oil tank fire

 Since it's such a theme of the  times I've been painting some burning oil infrastructure. Here's some more, this time in Russia.

I'll be exhibiting this and a whole lot more in Life, Love and Unnatural Disasters, my exhibition with Danielle Archer and Matt Flood at TAP gallery from 7-13 Dec 12-6, with an opening on tuesday 8 Dec at 6pm

 

Saturday Night

 We started off at Moshpit where Delusions of Grandeur were doing a in the afternoonshow before going around the corner to the Trocadero for the #NOF record launch

Delusions of Grandeur

 Renetica at the Trocadero

 

Renetica also

MC Jay Katz with Miss Death spinning disks and members of the audience, (including Robert Smith

 

The dancefloor was heaving with enthusiasm once Necklace of Feet took stage, it was too frantic to draw and I took up dancing

burning oil installation

oil infrastructure burning in war 

I'll be exhibiting this and a whole lot more in Life, Love and Unnatural Disasters, my exhibition with Danielle Archer and Matt Flood at TAP gallery from 7-13 Dec 12-6, with an opening on tuesday 8 Dec at 6pm

 

filled out a bit and coloured

first sketch - this is a tiny little oil on canvas ~20x20 cm. I've been doing a few of those

After the Flood

 Remnants of a destroyed village in Nepal after the glacier collapse near Gyirong border crossing

 

Instantly turned into a an archeological site, a whole community's lives washed away many people buried into sediments and never to be found

 

 pre green paint

Charles Freyberg

 At Kings Cross Library last night, Charles did a fantastic and impassioned reading, inhabiting the characters in his poems, mostly from his book the Crumbling Mansion. Victor, Nadine, Helen, Vanessa and more, expessing their thoughts and vulnerabilities in punchy language and an intimate setting

 

the introduction, with Charles and Ray

The Loudhailers at the Townie

 Christa Hughes and the Loudhailers entertained us all with a rollicking show last Saturday at the Townie. Thanks to everyone for putting it on

This is the most normal of the drawings with everyone in it and pretty much only one head each (with a partial exception for Christa)
 

This has a higher headcount but ended up being a warmup

And this is Benito's drawing. Continuous line.

 

 

Hiske

 The music and art community of Sydney as well as the north coast, and Berlin after losing much-loved performer and artist. This is a tribute from the last Fabels gig at Alpha Gallery where I also did a drawing 

working up the colour of the projected lightshow

 

Cheeky Freaky Squeaky

 The Moshpit has only a month left but still putting on great shows until the end. Yesterday Whateva Eva organised one of her fabulously mad matinees with lots of wonderful short sets. The Cheeky Freaky Squeaky show

 

Toy Death

 

Mačka

that's cat in Czech

Renee Falez and Peter Freimanis performing some experiments

Elena Lonergan

2 is not 3

 

 

The New Newtown Newts doing the chicken rap wearing an orchestra of squeezy squeaky chickens and crabs 

Eva with Simon Peart

The Peter Fenwick experience

 Punxsie

Fishbone

 Growing out of the wall along the lane

 

Merch

 I've created a shop on Rebbubble and put 7 designs up so far on shirts, dresses, pillows, backpacks, mugs and more

 

for example, a galah on a singlet

 

or a summer frock 

 

And modelled by Mia Mortal in the rooftop bar at the Colombian hotel in Darlinghurst

 

 

 And another, a climbing lily from mum's garden

 

 

There's plenty more, please browse the designs at https://www.redbubble.com/people/Subgeometric/explore?page=1&sortOrder=recent

Fig Tree Bole

 

 

The base of a Port Jackson fig in the park on the corner of Glebe Point Rd and Bridge Rd I drew as I waited for someone

 

Swaggerland at the Marrickville Bowlo

Bronwyn Aether and Paul Vassallo, now with the power of a rhythm section(sorry I have forgotten their names, I'll fix once I find out)

 

I'll soon add this to my bands and performance page where you can see hundreds of drawings and paintings of bands and other performers

Valentitanic Trio at the Townie

I went to the Townie to see the Valentitanic Trio, now playing as a quartet (of course)

 

 Valentitanic Trio  - Josh Shipton, Mike Kennett, Alia Josephine and Tim Bryant

 

Fabulous Contraption

 I'll soon put a link to this and a drawing on my Bands and Performance page. It has hundreds of drawings paintings of performance  and music from the last decade or so. Check it out!

Fabels at Alpha House

 I went around the corner from Springfest III to Alpha Gallery where Fabels did a show. Hiske had an exhibition of her paintings hanging there as well. I drew by the shifting light thrown by the video projection the play under so it's a super loose drawing

 I collect links to all the music and performance drawings I do here, as well as a selection of images, so do go and have a look. Sometime soon I'll update to include this one

 

Springfest at Moshpit

 Thanks to Eva Whateva for arranging Springfest III with a jampacked lineup of poets and musicians through the afternoon and evening. Here are drawings of some of them

Suburban Bukowskis (Benito wearing a red nose - in fact the whole band were wearing them to start, but I wasn't quick enough)

 

Whateva

 

 

 

The New Newtown Newts

 

The Rosemary Sisters

 

 

NOF - a bit of a fragmentary drawing

Josh Shipton (not the greatest likeness I've ever drawn)

 

I collect links to all the music and performance drawings I do here, as well as a selection of images, so do go and have a look. Sometime soon I'll update to include this one

Antipodes Roadkill Presents ...

 A Saturday afternoon show at Moshpit yesterday featuring Sharkarm, Gravel Sandwidge, Molly Fet Circuit, as well as Pallet, who I arrived too late to see.

Gravel Samwidge

 

A pretty loose drawing of Sharkarm - kind of a warmup

 

I also drew Molly Fet Circuit, but Sean (who played an amazing pair of patchboard synths) bought it after the show. (Thankyou!) I'll add it here when he sends me a photo

 

After the show was over we went down to the Golden Barley and saw the Ramalanas and another band(but I ran out of paper)

Sometime soon I'll put a link to these drawings on my bands and performance page.

I'm going to select a bunch of these drawings soon to publish as a book.

Burning Refinery

 Unlike a lot of the refinery and oil industry fires recently this was set off by an earthquake in Turkey. This is in Iskenderun

 

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Bruce of Woolloomooloo

 It's great to have seen brush turkeys recolonising urban areas in the past couple of decades with the expansion of tree cover and since dogs and cats haven't been running loose like they once did.

This is Bruce, Urban Regeneration Faculty member at the University of Woolloomooloo