What happens when you cross Japan with Australia?
I’ve often spoken of the serendipity of creativity – how our heads suck in every thing we experience – sights, sounds, tastes, colours,...
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Ray Monde
Jan 31, 2017
Finding your twin is not easy
Here’s the thing – getting a commission from someone is always a little bit tricksy. You go from doing whatever you like, whatever is in...
Ray Monde
Jan 23, 2017
The serendipitious nature of art inspiration
Having worked as a creative in the advertising industry for 20 years, it was always a bit of a mystery where the creative idea came from....
Ray Monde
Jan 17, 2017
Rest well Michael Chamberlain, you fought hard for justice
4ENSIC, 1977 Torana Hatchback, collage, 2012. In a strange way, Michael Chamberlain is responsible for starting my life as an artist....
Ray Monde
Jan 10, 2017
Taking another look at forgotten works
Sometimes I create an artwork that’s a little unloved. It gets turned around to face the studio wall and is kind of forgotten about. I...
Ray Monde
Jan 10, 2017
Taking another look at forgotten artworks
Sometimes I create an artwork that's a little unloved. It gets turned around to face the studio wall and is kind of forgotten about. I...
Ray Monde
Nov 30, 2016
Letting the inner child loose
There’s some things we keep going back to again and again as an artist. For me, it’s memories of my childhood. I can’t quite pin my...
Ray Monde
Nov 16, 2016
The Other Art Fair Sydney: Ray Monde
And breathe. The Other Art Fair Sydney is over. It’s now moved on to London a I sold two works on opening night, one to the home of the...
Ray Monde
Aug 16, 2016
Bringing Vincent Van Gogh back to life
There’s something truly audacious about creating a movie about Vincent Van Gogh that is animated in a painting style mimicking his own....
Ray Monde
May 31, 2016
Is it up to artists to decide who can buy their art?
Here’s a strange one for you. In 2010, I created a series of artworks about words that sound the same but have different meanings. I...
Ray Monde
May 24, 2016
Bumping in to M16 Artspace
In just an hour I set up my works for my new show, It’s for your own good. These works explore experiences from my childhood that inform...
Ray Monde
May 18, 2016
Why I love Heidi so much
There’s an art museum on the outskirts of Melbourne that has changed and informed the way I live my life. In many ways, it has set the...
Ray Monde
May 7, 2016
Can you trust your childhood memories?
Wait till your father gets home, collage and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Monde Monde Artist, 2016 “Wait till your father gets...
Ray Monde
Apr 11, 2016
I am Shia LaBeouf
Last November Shia LaBeouf watched all his movies in the Angelika Film Centre in New York City, there were crowds in the lobby waiting...
Ray Monde
Apr 5, 2016
It’s for your own good
Wait till your father gets home, collage and synthetic polymer paint, by Monde Monde I’m frantically working on my final works for my...
Ray Monde
Mar 29, 2016
A sudden sale of artwork
Workers Hut at Tempelhof Airport by Monde Monde One of the things I try and do as an artist is get my work in front of as many people as...
Ray Monde
Oct 7, 2015
How @Twitter can be your muser and abuser in #art
The tirade of abuse for being Aboriginal is raw and uncomfortable and leaves a lasting impression. Like this one from JohnBoy “I guess he...
Ray Monde
Sep 14, 2015
This is what happens when art worlds collide
I was at yum cha when in rolled the three severed heads of Buddha: Fear, Malice and Death Chinese ink on paper, Jason Phu Sometimes the...
Ray Monde
Sep 2, 2015
Is all art worthless?
I was sad but not surprised to find out this week that Bono has made more from his Facebook investments than all of his music combined,...
Ray Monde
Aug 18, 2015
Death in Venice. How I died from overwrought, self-indulgent art.
If you’ve read Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, you’ll know the protagonist Gustav von Aschenbach dies a self-indulgent painted-fool...
See The River, the latest series by Ray Monde exploring the awesome beauty of the Shoalhaven River.
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