Black Flag through Wu-Tang Clan (after Jasper Johns)
Black Flag through Wu-Tang Clan (after Jasper Johns)

2022
Heat transfer vinyl on cotton t-shirt
80x60cm
Printed by Marian Sandberg
Photograph by Sam Roberts

Referencing Jasper Johns’ 1960 lithograph ‘0 through 9’, ten iconic band logos are overlaid with one another on a t-shirt created for the 2022 FELTspace fundraising auction.

Black Flag through Wu-Tang Clan (after Jasper Johns)
Black Flag through Wu-Tang Clan (after Jasper Johns)

2022
Heat transfer vinyl on cotton t-shirt
80x60cm
Printed by Marian Sandberg
Photograph by Sam Roberts

Referencing Jasper Johns’ 1960 lithograph ‘0 through 9’, ten iconic band logos are overlaid with one another on a t-shirt created for the 2022 FELTspace fundraising auction.

Self-portrait as Lead Cenobite
Self-portrait as Lead Cenobite

2016
Wax crayon pencil, digital print, pins, paper, plywood
15x10cm
Photograph by Sam Roberts

A photograph of the artist is augmented with wax crayon and stainless-steel pins so as to resemble the primary antagonist of the ‘Hellraiser’ media franchise.

The Marlinspike Sessions
The Marlinspike Sessions

2006
Watercolour, gouache, marker, and graphite on paper
Dimensions variable
Photograph by Mick Bradley

Tropes and motifs from Warner Brothers’ cartoons, Herge’s ‘Adventures of Tintin’, silent films, and slapstick comedy are variously quoted from, celebrated, and hybridised in this suite of drawings.

The Marlinspike Sessions
The Marlinspike Sessions

2006
Watercolour, gouache, marker, and graphite on paper
Dimensions variable
Photographs by Mick Bradley

Tropes and motifs from Warner Brothers’ cartoons, Herge’s ‘Adventures of Tintin’, silent films, and slapstick comedy are variously quoted from, celebrated, and hybridised in this suite of drawings.

The Marlinspike Sessions
The Marlinspike Sessions

2006
Watercolour, gouache, marker, and graphite on paper
Dimensions variable
Photographs by Mick Bradley

Tropes and motifs from Warner Brothers’ cartoons, Herge’s ‘Adventures of Tintin’, silent films, and slapstick comedy are variously quoted from, celebrated, and hybridised in this suite of drawings.

The Marlinspike Sessions
The Marlinspike Sessions

2006
Watercolour, gouache, marker, and graphite on paper
Dimensions variable
Photograph by Mick Bradley

Tropes and motifs from Warner Brothers’ cartoons, Herge’s ‘Adventures of Tintin’, silent films, and slapstick comedy are variously quoted from, celebrated, and hybridised in this suite of drawings.

The Marlinspike Sessions
The Marlinspike Sessions

2006
Watercolour, gouache, marker, and graphite on paper
Dimensions variable
Photograph by Mick Bradley

Tropes and motifs from Warner Brothers’ cartoons, Herge’s ‘Adventures of Tintin’, silent films, and slapstick comedy are variously quoted from, celebrated, and hybridised in this suite of drawings.

The Marlinspike Sessions
The Marlinspike Sessions

2006
Watercolour, gouache, marker, and graphite on paper
Dimensions variable
Photograph by Mick Bradley

Tropes and motifs from Warner Brothers’ cartoons, Herge’s ‘Adventures of Tintin’, silent films, and slapstick comedy are variously quoted from, celebrated, and hybridised in this suite of drawings.

The Marlinspike Sessions
The Marlinspike Sessions

2006
Watercolour, gouache, marker, and graphite on paper
Dimensions variable
Photograph by Mick Bradley

Tropes and motifs from Warner Brothers’ cartoons, Herge’s ‘Adventures of Tintin’, silent films, and slapstick comedy are variously quoted from, celebrated, and hybridised in this suite of drawings.

The Marlinspike Sessions
The Marlinspike Sessions

2006
Watercolour, gouache, marker, and graphite on paper
Dimensions variable
Photograph by Mick Bradley

Tropes and motifs from Warner Brothers’ cartoons, Herge’s ‘Adventures of Tintin’, silent films, and slapstick comedy are variously quoted from, celebrated, and hybridised in this suite of drawings.

For Max
For Max

2006
Watercolour and graphite on paper
23x25cm
Photograph by Mick Bradley

A linked pair of visual quotations from Maurice Sendak’s ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ (1963) acts as an abridgement of the book’s narrative arc.

Assorted beard works 2010-2011
Assorted beard works 2010-2011

2010-2011
Drawing, photographs, collages, and low relief sculptures
Dimensions variable
Photograph by Mick Bradley
Installation view, Adelaide Central Gallery

Presented as part of ‘Home Stories’, a collaboration between South Australia’s Migration Museum and Adelaide Central Gallery, this suite of follically-themed works responds to a fake beard, dated early 20th century, from the Museum’s collection.

Good coaching is important
Good coaching is important

2008
Gouache and collage on paper
12x18cm
Photograph by Roy Ananda

A small intervention in a found image reimagines it through the lenses of comic books and kung fu movies.

Abecedarium
Abecedarium

2011
Digital print
Dimensions variable

An A-Z of famous beards are assembled as a series of pixelated photographic images.

Verbs
Verbs

2004
Pencils, cardboard
4x20x1cm
Photograph by Mick Bradley

Five pencils are each inscribed with a single-word directive for their use.

