Commission work is always a great thing.  You take your existing skills and interests in certain styles and you apply them to someone else's request.   I was asked to use a thickly applied, expressionist painting style with drips and blobs.  An impression of the dogs was more important than a realistic representation. 

Here's a couple of mates hanging out on their stumps.  They're probably wondering what their old tree hangout is being manufactured into at the local furniture factory.  

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I'm exhibiting with Sarah-Jane Cook in August as part of the 7 Rooms event.  Here's an example of some of her ceramics which I am totally loving right now.  I met Sarah-Jane last year when I worked for her company Active Arts teaching art to youngsters.  Coincidentally we had both booked tickets to fly to Greece in May that year.  We eventually caught up afterwards and discussed the excellent ceramic work in Greece and how influential the trip was.  I'm loving these little pieces that Sarah-Jane is making at the moment.   Take a look at her website here : http://roustaboutart.wordpress.com/

Come and support the great exhibition spaces along St. Vincent Street and take the opportunity to get your hands on artworks by some amazing local artists that will absolutely enthrall you with their diversity.

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Various rooms along St. Vincent Street will host Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Drawing and Photography. Visit Forge Creative Warehouse,Red Lime Shack, Poppy and the Wallflowers Mayfair Bakery Honeybee Cycles and more!
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Artists include : Ned Bajic, Buttergirl, Sarah-Jane Cook, Branwen Davies, Steve Glass, Sue McKenzie, Steve O’Connor, Christian Oliver, Ben Shanahan and Lucy Thurley, Ben Hobbs, Peter Thompson, Mandy Glynn-Jones, Dani Mclean, Bev Puckeridge, Emily Kelly, Richard Kozuszko, Georgina Chadderton, Reb Rowe and more!

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Opening: Friday August 1st 6-9pm 


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Live music, refreshments and nibbles, great art, great fun, come and support local artists and buy a memorable piece of art that you can cherish forever.

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Here's the room list :

ROOM 1 - BLOOMING ART 

Poppy & the Wallflowers, 168 St Vincent Street, Port Adelaide

Blooming Art brings beautiful faces, flora and scenery from Mother Nature on to your walls. It is 

possible to have the feeling of Spring 12 months of the year.

Artist: Emily Kelly, Richard Kozuszko, Sue McKenzie, Bev Puckeridge, 

Opening Night: Friday 1 August July 6-9pm (Purchase your own bottomless glass $3)

Opening Times: Tuesday 11am – 4 pm Wednesday – Friday 11am – 5pm Saturday 9am – 2pm

ROOM 2 - SPOKE’D

Honeybee Cycles, 166 St Vincent Street, Port Adelaide

Artists: Georgina Chadderton is an Adelaide-Based 23 year-old part-time comic-artist and freelance 
illustrator. She likes cups of tea, Star Trek and hyphenating words.

Reb Rowe is a part-time Urban Planner who uses her other time as an Illustrator, Thingsmith and 
Project-chaser. She is inspired by cities and the communities within them and works towards creating 
intriguing experiences in Adelaide.

Opening Night: Friday 1 August July 6-9pm (Purchase your own bottomless glass $3)

Opening Times: Tuesday - Friday 10 - 6pm Saturday and Sunday 10 - 4pm 

ROOM 3 - DEVELOP 

The Forge, Upstairs 168 St Vincent Street, Port Adelaide

Forging ahead and developing their work are a group of artists intent on making art from the heart of 

the developing Port. This exhibition at newly created Forge Gallery will include work from developed 

negatives, developing concepts and the developing and changing nature of the environment in which we 

live and work. Includes ceramics, sculpture, furniture, installation, photography, drawing and painting. 

Artists: Ned Bajic, Buttergirl, Sarah-Jane Cook, Branwen Davies, Steve Glass, Mandi Glynn-Jones, Ben 
Hobbs, Sue McKenzie, Steve O’Connor, Christian Oliver, Ben Shanahan, Lucy Thurley, and Peter Thomson 

Opening Night: Friday 1 August July 6-9pm (Purchase your own bottomless glass $3)

Opening times: Friday, Saturday and Sunday from August 1-24: Thu - Fri: 2:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Sat - 

Sun: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Please note that unfortunately there is no wheelchair access to this space.

ROOM 4 the little room

ROOM 5 THE BIG ROOM 

Red Lime Shack, 158 St Vincent Street, Port Adelaide

A selection of work from 3 artists who have manipulated space creatively with design and form.

