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About Me

Trick Monkey is creating imagery to entice, inspire, scare and amuse.Trick Monkey is the freaky, bizarre, creature, character, concept, art, illustration of Andy Monks.Andy Monks was born in South Africa and after living in a number of places along the eastern coast of Australia, is now based in the sunny climes of Brisbane, Australia. He lives with his wife and a multitude of imaginary friends.Andy finds his inspiration in anything from music and film to the ant crawling across his desk.His work uses a combination of traditional drawing, photography, 3D CGI and graphic software. If you wanna see my full website it's www.trickmonkey.com.au

My Interests

Music, Art, Toys, Fashion, Photography, Film.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to be walking down the street and bump into myself. That would be pretty amazing!

Music:

Peeping Tom, Mr Bungle, Fantomas, Dog Fashion Disco, Twiztid, Rob Zombie, Les Claypool, Tomahawk, Karnivool, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Dr Steel, The Pixies, Slipknot, Zombie Ghost Train, MoonChild, FNM, Ministry, Korn, Strapping Young Lad, Richard Cheese, Ghostigital.

Books:

Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series (Laura K Hamilton), Discworld Series (Terry Pratchett), Neil Gaimen, HP Lovecraft

Heroes:

Mal, Sun Tzu, Nev, Dali, Jeannie, Noah(He built an ark & filed them in 2x2), Pan, Leigh, Hieronymus Bosch, Lewis Carroll, Mandela.

My Blog

I worked on Happy Feet

Hey Folks,Go check out Happy Feet the movie. I worked on it as a Sequence Lead.It was great to work on and I'm proud of it.Keep your eye out for me in the credits!!Go check it out!Andy Monks...
Posted by TrickMonkey - Andy on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:22:00 PST

Trick Monkey Online Store Now Open!!!

Check out the hot new online Trick Monkey Store.We've got some dark and funky shirts for all you peeps!Much more coming soon like prints, calenders and more clothingCheck them out here: http://www.caf...
Posted by TrickMonkey - Andy on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:23:00 PST

Crypt keeper Piece in TCB

The painting on my MySpace of the crypt keeper and his pet is in the new TCB Magazine No. 2.It a great mag. Check it out and buy yourself one! http://www.myspace.com/tcbmagazine...
Posted by TrickMonkey - Andy on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:36:00 PST

'Not Just Another Giant Monster Show' Lowbrow Art Show

'Not Just Another Giant Monster Show' Lowbrow Art show with a Robot theme has it's opening night this Friday 27th Oct.I have a piece in there as well as work from 11 other Brisbane artists.Very ...
Posted by TrickMonkey - Andy on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:31:00 PST

Vote for me in the Zombie Comp.

The Trick Monkey Zombie needs you!!! Vote for Zombie Monkey and he'll love you long time! Click on the banner and look for TRICK MONKEY !!!...
Posted by TrickMonkey - Andy on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:31:00 PST

Greazefest Wrap-Up

Greazefest Wrap-Up Well Greazefest was awesome, I highly recommend you all put it in your calender for next year. I exhibited some artwork and did some work on the day drawing bikes. Had lots of fun, ...
Posted by TrickMonkey - Andy on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:27:00 PST

Greazefest LowBrow Art Show Sun 6th

Howdy All,All you Brisbanites, this Sunday 6th at Davies Park, West End is the last day of Greazefest.There's Cars, Music, Stalls and Artwork.As well as other artists, I'll be there exhibiting a few o...
Posted by TrickMonkey - Andy on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:02:00 PST