EILEEN’S RECEPTION

I was working as a Temp for a couple of months at the not too far away Department of Education, where I met some really lovely people. Eileen was my boss, and though she ran the reception area more efficiently than bleach, she was really lovely- especially with her Irish accent…My God! Just heavenly!

TEN SWORDS

 

 

 

Mixed media- acrylic paint, chain, embellishments. October, 2007

The Ten Of Swords card in the Tarot, represents great mental alacrity,

and among other inferences, mental anguish and mental illness. This particular

abstract represents when the brain sequences disrupt, cause fits and spits, anguish and

frustration. A dear friend of mine was the inspiration of this piece,

due to the friend having to overcome the effects of  accidental electrocution.

The beautiful colours represent the beautiful person within.

 

 

FLORA AND FAUNA.

 

 

 

 

Mixed Media. paper, plaster, paint, glass on canvas. October 2007

This work  is one of quite a few works made one after another due to a creative release.

(I get those)…

 

 

BOUNTY. 2007

 

 

Bounty. Ink on paper. 2007

Another play with positive and negative spacing.

Doodling or Trance Art, is a great way to come up with interesting images of the heart and mind.

At the time I was reading about the Philadelphia Experiment, so some pretty weird

stuff subconsciously, came out in the drawing.

 

 

 

RELATIO INTERRUPTUS . 2007

 

Relatio Interruptus. Ink on acid free card. 11 June 2007.

 

This drawing is about how some men can sometimes congregate egoistically at barbecues,

while they piss up, and leave the women out. A mixture of bravado, arrogance, and macho attitude seems to occur.
I have found this is more in the older age bracket of the 60’s plus group, but I could well believe that where there is a barbecue, and  a group of men drinking their booze, the possibility may just occur there too.  Is this purely an Australian cultural habit?

 

 

HOSPITAL SERIES. 2007

 

 

 

 

 

Hospital Series, 2007. Ink and Watercolour.

In early 2007, I was trying to hand rear a little 4 week old kitten . As I was feeding it, it was so hungry it accidentally took my thumb for the teat on the bottle, then a need for surgery to remove fragmented bones and clean up the site… and so started a long cycle of 14 days of one hour intravenous antibiotic to kill a serious staph infection that took over my body. The first two works were done while undergoing the drip, and the last one after it was done.

 

 

 

DEAD CATS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD ON A SUMMER’S DAY. 2007

 

 

 

 

Dead Cats In The Middle Of The Road On A Summer’s Day. Circa 2007

 

I had a cat called Tab. Not what you’d call an imaginative name, but he was the brother of my other cat named Blackie. When Blackie had her kittens, she would sometimes leave them alone

while she went outside. Tab would come in via the window, set himself to business,

and clean the baby kittens so that they could empty their bladders.

Tab was a one of a kind brother. One day, I found Tab in pieces over my driveway. I was devastated, and I called a friend to clean up the devastation. I was having troubles at the time with a local cat killer.

God rest Tab’s dear soul.

 

 

 

BLUE LADY

 

 

 

pastel on canvas. 2007

Conceptual work with symbolism depicting loneliness, confinement, sadness, and hope.

Abstracted,  due to the nature of this conceptual work.

 

 

WALLPAPER IN MY COMPUTER ROOM

 

 

 

Print on Acid-Free Paper. Circa 2007

This wallpaper was made some years after uni days, from photographs of me

doing Performance Work for a show in my uni days.

I was singing and performing to ‘Send In The Clowns’ of which the concept was the challenging of age vs. brains.

 

 

 

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