Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Dreams & Divinities Exhibition MEXICO

I am excited to announce I am one of 50 amazing artists to exhibit work in this exhibition, Mexico 2014.

On the Spring equinox ( March 21st) of 2014, Liba W Stambollion and Gabriela Garza Padilla will launch a month-long exhibit of fifty artists starting with a week of events. An eclectic range of International art from around the globe ranging from the Visionary Martina Hoffman to the Fantastic Zeljko Djurovic to the Surrealist Patrick McGrath Muñiz to the Indigenous Luis Eleazar Tamani Amasifuen (for Onayanti) will form one coherent exhibit of Spirit and Reflection.

Films, music, live painting, poetry and a blessing for Peace, for balance and for Love will take place from Friday the 21^st to Wednesday the 26^th of March. The exact schedule will be out in late December but count on Alex Sastoque for live painting, Carrie Ann Baade for a presentation, “Tree Spirit” a film by Bérangère Maïa Parizeau with Naom Chomski, Vincent Gallet with his documentarry “Following Dreams & Divinities” , Michel Roudnitska for a multi sensorial event and Axel Lecourt for World Music.

Visit this link for more details

http://dreamsanddivinities.com/2013/10/spring-equinox-mexico-2014/

WATCH THIS SPACE

COMING SOON!!! The Visionary Art Network Australia- VANA

Click this link and bookmark it www.visionaryart.net.au.

Among many things, Vana aims to collectively assist in promoting the visionary art genres in
Australia and the Australian artists to the world by providing a site where
some of this extraordinary Australian (largely hidden) talent can be found.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

New Work: Xtinction Exhibition

I am currently in a group exhibition exploring the concept of extinction… to people, places, things, flora & fauna. Xtinction aims to broadly highlight the many Australian species that are presently endangered. The exhibition is a part of the Sustainable Living Festival and proudly supported by Healesville Sanctuary. All works are exhibited at Three Stories Art Space Healesville, The Artists Lounge, Healesville and Yarra Valley Gallery, Healesville.

My work can be viewed at The Artists Lounge.

'Living Web of Nature' Ink and Acrylic on sustainable Bamboo paper (approx 50 x 30cm)

'As humans we are part of the living web of nature … not separate from it.

How do we shift false perceptions of divisions between humans and the rest of the natural world? Don’t we ALL share a connected responsibility to act in the best interests of ALL of Nature, the planet’s ecologies and ALL of its inhabitants?

The central figure in my work represents Nature/Nurture as a symbol for a Sacred perspective of life, where Humans and the rest of the Natural World are undivided. She holds the endangered Helmeted Honeyeaters and their eggs, as spirits of hope and renewal in redemptive/responsible action against extinction, through Human intervention. '

Details

'Our generally western commodity view of life, contributes to the destruction of the very thing we rely on, and the planet’s resources, ecologies and all of its inhabitants are valued and diminished in relation to short-term economic gain and growth. Perhaps a part of the journey in ‘fighting extinction’ also lays in each of us responsibly addressing/challenging the commodity perspective in our own lives as consumers. What might change, if we were all, to look at our detachment from Nature, with an awareness of our collective impact on the planet and all life? And in examining this, what will it take for us all to create an undivided, Sacred and Sustainable perspective of the planet, its inhabitants, of life and to live it responsibly? What impact might this have on all life that is endangered?'

Work in progress

While working on this piece I began 2 other new works... here's 2 small preview examples.

I will add more detailed progress images soon.

Monday, April 30, 2012

New York Exhibition

I have been invited to show works in an International Invitational Group Exhibition in New York.
VISIONARIES The Art of the Fantastic
Curated by OLGA SPIEGEL – FRANCE GARRIDO – MIGUEL TIO

Visit http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/artgallery/artist.asp?artist=visions&exhibitID=56 for a preview.

and http://queens.ny1.com/content/top_stories/165473/-alien--artist-s-work-on-display-at-qcc?ap=1&MP4 to view a top story news report from NY1.

The exhibitions includes an extraordinary survey of talent spanning from the mid 20th century to the present, among those artists included in this survey:

Ernst Fuchs, H.R. Giger, Kim Evans, Artur Golacki, Adam Scott Miller, De Es Schwertberger, Heidi Taillefer, Carrie Ann Baade, Roberto Venosa, Peter Gric, Martina Hoffman, Brigid Marlin, Madeline von Foerster and many others.

July 12 - September 20, 2012

Opening reception: July 12 from 5-8pm

Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Bayside, New York

Monday, March 5, 2012

'Divine Nature'

Close to being finished, this graphite drawing (approx 60cm X 45cm) in progress is called 'Divine Nature'.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

New Work 2

When I was in Austria years ago, studying with Phil Rubinov-Jacobson, I began this piece on board with ink washes to complete in the Mische painting technique (Egg tempera and oil).

It is a re-working of my drawing 'Sacred Wisdom'.

The mische painting didn't eventuate, so recently I continued to work with inks, then scan and finish it digitally (using the same principles of building up layers of white highlights under transparent glazes of soft colour.)

The Gift 2011

Thursday, May 19, 2011

New Work to appear in CoSM Journal

This new work titled 'Pliny's Nereid' will be published in the upcoming CoSM Journal (7).

