Royal Easter Show

Here is my Fowl Play on exhibition at the Royal Easter show. I am pleased to report that he will be going to a new home after the show!

Exhibition over!

I am pleased to say that the exhibition was a great success, even financially (if you don't take into consideration the time making, setting up, minding, taking down etc :) and the house is just about back to normal or what passes for normal in these parts!

I will be posting a full set of photos on my website when I can get round to it. For the time being, here is one of my caricatures. Can you guess who it is? The flags are a clue:)

My upcoming exhibition!

Next month I am having an exhibition at the Watch House, Balmain, together with fellow student at Meadowbank TAFE, Lyndsey Hatchwell.

Here are the details.

 

All welcome. Hope you can make it!

TAFE Enemy Number One!

Barry in his new home in the NSW Teachers Federation!

O'farrell government targets art in TAFE AGAIN!

I just posted the following rant on my Facebook page!

I  found out yesterday that the Fine Art departments of both Hornsby and Northern Beaches TAFEs were closed down late last week, one week before classes were scheduled to start, and despite Hornsby alone having in the region of one hundred students enrolled at the new commercial  fee rate  introduced by the O’farrell government last year.

This just demonstrates the contempt which the O’farrell government has for arts education in NSW. Indeed all education, the arts may have been hit first as a soft target, but the government plans to extend the commercialisation of TAFE to all departments eventually.

You can help by registering your support for the campaign to stop the cuts at

www.stoptafecuts.com.au and www.facebook.com/stoptafecuts

This morning I was part of a very well attended demo outside Hornsby TAFE, together with one of my Barry heads, which have already featured in this blog and which were made for exactly this purpose, after the draconian fee increases imposed by the O’farrell government last year. This is the first time he has had the opportunity to appear in person at a demo and I am pleased to say he has now been adopted by the representative of the NSW Teachers Federation to use in further action.

Here he is today. The accompanying plaque is meant to be read on two levels, WANTED ART! And WANTED for crimes against ART! But it didn’t come out well in the photo so I have agreed to NTF colouring the lettering red.

 

Barry O'Candle !

Barry O'Farrell, oops, I mean O'Candle... you'd enjoy watching him burn!

Last work on display in 2013

Well, as another academic year rolls to a close, I am happy to see my latest works on display in the See Street Gallery at Meadowbank.

Here they are in the foreground.

 

From the left, Barry, Clive and Tony, an unlovely trio I have entitled "Poliwood"!

 

Even better, from here they are moving to the Downing Center. It's not Canberra but it is the Sydney CBD!