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Pencil Sketches Of People Biography

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He panics that he may not be able to draw everything in the world… at least once.

His obsession with re-imaging his world has seen him work for major print, TV and music publishing releases. He has also participated in projects in the USA the UK, Indonesia, Austria, Germany, France and Australia, taking his whimsical perception around the world.

He grew up in Sydney, Australia, and in kindergarten remembers devising the most complex image he could think of … refusing to move on to the next activity after painting, instead detailing a complex drawing of a city of houses including every detail, every person, and every spider web between every house. He still has the drawing.

In school he discovered technical drawing. He has always been obsessed with machines and the way things work and rendering the meeting of tiny screws in perfect perspective was a delight. His favourite tool was the mechanical pencil that could change between .25, .5 and .3 thickness lines. His ability to visualize 3d shapes and perspective in his head and draw them on paper drove him to continue to explore the medium. This is now married with a love of colour, paint, and controlled mess as well as connecting it to deeper conceptual and philosophical meaning.

He Studied Visual Communications at the University of Technology, Sydney. Graduating with the University Medal and Honours. In 2000 he stared a gallery in Sydney, Australia called SPACE3 ,with three friends, which welcomed artists in the local community to exhibit in an ornate bank vault. Here they nurtured everything from graduating painters to the development of a music festival. The publishing of a 200 page hardcover book marked the end of 5 years of curating new art in Sydney.

He has traveled extensively including an overland journey from Sydney to London via S.E. Asia, China, Japan, Russia and Europe. Rolling in a typhoon in the sea between Japan and Russia he wondered how he’d save his sketchbook when the ship sank. He undertook artist residencies all over Europe and most recently has been in America where he has worked for a wide variety of  high profile clients. These include Dell Computers, Coca-Cola, Businessweek Magazine, The New York Times, Simon&Schuster, Herman Miller etc… To which he brings his whimsical skill in mediums of illustration, animation and design.

Currently he works out of studios in The Pencil Factory in Brooklyn, New York, and from his homeland studio in Sydney, Australia.

You may know his work from his project www.allthebuildingsinnewyork.com

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 | All The… , Galerie Tremel, France
2012 | Tom & James, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2011 | Tom & James, Galerie Suzi Brunner, Zurich, Switzerland
2011 | All The Buildings In New York, ConArtists Gallery, Lower East Side, New York
2011 | Visions, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2010 | You Win, Nina Sagt Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
2009 | We Will Not Grow Old, No.12 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009 | Desiring Machine, Lamington Drive Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2008 | Logic & Rupture, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2007 | Thought Patterns, SPACE3 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2006 | Heart Felt, SPACE3 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005 | Mechano Brutalists, Pigeon Ground Gallery, Sydney, Australia

AWARDS / GRANTS / RESIDENCIES

2010 | Pencil Factory residency, Brooklyn, New York
2008 | Artomi residency Ghent, New York
2007 | International Cite Des Arts residency Paris, France
2006 | Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship | Austrian Chancellory Residency Vienna, Austria
2005 | Gang Festival residency Indonesia | NAVA artist marketing grant | Australia/Indonesian Institute, Project Grant
2004 | NSW Ministry for the Arts, Project Grant
2002 | SPACE3 collaborative residency London, UK
2000 | University Medal, University of Technology, Sydney

PARTIAL CLIENT LIST

Some of the lovely people I’ve worked with include:
Herman Miller Furniture (USA), Dell Computers, Allstate Insurance, Nylon Magazine, Warner Music (USA), The New York Times, Simon & Schuster Publishers (USA), TBWA/Chiat/Day, Leo Burnett, Saatchi&Saatchi, The Times (UK), The Telegraph (AUS), Sony/BMG (USA), Readers Digest, Coca-Cola, Island/Universal (UK), MIT publications, Readers Digest (AUS), Allen&Unwin Publishers, Business Review Weekly Magazine, Energizer, Business Review Magazine (USA), Commonwealth Bank, MotorTrend Magazine (USA), ESPN magazine, Sydney Opera House, City of Sydney, Swinburne University, University of Technology, Lonely Planet Publications, Rip Curl fashion, Marie Claire Magazine, Ivy League Records, British Telecom, Australian Financial Review, The Australian Government, MTV Australia, AMP, The National Gallery of Australia, G.I.O Insurance, Harry N. Adams Publishers (USA), Gloria Jeans Coffee, ABCTV.
Having finally given up the unequal struggle of juggling painting with a full-time job as a medical researcher  I now spend all my time and most of my energy full time in the studio. This has pleased my two cats immeasurably, although they are banned from the studio as paws dipped in paint are not good for the sitting room carpet. Before working at the University of Southampton I ran a successful eventing and dressage yard for many years, having qualified as an instructor and senior examiner for the British Horse Society.  Eventually, however, one too many involuntary dismounts landed me in hospital and prompted a change of career.  I went back to university to add a PhD to my collection. This enables me to bring not only  informed knowledge of anatomy and physiology to my paintings, but also an innate feeling for how animals 'tick'.

As well as undertaking the portrait work (which I thoroughly enjoy) I have discovered, over the last few years, the joy of painting and drawing wild animals, and made this the excuse to go on a number of trips which I couldn't really afford, but wouldn't have missed for the world.  Thus I have painted Adelie penguins in the Antarctictic, baboons in Botswana,  mongooses in the Masai Mara and zebra in Zambia! Seriously though, I particularly love to draw the big cats which we saw in abundance in Kenya earlier this year, as well as zebras,  topi, Thompson's gazelles and last but by no means least, the imposing African elephant.

Although redundancy/retirement came earlier than anticipated, once the initial shock wore off, I realised that instead of the daily grind of lab work, I was being offered a wonderful opportunity to work full-time at the easel.  I now supplement a meagre pension by taking portrait commissions whilst working to improve my wildlife art. I am on a steep learning curve as far as photography for this goes, and once that is conquered, there will surely be other battles to be won, but I look forward to the journey.

 Pencil Sketches Of People  Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love 

 Pencil Sketches Of People  Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love 

 Pencil Sketches Of People  Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love 

 Pencil Sketches Of People  Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love 

 Pencil Sketches Of People  Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love 

 Pencil Sketches Of People  Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love 

 Pencil Sketches Of People  Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love 

 Pencil Sketches Of People  Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love 

 Pencil Sketches Of People  Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love 

 Pencil Sketches Of People  Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love 

 Pencil Sketches Of People  Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love  

 Pencil Sketches Of People  Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love 

 Pencil Sketches Of People  Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love 

 Pencil Sketches Of People  Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love 

 Pencil Sketches Of People  Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love 

 Pencil Sketches Of People  Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love 

 Pencil Sketches Of People  Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love