29 Jun 2013

Blog about bloggin.


I'm working on a wee blog post and I would really like some photos of sketchbooks. I love sketchbooks. Hard working, scuffed up sketchbooks. If you message me a picture of yours, I'll post it on my blog, label it anything you like, give you photo credit and link it to anything you like. If you're an artist I can link it to your art page, personal page, a business, your dogs facebook page or a charity if you like. If you're not an artist, no worries, same thing. And if you don't want any arty weirdos sniffing around just let me know and we can link it accordingly. I'll link it to anything you like.
Doesn't have to show any work or sketches, could be just the cover, could be the dodgy top draw you keep it in. Anything, no rules except just a photo of your sketch book.
Watta ya reckon? Anyone keen? Flick me a message. You can get me on the Facebook on the right or at barryjohnlikesart@gmail.com

Thank you!!!

Here's mine...


My Sketchbook. Click here for the mighty Propnomicon. 
 

20 Jun 2013

Lyttelton Port, New Zealand

Lyttelton Port


Out On The Weekend

Think I'll pack it in
And buy a pick-up
Take it down to L.A.
Find a place to call my own
And try to fix up.
Start a brand new day.

The woman I'm thinking of,
She loved me all up
But I'm so down today
She's so fine, she's in my mind.
I hear her callin'.



The WunderBar


 See the lonely boy,
Out on the weekend
Trying to make it pay.
Can't relate to joy,
He tries to speak and
Can't begin to say.

She got pictures on the wall,
They make me look up
From her big brass bed.
Now I'm running down the road
Trying to stay up
Somewhere in her head.



The Eastern


The woman I'm thinking of,
She loved me all up
But I'm so down today
She's so fine she's in my mind.
I hear her callin'.

See the lonely boy,
Out on the weekend
Trying to make it pay.
Can't relate to joy,
He tries to speak and
Can't begin to say.

-Neil Young


10 Jun 2013

Sam Jinks



Untitled, 2007 - Sam Jinks


What do you do when you get bored making props and puppets for television and film? Sounds like a trick question doesn't it. Well I guess every job has a Monday morning so if you're Australian born Sam Jinks you take your silicon punches to the gallery. Melbourne based Jinks has 23 years of commercial sculpting under his belt, the last 16 of which have been spent peddling his hyper-(sur)realism on the white walls. 




Woman and Child. 2010


 
Of the "hyper" clique Jinks is my fav. Far more sinister than Mueck and somehow planted firmer than Piccinini. Jinks whispers to us about ourselves. From clay marquette to clay positive. Moulded and poured in silicon. This simple recipe is all that is needed to gift, or relieve, vital breath to or from his powerful figures.  He is surely a witch, or in cahoots with the beast. We may have to discuss the pitchforks soon.


 

Still Life (Pieta), 2007



It's apparent from his works like the 2007 "Still Life, Pieta" that the stories were fleshed out before we arrived, we are left squarely with the punctuation. Savage on the part of Jinks, for the tragedy is blunt force but it also seems to me to be a large part of the point. Caring, gentleness, is subtle, often lost in the mix, over looked or taken for granted. Worse yet, cancelled out. Powerful stuff. Do something nice for someone/thing today, and keep it a secret. It's magick.