Artists Ned Bajic, Mandi Glynn-Jones and Sue McKenzie

Opening Night: Friday 1 August July 6-9pm (Purchase your own bottomless glass $3)

Opening Times: Monday - Friday 8am - 3pm, Saturday and Sundays 10am – 4pm

ROOM 6 - STEVE SQUARED

Mayfair Bakery, 156 St Vincent Street Port Adelaide

Steve Glass and Steve O'Connor combine to present two contrasting views of environment and 

existence. Oil, acrylic and enamel on board and canvas adorn the walls of the prestigious Mayfair 

Bakery. Buy a pasty, buy a painting, either way you will go home with a treat.

Opening Night: Friday 1 August July 6-9pm (Purchase your own bottomless glass $3)

Opening Times: Monday – Friday 7.30am – 4.30pm Saturday 9am - 3.30pm Sunday Closed

ROOM 7 - WIRED

Artists: Danica Gacesa McLean & Steve Hayter

An exhibition of wire based works, some a little twisted, some a little straight!

154 St Vincent St, Port Adelaide Map Ref: 9

Fri 1 August 6pm-9pm, Sat-Sun 10am-4pm

Opening Night: Friday 1 August July 6-9pm –( purchase your own bottomless glass for $3)

Open times: Opening Friday 1 Aug 6pm-9pm, Saturdays & Sundays during August 10am-4pm.

https://www.facebook.com/events/628426960580568/

I've been running into Port Adelaide artist Ned Bajic a bit lately.  I really wanted to introduce you to his work if you haven't already seen it.  It's playful, often three dimensional and in the case of the artwork below takes some influence from one of my favourite artists Van Gogh.  We're teaming up with a group of artists for a SALA exhibition at Forge Warehouse called "Develop".  It's part of the 7 Rooms St. Vincent Street Exhibitions starting August 1st.

http://remakeremodel.blog.com/2014/04/30/two-new-pieces/

I'm teaming up with artist Steve Glass AKA "SG1" for an exhibition of work at Port Adelaide's Mayfair Bakery on St. Vincent Street for SALA.  SG1's work is much like an isometric puzzle that protrudes from the canvas. Very geometric and mechanical.  I'll be contrasting his work with organic and loose artworks such as the one below.  Looking forward to this.   The exhibition will run through August and the opening night will be part of the "7 Rooms" SALA event beginning at 6:00pm August 1st.   The facebook event has more details "  https://www.facebook.com/events/628426960580568/ 

I was researching spirit masks from African, Israeli, Apache, and Japanese cultures a while back.  It's quite fascinating how humans have used masks in ritual dance, theater, spiritual ceremonies and in war.  I've fashioned my masks out of raku clay and designed them as sleeping spirits that are ever present and protective.  The aim was to have them as wall hangings in the house or garden.

I had a chat with this fellow once about trees.  How old is the oldest tree on earth?  Where do Australia's trees fit into that timeline?  It's amazing to think that when settlers arrived in Tasmania they were cutting down some of the oldest trees in the world.  Google oldest tree in the world if you are keen, we found in quite interesting.  California has some rather old trees and some of the tallest in the world.    So  I painted a giant tree in a somewhat open landscape. Perhaps that tree was surrounded by hundreds of trees at one point in time, but not any more.

I recently took on a film job that included props such as gaffa tape, boiling water, chains, hammers, saws and gnomes.  Sound interesting?   I can't give much more away because at this point in time my hands are tied by producers and such.  However I did sneak this little screen grab out of the editing room today so you can all get a taste of what is soon to be released.  Visit again soon for the full video release.

Here's a video I put together for The Hushes. As an overlay I flashed an LED light in front of the camera. Yet again I've used the studio space at Forge Creative Warehouse in Port Adelaide. We had about half an hour of time up our sleeves to run off a couple of lip syncs so the base footage was pretty simple but to create a little playfulness the dancing lights were added. Given more time I would have made the lights sync up better to vignette the focal point of each shot but the random positioning does overlay quite well most of the time. Check it out :

I found a photo of this piece I painted a number of years back at Psychetronica.  Not too long ago this canvas was stretched over a table top and varnished.  It looked pretty cool.  Here's a video of the sort of environment I was painting in at Psychetronica.

Here's a photo of my son Oscar when we were in the mixing studio at Mixmasters. I think he was overwhelmed by the gadgetry and was hoping to shift a few sliders and turn some dials.  Looks like that's Andy Roberts in the background.  After buying my first DSLR camera, Andy Roberts was the first musician I made a clip for.  Prior to that I was mostly experimenting with stop motion using a Nikon D40.  The clip "Layers" was a bit of stop motion and some regular video but as an experiment I projected it onto the wall of my lounge room and re-filmed it to see what resulted.  

This is a detail photograph of a fan I made for the Uchiwa Fan exhibition and fundraiser at Espionage Gallery.