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Summer Mixtape Pt.III

2012-01-13T05:53:00.000-08:00

Hello! I've been looking to bookend 2011 and get some of the unpublished artwork that I made up here. To begin my 2012 making spree. Here's to that. So in no particular order...

Sticky Fingers Bakery - Makers of legendary edible things - powered on with the postive initiatives and asked me to begin what is to be an ongoing project with illustrators from around Melbourne. This is the first limited edition teatowel in a set! Featuring a cake city. You may even find the Pakenham/Cranbourne line represented here. Go peruse the website for more ideas, manifestos, (etc) on cakes.

http://www.stickyfingersbakery.com.au/

Effervescent Russell Crowe-esque beauty/urban story slinger Darren Hanlon asked me to do another shirt drawing for him, and this resulted in an esoteric breakdown of his psyche in a snowdome (below)

(T-shirt's gettable at...) http://www.flippinyeah.com/

And after a bit of an Indian ink session, this Dick Diver logo became the one chucked on the 'New Start Again' album cover.

http://chaptermusic.com.au/

Summer Mixtape Pt.II - The Postering

2012-01-13T05:28:00.000-08:00

Nothing says 'come to this gig' more than a poster with a pissed off dog owner on it.

Then after a nice amount of northern Queensland Exposure I undertook the drawing of Dan Kelly's Christmas Barbecue poster. This little festive front yard pool scene popped up.

http://www.dankelly.com.au

Summer Mixtape

2012-01-13T05:14:00.000-08:00

And...here's a few shirt designs I made for An Horse.

The Smoko on Your Vision Quest

2011-10-30T14:39:00.000-07:00

Back from my three month life smoko in Europe - after a fantastic tour I decided to try my luck at couchsurfing Berlin for a month - lugging my plastic bags of stuff across town every two days and catching up with old and new friends all the while. Well, I am back. And many kebabs the richer. I managed to make this Dick Diver tour poster while on the go somehow - the wonderful Lucy Dyson and Joseph Jensen lent me their high-grade scanning setup and the wonderful Genna Kulesza lent me her computer. Since I've had a long time away from my art supplies, I'm gunning to begin and complete some projects - so more on that soon. As you can glean from below - I am going on this little Australian tour with Dick Diver next, for a few weekends in Nov, to promote our brand new record 'New Start Again'...come along.

CURTIN - Book and Show

2011-04-29T02:43:00.000-07:00

I've got some pictures in a show called Curtin at Seventh gallery right now (155 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Melbourne). Three little paintings in a row. They're also in a book of the same name that's floating around.

28 April – 14 May 2011

Opens Thursday 28th April 6-8 pm
“Curtin”

Curated by Andie Tham and Johann Rashid.

*Image by James Eisen

Featuring Artists Dan Moynihan, James Eisen, Martin Bell, Andie Tham, Beci Orpin, Kate Moss, Rowan McNaught, Jarrah De Kuijer, Stephanie Hughes and Johann Rashid.

Curtin is a recent survey of ten emerging artists, who all site sourced and found material as the starting point of image making and technical process. Linking themes and joining narratives through juxtaposition of high and low brow imagery, this exhibition aims to be a fun exploration of different modes in contemporary culture. Curtin is a group of friends, who’s work directly addresses their surroundings. Inspired by found and sourced imagery from the internet, magazines, old books, and film, these processes involve conscientious cropping, collaging, and re-appropriation.

Boomgates, Human Rights Arts and Film Festival

2011-04-29T01:44:00.000-07:00

Here's a Boomgates 7 inch cover, and Human Rights Arts & Film Festival poster that have come out in the time i've been touring. I've had an amazing two months driving across Australia and USA. Meeting buffaloes in Yellowstone National Park and crazy inbred cats and great humans.

This Boomgates 7'' is out now through San Francisco based label SmartGuy Records...featuring the tunes 'Nothing' and 'Layman's Terms'. Find out more about that here - http://www.smartguyrecords.com.

