do the monkey

Love this by Pan Ron, a 60's Cambodian singer. And how cool is the dancing? After more research I came across this doco about Cambodian rock music in the 60's and how it was nearly destroyed by the Khmer Rouge in the 70's. I'm not sure if this movie is recent but it looks great, although so sad.

ace birthday gifts

My birthday was in April but I was so frantic I didn't have time to post these beauties.

The artwork was made by Tim, bits of collected paper and found objects from the street, perfectly stitched together. How ace is it? I think he should have an exhibition of these, although I wouldn't want to part with them.


This beauty was a gift from my sisters, a 40's mannequin head. Isn't she amazing? Goes well with my other mannequin head found in NY. She needs a nice stand for her.



I bought one of these Mexican bandit puppets for my nephew when I was in Mexico and always thought, 'damn why didn't I get one for myself?' Some friends found three vintage ones. Ivy is already eyeing them off.


Other ace pressies included a wooden travelling plein air artist case, a signed and numbered Beatesville book, and sweet 60's tunes (psychotic reaction 45" hello!) How great are my friends and family for buying me such arty, kooky, rockin' pressies? Thank you!

cy twombly 1928-2011

Scribbly, scrawly, dribbly masterpieces.

the black angels

Seeing this band from Austin this Sat night. Anyone who gets Roky onstage to sing his best song ever from the 13th Floor Elevators is worth seeing I say. They even get those weird noises right.

exhibition extended...

...for one more week until July 2nd. So if you missed it, get on down to Lamington Drive.

catalogue is up!

The entire catalogue of paintings and prints is up here. The colours are much brighter in real life (on my computer screen they look a little different anyway). Higher res pics can be found on my flickr site and artwhatson. Thanks to James Pipino and assistant Alyssia for taking the artwork shots.

thanks!..

'Bam'

'Bottoms Up'

'Tan Fastic'

'Play Your Cards Right'


..to everyone who came to the opening on Thurs night and special thanks to those who bought! Here are some of the works hanging in the show. The entire catalogue should be uploaded here soon. And if you missed the show it's open until June 25th.


These four works are also available as giclee prints. Lamington Drive did an awesome job of printing them. People were asking if they were originals.

the show is hung!

Thanks to action Timmy for helping out. Lamington Drive is a cardboard gallery so I really wanted to paint something on the walls. You'll have to come to see the end result. Got a nice write up here too. Come say hi if you come along.

paintbrushes down....

...and hanging the show tomorrow.

know your product

Hope to see you there, Thurs June 2nd at Lamington Drive.

all kinds of wrong

I've been looking at lots of old ads for inspiration for my exhibition and came across this! Sizes 2-12, really? Bet Ivy would look saucy in this??!

Prints and patterns

More Surtex designs featured on Print and Pattern.

Dreaming in patterns

A few months of dreaming in patterns, and I have my folio ready for a massive licensing show which opens this Sunday in New York. My agent will be spruiking my wares and with any luck we might get a bite. I'd love to jump on a plane to check it out (any excuse to go to New York right, and to leave this hideous weather!) but I gotta get back to the studio and paint. Here are a couple of my fave designs. Oh and if you happen to be in New York from the 15th- 17th, checkout Surtex Booth #446 and say hello to Fran and Michael.

exhibition

It's been busy here in the house of neryl. I've been putting together a folio for a licensing fair (more about that later) and painting towards my solo exhibition at Jacky Winter on June 2nd...eek. Kind of polar opposites really. Here's a painting sneak peek.

Buy or the chick goes

Found this 1967 ad for Drummond sweaters. Nothing like a bit of blatant sexist advertising. I'm surprised they don't have men in those jumpers anyway?

for the love of ivy

So there has been big birthday number one in our house, in which I had to discover my inner baking goddess. There have been family visitors (one very excited Nanna), painting, illustrating and a garden that is just about complete. I promise to be back soon.


(These are the cupcakes I baked which everyone thought looked like boobs. Someone even said, 'I didn't realise this was an erotic party...ha')

Australian and NZ Illustration Awards

The results are in and I scored a couple of bronze awards for these illustrations! One for advertising (Breadmakers CD) and one for self promotion. See all the results here and they will also be published in a special supplement of Australian Creative Magazine, due to hit the news stands this week.

trailer trash

Check out these ace vintage mobile homes found via Tiki Lisa. Now that is my kinda holiday home. I would so want to stay in this caravan park. Complete with white picket fences and kooky gardens. And look at the interior in the advertisement! Lisa took the photos in Pomona, CA on Route 66 at the Foothill Village Mobile Home Park. You can check out more on her flickr site.



This pic found here. How good is the two storey trailer. LUXURY!

jsbx

This Sat 15th at the HiFi, Jon Spencer play 'Orange' in it's entirety. Yay! Could you get a better song to start an album? We both bought tix for each other as Xmas pressies so we have two spare tix to sell. Support band is the excellent Super Wild Horses...any takers?

happy holidays y'all

Xmas came and went so fast and I didn't quite get around to a Xmas tree, so this antique carved wooden deer head became it. It's one of a pair bought back from Bali. We always regret not buying travel momentoes, so went for it and spent the last day walking around trying to find suitcases to fit them into....ha. The carvings are Javanese and they would have sat either side of a house to keep the bad spirits away.

garden

It's been a long process but we are finally in the midst of landscaping our garden (just to make things more hectic before Xmas). Think mid century Palm Springs with organic shapes, crazy paving, rock features and some nice lawn for Ivy to crawl about on. Here are some inspiration pics. I'll let you know if we came anywhere close...minus the spectacular views!

rockstars and smoke

This was a fun Buxom job illustrated a while ago for the inner rock chick. Think 'the Runaways' meets 80's glam. I just noticed it's now being sold in the US here.




Plus more products released, Samantha's Smoky Eye kit available also in the US here.