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Sculpting Sargent Ackersley
My fiance David has been working particularly hard recently on writing funding applications and strategising towards getting his animated cop show up and into the world. So I decided to make him a sculpted version of one of the main characters, Sargent Ackersley.
It is very much a prototype to figure out issues with the design [...]
The Corner Hotel – til 10 July
Additional orange/black band stickers not part of original art. Initially I was annoyed, but on closer inspection they had the cheek(respect?) to place the stickers in the line of vision of the characters on the two occassions they look off into the distance, a very awkward attempt to make like the stickers were part of [...]
Imagine My Art Here…
It maybe that right this moment one of my comics is up on the side of The Corner hotel, Swan St, Richmond, Victoria, Australia.
It was supposed to go up anytime between 29 May and 5 June, so it should be up now.
It will be up there for 3 weeks.
Check-it-out! 1.3 x 4 m of goodness!
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Comic Book Funny Returns!
My betrothed, Mr David Blumenstein, is once again organising Comic Book Funny as part of the free program of Melbourne Comedy Festival events at Trades Hall. I will be contributing artwork to the calendar mentioned below.
Dates and times:5pm – 6.15pm Every Saturday in April
Week 1: a genteel exhibition launch and informal comics salon, directed by [...]
Chris Downes, Matt Coyle and Me on 3CR radio
Back in September the Comic Spot, Melbourne’s 3CR radio’s Australian comics culture show did a feature on the Tasmanian Comics scene.
John Retallick interviews Chris Downes, Matt Coyle and myself.
The podcast is now available on The Comic Spot Blog.
Slideshow of Old Zineness on We Make Zines
Find more photos like this on We Make Zines
Believe it or not this is the smaller version!
Ugly, Drunk and Stupid exhibition @ Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn
The other exhibition that happened in my absence was Ugly, Drunk and Stupid at the Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, Victoria.
Curated by Jo Waite and Bernard Caleo the exhibition was part of the 2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival.
The format for the show was a portrait of an “Ugly, Drunk, and/or Stupid” character and a landscape format comic [...]
B&W exhibition @ This Is Not Art
“Pat’s favourite comic: A tie between Sarah Howell’s silent comic and Tim Molloy’s Mr Unpronounceable.”
- from curator Pat Grant’s wrap up email (this email totally made my day).
Images 1. single panel detail.Image 2. installation shot of exhibition, mine is the very white three page comic sandwiched between Ben Constantine’s 12 page work and Mandy [...]
Part 1.
Images by Mardi Nowak of before and after installation of my work titled “Part 1″