The cats are by me

This is Sarah Cottier and Ashley Barber's place in Sydney. This is on the Selby. As I mentioned above, the cats are by me.

Arts Hub

Don't you think it's revolting how artists have to  pay money, to look at the jobs on arts hub? I mean if you were an engineer, or a window cleaner or a horticulturalist or a lawyer, in fact anything where it's normal to actually earn a regular wage anyway, you can look at the jobs on Seek for free. Why do artists always have to pay? and why do we keep doing it. I really hate arts hub. Half the 'jobs' they make you pay to see are volunteer positions anyway.

Family Business

Paint sample cards on Dutch aquatint paper stuck down using Japanese rice glue (it comes in a beautiful green tube with yellow lid). It's made in sections - I can arrange it different ways.

 I had in mind something Robert Irwin said about  the  planting for his garden at the Getty Museum in LA. He was seeing how much he could mix other colours into, say, an area of red flowers, and you still read it as a patch of red.

Photo by John Brash

I suppose you're wondering what this is a photo of...

You will find out soon enough. April the 11th to be exact.

This would look good in your backyard

This is a model for a proposed artwork to go in a collector's garden, behind his pool. Sadly the project never went ahead. I was a pity,  it would have looked good. Eight metres long, 3 metres high, eighty centimetres deep. Aluminium sprayed with car paint.

Aaron Curry

His work is quite like mine.

Half in Half out part 2 - a closer look

I've put some of this work on the blog before, under wall drawings, and cardboard and balloons, I suppose it makes more sense if you see it all together as one show. This was the first show at the (then) new Uplands in Chapel Street. In case you never went there, I should mention that you went up to the first floor via the lift or stairs, and you approached the gallery across an open deck area, and then you crossed a boardwalk to enter the space. I wanted to create a Spring-like atmosphere of growth and liveliness.  Andrius Lipsys took the photos.

 I had some money from a public sculpture I had done for Becton at the Esplanade in St Kilda (possible future post) so I decided to spend it on getting some metal sculptures made for this show. The principal was the same as the cardboard sculptures - two sheets of metal which slot together at right angles, but they needed bases as well or else they would have fallen over, and they were bolted together too. They were sprayed in car paint.