F%#k pretty pictures: how one artist brings a tender approach to loss
Art is emotional. Art is worthless unless it gets a reaction. Fuck pretty pictures and lovely things to hang on your walls. Art needs to...
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Ray Monde
Jul 22, 2015
There’s a lot of shit at @la_Biennale but Grisha #Bruskin is crazy wild #art #videoart
I’m going to say it straight out. There’s a lot of shit at the Venice Biennale. Two planks nailed to a wall? Shit. Self-indulgent video...
Ray Monde
Jun 10, 2015
Why is Saint Sebastian the sexiest of all saints?
If you haven’t seen Hunger of the Pines by Alt J, take a look at their video, there’s a strange surging melancholy to it; an anxious...
Ray Monde
May 19, 2015
You will never succeed as an #artist without someone to tell you you’re shit.
Wreck 71cm x 81cm oil on linen, Guy Maestri You see it on Instagram all the time, artist’s posting their latest work, getting thumbs up...
Ray Monde
May 10, 2015
Why your day job is killing your #art
Many artists are poor. The idea of the starving, struggling artist is as true today as it was for generations of artists before us,...
Ray Monde
Apr 29, 2015
#Art and #death by firing squad: Myuran Sukumaran
This morning, Myuran Sukumaran was shot to death by firing squad on the island of Nusakambangan in Indonesia. Myuran was a convicted drug...
Ray Monde
Mar 31, 2015
Watching your mum die is no way to start as an artist @ArtGalleryofSA @mitzevich #art #photography
Every year we try and head down to Adelaide to get amongst the crazy hubbub of festivals. We were lucky enough to snag an invitation to...
Ray Monde
Mar 23, 2015
Reworking old work is a great lesson in self-destruction #nohomo #art #collage
Often when I’m creating work it’s in an absolute frenzy. I’m slapping on glue and paper, getting bits stuck to my face, the hairs on my...
Ray Monde
Mar 3, 2015
Why each stroke doesn’t have to be a masterstroke #art #artforsale @sturgallery
Wheel, Mixed media on Board, Shannon Johnson Artist’s need to relax more. Artist’s need to forget more. And they need to try less hard....
Ray Monde
Feb 26, 2015
Reuniting old faces. Ben Quilty is always fresh; the man we love to love @AWMemorial
Troy Park, after Afghanistan, oil on linen 2012. Ben Quilty, born 1973 When I lived in New York, I worked in an ad agency on Madison...
Ray Monde
Feb 17, 2015
How much Chuck can a wood Chuck cut? #closetochuck #ChuckClose
When I heard that the Chuck Close exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia was just prints I was really put off. I mean,...
Ray Monde
Feb 9, 2015
It’s not pretty, it’s not comfortable, but it’s mine. A room of one’s own.
You can’t control what goes on in your head. You don’t know where inspiration comes from – or when it will come. If you try to...
Ray Monde
Jan 20, 2015
Drowning kittens; saying bye bye to my babies #art #artforsale #newhome
As a kid our cat Sally would mate with a feral Tomcat who lived in the wild. Two months later she’d pop out a litter of kitties, often in...
Ray Monde
Dec 29, 2014
Georgia on my mind #artforsale #modernart #collage
Black spot on Bombay Road, Mixed Media, 2013 Just before Christmas, Saatchi Art let me know I had sold one my my landscapes to a...
Ray Monde
Dec 10, 2014
Let’s play a game called spot the #panda @ChapmanInfo #belleartiprize
This was the first year I entered the Belle Arti Prize, it’s a great award run by Chapman & Bailey. Essentially, they send out hundreds...
Ray Monde
Dec 9, 2014
How our #childhood affects our lives as adults
I love talking to artists about their work, it gives you so much more depth and understanding for their work. And that’s why I’ve decided...
Ray Monde
Dec 1, 2014
Putting the Saints back into Christmas
There’s a great end of year exhibition of local arts opening this Friday at Stur Gallery + Store. After my show in October, I really...
Ray Monde
Sep 17, 2014
When private tales go public #art #collage
I drank too much. Like many people, when I’m nervous, I drink. Just like on opening night of Dry Your Tears at Stur Gallery. If you...
Ray Monde
Sep 2, 2014
DRY YOUR TEARS; New work opens September 5 at Stur Gallery #art #collage #contemporaryart
Last night my kitchen was a frenzied mess, I had the fire blazing as I glazed the collage and feverishly blackened the sides of the...
Ray Monde
Aug 1, 2014
Sometimes you need to launch a surprise attack #art #collage #caddyshack #poolscene
A few weeks ago, this was the disaster I was facing. Beneath this mess of gesso and paint and scribbles is another collage of a bathtub...
See The River, the latest series by Ray Monde exploring the awesome beauty of the Shoalhaven River.
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