CREATIVE PRACTICE
Design, Digital Media, Literature, Music,
Visual Arts
12m x 9m workshop & studio, painting, canvas making, music rehearsal, engineering equipment/tools for steel sculpting and other projects. Designated room in house for computer, digital sound recoding, image manipulation, digital photography, and other associated activities.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I'm a 68yro, white, male OAP with a collection of physical glitches. I move a bit slow these days. Artists come and go like new model cars - bright and shiny for a while. Galleries, teachers, government arts administrator and arts departments remain. It seems to me that artists have been running a relay and passing on a baton since we were making prehistoric images on rock walls. I haven't drank alcohol or used any other mind altering drugs since Jan 1999. So? I don't do "drinks etc, and mingle, schmooze and be seen at exhibition openings, events. I prefer to follow my art practice at my own pace and whim.
Pretty well retired.....
BIO
CBHS Lewisham For 5 equivalent 1959; West Sydney Tech (Petersham) Electrical Fitter/Mechanic 1974; Blacksmithing via Tafe Qld, Jimboomba 1994, RADF Grant to take performance poets into Sir David Longlands Maximum Security Gaol 2002; Performance poet Woodford Folk Festival 2000/01; Redland Shire RADF Grant Assessment Committee 2003/04/05; Moreton Tafe Qld Multimedia/Design, Animation, Art History, Video Recording; Editing, Digital and Analog Audio Recording Editing 2004/05/06 inclusive; 2 exhibitions at Logan Gallery 2002 Ink on paper & 2007 large painted works; Commissioned wordsmith, Redland Shire Council Transit Centre Public Art Project Catalaba 2003-04. 2004-06, co-facilitated, with Jack Oudyn "Mind in Art" program for mental health consumers. Regional Art Prize Tenterfield 2001 & 2007; A few prizes at Inverell Gallery and a solo exhibition; Glen Archies Portrait Prize; 2013 co-organised & co-ran a 7 day artist camp at Breeza to artistically document the Breeza Plains during the first Shenhua Coal dispute. 2014 and ongoing radio presenter at 2CBD Glen Innes Tues nights 6-9pm, "Alphabet Soup". Glen Innes Severn Council commission sculpture "Balancing Rock" Wentworth and Grey Street roundabout.