico and whatever else gets added to their schedule between now and 2010. The theme was “travel/identity documentation”, the submitted pieces had to be small and pack flat as they ship the show around the world. I [...]

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williamstown opening

I’ve been accepted into the williamstown contemporary art show! saw some of the other works when I dropped mine off this saturday and they were impressive. pleased to be involved with something so high caliber.
the opening is this thursday 7-9pm at The Substation Arts Centre, 1 Market Street, Newport. stop by if you can!
this is [...]

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30 days 30 pieces

in the month of march I’ve been posting a work of art a day to the 30 days 30 pieces site. it was started by my good buddy and ex-coworker dave schell as a way to still produce art in and around his gig as an art director. lucky for us he invited a few [...]

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24 hour art blitz

I entered a show through the Kingston Art Center – they announce the theme and 24 hours later you deliver the work. Not a bad idea except when you work in oils. I’m glad Petros could drive me there because it was all I could do to keep the fingerprints off.
The opening was the next [...]

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my first juried show in oz!

happy to report I got into my first juried show: Fear, Masks & New Beginnings – an exhibition of emerging artists and part of my entry even made it onto the invite. the opening is next week – we’ll see what happens…

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first paintings of 2008

while I was traveling for those 2 yrs I created a mini-calendar – mostly because I was too cheap to buy a real one. somewhere in south america, I started adding one sketch per day into my homemade boxes. this became a cool counterpoint to the written journal I was keeping – and got me [...]

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…and painting…

after over a decade without a studio to call my own it’s heaven to have a brush in hand and most importantly not have to clean up! I moved into the studio early Nov 07 and these are a few of my favorite pieces so far:

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