Fancy Bag

yet to be titled, ink on paper, 2011

'Money' & 'Yuan'

Two new Dollar Bill pieces

(sorry crappy phone shots for now)

'Money', ink on a dollar bill, 2011

'Yuan', ink on a dollar bill, 2011

BoneR

'Boner', ink on a one dollar bill, 2010

made for 'End of Shadows' curated by Joe Stanley

@ the Sycamore Arts Club in Dublin

Lonely for the Backyard Show!

Ink on a One Dollar Bill

Made for Shrem & Les's backyard show opening

tonight (now, yes im late)

I've probably broken lots of American laws

by 'defacing' the US dollar but hey its now art.

Aurel Schmidt

Aurel Schmidt is one of my favourite artists, she is irritatingly good at drawing horrible things but making them look so pretty. Schmidt builds Arcimboldo-esque accumulations from street trash, the darker elements in nature, and researched historical imagery. Drawn with an elegant and sensitive line, she slurries together her brew of beasts and spreads them over the page to form faces, bodies, landscapes, or abstract artworks. A Grecian bust is transformed into a terrible tangle of twisting snakes. A face forms out of discarded fast food and maggots. A crooked cigarette butt smile appears over wormy lips as a woman’s burned out eyeholes stare blankly forward. robbed from deitch.

Her book Maneater is here and grab Burnouts form here.

Maneater is winging its way to me as you read, it could already be here.

I havent had a proper chance to write about Schmidt's work yet so I'll let her drawings do the talking.

Dailys, Hung 1 & Hung 2

Dailys, Tears & Blocks

Dailys, Skull and Bunny

the skull isnt quite done yet i have to take a lighter to it and burn around the cut out parts, eyes, nose and teeth and maybe the edges.

Robots

'Google It' private collection

i love the idea that old robots from the 60's & 70's tv series are now failed ideas of the future. i also love old robot toys, these robots are based on various old toys to make my perfect failed robot. i was using him to look at things from a different point of view.

Miles of Smiles

Old Drawing that lives somewhere else : )

private collection

FAINT ZINE NO.1

Print your own copy of the first ever FAINT zine! (no longer available)

nice and small ready to fit onto 4 A4 pages back and front for 16 pages of fun fun fun

Call & Response

some of the work I make references other peoples works, this one is a response to the great Raymond Pettibon. this was made a few years back during my MFA but has never been shown before. ive always loved the VA-VOOM character from Felix the Cat and Pettibon's drawings. At the time I was reading lots of Roland Barthes, i really liked his thoughts about Toys, from Mythologies, being a microcosm of the adult world, Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts is a pefect example of this idea. I always loved that Lucy had a psychiatrist stand.

Dailys, Untitled (Sock Monkey)

Dailys, Ghost in a Halloween Mask

Old MFA Note Book Drawings 2

more of the same.

Old MFA Note Book Drawings

these are dumb and quick things i did a fews years ago, most are just lil ideas dealing with different things i'd read or seen around the time.

Dailys, Love Me Harder.

Dailys, Otto the otter sings "I Am a Cinematographer"

Dailys, Use Me.

Dailys