Black Flag through Wu-Tang Clan (after Jasper Johns)
Black Flag through Wu-Tang Clan (after Jasper Johns)
Self-portrait as Lead Cenobite
The Marlinspike Sessions
The Marlinspike Sessions
The Marlinspike Sessions
The Marlinspike Sessions
The Marlinspike Sessions
The Marlinspike Sessions
The Marlinspike Sessions
The Marlinspike Sessions
For Max
Assorted beard works 2010-2011
Good coaching is important
Abecedarium
Verbs
Black Flag through Wu-Tang Clan (after Jasper Johns)

2022
Heat transfer vinyl on cotton t-shirt
80x60cm
Printed by Marian Sandberg
Photograph by Sam Roberts

Referencing Jasper Johns’ 1960 lithograph ‘0 through 9’, ten iconic band logos are overlaid with one another on a t-shirt created for the 2022 FELTspace fundraising auction.

Black Flag through Wu-Tang Clan (after Jasper Johns)

2022
Heat transfer vinyl on cotton t-shirt
80x60cm
Printed by Marian Sandberg
Photograph by Sam Roberts

Referencing Jasper Johns’ 1960 lithograph ‘0 through 9’, ten iconic band logos are overlaid with one another on a t-shirt created for the 2022 FELTspace fundraising auction.

Self-portrait as Lead Cenobite

2016
Wax crayon pencil, digital print, pins, paper, plywood
15x10cm
Photograph by Sam Roberts

A photograph of the artist is augmented with wax crayon and stainless-steel pins so as to resemble the primary antagonist of the ‘Hellraiser’ media franchise.

The Marlinspike Sessions

2006
Watercolour, gouache, marker, and graphite on paper
Dimensions variable
Photograph by Mick Bradley

Tropes and motifs from Warner Brothers’ cartoons, Herge’s ‘Adventures of Tintin’, silent films, and slapstick comedy are variously quoted from, celebrated, and hybridised in this suite of drawings.

The Marlinspike Sessions

2006
Watercolour, gouache, marker, and graphite on paper
Dimensions variable
Photographs by Mick Bradley

Tropes and motifs from Warner Brothers’ cartoons, Herge’s ‘Adventures of Tintin’, silent films, and slapstick comedy are variously quoted from, celebrated, and hybridised in this suite of drawings.

The Marlinspike Sessions

2006
Watercolour, gouache, marker, and graphite on paper
Dimensions variable
Photographs by Mick Bradley

Tropes and motifs from Warner Brothers’ cartoons, Herge’s ‘Adventures of Tintin’, silent films, and slapstick comedy are variously quoted from, celebrated, and hybridised in this suite of drawings.

The Marlinspike Sessions

2006
Watercolour, gouache, marker, and graphite on paper
Dimensions variable
Photograph by Mick Bradley

Tropes and motifs from Warner Brothers’ cartoons, Herge’s ‘Adventures of Tintin’, silent films, and slapstick comedy are variously quoted from, celebrated, and hybridised in this suite of drawings.

The Marlinspike Sessions

2006
Watercolour, gouache, marker, and graphite on paper
Dimensions variable
Photograph by Mick Bradley

Tropes and motifs from Warner Brothers’ cartoons, Herge’s ‘Adventures of Tintin’, silent films, and slapstick comedy are variously quoted from, celebrated, and hybridised in this suite of drawings.

The Marlinspike Sessions

2006
Watercolour, gouache, marker, and graphite on paper
Dimensions variable
Photograph by Mick Bradley

Tropes and motifs from Warner Brothers’ cartoons, Herge’s ‘Adventures of Tintin’, silent films, and slapstick comedy are variously quoted from, celebrated, and hybridised in this suite of drawings.

The Marlinspike Sessions

2006
Watercolour, gouache, marker, and graphite on paper
Dimensions variable
Photograph by Mick Bradley

Tropes and motifs from Warner Brothers’ cartoons, Herge’s ‘Adventures of Tintin’, silent films, and slapstick comedy are variously quoted from, celebrated, and hybridised in this suite of drawings.

The Marlinspike Sessions

2006
Watercolour, gouache, marker, and graphite on paper
Dimensions variable
Photograph by Mick Bradley

Tropes and motifs from Warner Brothers’ cartoons, Herge’s ‘Adventures of Tintin’, silent films, and slapstick comedy are variously quoted from, celebrated, and hybridised in this suite of drawings.

For Max

2006
Watercolour and graphite on paper
23x25cm
Photograph by Mick Bradley

A linked pair of visual quotations from Maurice Sendak’s ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ (1963) acts as an abridgement of the book’s narrative arc.

Assorted beard works 2010-2011

2010-2011
Drawing, photographs, collages, and low relief sculptures
Dimensions variable
Photograph by Mick Bradley
Installation view, Adelaide Central Gallery

Presented as part of ‘Home Stories’, a collaboration between South Australia’s Migration Museum and Adelaide Central Gallery, this suite of follically-themed works responds to a fake beard, dated early 20th century, from the Museum’s collection.

Good coaching is important

2008
Gouache and collage on paper
12x18cm
Photograph by Roy Ananda

A small intervention in a found image reimagines it through the lenses of comic books and kung fu movies.

Abecedarium

2011
Digital print
Dimensions variable

An A-Z of famous beards are assembled as a series of pixelated photographic images.

Verbs

2004
Pencils, cardboard
4x20x1cm
Photograph by Mick Bradley

Five pencils are each inscribed with a single-word directive for their use.

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