New Work: Kasumi

Well rather than bombard you all with another long post, I have dug up the recent video I put together of my art process.

It's my first video... well it is the first one I personally made.

For those who tend to skim through blogs and missed it before

HERE IT IS:

This is from my Fragments series and is a good indication of how I work.

The photos below show both sides of my shoji screen in the space at 19 Karen gallery.

A great deal has happened since my last post.

I had my exhibition at Cylinder which was a great success, although I didn't really have much time to give it the attention I would like to due to the fact that I was busy getting my Fragments show completed in time. It was a fantastic experience all round and Leticia, who runs Cylinder, is really on the level and extremely supportive of the arts.

Basically she is in it for all the right reasons.

The show hosted my Mugshot series which revealed celebrities in their finest of hours immortalized in Oil on Linen. Feel free to see them on my website but fyi the celebrities in attendance were Heather Locklear, Robert Downey Jr, Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Shia Labeouf, Edward Furlong, Lindsay Lohan and Mischa Barton.

At the completion of this show I was involved in a postcard project which was put together by Artworkers Alliance as part of the Arc Biennial. It was held in a beautiful location down at the Howard Smith Wharves in Shed E which as far as my memory serves used to house the water police.

The following night I had my exhibition at 19 Karen which is housed in a fantastic space on the Gold Coast. The opening night had over 50 people travel from Brisbane to support my work which was fantastic considering there was a big music festival on the same night. So basically I was competing with Empire of the Sun, The Cool Kids, Mstrkrft, A-Track and The Rapture to name a few. That's cool though because overall there were a few hundred people in attendance. A big thank you to all who made it down!

Moving on... I am now represented by Le Blanc Contemporary and have an opening there tonight actually. You can see their website here - although they haven't had a chance to update it for a while.

I have an interview today for Merge Magazine which will focus a little on my years involved in the development of Brisbane's graffiti culture and how that has influenced my work to date. We'll see how the interview goes i guess. :)

Anyway... there's more to tell but I appear to have run out of time....

So until next time ... ADIOS!