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Alex & Allyson Grey Tour- Australia

I have been invited to participate in the Art Exhibition at the Alex and Allyson Grey Event to be held at the Astor Theatre in St.Kilda on the 29th January 2011.
My works have been in 2 group shows alongside Alex Grey's work at the Brave Destiny Exhibition at the WAH center in Brooklyn New York and the Fantastic and Visionary Art Tour in Australia.
I am so excited that they are coming to Australia and to exhibit along side them on my old home turf, is such an honor, I cant wait!

AGM Tours & PBS will be presenting Alex and Allyson with a Live Painting Performance, Art Exhibition, Multimedia, Interactive Discussion, Projections and Visuals and Live DJ's.

Alex Grey is best known for his paintings, which portray multiple dimensions of reality, interweaving biological anatomy with psychic and spiritual energies. Grey’s visual meditation on the nature of life and consciousness, the subject of his art, is contained in five books. His two monographs, Sacred Mirrors and Transfigurations, follow the history of Grey’s artistic life. The Mission of Art and Art Psalms reflect on art as a spiritual practice.The book, CoSM, co-authored with Allyson Grey, provides a guided tour of the New York City installation of the Sacred Mirrors collection. Grey’s world renowned career includes exhibitions and keynote addresses from Basel to Tokyo to Sao Paulo, and features on the Discovery Channel, the CBC, in Newsweek andTime magazines. Grey’s art has been used on albums for the multi-platinum bands Nirvana, Beastie Boys, Tool, and String Cheese Incident. Grey’s most outstanding and widely appreciated works of transformative art were exhibited for five years in the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in NewYork City. More info at beinart.org...

Alex Grey.com and CoSM.org

Alex and Allyson Grey (CoSM) will also be participating at the Rainbow Serpent Festival 21 - 24th January 2011.

CoSM Space

During the course of the festival, renowned U.S. artists Alex Grey and his wife Allyson Grey will showcase their radiant portfolio of visionary artwork in a special area of the Arts & Lifestyle Village. Best known for their paintings, which portray multiple dimensions of reality, interweaving biological anatomy with psychic and spiritual energies the Greys will present an inspiring and luminous live painting experience, allowing the Rainbow community to enter into their visionary realm of consciousness. There will also be special opportunities to interact with Alex and Allyson through a series of inspirational workshops and talks held at the Arts & Lifestyle Village.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Women Who Run with the Wolves

There are many, many, many books that I love, but this is one of my favorites.
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes.
My copy, bought years ago, is so dog-eared, stained and wrinkled, it lives on my bedside table and has been read and re-read so many times. Each time I feel I am re-connecting with something very old and true. It is not a self help book, it is a rich tome that connects us with poetry, story, spirit, the underworld, and the deep inner life. You could call it a medicine book for women and men.

Estés described her method of healing to writer Isabella Wylde. "I come from the Curanderisma healing tradition from Mexico and Central America. In this tradition a story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine. The story is not told to lift you up, to make you feel better, or to entertain you, although all those things, of course, can be true. The story is meant to take the spirit into a descent to find something that is lost or missing and to bring it back to consciousness again. For some people that may sound mystical . . . and it is!"
To read the full interview with Dr. Estes by Isabella Wylde click here.

Archetypal Natural History

Creating these 4 'works' from elements in my existing drawings, I wanted to play with the idea that my drawings could be catalogued, dissected and documented like 'archetypal natural history' plates. They are a set of small screen prints.

From 'Cycle of the Moon'

From 'Cycle of the Moon' (above)

From 'Owl and Fox'

From 'Tigerlion'

Drawing to colour

Here, I worked on a drawing of mine called Spirit Mask, creating a colour version of it in photoshop.

Original

Colour version

Detail

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Lexikon phantastischer Künstler

My works are along side over 1000 artists published in this encyclopedia of Surreal, Fantastic, Symbolist and Visionary (and more) artists.

The second expanded edition of this amazing Encyclopedia is currently

in production.

Lexikon phantastischer Künstler

Sample page: Lexikon phantastischer Künstler pg 19-20

To purchase your copy click here

Encyclopedia of Fantastic Artists

1.Edition (German)

Author: Gerhard Habarta

Extent: 468 pages

SW 950 illustrations, 458 color

1122 Profiles

13 encyclopedic contributions

Format: 22.5 x 17 xm, Tied with ribbon

ISBN: 9 783837 084276

€ 62

Drawing in progress.

Another piece I am working on.

Detail

Exhibition: Earlier this Year

In April/May this year I was in the group show 'Out of Nowhere' at 696Ink Gallery and Tattoos.

Artists included: Chet Zar, Barnaby Whitfield, Lily Mae Martin,Steven Johnson Leyba, Beau White, Kuba Fiedorowicz, Kim Evans, Mark Powell, Maria Rozalia Finna, Dale Keogh, Josh Foley, Matthew Turner andGlen Smith.

Invite to 'Out of Nowhere' at 696Ink

New Drawing

This drawing was completed just before I moved to the Yarra Valley.

Title: 'Nature-Homage Ernst Heackle'.

Metamorphosis

My works appear in Metamorphosis 1, a Publication of 50 Surreal & Fantastic Artists

Metamorphosis 1 presents the work of 50 contemporary Surreal, Fantastic & Visionary Artists. It is a limited edition hard cover art book with 108 A4 pages and 122 plates.

Order your copy soon as stocks are low! View details here

ISBN: 9780980323108

Also distributed by Last Gasp (United States & World Wide) and the Scribo Group (Australia & NZ).

The 50 artists featured in Metamorphosis Volume 1 are:
(click on any artist below to view at Beinart.org)