PipeUp 2010

I came home the other night to find that the cat had eaten my homework (or my artwork, to be more precise).  Thankfully, I had already transferred the image to my deck, ready to paint up for PipeUp 2010 – the last ever Paperhorse Studios exhibition.  Come along and celebrate the end of an era with a fine collection of decks by a plethora of Australian and international artists.

Paper cat.

Paper tiger

Skateboard illustration

In progress

PipeUp: just another skateboard show

PipeUp: just another skateboard show

Drypoint & photographs

As part of my marvellous plan to get creative again this year, I’ve decided to learn a little printmaking under the watchful eye of Simone Tippett at Union Street Studios, Stepney. I had my first introduction to drypoint today and am excited to admit that I feel naturally drawn to it. I look forward to a new, fruitful relationship with the medium. I’ll edit in a few photos from today’s workshop later on (hopefully) but for now an image of the first print is up on my 365 days blog.

Skull & jellyfish prints


Jellyfish print

Skull & rose print

Union Street Studios

Art materials

Drypoint tools

Skull prints

Union Street Studios

Ink roller

Recent scribbles.

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Just some recent scribbles.  Unfortunately my scanner sucks so the tones don’t really show up.  There is quite a bit of pink in the Europa sketch, and I’m hoping to work more on the last image, fixing the hand and making the jellyfish explode into colour.

I’m really digging jellyfish at the moment.

ST5K / FORMAT festival

As part of the Adelaide Fringe 09, a group of inspirational DIY/ street artists have put together the FORMAT festival, which includes a whole bunch of DIY workshops, a zine hub, street art projects and much more.  Embedded in the Format festival is ST5K – literally, STreet 5000 (Adelaide’s postcode).  I’ll be exhibiting some free, DIY-style works on Friday 6th March at NotCoffee as part of a giant ST5K group exhibition.  It will be called ‘Yesterday, I thought of you’.

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