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~TheBlackSoilARt~

darkness to light///the illumination of the mind//alchemy=al-kimia - the black soil art.....

About Me

CERAMICS PAINTING PRINTMAKING DRAWING WORDS
i love paint, the smell, the struggle to get it down on canvas, and the difficulty of pushing it around, transcending who you are onto that square piece of material. at this moment, I am exploring alchemy; i define alchemy as always searching, always questioning and trying to discover something better than what lies in the present, something that pushes itself out there, into the parameters of existence, not quite gone, but the unknown, lurking in the fringes of the abyss Exhibitions2006 - al-kimia (alchemy) = the black soil art - university of sydney, solo show 2005 - sydney art 05 - represented by nas - infusion 05 - cell block theatre, nas - access all areas - sca gallery, sydney 2004 - spectrum - parliament house, sydney 2003 - infusion - cell block theatre, nas 2002 - reactions - exit art, new york, ny - stuck down south - fad gallery, melbourne 2001 - houdini to hofmann - chiara goya gallery, melbourne - the stuckist traveling exhibition - l.a., kentucky & florida - drawing in the city - william wilkins gallery, sydney
collectionsst george college of tafe, sydney deatrick gallery, kentucky, USA library of congress, washington dc, usa. faculty of education and social work, university of sydney various private collections in europe, usa and australia.
awards
artist-in-residency - 3 months - paris, 2007., studio residency, 6 months - sydney art co, 2003., excellence in sculpture - city commercial interiors, sydney, 2005., artistic excellence - think tank productions, sydney, 2005., excellence in painting - national art school, 2002
studiesbacher fine art with honors (drawing), national art school, 2000-2003 master of teaching visual art, university of sydney, 2004-2005 diploma of fine art with distinction, st george college of tafe, 1996-1997

My Interests

alchemy, inventive music from handmade instruments, stories, cultures, travelling, coloured pigments, natural pigments, meditation, swimming in the ocean pool, yoga, phenomenology, eastern mysticism, handmade objects, Dr Seuss, traveling caravans, Persian poetry, collecting cultural objects, vinyl records..

I'd like to meet:

Fellow artists/musicians/writers, curators and agencies of the artworld interested in my work.

Music:

tom waits, velvet underground, john cage, the scientists, the moffs, the stems, morning after girls, beatles, weezer, nico, lou reed, john cale, leonard cohen, juliana hatfield, fantomas, peeping tom, mazzy star, mike patton, john zorn, r.carlos nakai, master musicians of joujouka, traditional arabic music. ravi shankar, farid, fayrouz, secret chiefs 3, beck, built to spill, dylan, joni, jimi, janis, r.e.m., doug martsch, stephen malkmus, phil elverum, microphones, pavement, stone temple pilots, ween, mingus, miles, slim gaillard, monk, bird, cannonball adderly, sonny rollins, patti smith group, ornette coleman

Books:

Rimbaud: L'Enfer and The Illuminations