Egg head

Another painting for Hot X Buns which is on this weekend Friday 11th April, 6pm - late, Saturday 12th April, 11am - 4pm, Sunday 13th April, 11am - 4pm. On Sunday there will be hot cross buns, from Bread & Butter Bakery and Cafe, Kokako Organic Coffee and hot chocolate in the studio. From 1pm the Quick Draw sketch gang will be in the studio, come along and commission an on-the-spot portrait for only $10 (realistic or monster version).

You egg

These are a couple of works for an Easter exhibition, 'Hot X Buns' which will take place above St Kevin's Arcade in Auckland. The exhibition will up from the 11th-14th of April. More info to come!

Sorry we are out of space, filled up with plants

These are some of the paintings I'll be showing at the 'Sorry we are out of space' exhibition which is part of the Hamilton Fringe Festival. I've been getting pretty into painting plants recently, I'm interested in their physical forms, how you choose a pattern to follow, each one has it's own set of rules and I've also been thinking a lot about what is it that they contribute to a room, why is it appealing to keep plants indoors and where does the balance lie between it being pleasant to have some greenery around and it seeming like the wilderness is invading your house.

I've also been really enjoying using limited palettes (again), working more like a printmaker layering flat colour than a painter mixing colours to create tones, and using different papers, gouache is so opaque it can handle dark papers nooooo trouble.

Fringe benefits

Hamiltonians! I have some paintings in this exhibition which is taking over the foyer of the Meteor for the Fringe Festival. Unfortunately I can't make it down there for the opening because it's on my birthday...but y'all should go!  

Alphabet

Well I forgot to mention the opening of Alphabet, but it is now up and you an see it until the 13th of July. You can buy an individual letter of a limited edition boxed set of cards, if you so fancy.

Melbourne exhibition!!

My first international exhibition is at Wooly Bully, which is the best shop in Australia, a comics shop/record store/cafe which also sells hot sauce!! Everybody wins!! I'll be selling some screen prints, tote bags and other art bits, come by if you're in Melbourne!

Exquisite Exhibition

Here's the full exquisite corpse for the Seed gallery exhibition which is on from the 4th-21st of July, preview on the 3rd 5.30 - 7.30. Tabatha Forbes did the top and I did the bottom.

Exquisite corpse

Some details from my recent painting for Seed gallery's Exquisite Corpse show. So good to do some painting again! The idea for the show comes from the collaborative drawing game, exquisite corpse. The exhibition opens on the 3rd of July, more about the exhibition here 

Evidence painting

Well this is the only image of it which I have at the moment which makes it look kinda crappy but this is my painting which is for sale in the Audio Foundation's christmas show. I'll put up a better one as soon as I get one. The AF exhibition, Aura Emporium opens today at 5pm and there will be FREE organic sausages and feijoa wine so you should all come down even thought it's raining a bit, so what! Also there will be DJs and Karaoke Dick from 8pm.

Also for sale is all the copies I've made so far of my 'Evidence' zine, which is a companion piece to this painting. They're a steal at $5 a pop.

Radio As Paper launch!

Get yourself to Berlin on the 28th of May! The comics anthology Radio As Paper (edited my the talented Jerome Bihan) is being released to the world. I did the cover:

More info on the RAP blog

Watercolour high fives

These two are in High Fives, the last show at the High Fives, I did them the night before and morning of the day of installation so they're a bit rushed. I've got to credit my friend Paolo for telling me about Gef the talking mongoose, planning on doing another more elaborate one of him soon. Check out Paolo's amazing stuff here, hold onto your eyeballs! 

More about Gef including some wonderful quotes can be found here and more about the fantastic Big Grey Man here and at various other internet locations.

More photos from Ghoul Friends

'Ghoul Friends'

Gouache on paper

Left to right: 'Old Man', 'Dame Savage', 'Old Woman' 

All oil on board

'Wild Emily'

Screenprint

Edition of 30

'Stumped'

Gouache on paper

'Industrious Ghosts'

Gouache on paper

'Foxtails'

Gouache on paper

'Bone Structure'

Watercolour on paper

'Retirement'

Watercolour on paper

   

'Kitsune'

Watercolour on paper

'Realm of the Pharaoh'

Watercolour on paper

Left to right: 'Pink Pyramid', 'Tailed', Fox Head', Blue Stump'  

Acrylic on Clay

'Little Red'

Gouache on paper

'Volpette'

Watercolour on paper

'Mermur'

Watercolour on paper

'Blue Somni'

Gocco print

Edition of 25

'Nymphe'

Watercolour on paper

Left to Right: 'Pink Stump', 'Blue Pyramid'

Acrylic on Clay

'Giantess'

Screenprint

Edition of 30

'Red Cap'

Gouache on paper

'Sleeping Ghost'

Gouache on paper

 Left to right: 'Yellow Pyramid, 'Blues'

Acrylic on Clay

'Jung mit Fuchs'

Gouache and watercolour on paper

'Harbinger Hound'

Ink on paper

Rocks, sticks and pyramids

These are some shots of my Ghoul Friends exhibition, more detailed photos coming soooon