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Hello friends! Wow can you believe 2009 is over? Just want to shout out to all those people that have supported this years Hope Projects. To all of you I wish you a flipping awesome Christmas and New Year!
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So as promised here are some photos from our wedding and trip to Thailand! Hope you enjoy them! We had a really great time in Thailand too. We hired a scooter and rode around the island, met some artists and saw some spectacular sites! You can have a look at all the pics here.
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Ok, ok now THIS is the COOLEST news ever! I am finally married! Yep its the best thing in the world to be married to my soulmate! I cannot believe that a month has past since the big day! I was really worried that it was going to rain on our special day - 3 October 2009 as its kinda the rainy season but on that day we would have been going out for 3 years and we wanted to be married on that day! It turned out to be a hot day! THANKS to family and friends for coming along and sharing our special day! It was a secret that I was taking Meggie to Thailand for our honeymoon and it was the first time for both of us going overseas! What a blessed experience! I will be posting some photos of our trip later this week as well as some wedding pics..hold tight.
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OK, this is going to be the coolest news ever!
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I am now part of a new collective and design company called DEPARTMENT. Please check out the site if you wish to use
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This has been one of the biggest commercial projects I have been involved with to date - as well as a tight deadline!! Including over 15 illustrations I was commisioned to create an educational booklet for the IEC promoting the awareness of the election process as a voter. So super excited as this booklet was translated into over 10 different languages and will also be done in brail for the visualy impaired. Have a look here. |
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You can read the full tour diary here |
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So after many months of hard work the Durban leg of the show is up. Senyol and I had a great time putting up the show . It moves to Cape Town in October. SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS! While he was here in Durban we did a little interview which I have uploaded for your listening pleasure! We talk about our work and ideas for the show! You need quicktime to to play it or itunes! click here to download |
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I have been listening to a few podcasts while I have been working on this exhibition. Rob Bell's podcasts are awesome as well as "creating success" at podcast directory -check out Jo Jacksons interview if you into illustration. Also Michael Sieben & Cody Hudson interview at fecalface.com is pretty good too! Senyol and I are hard at work doing the finishing touches of our exhibition. I have worked on about 30 new works: 15 of them are paintings and the other 15 are experimental works, ranging from digital prints, lightboxes to caps, shirt and hoodies. It's been fun and hard work putting this show together so please come out and support the show. I will be super happy to see you there! After the tour ends in November I will be uploading pictures from the shows as well as a short documentary film based on the exhibition! Dates for the show: 06-24 SEPTEMBER 2008 at Gallery 415. 415 Umgeni road. Show moves to Cape Town: 10-24 OCTOBER 2008 at Salon 91. 91 Kloof street. |
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A couple of years back I did my first series of 20 paintings at the OFF THE WALL and this fella JP was talking to me saying how much he'd dig to do some paintings too. At the time none of my friends where doing exhibitions and since then it's been awesome to see people doing more art stuff......However of recent times I have seen alot of people biting other people's styles ...something that is not very cool, maybe it's because art is the "cool" thing right now,....However JP's stuff is really rad and fun. There is something special about JP's stuff. Keep up the good work pal! Check out his work here: http://www.jpbrouard.blogspot.com |
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Every year I miss entering this competiton and always hear about the deadline when it's too late to enter...What's changed? Nothing! Only this time I heard about this competition two weeks before the hand in date and got cranking on three lightbox portrait designs WHICH involved some late nights. Here you can see one of them. The rest can be seen at the opening nite sometime in July at the ABSA gallery in Joburg. All the "best" work is going to be shown there. Super glad to have made it to the finals and to be putting up my work with some of the best! These works are about the energy crisis that we in South Africa are facing at the moment and these designs deal with three South African people - white, indian and african males each saying "keep hope alive" in their specific mother tongue. I wanted to play with "light" and the idea that we need to work together to solve our problems. The winner of this competition wins a trip to Paris to work in a studio for 6 months expenses paid! There is some good work on show. |
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MAKI MAKI - A design company based in Europe run by a couple asked me to be apart of this fantastic book. It's so great to be apart of this book as it features and documents customized sneakers and interviews with "artists" from around the globe. There is loads of work in this book and it's a must for any street fanatic! For me personally though I am a home boy, the streets are not for me! Check out MAKI MAKI's website or Amazon books to buy the book.. |
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I recently completed this mural design for my wonderful girlfriends Church. Its an amazing new Church and I felt that I needed to do something for it. It did not take me too long if I add up the hours but I did split the time up over about 4 weeks... the weirdest thing is that the church is built under the market that is upstairs and every two minutes or so you can hear someone flushing the chain or something upstairs...it kept me company on those lonely nights when I was painting alone... Special THANKS goes out to my girlfriend Megan who helped paint the clouds!!! THANK YOU. |
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It was with great pleasure and honour to be apart of the sketchbook project exhibition that was held at ARTSPACE in Durban this year in April 2007. This year I did not exhibit any work as I am taking my time on doing some more awesome pieces of work.I have also been pretty busy with freelance work for the first half of this year and taking the rest of the year to use my spare time working on a whole lot of new work. It was so great to work on this mural and with all the amazing artists like CREATE and good friend from Cape Town Paul otherwise known as Senyol (!) he is the man!! We basically brainstormed in the morning with all the artists that came out and threw up a concept on the wall in a matter of hours....not the greatest of work as we had limited time but again it was just great to paint with kids I would not normally associate myself with... |
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Big thanks to the owners at ARTSPACE gallery for putting in a good word for me to showcase my skills at the Design Indaba! . |