Collage and digital

My new picture - collage/digital for 2008 A.C.A Printmaking studio folio..

and infinite credit due here here and here for inspiration..

Grad Show Opening

Some snaps from our grad show.. (Stole most of them cause I forgot my camera on the night)

My stuff up on the wall.

Crew. We finally made it this far.

Adam Murakami's fantastic photo installation. Check out more of his photography here and his crazy digital/ projection work here.

Steve Cox takes beautiful photos


James Boulton is Adelaide's new prince of drawing.


My work - etching, screen print & mixed-media on canvas.

Elan Vital

Just come, you know you want to...

Sydney October

Here's some photos from Sydney during the long weekend and then my work experience at M.C.G.

Claire and some weird prehistorical marsupial at the museum

I took a photo of this one because it was huge and I thought my dad might like it (he loves the Napoleonic stuff)

Yinko Shonibare's work at the M.C.A. was awesome - I got told off after taking this photo so this is the only one I have

Monster Children Gallery, Darlinghurst

The guy that runs the place, Joe, was a pretty damn good boss to have for the week. He's professional when it's needed, but the nicest guy at the same time. Check out his mad publishing and go buy something.

Pommier from Canada, framing the drawings he brought with him. Its always fun documenting exhibitions from the total mess that you start with.

I probably spent a decent 6 hours assembling and framing Seth Scriber's work.

His collage looked great when it was framed.

Scott Pommier's photos.

Joe moves fast with a drill- On a good day, I reckon he could hang about 12 pictures in half an hour.


Niall McClelland's work was probably my favourite in the show.. very inspiring stuff.



Pommier and his awesome drawings and paintings. His new oil paintings are looking tight.


Beers and peeps at the opening night - wasn't as packed and sweaty as I had anticipated, but made lots of friends when I was pouring drinks out in the courtyard.

Burritos and beers - a good post exhibition snack. (Pommier also taught me that when you visit other places as an artist, you can keep all your reciepts for the food you buy, and claim it as a business expense when you do your tax)

Pommier and I spent the last day we were both in Sydney being tourists walking around the aquarium and taking photos of the sharks.

Mad Love

Etching, screen print, paint and shellac on stretched canvas. Just a test that I whipped up over a couple of days, more stuff like this coming (but with better compositions, on better canvas, etc.)

PS: mega blog from my times in Sydney coming soon ;)

Pandemic pictures

Hey guys - a bit late but here's some photos from Pandemic, our exhibition. It was on a Friday night, meaning most of our school buddies, family and friends had no excuse not to show up. It was totally a smash though, nice and packed, everyone enjoying the good times and the beers from the bars. Tapedeck is a rad little place for having exhibitions- run by very chilled people who dont take any commision. Defiantly have to have more exhibitions with these dudes. We're probably going to have more shows, maybe in a bigger venue next time though!

PS: All works are monoprint and screenprint on canvas, and are roughly 20X25cm and 22X30cm, edition of 5, $100 each, and there's still a few left, so send me an email if your interested! ;)

The awesome work of James Boulton and Adam Murikami

Big Brother is watching

My work

Angry Cracker Monkey

Young Chimp

The Return of the Wolf King

ps: James wants me and him to enter work in the Dirty Show. At least we can say then we've exhibited in the U.S.

New exhibition!

Okay and Im definatly going to start taking some decent photos/ scans of my work because Ive done ALOT more printmaking since previous posts.

In the mean time, I was trying to life draw on the weekend.. just playing around I guess...(Crappy phone photo)


Peace

upcoming exhibition

Need I say more ? Come by to check out our art, eat some chocolate and drink some wine..we've all been working pretty darn hard on this ( and spending all our money on it!)

Although planning exhibitions are pretty stressful, (I should know, Ive got 3 coming up before the end of the year) we've been pretty lucky to have the past few weeks free from assessment work, which is a huge weight off the shoulders. Also, we've been very fortunate to get discounted fliers printed as well as a free place to exhibit, wine and chocolate!

My work in this exhibition is going to be all printmaking, and I made sure to push myself by combining several printing techniques in a lot of the work (For example, the biggest series in the work involves lithography, Image-on etching, collagraph, and screen-printing)

I'm not getting my hopes up about selling anything at the moment, its better for us students and upcoming artists to just view it all as (expensive and time consuming) work experience.

Now excuse me, I''m off to spend all my money on Ikea frames and custom made mattes! See you all on the 29th!

Cheers, Josh

PS: my new hero is Jacob Arden McClure, mainly in regard to his paintings, because of his use borrowed imagery, the combination of drawing and painty/drippy stuff, the text.. all rolled int0 really effective compositions..one day I will rise to his level artistically I swear!

Art Update

So lots of stuff has been going on lately, due to spending all my time doing school/art stuff.

One of the coolest things thats happened lately is getting some work up in UCS, thanks to the ever-so-generous Luku. In one of my final year subjects we have to do some "work experience" - which can mean pretty much anything (some people have go as far as teaching primary school kids, whereas James just opted for looking over some weirdo comic book guy's shoulder whilst he works)

So anyway, Rueben and I got the the chance to put somethings up in Luku's exhibition. It was a good feeling to have something I made in nice frames, and I felt pretty important walking around the place with my hammer and spirit level. I dont know why, but theres a certain amount of power you get from hammering things into someone else's wall. Heres some (bad phone camera) photos after putting things up:

My work hanging up:



Ruebens work hanging up:



Luku, the art machine's, work ready to be hung (mounted digital prints, and paintings):



Some more of his work hanging up:



The opening night was pretty darn good too (sorry no photos, I was busy running around talking to everyone) due to beers, lots of people, crazy Bollywood music, not too mention hypnotic projector picture power. It was pretty much the first time that anyones seen my art outside my family and peers, which is a really, really, weird feeling.

Now I just need to spend some time doing my work for this semester, which I admit I've neglected a fair bit. Since I've visiting James in the final year drawing studio, I've become ultra jealous of his situation:
1. They have a wall of windows, which brings awesome natural light, not too mention a nice view
2. Theres only like two of them in there- dont get me wrong, I like having people around me, but it can get distracting, and annoying, especially when intense concentration is required.
3. Drawing people - they can just draw whatever they want - If something looks crap, they can just paint over it, or erase it.

The final point made me decide to start experimenting with mixed media stuff over the top of printmaking, which brought a variety of results, but it was rad to loosen up a bit. I've decided as a printmaking major, Im only there to utilise the equipment and materials I want, because do enjoy making collagraphs, etchings, lithographs and screenprints. But at the same time I have no interest what so ever in the nerdier, boring aspects of printmaking, such as making editions, perfect registration, chin colle, book binding, etc..

Mixed media experiement/ Collab with James (they look better in life cause the crazy ass texture):




I've also started, believe it or not, thinking a bit, just a bit, about what I'm going to do next year. But I'll talk about that later. For now heres a picture of a wolf, and make sure to check back for updates to write down!


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