... from the archive

A collection of images digitally enhanced from quite some time ago that I still love :^)

a gentler approach

It's funny seeing all the drawings on the wall together for the first time. This lot lack an edginess that has been evident in earlier work - heck, there's no axes, or guns, or decapitations, or burnings, or volcanic heads, or missiles, or nudity. They're all... well, kinda 'nice'. Maybe the gorgeous (but devious) cream Stonehenge paper I used, subliminally directed the whole thing!


a little example from the last exhibition at Chapman & Bailey
...ok, it was one of the sillier works!

flying backwards | oohhh aahhh wwohhh oooooh

Such an old image, but oh so appropriate at the moment! (It's actually made me feel heaps better just finding it!!)

flying backwards | origami sparrows

Birds on their back. Birds in conversation.

flying backwards | yowie birds 2

Just to prove that... well... (clearing throat) yes... my little obsession with Yowie birds extended beyond the work below! The first drawing is from an exhibition several years ago, and the island (part of the 'movement for expanding east' series) is from my last exhibition. Still really like both of these.

flying backwards | yowie birds

Once upon a time in a land far away, some little brown plasticine birds gathered to hold in their mouths, little watercolours of Yowie birds. As they do! (The maker had become quite obsessed with the little plastic toys, and started eating quite a lot of cadbury chocolate to reveal the treasure within, because all she really wanted... was the birds. Not any of the other animals or trinkets. Just the birds.) Then, the little brown birds found themselves transformed into a pint size painting a bit further down the track, but this time they held little paintings of guns in their mouths, or were they hairdryers... one could never be quite sure.