Gymea lillies

Ive been drawing these lillies, Gymea (the indigenous name) or flame or spear lilly (Doryanthes excelsa is its botanical).
Apparently aboriginal people used to roast them over the fire and eat them, and the stems can be up to 6m high but more often around the 2 to 3.

This is where Im going

Gaps of time between us, and now our interaction is pushed forward into the current moment we are both standing in.

Set free to the movement of the Nightingale

This drawing features my friend Sohi, two fake birds called Yietta and Unknown, a chair and the Japanese Aralia plant Tim gave me. It was too hard to take a photo of the whole drawing so again here are details from it. This drawing and the two below (Aralia and Okra to Autumn) are part of the works on Paper show at Brunswick Street Gallery currently on and running until 10 may.

Aralia and okra

The first drawing is the silhouette of a Japanese Aralia plant over several layers of house paint on drawing paper.
The second drawing is called Okra to Autumn and is the silhouette of dried okra and autumn leaves repeated, deconstructed, drawn over. There are areas of detail and areas of generalisation. Was a really interesting process. Think Im going to do more of this kind of thing.

faustina y ricardo

This is a silhouette drawing of my friend Faustina and a green lowrider bicycle named ricardo. It is mainly 6B greylead on drawing paper and some orange scent house paint. Its quite subtle so difficult to photograph.

work in process

ive been documenting the dying process of cut flowers with silhouettes and drawn detail. i think a lot about this process and making connections and generalisations with the process of flowers with all life. This drawing is on a large slab of wood, more lines to be drawn soon.

taking photos of new exhibition

Works on Paper 07

Im putting up a couple of new drawings in the Works on Paper show at Brunswick Street
Gallery next week, a drawing and printmaking group show.

The opening is on Friday 27 April at 6pm
Show runs until 10 May.
Brunswick Street Gallery can be found at Level 2 of 322 Brunswick Street in Fitzroy (opposite Bar Open)

A tangle of things in the works. Id give you a sneak preview but I dont have a camera anymore. Ive been spending more time inside the making and less time in the documenting. Outcomes coming and some already being, still.
My exhibition HOLDING a moment still to VIEW IT is still up in the window at 107 smith street fitroy for another few weeks, until the end of april. I plan to swap the existing drawings with some new ones at an unexpected moment.
Im thinking about making a new zine this week called DRAW A LINE with some drawings from my sketch book for the market on saturday.

Holding a moment still to view it

An exhibition of new silhouetted drawing experiments by me.

Field trip

On deciding for a field trip because I was tired of tracing the lines of my insides, I walked down the hill and drew this fig tree, rain falling intermittently.

The angle of apples

me and my teeth

(Click on this and it will get huge)

Being still inside this movement

I have shown you this drawing and the processes leading to it before. But I muddled with the colours a little and thought it was worth showing you again. Click on the image to see an enlarged version on the screen, you can see the texture of the line making.