My Art: Young Guns @ The Oats Factory gallery

Well I dribble on about music in my blog here but I do make some art too. This is a bit late really because the opening night was the other week but the exhibition is still on till March 20th so you can go and check it out, if you want too. The Oats Factory is a new art gallery in Perth and it's address is 69 Oat Street in Carlisle. I drew these drawings with a ink fineline pen or to be exact or product placement a Artline 200 fine 0.4 pen. They are on old paper which I found in my garage which I liked the fact that it goes older and older looking as I worked on the drawings and after I finished them they are still growing older. It's got the City of Stirling logo on the back. Each drawing is on two pieces of paper joining together just like bones do, I was going to use more than two but at the time I thought that was going too far but now I would just do it and not care. This found paper is a bit problematic because the art gallery hasn't been able to sell them yet because they are not archival which means it will not last forever - it will most likely last your and my life time and maybe your kids but at some stage the paper with fall apart just like say bones. Anyway I get them back if they don't sell which is good because they are the best drawings I've ever done, so far. I can look at them a bit longer to figure out how to top them. Plus these are mammal skulls NOT dinosaur skulls like a local newspaper wrote.

I wanted to thank Melody Smith at the Oats Factory for wanting my art in her art gallery, she's done some great photos of my drawings below and I wanted to say it's just really great to have an art gallery want my art, it's hard to get anyone to look at it sometimes so thank you again.

Tasmanian Devil

Koala

Kangaroo

Dolphin

Elephant

Stay tuned for more soon...

Photos: Gareth Liddiard & Dan Kelly in Aussie Rolling Stone Magazine

Well, I'm surprised by finding these two, Gareth Liddiard & Dan Kelly in the Aussie version of Rolling Stone magazine. I wish it was a couple pages longer, it's only a one and half page interview, it's cool, just short and two photos but the photos are great. I found the out-takes at the photographers own website plus a little writing about how and where they did the photos. I hope he doesn't mind me re-posting them here because they're great snaps, to go with my ever growing Gaz file here. Dan Boud is the name of the photographer and make sure you check out his website, it's wicked. One little thing I'd like to mention, Gaz which I don't know if you can tell by these photos but if you look at the magazine you see he's is wearing a "Operation Desert Storm, Made in the U.S.A., Tested in Iraq" T-shirt, he-ha.




On the cover is Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu who is quote "Australia's most important voice" which could be very true. I'm surprised too by him making it on the cover because most of the covers are things like Short Stack and other stuff, I wouldn't even consider them even music. I even don't think of Rolling Stone magazine as a music magazine really it's like a little better than gossip and tabloid magazines. The other features are recycled from the yank magazine which is always disappointing so I'm not going buy it again. This one would be the first since Nick Cave made it on the cover a few years ago.


Extra, Extra: Gareth Liddiard's first band Gutterville Splendour Six is reissuing their complete recording on double vinyl from the wicked Spanish label Bang Records. This band is like a some kind-off Perth supergroup or that is what they would be called now if they formed but this is before they did any other bands or any music at all. As well as Gaz it has Rui Pereira, The Drones original lead guitar, plus a few members of what would become The Kill Devil Hills and local legend Maurice Flavel who's just opened his own record store called Noise Pollution in Northbridge which I have to check out and would have to be the place to buy my copy of this.


P.S. I'm yet to finish off my really big post I said I was doing in the last post so maybe next time again, just this quick one in the meantime.