New work

'Cheesekake', ink and acrylic on paper, selected for display at St Georges restaurant

Self Portrait

Hand coloured, digital photograph 2010

Nicholas Jones on Artscape

I caught the recent episode of Artscape on ABC. A segment of the program featured Nicholas Jones, an artist who does some amazing reimagining of abandoned and discarded books, giving them a new life as works of art in their own right. His segment was of interest as we have an assignment coming up later this semester, in which we will have to create our own "artist book". Thanks Nicholas for the inspiration!

Upcoming Exhibition

I have submitted a piece of work for an upcoming exhibition. The aim of the show is to showcase the skills of the student body here at NMIT. It would be great if readers were able to attend the show, and of course tell all your friends and family. Details as below:

What: SHOWCASE - an exhibition by emerging artists from NMIT
Where: Synergy Gallery, 253 High Street Northcote
When: 2 to 15 August (gallery open Tuesday to Saturday, 11am - 4pm)
Cost: Free

Vacant city building

These are a few images taken at a disused city building. The place had a creepy vibe, with signs of drug abuse and violence throughout.

End of semester update

Firstly a big thank you to everybody who has had a look and left comments, much appreciated, and I would love to get feedback from everybody who drops in. So don't be shy, let me know what you think, good or bad! I've uploaded a few pics of work in different mediums below, and have also added a few new website links over to the left. I highly recommend that you do yourself a favour and have a look at a few of them. Just a few days until the end of semester and then holidays. I hope to get some fresh work completed (non-school work) over the next few weeks and have some nice new images for when things recommence in July. Until then I'll be be continuing with the weekly posts and updates. Possibly...

An exercise in Perspective

What you see here is the final assignment for drawing in first semester. Total number of drawing hours approximately 15-20 hours. Just under A1 size cartridge paper, initially drawn up with light graphite, completed with fine liner, coloured pencil, permanent marker and charcoal. The brief was for a imaginary city or urban setting, so I decided to mix it up a little and use a range of influences from medieval to sci-fi.