Couldn't be happier

Hi, here's a ceramic piece I made a few months ago. 

It's titled SD Card. It's acrylic on ceramic, 3.1 x 2.3 x 0.2cm.

I included the piece in the Funny Games exhibition earlier this year.

If you went to the show you might've missed it, I tucked it away pretty low to the ground behind this sculpture by Anna Higgins.

If you want blood, you got it

Hey, late last night these three drawings fell out from the back of the book I was reading.

I made the drawings about 4 years ago, in December 2008. They're all marker on 21cm x 15cm, 110gsm cartridge paper. 

I drew all three of them whilst donating blood at the Upwey community centre. 

Johnny been good

Oh hey, Ger-die mite. Last week my buddy Dan Petersen and I made a painting for our tutor Jon Campbell, as an attempt to show him our highest appreciation for having been such a great mentor to us, as well as just a great friend, over the three years of our undergraduate course.

Jon won the Basil Sellers $100,000 art prize this year, and so when deciding what to make him it was pretty obvious we had to have some fun with that. 

Cheque out what we came up with.

I'd always wanted to make a novelty cheque, and as Jon is such a humble guy, the gesture of presenting him with one definitely seemed like the thing to do.

We used the colour scheme from Jon's iconic yeah painting

and based a lot of the framework for our novelty cheque on a variety of other novelty cheques, including the great artist Tom Polo's.

To make our painting a true collaboration, Dan and I took it in turns painting each letter, number and line.

We were working on the tightest of deadlines and so going letter for letter made the painting process about as intimate as it gets.

We presented the cheque to Jon at the end of year Painting Party last Friday. 

When the time was right I called Jon up the front and gave him the distraction present; a large bouquet of Basil. (I offered to sell it to him). During this moment Dan swooped in from the back and we presented Jon with the painting.

(If you look in Jon's hand in the bottom left you can see the Basil Bouquet).

Dan and I are very aware that completing our Bachelor of Fine Arts isn't really the end of anything, only the beginning, and that Jon, one of the most generous and encouraging artists I know, will certainly continue to be a great friend and mentor for us throughout the years.

But even still, Jon is a legend and we did want to take a moment to say thanks.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Is Jon, Is Good.

Nice to meat you!

If hotdogs could talk I think we all know what they'd say;

The life-size dogs are acrylic on ceramic and made in 2012. 

I installed the ceramic 'HI' hotdogs onto a wall at uni last night just to see how they'd look. 

It was late and everyone had gone home for dinner. 

I also photographed them in the microwave.

Call me maybe

Hey, thanks for calling. Here's a work I made in 2011, it's acrylic on doily.

I guess if it were entirely true though then I wouldn't have a blog.

Laughing all the way from the bank

Hi, here's a couple of cheap photos of my new million dollar painting.

It's titled Common wealth.

Common wealth is acrylic on canvas, and is 91 x 91 x 3.5cm

This piece is the latest in a series that aims to blur the lines between sculpture and painting, as well as realism and abstraction.

I installed the painting on the outside of my local branch.

Come to Alaska and see a thing or two

Hi, I should've mentioned this earlier, I'm in an exhibition in Alaska!
Which means I'm going to Alaska!
Which means you should come to Alaska too!
Nope, not Alaska the largest state in America, even better, I'm talking about Alaska the art gallery in Sydney!

You might not have heard of Alaska. It's only a year old. The gallery's been converted out of an old mechanics office in some forgotten underground car park in the heart of Kings Cross.

Oh and hey, click on this sentence to see my little bio on the Alaska website.

THE SKY'S

Acrylic on paper
21 x 29.5cm
2012.

Ten-neth Kenneths

  Kenneth the Menneth

         

1. Kenneth Faried

2. Kenneth Newkirk
3. Kenneth Parcell
4. Kenneth Goldsmith
5. Kenneth More
6. Kenneth, Florida
7. Kenneth Jackson
8. Kwenneth Paltrow
9. Kenneth Boyd
10. Kenneth Branagh

(All from Google images)

Ten Kens

Things ken only get better.

1. Ken Done

2. Ken Vogel

3. Ken Carson

4. Ken Bruce

5. Ken Kurtis

6. Kendo stick

7. Ken Clark

8. Ken tucky fried chicken

9. Ken Anderson

10. Ken Zhu

(All from Google images)

Twenny Kennys

                             

1. Kenny Garrett

2. Kenny Kramer

3. Kenny Kola
4. Kenny G
5. Kenny Chesney
6. Kenny Cunene
7. Kenny Wormald
8. Kenny Smyth
9. Kenny Rogers
10. Kenny Tam
11. Kenny McCormick
12. Kenny Koala
13. Kenny Kwan
14. Kenny the Shark
15. Kenny Blank
16. Kenny Perry
17. Kenny Walker
18. Kenny Vasquez
19. Kenny Easterday
20. Kenny Dalgish

(All from Google images)