beach

a couple of photo works that i submitted for the hand magazine. one was published. they were originally taken using a diana camera, which i'd modified to take 35mm film. i didn't do a brilliant job of that, as the light leaking wiped out most of the roll. a few shots were usable, though. by way of explanation, here's what i wrote for the hand magazine...

"When I was a student studying darkroom photography, I could never get the perfect print my tutors were always after. In the end, I realised that I just wasn't obsessive enough about the state of my negatives to do so. So I began to use my limitations as the feature of the work - drawing on the negatives, sandwiching scratched negatives together, exposing different areas for different times, putting my fingers all over the negatives and prints, all the things I wasn't supposed to do. I enjoyed it so much more, the results were so much better, and each print become an unrepeatable one-off. Embrace your weakness."


Beach A
Silver gelatin print - Photographed with Diana F+, modified for 35mm negative
298mm x 238mm
2014


Beach B
Silver gelatin print - Photographed with Diana F+, modified for 35mm negative
300mm x 239mm
2014

Original, one-off prints - AU$50 each (contact adrian@4-4-2music.com for details)

samantha

after enjoying playing around using pole posters as the raw material, i thought i'd do another, so went for a portrait of sam, the other half of boom blip blip.


samantha
paper collage on cardboard
78cm x 102cm
2013
$200
(contact adrian@4-4-2music.com for details)

the scream

has it really been a whole year since i posted something here? i'm so sorry. i have been doing stuff. just not posting it. oh well. i shall pick up where i left off...at the blacktown city art exhibition.

this year i entered two paintings. one was a portrait of æowyn in a similar style to the one of imojjen from last year (i actually started the æowyn one first, but only just finished it this year). it was rejected. the other one was this, called 'the scream'. the basic premise is that language is being dumbed down and impersonalised through the use of txting and msging, why not try the same with images? so it's münch for the emoticon generation.

the first image is a close-up, the second in-situ at the blacktown city art gallery, to give an idea of the scale. the guy in the photo is my dad.

acrylic on unprimed canvas.
80cm x 80cm
september 2010
$90

the word became flesh

a piece of recycled board had some orange, red and cream paint applied, then layers upon layer of text written in mostly chalk pastels. this was built up for a while, focusing on composing the colour areas. then the white was added using liquid paper. all the text is the title repeated over and over.

the top image is the whole work. the lower two are close up sections.

this work was specifically created for the blactown art show, 2009.

collage, acrylic, chalk pastel, liquid paper, pva glue on chipboard.
103x90cm
august/september 2009
$300

orange gradients

the first in a (probably) ongoing series of abstract paintings featuring a linear grid of a red to yellow gradient. each has layers and layers of acrylic, aerosol, varnish, collage and anything else i came across, which were then overpainted with thin layers of creamish colours, then finished with the gradient. each are available to purchase - just e-mail me if you are interested.







paintings $100 each

A.J.E. Bootleg #81

The Cure's Seventeen Seconds





pencil on paper
24.2cm x 12.1cm

pencil on paper
24.2cm x 12.1cm

felt tip pen on cd-r
12cm diameter

pencil on paper
15.1cm x 12.1cm

all packaged in plastic jewel case
$70

A.J.E. Bootleg #43

Art Groupie Number 2 opens in two weeks' time and both David and I have work going in. I have submitted the first two of my A.J.E. Bootlegs. Here's the first, Neu!'s Neu! 75:





pencil on paper
48.4cm x 24.2cm

pencil on paper
48.4cm x 24.2cm

felt tip pen on cd-r
12cm diameter

pencil on paper
15.1cm x 12.1cm

all packaged in plastic jewel case
$70