In 2003 I completed my Masters of Multimedia, got my wisdom teeth removed, packed up all my stuff, moved out of my rental house, broke up with my boyfriend (almost) and went to live and work in Japan. Why? All I know is I felt like a stranger in my home country, I was lost…
Visitor Patrol
A couple of years ago I illustrated some short stories for a book of speculative fiction by Christopher J. Jacobs. The stories themselves could well be episodes from the tv show Black Mirror and if you are the kind of person who has only short grabs of time in which to read this is the perfect collection…
Imaginary Friends!
I’ll be doing a character design workshop for Yarra Ranges Children’s week on Wednesday October 25th from 2 – 4pm at the Sherbrooke Family and Children’s Centre. Please come on down, or up depending on where you live, and make some Imaginary Friends with me! YARRA RANGES CHILDRENS WEEK FLYER 2017
Laugh you head off…again!
A couple of years ago I illustrated my first book. The book ‘Laugh your head off’ was fun to read and twice as much fun to illustrate. I was lucky enough to be asked to then illustrate ‘Laugh your head off Again’ and this year the third iteration in the series ‘Laugh your head off…
::Who lives there?::
‘Who lives there?’ is a character design workshop I am instructing at the Burrinja Cultural Centre over the next month or two. It coincides with the installation of a giant cardboard house (about the size of your average cubby) in the foyer of the centre for their Play n Stay series. The cardboard house will be…
Otoshimono Charactez!
It’s begun! If you’re on Instagram you can follow my charactez here. If not I’ll be posting new ones each week right here on my blog. Here is ‘Spaghetti arms Sally singing in the rain’. I know Monday can be horrible, especially in this wet weather but at least your arms aren’t made of spaghetti!
::Maya Maxx::
When I first moved to Japan I didn’t know much about Japanese illustrators and artists beyond Takeshi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara and whilst they both still totally blow my mind, it was a delight to discover some lady illustrator and artists that could do the same. It was on a cold winter day in January…
::Acupuncture; a cure all for the endangered::
Striped Possum ‘My stress levels have sky rocketed since the housing estate went up next door, cat’s everywhere! Since the acupuncture I’m real zen about it all’. Mountain Pygmy possum ‘I used to feel really light headed and weak, even my night vision was fading, acupuncture has cured it all!’ Eastern Barred Bandicoot ‘When I…
::Happy Valentines Day::
Pickles loves you all!
Not for Rental
‘Not for Rental’ is a movie-inspired charity exhibition which is going to be held at 71a Gallery from Thursday July 4th to Saturday 13th. The works are all decorated video cases inspired by the artists favourite films….
The Otoshimono Papers 