And this poster is part of a body of work I did for the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival crew (hard workers), it includes a Festival Program that's floating around out there. You should get to every part of this festival you can! There's some total gem events they're getting together - movies, music, forums, etc - i've always gotten a lot out of it. More information - dates, times, events - here:
http://www.hraff.org.au

Cats out of Bags

2011-02-20T22:08:00.000-08:00

Hello! an update on some shirts and things i liked making. Many more things will be postable as their respective bands release them, but here are the first few.

I am about to go on tour for two months or so and plan to get in some serious drawing-on-the-go. Also there is an exhibition i am putting some watercolours/screenprints in in April. More details as i get 'em.

Newer Day Rising: The Menu Update

2011-02-02T00:28:00.001-08:00

A New Day Rising menu update called for a new design. WITH ADDED BAGEL OPTIONS...
It's one of the cafes on the corner of Blythe and Nicholson St, Brunswick East. Go to it.

High Water Queensland Flood Appeal Art Auction

2011-01-30T20:07:00.000-08:00

All proceeds from this auction go to the Flood Relief appeal to help the Queensland crew. Got a little picture in this and some of my favourite artists do too.
Head to www.wehaveninelives.com to get to the auction page.

Shelley Short & The Gold Coats Tour Poster!

2011-01-20T18:08:00.000-08:00

My good Oregonian friend Shelley 'Shaz' Short is coming back to Australia for a whirlwind folk gig seizure. We met last year on tour and got to sing together a lot and wipe birdshit off eachother's clothes before shows. A great bonding time! Shelley knew i'd been recording and playing some ditties of my own (a project i'm calling The Gold Coats and now featuring amazing harmonising, drumming and guitaring people) and we decided to play shows together in Feb/March and put out a split 7''.
With that back story in mind, here's the tour poster!

Summer Fruits

2011-01-20T18:04:00.000-08:00

This summer is proving fruitful, not only in an Oprah sense. Here's a illustrated map I did for the folks and Golden Plains festival. It probably makes no sense, but it does a bit...

Standard Service

2010-12-13T21:13:00.000-08:00

Have a painted plate in this - the end of year show for Nine Lives gallery in Brisbane if you're round that place!

Heaps of things underway that I will show you soon too.

Loungin' on Mars with a Burger

2010-10-14T03:12:00.000-07:00

This is the artwork for Dan Kelly's next single ...'Dan Kelly's Dream'. It's a little 'the apocalypse has happened and now I have a sweet time living in an underwater shanty' or something. From Dan's album 'Dan Kelly's Dream' which is out now.

New Day Rising Rose, and Here's the Menu

2010-10-14T02:53:00.000-07:00

New Day Rising is Nadia and Tom's unbelievable new cafe on Blythe St, East Brunswick, Melbourne (near the cnr of Nicholson St and Blythe...or near RRR radio station) I was the lucky kid who got to draw a menu for them...go and eat these delights if you're in the area.

Cameos in your Dreams

2010-09-15T23:11:00.000-07:00

The first flush of Boomgator art...

Grouper Tour Poster

2010-09-12T21:38:00.000-07:00

The wonderful Liz (aka Grouper) is heading back to Australia from Oregon to play mesmerising shows and this time i got to make her a poster. She's great, check out her music if you can.

Crick neck!

2010-06-20T21:13:00.000-07:00

The mural at 200 Gertude St, Collingwood is up now! As part of 'Always Moving' - events for this will be going all month. It kinda looks like this, but is pretty detailed so could use a closer look...it's a slightly povvo photo.

The opening was wild, Bum Creek played in a giant glad wrappy-like bubble with strobe and I got stuck in a people bottle neck out the back. I lost my voice and ate the most delicious tofu feast at Coconut Palms on Smith St after. Great Friday night!

Got some paste up projects happening in coming weeks...

Always Moving Movements...

2010-06-14T02:51:00.000-07:00

The Always Moving mural is underway. The folks at Gertrude Street gallery left me to my own devices in that sunny front room and I have had a great couple of days in a vitamin D bath talking to everyone that comes through the door, and eating hommus, and getting hommus on my picture, and painting the picture. Its coming along, and i've got a few more days to go...

