A few days ago I went for a morning swim, in an attempt to start the week off with a splash, and so before jumping in the pool I did what I always do which is size up the other swimmers to figure out whether I belong in the slow lap lane or the medium lap lane. And every time I do this I always think about this drawing I made back in 2010, titled Life in the Fast Lane.
So with that in mind, when I got home from the swim I decided to make a SHOW OFF painting.
Here I am showing it off.
Last night I went back to the pool again taking my new painting with me. When the coast was clear I snuck up to the FAST lap lane sign and did the old switcheroo, proving once and for all that I am in fact Banksy.
Once the new sign was in place I couldn't work out whether my drawing had to come life... or if I was in my drawing.
And then just for fun, here's a 50 second video I made last night about being in the Show Off lap lane.
Speaking of Life in the Fast Lane, something else that's really zoomed up on me is the fact that this Friday night, AKA tonight, is the sixth and final Friday night of my position as 'artist in residence' at the National Gallery of Victoria.
So yes, tonight, from 6 till 10, please come to the NGV, you'll get a free copy of my new little book Catherine the Great Gatsby, plus you'll also get to experience the incredible collection of Catherine the Great, as well a DJ, choral singers, expert lectures, yummy food, and headlining it all, you should totally come to the NGV tonight because there's gonna be people making love underground!
Ha, no wait, I can't believe I've gotten that so wrong, what I mean to say is that you should totally come to the NGV tonight because the headline act is the Aria award winning band Underground Lovers!!
(If you don't know how awesome the Underground Lovers are here's my favourite song of theirs; Losin' It.)Tomorrow's Drop By Drawing is gonna be slightly different from my Friday Night Drop By Drawings for a couple of reasons, the first is that, well, it's free, so that's awesome, but also I'll be doing slightly less talking one on one and a little bit more of talking to the group as a whole. Because of this I'll be wearing a Madonna headset microphone, which is very in Vogue.
While wearing the microphone I'll try to resist the temptation to give everyone in the National Gallery a taste of my world class beat boxing, but I'm not making any promises.
Oh and a couple of other little plugs, and I'll talk about these another time, but just quickly incase you're interested; on Sunday November 8 I'll be selling a few of my self published books in the Open Spaces event at the Abbotsford Convent, from 11-4pm. Click here for more info on that.
And then opening on Thursday November 12, I'm in a group show at Blindside Gallery in Melbourne curated by Verity Heyward and Lucie McIntosh.
And if you're in Sydney on Wednesday November 18, I'm in a group show at PomPom Gallery, curated by Talia Linz.
So yeah, I'm super excited about all those things and if you can make it to any of them come say hi! But definitely the big thing right now is please come to the NGV tonight from 6-10pm, and/or tomorrow from 2-4pm.
OMG .. the swimming video, you're so dam attractive that it is bordering on ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteI learned so much more in this post. Who knew you could beat box…. Forget this blog gig… move to YouTube.
ReplyDeleteIt is crazy how quickly that NGV gig has ended…. Six weeks goes so fast. SO I guess that means you will be back to monthly blog posts forthwith
And because you paid only lip service to my suggestion of a timesheet based blog (who can blame you) I have another genius idea….. instead of offering exclusive succulent and irresistible offers to people that turn up at random events…. Why not make irresistible blog reader only special offers…… I really like that idea
As usual… you rock
This is a great post Kenny! I laughed out loud several times.
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