Inspiring natural form

Crystal Creek, North Queensland

 

Printing collaborations with Ali George

A day in the studio with Ali George at Tarome, South East Queensland, creating printed fabrics for Kat Walsh to use in her own designs.

Aliquilts Studio, Tarome 

black acrylic on cotton

black acrylic on cotton

black acrylic
on white cotton (detail)

pearl white and orange,
on black linen

 

Update

I've been away from the blog for too long. I started posting in Instagram, which is fun, but doesn't provide me with an annotated archive of work. We travelled this month to visit friends in North Queensland, Caerphilly Station, and see how country can be used for grazing without significant land clearing and habitat destruction.  

The more you know, the more complex it all is.

Caerphilly Station, North Queensland

Art exhibition 2020

 Guerilla art exhibition, 1-31 October 2020, in the lead up to the Queensland elections.

This is a time of destruction, against which we offer the creative act. 

Everson, 1943

Caerphilly collection

Wearable art inspired by and created at Caerphilly Station, North Queensland.   

 

Mute as a fish

Thinking about the 'why' of my life and my practice. If you are an emerging artist for 20 years, are you a failed artist?  What is a failed artist?  There's no such thing, I don't think.  Creating is breathing. 

Exploring, I found Robinson Jeffers. This one, Great men,  from Poetry in 1940.

Karen has a passing thought

‘Gee, it’s not looking good Karen. Do you think we should maybe buy less shit’?

Oh no, Jane. It’s not our problem. It’s those fucking greenies who caused the fires’.

David was proud

David was proud of his work in mining. The dead landscape, he thought, had its own particular beauty.

Kev thinks about taxation reform

Kevin suggested tax reform might be good for the economy.

Eyes rolled.

‘They tried that Kev. The mining industry explained it was a dreadful idea’.

Robbie stares into the electoral abyss

Robbie stared into the electoral abyss. ‘I don’t know, Phil. They seem to have worked out we should be backing renewables’.

'Calm down mate. How about a little tree planting program? That's always a good look'.

This medicated life

 Experiments with stamp pad ink, including shadow prints.

This medicated life

print on paper, using recycled packaging

printing ink on paper, 200gm, 18 x 24 cm

stamp pad ink on paper, 200gm, 18 x 24 cm

Studio buddies

 This needs to be in the archive. Walter waiting patiently to play.

Instablog

 I've been posting on Instagram.  I like the visual focus, but I want to maintain the blog as an archive. 

Recent adventures include:

linoprints, with chatter

linoprint experiments, with ink application/removal

and working back into old prints

A print a day

Experimenting with ink on coaster (board).  Hand pressed, mono prints.

Private universe (the view from here)

Cave at Barney View.  Drawing with charcoal. In the style of the sublime.

charcoal on paper, c 180 x 180 mm

Private universe (the view from here)

Cave series. Drawing with charcoal.

charcoal on paper, 180 x 180 mm

A print a day

Experiments printing by hand, using ink on old coasters (board).

ink on paper, 150 x 150 mm

Terrain

Inspired by Jonathon McBurnie to draw landscape, familiar and imagined.

pencil on paper, A4

Terrain

Drawing imagined terrains.

pencil on paper, 15 x 20cm

Jonathon McBurnie

A productive and inspiring chat yesterday with Jonathon McBurnie, and a powerful takeaway message.

A print a day

Print on paper using ink and solvent. 

120 x 120 mm

Process

Playing with print/stencil options.

on canvas with tissue and acrylic base

Wunderkammer

Art as personal archive.

Print (ink and acrylic on paper) with collage, photographed.

photograph

photograph

Wunderkammer

Cabinets of curiosities, also known as ‘wonder rooms’, were small collections of extraordinary objects which, like today’s museums, attempted to categorise and tell stories about the wonders and oddities of the natural world.
British Library

Studio buddies

A print a day

Ink and spray acrylic on tissue paper.

Rabbit holes: Bottles

Glass containers are engineered along very specific design principles.  Container size, orifice diameter, neck length, and other attributes as well as the rations between such morphological characteristics are determined largely by such basic principles as frequency of access, amount of contents removed with each access, and the type of content (bulk solid, liquid, semi-liquid, etc.). 

Reher, Charles A. and Wedel, Dale L. (1994) Recovering Cultural Data from the Analysis of Early Historic Glass Containers Manual for the Workshop on Analysis of Diagnostic Glass, Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists Symposium on Historical Archaeology Northern Colorado, University Greeley, Colorado, March 12–13, 1994.

from Society of Historical Archeology

A print a day

At Barney View today.

ink on paper, 297 x 420 mm