Pilgrimage!

2010-06-08T01:19:00.001-07:00

For the Birmingham Hotel's birthday coming soon...a li'l collagey poster I banged up...

Always Moving

2010-05-23T20:48:00.001-07:00

I'm making a mural for this fantastic month long event happening at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces in Fitzroy, Melbourne. Lots of artists from all over are involved in different capacities (performance, sound, cinema, and event based art...)
18 June – 17 July 2010.
There's more details to be found here...

...Always Moving...

And here's a line drawing that's going to be turned into a two-colour print for a poster/flyer.

As Is

2010-05-13T03:52:00.000-07:00

Have some art in this exhibition as part of the Semi Permanent conference in Brisbane...

And have done some more work for Dan Kelly - for his second single from 'Dan Kelly's Dream', a great little track called 'Hold On, I'm Coming On'.

New Smells

2010-05-02T19:17:00.000-07:00

Dick Diver Melbourne show poster. The lonely lounge room series.

For Dan Kelly's swimming cap merchandise....

Keepin up

2010-04-19T02:06:00.001-07:00

Up top: Poster for RRR radio and Defamer uberpersonality Jess McGuire, specifically for her infamous TRIVIA NIGHTTTTSSS.

Middle: The poster for Dan Kelly's Australian tour.

Bottom: Single cover for Dan Kelly's release 'Bindi Irwin Apocalypse Jam'. From his new album.

Blues all in the Ocean, Blues all in the Air

2010-03-28T23:29:00.000-07:00

Coming up with a lot of ideas for projects right now, and a lot of them seem to involve snakes. This little sketch is going to end up as a mural. Will chart the progress!

Gone Troppo

2010-03-14T19:32:00.000-07:00

T-shirt design for the tireless kids in Rat vs. Possum.

2010-02-24T21:53:00.000-08:00

This is a little logo idea i whacked up for my friend Shauny's company, that he's part of with his friend Ally. They jam music with kids!

Delicious Bounty

2010-02-24T03:15:00.000-08:00

Boob Hair

2010-02-05T18:12:00.001-08:00

Monday

2009-12-28T04:21:00.000-08:00

Here's my interpretation of a 'foreword' for a new music compilation featuring material from Hobart and Melbourne (The Stabs, Pikelet, East Brunswick All Girls' Choir, and many more...) I was forewording the Melbourne half. It'll be out really soon via a clever guy called Thomas from Tasmania that runs this little organisation: http://www.clonesandclones.com
More news on when it's emerging soon!
For now I'll leave you with this: please let my utter disregard of scale and direction slide. Ta.

Casterollin'

2009-12-23T03:30:00.000-08:00

Back and front 7'' layout, and teatowell for Dan Kelly, featuring his brain spew.

Get in on the Dream

2009-12-05T22:20:00.000-08:00

Miscalleneous Brain Spew: From Then to Now

2009-12-05T22:10:00.000-08:00

Posters From a While Back Now

2009-12-05T22:00:00.000-08:00

The Early Binges

2009-12-05T21:54:00.001-08:00

Toady from Neighbours

2009-09-27T19:57:00.000-07:00

Brain having to prioritise on storage space, so now i forget crucial life skills and i don't wash. I probably am the closest i've ever been to looking like Toady from Neighbours. I am going to put up all my drawings here so animals don't eat them.

I cant live without you, Shane

2008-07-10T02:47:00.000-07:00

And I wouldnt waste all my baked beans on anyone else...

Hatred Beard

2008-02-29T18:29:00.000-08:00

My Uncle Invented The Anal Staircase

2008-02-28T18:56:00.000-08:00

Here's the most recent poster i've done- for the Melbourne Chicks on Speed show:

So damn contemporary

2008-02-26T18:56:00.001-08:00

Taking one for the team. Drinkin tea; missed Oprah, but made a blog. Here comes trouble. Maybe i can hand this in for uni? No, that would just be too logical. SIlly me. Just another thing to distract me from showering.