Give No Shit, Take No Shit I offer this pearl of advice without reservation, and suggest any lovers of Love use it with abandon! Empathy is “key”, while giving no more than is appreciated to our partner. For us to volunteer any more than what’s appreciated (or required) is a simple waste, and fuel for Read more about Give No Shit, Take No Shit[…]
Artful dEvolution vs. Extinction in the age of A.I. I want to talk about survival of the fittest and having the wits to embrace an uncomfortable paradox in our dystopian age. Having always been an outlier in my approach to things, these days it means moving forward by going backwards. Such logic is counterintuitive (and Read more about Artful dEvolution vs. Extinction in the age of A.I.[…]
As Below, So above (Ut Infra, Sic Supra) Professor Michelle Simmons’ ground-breaking efforts in quantum computing compelled me to honour her extraordinary rise as a global leader in her field. Michelle looks at us. We see her face, but quickly focus on her intriguing fingers which represent the ‘superposition’ of a qubit (quantum bit) that Read more about As Below, So above (Ut Infra, Sic Supra). Archibald Finalist 2023[…]
Matt Kean, NSW Minister for Environment and Energy “Portrait of Matt Kean Oil on Canvas 122 cm x 122 My controversial subject is responsible for an immensely challenging portfolio that must balance environmental protection, while ensuring our energy-hungry industries are supplied with sustainable base-load power. With youthful zeal and eyes on the future, Matt is Read more about Matt Kean, NSW Minister for Environment and Energy. Archibald Finalist 2020[…]
This is the excerpt from the new blog post
Modes of contemporary drawing cover realism, abstraction, modernism and post-modernism. The state of
drawing today is not governed by specific themes, but rather the idea that the choices that artists contend
with over surface, mark-making, space, composition, scale, materials, and intentionality, are essential to
the delivery of the visual quality and meaning of the drawing, or are themselves the image and meaning.2
From the intensely gestural, to the cool intellectual contrivances that entrust the making of marks to the
wind and tide, it seems like anything goes in drawing today.