Jenny Birt Award

The Jenny Birt Award opens Tonight!

I happen to be one of the lucky eleven nominated students for this annual painting and drawing award and I'm happy to say that I am showing NEW work.  I've been working day, night and that horrible pre-dawn time when you can start hearing the morning birds and garbage trucks.  But I'm quite happy with how things turned out.  The show lasts till the 6th of May and I'll be putting up documentation and a few process shots later on in the week.

John Fries Memorial Prize

Brilliant news of the month:

I am one of the finalists for the John Fries Memorial Prize!

The prize was formed by the family members of John Fries to commemorate his work as former director and honorary treasurer at Viscopy, a not-for-profit rights management organisation for the visual arts.

The John Fries Memorial Prize is an annual award of $10 000 and solo exhibition at Viscopy's contemporary art space, Blackfriars off Broadway. Entries open each April and I, on a whim, entered one of my charcoal portraits. I am now one of the lucky 17 selected out of 300 entrants to exhibit at Blackfriars off Broadway and possibly win the award.

Please come and support me on:

The 10th of August (tuesday)

from 6-9pm

at

Blackfriars on Broadway

1 Blackfriars Street

Chippendale

NSW 2008

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The winner will be announced on opening night

and the exhibition runs from the 11th of August to 30th of September

Murdoch Books: Monster Maintenance Manual Illustration Competition

There was an illustration competition for Murdoch Books new children's title: Monster Maintenance Manual.

Here are my final images for: Nose Ghoul, Quarking Ducks and long-legged Underbed pigs.
I'll post sketches soon.
(just so you know, the nose ghoul is pulling ginger hair out of his cloak. Nose ghouls apparently are the cause for nasal hair amoung adults.)