Very pleased and honoured Until We Are All Free has been awarded Highly Commended in 6th Australia/New Zealand Illustration Awards 2018.

After an exceptional event three days ago, presenting the graphic narrative with Behrouz Boochani linked from Manus Island, the timing is perfect.  Thank you to all the judges for the recognition.

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.

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.     

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.

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 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.

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

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.

  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..