Until We Are All Free – in conversation

23rd October, 6PM, Byron Bay Theatre

In conversation with Behrouz Boochani – via Skype – and Julianne Schultz (Griffith Review) to discuss No Friend But the Mountains and Until We Are All Free.

in the studio

Dark field monoprints in Mullum.  

… and playing with knives in Kyoto. 

Week carving in Tosai Shimogamo studio – feel of the wood again after many years.     

life – capture and release

Bit of analog work to balance out hours of screen time… weekly life drawing. Free quick charcoal line, random colours reaching for whatever pastel comes to hand, .. and no undo option.

Walls

New Art of the Afterlife: Walls.

Featured in the winter issue of Byron Arts Magazine.
Source a copy from select galleries, shops, cafes and boutique accommodation in Byron Bay, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane – and internationally.
If they’ve been snaffled – happens – or you can’t find one, contact BAM.

plus ça change..

..plus c’est le même chose, as the French – who gave birth to and a gift of what has now become a symbol of the US – would say.

Unearthed from illustration files of five years ago.  When the current president was having ballgown not ballistic discussions with Moscow.

Apologies to Steinberg.

IA @ Collingwood Gallery

Illustrators Australia annual exhibition opening 13th July – all works 9×5..   Affordable, quirky, moving,thoughtful, subversive.  Huge empty white walls need not apply.

So That’s How I Began

Finishing final illustrations for pre-quel to So That’s What’s Happening – which is now available on Amazon.  So That’s How I Began an origin story for curious humans 6-11.  Due out from New Holland publishers in the antipodean spring / northern autumn.

positive negatives

  Until We Are All Free.  Graphic narrative in collaboration with Positive/Negatives in the UK.

Behrouz Boochani, a refugee detained on Manus Island, generously agreed to share his story.
Which remains ongoing, in purgatory five years on.. 

Drawing the Times

Really pleased to have Art of the Afterlife: #metoo featured on Drawing the Times.  Superb site featuring international selection of graphic journalism.

For the hard copy version, pick up a copy of Byron Arts Magazine autumn issue, out soon and available in Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, coming soon to other cites, and of course, Byron Bay.

BAM

Summer edition of Byron Arts Magazine out now..

The Art of Illustration

Additional interviews with Paul MacNeil, Texta Queen and others.
Articles on those up and comers Kusama and Richter thrown in as well. 

Available @ galleries and stockists in Byron Bay and Sydney.