Single Image | 'Vans' | On the train | Yunnan Province China | 2015

'Yeah Right' | 2022 | Found Objects | Work In Progress | 800mm x 600mm

Let's be honest. For beneath the surface. Of the issues. You will find us

shane i’m not sure - i have been online so much I may have morphed and evolved - somehow uploaded myself

If Tom Wolfe had it right, when commenting on the “trouble with Leary and his group”, that intellectuals have always sought “another country, the fatherland of the mind, where it is all better and more philosophic

If I sit in silence long enough all this pregnant prose (and my pretence) might make sense. But who has the time

it is a way in. to an eternal conversation. with an unknown destination but a strong sense there ultimately be some fundamental common ground. this is science for the seekers. and because of it we know there are almost eight billion points of departure - of entry. but perhaps only one enlightened way out

I was lucky enough to spend time at Byron Art School this year studying printmaking with Travis Patterson. Amazing place. Amazing teacher. Amazing technique. Printmaking is super slow. Messy. Intimate. Complex. Inefficient. You could spend days in here, not get anything done, and walk out a better person for it.

I was playing with collage in PS and this was one of those ones where I just went too far. I was throwing images randomly on top of each other and blending layers with zero thought. Close to zero technique and skill. I don't know how many images are embedded in this. Too many

I did a super short observational drawing workshop with Belle Bassin in Mullum early this year. She's epic. I like this sketch because of the constraints she put me under and the paradoxical relief and freedom I felt. 5 minutes. Non-dominant hand. Draw the cardboard boxes. Stop thinking

The latest edition of So Fi Zine is out now. So Fi is an indie publication for sociological fiction, poetry, visual art, and other creative work. Edition #8 was released on December 30, 2020 and was inspired by Ruha Benjamin’s radical experiments with speculative fiction. This edition brings you 22 sociological short stories, poetry,

Draft cover for a magazine brief. I never used it. But it was where my interest and experimentation in collage began

Was checking on the wheatpasting trial of an older version of the 'free to fail' poster and this is what I found. Originally pasted up on the 8th November 2020, 6.17pm. I went back yesterday afternoon (13th December 5.15PM) to check it out and recapture it. All weathered about a month or so later

I sent this to students recently. "Very rarely - in my experience - do your best ideas come from you just sitting down and writing - it is born from constraint(s). Like some of these seemingly weird tasks we have been playing with. A constraint imposed on you by"

Heaviest (and by far the coolest) university logo I have ever seen. It's like some sort of post-apocalyptic symbol. And probably not far off. Result of a relocation and merger between three Chinese universities after the anti-Japanese War broke out in 1937. Yunnan Normal University, Kunming China. Late June, 2015.

One day I will run some odd stock / material through the printer and it will jam it good. But today is not that day. My preferred method is to set the printer up with whatever weird material you want it to print on / hit print / and look away

sometimes i wonder / what i am actually doing here / like how did i get this position  / this role  / this right  / this responsibility / hey check me out / all propped up here / the / supposed sage on stage / If that's what this is / all embodied knowledge / and advice  / and correct path through life

That letter A has been designed then cut by laser into a steel hydrant booster box. And degraded by time. That letter is one of many that form languages. Constructed to record / express our experience. Typography endows that language with a durable visual form. But our durability has always been in question.

People suffer deeply when time is divided up / into rigid segments / mathematical management / focussed on efficiency / and productivity / and this relentless chase for constant growth and hey really it is / just a chase for more /// profit

I came across two things pretty much in the one hit - kraft paper - and that crumpled up paper method method of displaying a piece of work

There is this epic idea that you have used inspiration well when you can hold up all your inspiration next to your work and be comfortable saying to someone, "hey this is what I created and this is what inspired me". If you are not comfortable doing that then your work is too close

This was the too literal / no mystery / no nuance / actually looks too much like something outcome from the balance through symmetry exercise. I wasn't into it. But did love the process

This was me working on the 'Circuit Breaker' poster. Indesign is sexy. All those lines and visuals and mysterious instruments and controls. Like a fighter pilots' cockpit

The line, "there is no movement right now" is designer Chris Ashworth. So too is the technique I am playing with. I was creating a background that I later put into Indesign and embedded type over the top. The technique is super raw and the line from Chris is actually a call to action

In an age where paper and print and the future of books is called into question - zines endure. Handmade high weirdness. Chaos and edge. The stuff that has impact and the stuff that truly lasts has always been strange

One of the early criticisms of David Carson’s work was it was self indulgent. His response to that was, “Hell yeah it is. I’m totally into it”. Fuck I love Carson's vibe

I’m asked to explain. The inexplicable. And to make something tangible. From methods that in reality are abstract. If a student stands up on behalf of the group and says, “what you did here will stay with us for life” is that not tangible. Enough. For you

I often look down at the piece of paper I have been using to mix and trial colours and test different approaches - and go "Wow that is a better and more artistic piece of work than the thing I am trying to create". It is confronting. But also super uplifting.