I can see just how you would have been as a kid #art #collage
Sometimes you meet someone new and you can immediately see how they would have been as a kid. In fact, it’s one of my favourite internal...
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Jul 17, 2014
Matisse is not some holy relic, stop the divine reverence! @Tate
Lydia Delectorskaya, Matisse at Hôtel Régina, Nice, 1952, Courtesy Henri Matisse Archives. All artwork by Henri Matisse (c) Succession H....
Ray Monde
Jul 8, 2014
WW1 horrors for all the world to see, repeated today #WW1
Looking at this photo of Over the Top by John Nash you see just how macabre war is. The slumped shoulders of B Company, the drudging...
Ray Monde
May 16, 2014
These portraits made of #Lego are strangely compelling
Ana, David Bullock, Lego, 2014 Waking the streets of beautiful Bath on a family outing, we stepped from the sunlit streets into the...
Ray Monde
May 12, 2014
A serendipitous encounter with Hassan Sharif in Al Quoz
There’s a dazzling brightness to Dubai that is almost too much to bear – a jammed brilliance that fills every corner of your periphery....
Ray Monde
Apr 10, 2014
The Good and Evil of #Collage #19BOS #MCANow
Collage is a funny thing, you’re always appropriating someone else’s work. For me, I love cutting up and reworking high-end glossy...
Ray Monde
Dec 3, 2013
Six seconds of fame, post pop portraits
Sal, Six seconds of fame, post pop portrait This is a new beginning. Sometimes the best thing to do is just start. Put marks on paper,...
Ray Monde
Oct 22, 2013
Pictures framed with poo and other spiritual experiences: Blake Prize
The Blake Prize is kooky. It’s essentially an art prize for works with a religious bent but its parameters are very, very broad. This...
Ray Monde
Oct 2, 2013
When scrimping and penny-pinching are the artist’s enemies
Part of the reason I create collage is because it’s cheap. I tear up old magazines to create images and use boxboard as my canvas. It’s...
Ray Monde
Mar 18, 2013
Dark side of the Road, the complete suite of work
Big blow outside Crookwell Black Spot on Bombay Road Damn near the Shoalhaven River Dead end on Reservoir Lane Killer on the King’s...
Ray Monde
Mar 13, 2013
Why you want to bite into Ben Quilty’s work, just mind the nipples
I was lucky enough to stop by Ben Quilty‘s exhibition at the National Art School. Ben was the offical war artist in Afghanistan,...
Ray Monde
Mar 12, 2013
Questions you should never ask an artist.
In all the hubbub and excitement of my opening last week at Gaffa Gallery, I completely forgot to take any photos. I would have loved to...
Ray Monde
Feb 28, 2013
Art Month sneak preview: Dark side of the Road
Black Spot on Bombay Road There’s only one week to go before the opening of Dark Side of the Road at Gaffa Gallery. If you can make it on...
Ray Monde
Feb 26, 2013
Why dumb ideas should die. Oh the shame!
I’m red-faced even as I write this. I thought it would be a great idea to write my ‘to-do’ lists on index cards. It works fairly well, I...
Ray Monde
Feb 22, 2013
Is it nonsense to take art advice from a 1993 movie?
Here’s the last of my series of Dark Side of the Road. This landscape is quite near my house, it’s a dam by the road on the way into...
Ray Monde
Feb 11, 2013
The colours of Bacon haunt me even now
Francis Bacon Five Decades is in it’s last few weeks at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. It closes on 24 Feb and I absolutely jubilant...
Ray Monde
Feb 4, 2013
Art-work versus work-work. Who wins?
The Studio interactive space at the Art Gallery of South Australia Like most artists, I’d rather spend my time creating artworks rather...
Ray Monde
Jan 24, 2013
Kill it, love it or f#%k it, struggling with art
When you’re working on a piece, sometimes it doesn’t go as planned. Sometimes it goes horribly wrong and the more you try to fix it, the...
Ray Monde
Jan 10, 2013
Fiddling while Rome burns
It’s been blazingly hot in Australia lately with temperatures pushing 40C (100F) and bushfires blazing across the countryside, decimating...
Ray Monde
Jan 3, 2013
Is Obama the most inspiring President for artists?
Illustration for Time Magazine Time Magazine crowned Barack Obama 2012 person of the year and commissioned this portrait by artist Vik...
See The River, the latest series by Ray Monde exploring the awesome beauty of the Shoalhaven River.
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