Well in truth my artwork is just a silkscreened poster.
I was hanging around the old Tin Sheds near Sydney Uni for a period many years ago and made some posters. Some were posters advertising benefit dances and the like. The Tin Sheds seemed to be inhabited by anarchists, commies of various brightness, feminists and the like. This one was just a poster with a political message about sharing childcare so women weren't excluded from economic independence. The message is pretty crude and the artwork even more so, quite embarrassing actually! Nonetheless there the darn thing sits, in the National Gallery! I have no idea why…
As for my career in opera … well I was an extra, it was just a part-time job for a while when I was at uni. It was a stand-over-there-and-hold-that-spear deal. Anyhow, I was in War & Peace, the first opera ever performed at the famous building. We extras were under very strict instructions to keep our mouths shut, but a number of us couldn't help joining in with singing the choruses, it was very stirring. Pretty funny really.
So there, the truth revealed, not quite so cultured as it first sounded
I was hanging around the old Tin Sheds near Sydney Uni for a period many years ago and made some posters. Some were posters advertising benefit dances and the like. The Tin Sheds seemed to be inhabited by anarchists, commies of various brightness, feminists and the like. This one was just a poster with a political message about sharing childcare so women weren't excluded from economic independence. The message is pretty crude and the artwork even more so, quite embarrassing actually! Nonetheless there the darn thing sits, in the National Gallery! I have no idea why…
As for my career in opera … well I was an extra, it was just a part-time job for a while when I was at uni. It was a stand-over-there-and-hold-that-spear deal. Anyhow, I was in War & Peace, the first opera ever performed at the famous building. We extras were under very strict instructions to keep our mouths shut, but a number of us couldn't help joining in with singing the choruses, it was very stirring. Pretty funny really.
So there, the truth revealed, not quite so cultured as it first sounded