Wall Drawings!!!

Here are a couple of wall drawings I've done. They're both made of adhesive vinyl. Besides that, the link between them is that they both go from one room into another room. I made the lines go off the wall onto the floor in order to squeeze through the doorway. I wanted a sense of compression, and then release as the shapes billow out again onto the wall.

The first is "Half in Half Out" at the Uplands Space in Waratah Place in the City.

 All the photos  above  are by Andrius Lipsys

The photos below are of a similar work called "Jungle in Here" which was at Heide in a show called "Colour Bazaar" curated by Sue Cramer. That was in  early 2011. 

photos by John Brash

Light Shades!

I wanted to make something that would be more popular and successful than my art work.

Thanks to Andrew Curtis for the photos.

I made these light shades after I worked in a shop that sold lights.
I thought they could be shaggy and asymmetrical like a big bunch of flowers.

I made a cardboard and paper prototype first.

Thank you Andrius Lipsys for these photos

About a year after that I got shortlisted into a design award for Edra, and I thought, maybe designing isn't going to be too hard to get into. With the help of an industrial designer I made another prototype in perspex and polypropylene.

Thanks to Christopher Sanders for the photo.




The die cutter maker had to fiddle around with it quite a lot to get it all to fit together.

The hardest part was contacting shops about stocking them.

They ended up in Wilkins and Kent, where I used to work....I did the vinyl work on the window too...

Fenton and Fenton....see above the lady on the left's head.....

They didn't really go too well in the shops, but later in the year Geoff asked me to put them in a show at Neon Parc with Melinda Harper, Clement Meadmore, Bianca Hester and others....

photos by Geoff Newton




So they ended up being art, after all.