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Online & Available Now!

 

 
Firing up the site again! Just like my online Etsy store which I have restocked with over 50 of my woodcut prints.
Over there you will find artwork spanning the past eight years and many prints that I have not made available online before now. Handmade and highly affordable, this is artwork I have made for love, for friends, bands, clothing and everything in between!
Click on the link above and have a look around.
…and make sure to stop back here as I get back into the swing of things, showing art in progress, behind the scenes stuff and telling stories about the medium I am happily obsessed with!
Cheers, A.
2017
01/25
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How Do You Sleep? Artist Book #7

How Do You Sleep? Artist Book

So at the moment my world is fast filling up with all the things I need to organise for my solo art show in Melbourne opening next month at The Old Bar in Fitzroy.

Now this is a good thing but also it leaves me little time for distractions and I love a good distraction. Add to this some of my friends who have seen what I’ve been working on behind the scenes lately have had very positive feedback and so last week I thought I’d take a bit of time out to make an artist book. Here it is and it’s titled How Do You Sleep?

How Do You Sleep? Artist Book

There is a undercurrent of thoughts that link a lot of my latest woodcuts, that and my somewhat erratic sleeping pattens of late have culminated in the images and contents of this book. I have handmade it as a concertina style book with a hardback outer cover. It’s a nice size in the hand at 21 x 21cm and I have made it in an edition of 23 copies.

 

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Above is my work bench over the last couple of days, basically all that paper, tape and cardboard eventually gets distilled down to this (just like magic)…

How Do You Sleep? Artist Book

It’s for sale HERE in my Etsy shop.

Thanks for reading.

2014
04/09
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Returning To The Board

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Skateboard decks – a popular canvas for people to decorate, paint, design or simply draw upon. It was my good friend Matt Brady who I can thank for helping get me into decorating skateboard decks as much as making woodcuts. Long before I got a handle on relief printing as an artistic medium I was experimenting on carving decks. The above photo has at the top the second ever woodcut I tried back in May 2008 and at the bottom the latest one I carved last week – both went a new home at True North in Melbourne last week.

Not carved as a printing matrix but as I sculpted illustration. I have to admit I do not really enjoy illustrating decks. The wood is so hard it hurts my hands (treated Canadian Maple), the wood surface is convex which makes correctly angling the carving blade tricky. Still they look really cool and while I repeatedly tell myself upon finishing a deck that it will be my last, I keep coming back to do more. I love the True North deck above. Like old-school tattoo flash with the tinted woodgrain showing up through the white inked surface.

I have only just by writing this post realised that I have actually done ten decks to date. I can’t help but think that deck No.11 probably isn’t far off…

2014
03/14
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Once Every 15 Days – 23rd May, Melbourne.

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Latest updates here: https://www.facebook.com/events/309876035828828/

2014
02/10
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This was 2013

Untitled Print for inclusion of Artist book #5. Size: 19cm x 14cm
Title: Final Diary Entry. Size: 49 x 31cm
Untitled (Discarded due to errors)
Title: Permanence. Size: 29 x 39cm
Untitled Print for inclusion of Artist book #6. Size: 18cm x 10cm
Title: Rememberance House. Size: 64cm x 21cm
Title: El Pajaro. Size: 20.5 x 29cm
Title: La Calavera. Size: 20.5 x 29cm
Untitled. Size: 31cm x 60cm
Title: High Tension. Size: 35cm x 26cm
Untitled (Additional High Tension Artwork)
Untitled (Additional High Tension Artwork)
Title: Veil. Size: 35cm x 25cm
Title: Cyclic. Size: 18cm x 25cm
Title: Done & Dusted #1. Size: 20cm x 27cm
Title: Done & Dusted #2. Size: 17cm x 37cm
Tilte: Done & Dusted #3. Size: 30cm x 23cm
Title: At The End Of the Night
Title: As The Crow flies
Title: Done & Dusted #4. Size: 29cm x 39cm
Title: Nightwatcher. Size: 35cm x 39cm
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Title: From The Depths. Size: 16cm x 20cm
Title: Bat. Size: 23cm in Diamater
Title: When Lessons Go Unlearned. Size: 29cm x 31cm
Title: Fuck Eternity. Size: 40cm x 15cm
Title: Balancing Act #2. Size: 80cm x 29cm
Grieg Demo CD
Blocks for Grieg Cover-art
2013
Untitled Dec 2013
Artist Book #5
Artist Book #6
Zine
Title: Giant Sounds Year: 2012 / 13 Size: 82 x 32cm Edition: 4
Giant Sounds Woodblock / Guitar – Front
Giant Sounds Woodblock / Guitar – Back
A Savage God Handmade Deluxe 10″ W/ Handprinted Artwork
A Savage God Handmade Deluxe 10″ W/ Handprinted Artwork
A Savage God 10″ Record
High Tension LP
Harmony 7″
Harmony 7″
Robb’s Tattoo
T-Shirt

So this is how I spent 2013. If you didn’t see me, well it is because I was at home doing this!

