Comin up, Peach Long Selling Party

I have decided to finish off a bunch of paintings I started for the JERK exhibition last July and never finished in time. I want to see where they end up, to see if I hit the mark I expect to because I planned these to be tight, aesthetically-pleasing-when-hanging-on-a-wall paintings. It is a series of 9 on 30x30cm pine, painted in acrylic and lined with ink (which is proving to once again be a waste of time and money but still so crisp). After this series I'm deviating and experimenting with different methods of construction and heading hopefully towards a more free and painterly method, still hoping to achieve the same level of detail and intensity.

They're all basically parts of my body being lazy and mistreating themselves. This is an eye, mostly lined up but still unfinished. Also in the series is a tooth, a heart, lungs, liver & gall bladder, a hand, a stomach, a tongue and a penis (playing a gameboy, drinkin a longie from a brown paper bag, smokin a cigarette from under his mustache).

I am hoping to hold a selling party when these are done to raise funds for travel, as I should be heading to LA and beyond soon, and might also possibly be heading to Jamaica this year, (more on that later). So if anyone is interested in seeing and buying any once they're finished, please get in touch.

Relative #4 Launch

RELATIVE Magazine is a pretty fly little local mag that features local artists, music, food & drink, film, fashion, tattoo, everything. It's run by a bunch of wicked dudes and is top notch quality and totally free! I got asked to do the cover for #4 and provide a few pages worth of images and a tiny bit of text.. The cover image I just made a banner out of for this blog, so scroll up and check it out in more detail (minus the 'siren country' of course).

The mag features some work I haven't posted about on here yet (I don't think), like this collaboration with Pari Corbitt.. one talented son of a bitch who does amazing paintings and tattoos. Pari did a giant dead fish, and I did the junk coming out of it's mouth, and we put it forward for Windows On Williams when they had their window display thing.

The mag was launched down in Fremantle and I did some live art with Twenty Eleven (mine on the left, his on the right). It was an awesome night, I got free beer all night and tried to paint.

If you live in Perth, grab yourself a copy of the mag if they're still available! From the usual places like Luna, trendy hipster cloth stores and record shops etc. Or visit the Relative Magazine webpage or facebook page for more info.

Injured Ninja Vs Skylazer & GTMJ finished

I hate updating this blog, I always manage to screw with the formatting and it won't let me upload anything after spending a good hour or so finding images and writing about shit. So only small updates now.

Injured Ninja have been reeeeaaaal busy, playing gigs all over the place and have launched their debut album as well as a single from it, which I have previously posted about.. here is the new artwork, experimenting with layering with transparent materials (just ended up being annoying.. i won't be doing that again).

The album Vs. Skylazer pictured below, had a massive launch in sweltering heat at one of Perth's finest venues The Bakery, and I took the night off to go and got my mind blown by the sweet line up form start to finish. The launch and the album itself both received amazing reviews from multiple sources and the boys are touring this album in the United States right now, I think they've just finished at SXSW (South by South-West), which is a HUGE festival in Texas. After the states they're coming back home via the East Coast of Australia.

I don't think this last one will help, but it's meant to be bigger that the others to display some of the work that went into it.. detail and shit. screw this blog.

Coming up soon: more posts! I have exciting news.

Beat Up Decks

I got my hands on a phone that can take decent enough photos every now and then and that's a bit of an improvement from what I was using before, so I thought I'd upload the series of portraits I did on second hand decks of myself and some other dudes I know with facial injuries. These were for a show in July this year.. I did them really quickly, I think I want to add more to the blank parts of the decks still, just an emblem/symbol/item at the bottom of each deck about where the trucks would be.

From left to right with name and what happened is Casey with a cigarette burn to his lower lip, myself after i got my good friend Eddie to punch me in the eye for this project (thank you Ed, you did good), Marijn after a skating incident and Mikey after being hit in the face with a wet pool noodle during a fight. These are sort of shitty portraits, they don't look anything like the people do in real life. Realism ain't my forte.

In other news I've been working hard at the bar I work at, the Hula Bula Bar, which has been getting some recent write-ups in papers/mags etc and our menu is shifting to incorporate some fucking awesome cocktails, like the 1934 Donn the Beachcomber Zombie. I've also been listening to the latest cut of Injured Ninja's up-coming album, "vs. skylazer" which is epic, and the artwork for that is turning out to be alright so far.. sort of Hokusai on steroids.

Also I got this today trying to buy a lamp and got distracted. It was cheap, I'll buy a real one eventually.

Tiki carving, dismemberment, DIY... I feel like i can do anything now.

PS.so many opportunities for linkage, but it's late, and I cannae be arsed.

GOLDEN TOP MOUNTAIN JOURNEY

Injured Ninja are releasing a 7" single of one of the tracks from their upcoming album (which is fucking dope by the way, coming out next year, and is going to make you wet yourself in awe). The track is 'Golden Top Mountain Journey', a bizarre dubby mix of sound.. comforting and disturbing at the same time. I banged out a quick CD cover to accompany it to music magazines and radio stations to amp up hype about it's release, and it is a preview of sorts for the actual 7" Single cover which will be available for your purchase in the coming months.

It's also experimentation for the album artwork for when that is released, which will be epic, and bloody, and dirty.

KARAOKE SATAN MUSEUM-Part One

I have been busy lately, working weekends and trying to get art done on the few days between. At the moment I'm deep in the middle of an installation project about youth's relationship with satan/religion and it's re-appropriation in pop-culture and blah blah blah.. Over the course of a week 8 artists are coming together in the Mixtape Gallery space on William St, Northbridge, to create a Karaoke Satan Museum.. it's part installation, part exhibition, part skill-sharing workshop with a mentor artist flown over from Indonesia, Ican, who has a blog here.

It's been a few days of painting on the walls, listening to really loud metal/rock, and having people come in and out dropping off art and adding to the window displays. Pictures when I get them, I still don't have a camera or been bothered to borrow one for the decks I want to post here.

Friday at 3pm and saturday at 2pm things are happening at the KARAOKE SATAN MUSEUM that are worth dropping past for.

Art blog with no fucking art on it. FAIL.

Developments

The show at The Moon was well received, although I did not finish most of the work. In order to complete the series of 4 tiny boards (see previous post) I expanded it to 7, including the larger "test-piece" and got them to about 80% finished... then sold one, which means the series is short 1 part.. I'll finish the rest and screw the last one.

The organ series, which was going to be a big part of it, got painted up but I opted to finish the skate decks instead and leave the organs without lines etc.. so I still have those to finish for some upcoming shows with Last Chance Studios (moved in to this collaborative studio space last week), and have the finished decks here with me. I am pretty happy with the decks.

The other artists did very well indeed, and I was pretty stoked to be involved in a show with them. They are extremely talented bastards. Jenness Ray & THNK, I thank you.

I am temporarily incapable of taking even crappy phone photos to upload, so please be patient until I find a way to get images up. In the meantime, keep up to date with Last Chance & The Community for exciting art news.

That last part sounded really naff.

PS. too arsed to link to things.