Large Mural For a Pizza Shop

Last year I was pleased to get the opportunity to design a large mural of the Cowboys football team mucking about at Smiles Stadium. The client was very clear about what they wanted, which is always a good thing. I really enjoyed the caricature aspect of this mural having fun with details like the two mascots and the geckos placement. This all took about 6 weeks to get right and the customer says they are over the moon with joy.

Other Than Plastic 2017

Cartoons and caricatures have always been a passion of mine, even from a young age. I used to draw my father and his coworkers at the drafting office, as well as teachers at my school, which won me popularity with my classmates. Throughout the years, I've drawn friends, family pets, and even received commissions to create caricatures of sports figures and corporate teams. Recently, I completed a series of seven drawings for managers of a government organization in New Zealand. I hope I captured their likenesses

Other Little Projects For 2017

For a good while now I've been interested in the fetishization of robots by modern society. From an early age I was fascinated by famous robot characterizations like Gigantor, Astro boy, the robot from the Forbidden Planet and Invisible boy movies and of course Silent Running and Star Wars. These pre-real robots, I feel are an homages to a technology we don't quite know or understand as social phenomenon. I find myself asking what sort of waste and refuse will be left by them as they become obsolete like mobile phones from the 90's are now. Also I tend to think we have strange expectations of robots, will they bring with them happiness and new hope or be as co-modified as computers and their peripherals. In a way, I think that the modern artistic ideology of what a robot will be, is similar to that of the Cargo Cult natives of New Guinea and their building of effigies of airplanes with the belief that these likenesses would bring prosperity and plenty. The sculptures here, are a start to a theme I would like to pursue in my art. It is a mix of the cargo cult iconography, African fetish and that expectation of our modern culture that robots will bring solutions to many needs that we find it hard to address in society like pollution, war, elderly care, loneliness and the need for growth in economy.

I am calling this theme my robot fetish.

Some New Year New Zealand Works

Seeing in the Christmas / New Year period in New Zealand, I've have had time to finish off some colourful artworks. Though the last one is unfinished by a whisker but I still wanted to post it.These are not actually in frames but I believe that I should find frames as close to the ones I have mocked up here.