31 woodcuts in total. 2 artist books, 1 zine, a 10″ Ep,  a t-shirt and 3 exhibtions. An honorable mention for the woodcut guitar that while started in 2012 was finally finished this year.

Also a big shout out to my friends in Harmony & High Tension for asking me to illustrate their records. It was an Honour!

Thanks to everyone for the kind words, comments and all round support towards all this. I hope your year was as good as mine and that next year will be better for us all.

Alex.

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2013
12/24
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The Outpost Presents: Southern Crucifixion (One Night Art Show)

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Sometimes I do birds, sunsets and the like and sometimes I entertain a more macabre vision for art making. When my good friend Matt at The Outpost asked me to be part of a group show for one night in Brisbane with two artists who do some pretty great work – of course I wanted to be a part of it!

I’ve shown with Murdoch previously and Murdoch has shown with French (all thanks to Nine Lives). This is going to be a lo-key night of metal/doom/punk/horror slanted creativity. Murdoch’s punk band Last Chaos will be playing as well as Doom band Frown.

I will have some new woodcuts on show as well as some favourites from previous exhibitions. In addition to the framed original prints (like that one the left), I will bring along things I’ve made over the last year or two like artist books, zines, t-shirts, vinyl and whatever else I end up hand-making over the next week…

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It will be free entry on the night and this is a pretty underground event so feel free to share this info with your friends (HERE on Facebook) and with any luck I’ll see you there!

2013
11/28
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Busier Than Ever

There’s so much happening that I might need to break things up into several posts. Heaven forbid I find the time to fill you in more regularly…

So my recent idea to turn one of my latest woodcuts into an affordable and comfy t-shirt was a resounding success and so a huge shout out of thanks has to go to everyone who snapped one up! I had a few extra made up and so there will be another chance to get your hands on one but more of that soon.

Front

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Back

Owl-Tshirt2

A big thanks goes to Matt Deasy of 7th Disaster for doing such a great job on the screenprinting of these. Really people, look him up for anything you want hand printed!

So a while back I said to stay tuned because I had lots of things happening before the end of the year. Well it’s all happening now.

I recently received the vinyl version of the debut album by High Tension when they came up to launch the album. Sure it looked great on the cd (see post below) but boy doesn’t it look better nice and big on vinyl? Stoked!

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And just last weekend I got my hands on the latest 7inch single by Melbourne band Harmony of which I (again) did the cover art for.

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It is the band’s third 7inch and the prelude to their second album which is out early next year through Posion City records. The band’s guitarist/vocalist/all-round-great-dude Tom Lyncoln is into sharks and so asked for a shark from me. Who am I to refuse? And so it was.

Here are all of the band’s singles, with the cover art for all of them done by me. Happy doesn’t even start to explain what it means to look at all these together.

Harmony_2

Sometimes doing artwork for great bands feels better (even though it is harder) than carving and making prints for myself but none of that comes even close to when something like this happens…

Robb Knaggs Tattoos

This is my friend Robb. Great guy and really talented musician. He recently took off to travel the world but just before he left he told me he wanted something that would remind him of home and this is what he wanted.

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Obviously the print represents something personal for him but I do find if nice that the Currawongs that hang around my house, gave me the feathers in question and that I captured in this print have unknowingly traveled so far.

CurrawongwoodcutThat also makes two people who have gotten a woodcut of mine tattooed. I think I might have to start planning to be the third.

That’ll do for now. More news soon.

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2013
11/25
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Last Days

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A huge thanks to everyone who has been down to the Ksubi Mild Manners artspace and checked out my current exhibition. It has been a great past couple of weeks with lots of really positive comments from folks on my exhibition. Apparently heaps of people have been into the Ksubi gallery space to look at the show. So much so that while the exhibition was due to close this weekend, Mild manners and Ksubi have asked to keep the show open for another week.

So my exhibition ‘How Memories Are Made’ is now open for an extra week, every day 10am – 6pm until Sunday 7th July

Many of the works hanging are still available for purchase with only one or two editions fully selling out. Regardless of that, I’m more interested in folks just checking out my woodcuts and possibly getting something out of the art I love making. When it’s all done and dusted, maybe I’ll go home and learn how to play guitar…

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2013
06/26
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2013
06/20
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Tonight Live…

Everything is up on the walls and we’re ready to rock n roll (so to speak).

I even got a nice bit of coverage on page 9 in today’s daily newspaper The Courier Mail.

Courier Mail Story

And I should mention that where as the exhibition is running for the next few weeks, the limited hand-made artist books and the vinyl I have made (scroll down the page to see them) will only be available from me tonight at the opening. So if you come along, hit me up!

Thanks and I’ll see you later on!

2013
05/23
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