frame of bones and veins

Some drawing from my Moleskine

Screen Printed

For university I have been learning how the screen print. I am in the process of creating an installation of printed figures and large lino printed text on found wood. It will be a kind of shrine.

below are some prints on fabric that I will print some more of so that my sister aoife can use them to make dresses and pencils cases.

Twig print on navy cotton 

boy print on navy cotton 

stick collector on blue cotton

and here are some prints on paper, just playing around with colours and overlapping right now, the finals will be printed on wood. 

planting print 

smoking print 

3 layer boy 

boy with growth

stick collector in blue 

blue boy with faun twig

sex and death

Here are a few more silly drawings from my Moleskine, I have been doing lots of anatomical drawing for uni and thinking a lot about sex and death and the cicle of life, the fundamental drives of humans and decay. This is what came out I guess...

chopped wood

Rad radish 

Sex magnet

^ this is a drawing on an opened-out cigarette packet which I will be submitting to a group show at off the kerb gallery, the show is about recycling. This drawing can be read as three stages of existence, generation, physicality and degeneration.

The gold is hidden in firewood

Two new detailed figures in frames.

Pov Lyff

These are some drawings that will soon become screen prints for a series of works called pov lyff, which is about how being poor is pretty rad.

Photo's from Trocadero show

Utopia Festival: kite plight fight

On Sunday I will be hand painting kites at Egg Gallery with many other artists to raise money for the kite plight of Afghanistan. During the Taliban rule in Afghanistan, kite flying was banned, In some parts of the country this tough ban on kites still exists. Utopia festival hopes to 'create awareness and raise funds for refugees living in poverty in camps near the border of Afghanistan. Partnering with Hope Afar, we will be donating proceeds from the event directly to communities within these troubled areas. ' and to provide the public with a totally killer day out on Johnston street.

 

  So come along to Egg Gallery on this Sunday the 26th to see some killer kites, view my exhibition with is currently up there and hear some shamanistic musings from Costa of Tehachapi. Below is drawing I have done to celebrate this wonderful event, which might also be used for promotional material.

Inward Eyes

Yesterday I hung the work for my new show with the amazing Audrey Tan. Inward eyes, which opens on the 17th at about 6 o'clock will showcase the efforts of 3 months of work. I have done many pencil drawings of spirit boys and pine trees, as well as some embroidery, a soft sculpture and some pencil pyramid sculptures. Audrey has also done lots of things including handmade bags, paintings and drawings.

so if you are around Collingwood then do please stop by, I will be in there on Saturday and Sunday.
 Here are some photographs of my work, taken by my good friend Lambros Stavrias, to see more of his work click on his name and you will be transported to his blog.

Papercuts: Deeper

Paper cuts deeper is a show what I helped curate with the wonderful Jess Wilson. The show is currently running at Trocadero gallery in Footscray. If you have never been to Footscray then this is your chance, hop on the Werribee train, go to Savers, have some African food and head over to 119 Hopkins street to see work by Soft Science, Supercube, Jess Wilson, Julia Trybala, Marian Crawford, myself and many more.

Moleskine update!

Even more silly drawings from my Moleskine which I am trying to turn into actual pieces of art for my up coming show at Egg Gallery.

tidy dog and fingernail.

 flying dog and wood spirit

 secret fort 

Satan's camp for boys