Thought I’d just update with a little news …

I have a piece in the upcoming exhibition “A3 small art show” – which will be a one off print based on a new ink work with  custom embellishments - something new – check out the facebook page here – so many great artists involved and its all for charity :)

Had a meeting yesterday with a couple of friends for a group show we will be opening on the 19th November at At Large gallery, called Cardboardia – will post the flyer up for this once its done, but its going to be a really cool installation-style exhibition and I’m pretty excited to be working with the other talented artists on it!

I’m also working on getting a start on finishing up several of the books I’ve been working on over the past few years … the first few will be retrospective ones, covering my writing (mostly verse and poetry) since 1990 – there are five of these, each one covering a particular place I was at at the time – Cairns, Perth, Boston and London, then the last one, Perth/Melbourne and my trip to SE Asia (Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand) –  each will be a volume in the Shikata Ga Nai collection. A lot it is very narrative in a way, as I used my writing as a form of diary of things that happened along the way …

The second set will be a collection of mostly fiction and prose, written between 2002 and now. The first book, Ephemeration, is a collection of a lot of the work on here and written through journals and blogs over the years – all very short pieces,  some only a page or two long, and mostly just random prose – interesting non-theless. The second one, will be a book of short stories and novellas – some of which are on here in draft form.

Finally, I have vaguely been starting to put together some books on my art .. I’ll probably do this in two editions as well – one covering the entire past 20 years of drawing shit, and the second one will be covering mostly the past five years in more detail .. so the first one will have a lot of history and shit behind it, and also show a kind of genesis of work .. the second one will have all of my recent work …

I’d also love to turn all the stuff I do with Invurt into a yearly print-magazine – but that project is just in the “thinkin about it and looking into it” stage … I’d want to do it right.

All of these will be available for online ordering as well as in e-book format, at the moment, either through Lulu or Blurb – probably Lulu atm, as I would like to attach ISBNs on them ..

Anyways, so that, along with Invurt, is pretty much what I’m working on right now – its good to be creatively busy :)