PARADE! – Outré Gallery, Melbourne
PARADE!
Opening Reception
Friday, August 9th, 6pm-8pm
Outré Gallery
Melbourne, Victoria
Australia
Directions
Hey! I have some good news. I’m very proud to announce that I will be exhibiting a new series of works at Outré Gallery, Melbourne this August.
Titled PARADE! this show brings together an idea I have been working on for the last 8 months. So, if you happen to be in Melbourne, it would be great to see you there!
Read more about the inspiration behind the show in my interview.
Looking for more information on the works, have an enquiry or want a catalogue?
Contact the gallery at info@outrégallery.com or visit their website.
PICTURED ABOVE
The Beat of the Drum. 2024
Acrylic on wood panel
50x50cm
Midnight Vignette – 19Karen Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast
Midnight Vignette
Opening Reception
Saturday, October 14th, 5pm-7pm
19 Karen Contemporary Artspace
Gold Coast
Australia
Directions
I’m very proud to announce that I will be exhibiting new works alongside international and Australian artists as part of a series of mini-solo shows with 19 Karen Contemporary Artspace.
For more information on the works, enquiries or a catalogue, please contact the gallery at [email protected] or visit their website.
PICTURED ABOVE
The Party. 2023
Acrylic on canvas
103x103cm
Upcoming show – October 2023
Rendezvous. 2023
Acrylic on canvas
103x103cm
Coming up in October this year – Midnight Vignette.
A mini-exhibition of new paintings with 19Karen Gallery on the Gold Coast, Australia.
More details to come! For all enquiries please visit the gallery website.
Antipodes 2023 – Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Horse – 2023
Acrylic on wooden panel
40x40cm
This year I was very lucky to be invited along to join Beinart’s 4th annual exhibition of Australian contemporary artists, Antipodes.
The open show brings together artist working across a variety of traditional and non-traditional, sculpture and mixed media. It’s humbling to be alongside some incredible talent.
For more information, visit the Beinart Gallery website, or if you are in Brunswick, Melbourne, drop in and see the exhibition for yourself.
Antipodes opens 15 January 2023 and runs through to the 29th.
Hounds – 2023
Acrylic on wooden panel
40x40cm
Happy 2022!
Happy New Year! To everyone who supported me, helped me hold shows, has a piece of my work in their home, has commissioned me for illustration projects or followed me over the course of 2021. It was a big year, and I couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you very much! 
Wishing you a happy new year and all the best in 2022!
Though I’ve lapsed from the habit of sending New Years cards (年賀状 – Nengajou) to friends and family over the last couple of years – it used to be a yearly challenge to come up with a new design, usually following the 12 year calendar (干支 – Eto) – this year felt like a good time pick it up again and at least do the creative part. 2022 being the year of the tiger was a big motivation too.
新年明けましておめでとうございます。昨年はたくさんのサポートありがとうございました！今年もよろしくお願い致します。2022年最初のアートは干支の寅
です！
LOCALS – Outré Gallery Melbourne
Super chuffed to be invited along to join a whole bunch of awesome Australian artists for the LOCALS show, opening on Feb 14 at Outré Gallery in Collingwood.
Big shout out to the team there – it’s great to be a part of it, and an awkward self congratulatory slap on the back for me. It’s my first show for 2020.
Here is a little preview of my piece. Hope you can make it along – check out the lineup at their site here.
New Work – Morrigan
Morrigan
Synthetic polymer on canvas
100 x 70cm
2018
Here is a piece I was commissioned to paint last year for a family’s first born baby girl.
I could have cracked out the watercolours and done a weird baby portrait, but that would have a been a bit shit.
Instead, I tried my hand at a shaped canvas and imagined her as the ‘phantom queen’ Morrigan – the Goddess of war, destiny, fate and death from old Irish mythology. Yes, much better.
Hope she grows up to be just as awesome.
Sleeping Easy
Sleeping Easy
Acrylic on linen
100 x 70cm
2018
Some new things are in the works and I’m looking forward to sharing them with you soon.
So heads down for a bit. In the meantime, here’s the first painting.
MiniComic.club Project Updates
After about a month of late nights – I’ve finally got the comic off to the printers for this year’s MiniComic.club.
Hungry Workshop in Melbourne are handling the production, and I’m looking forward to how it shapes up.
Printing starts really soon and right after that will be in the hands of everyone that subscribed this year. It’s been fun, but damn hard work putting it together – I’ve learned a heap about everything that goes into producing them and have a new appreciation – hats off to all the writers, pencilers, inkers and colourists out there. Truly amazing art form.
MiniComic.club Project
Later on this year, in September, I’ll be releasing a comic with MiniComic Club – an annual project that’s been running since 2013, and last year, I got the call to submit for 2017’s edition. To give you a bit of a background on it, here are words from the website.
“…bringing you and your mailbox a years worth of minicomics and zines from some of Australia’s most interesting cartoonists and comics-makers…. 12 comics over 12 months, one each from these beautiful people…“
Beautiful people artists and a new comic book every month. Nice! And all it takes is a little subscription fee and they come to your door in miniature format – A6 size to be precise.
From year to year the line-up has consisted of well established and emerging comic artists, and occasionally artists from other fields – and that’s where I fit in this year. So once I have the show I have been planning for years finally done, I’ll be working on a comic – which is pretty neat.
And if you want to learn more you can go here, where I have a short interview about my experience with the comic medium, on medium.
https://medium.com/@smallercomics/
(There are also interviews with other comic artists from past and present MiniComic Club projects to check out.)
If you are even more interested, you could also visit the MiniComic.Club page and get yourself a subscription for $38 AU. Very nice!