Around this time last year I wrote to Les Murray, Australia's greatest contemporary poet, to ask if he would sit for me. His reply was...

What's the future of art in 2019. Ray Monde takes a look at the year ahead and plans to get stuffed

Last Friday night, I picked mum and dad up at the Goulburn South Caravan Park and drove them to the Goulburn Workers Club for a quick...

I’m going to say it right now, I love Dan Kyle. He’s a young guy, living in the mountains taking an obsessive look at the Australian bush...

There’s something truly audacious about creating a movie about Vincent Van Gogh that is animated in a painting style mimicking his own....

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...

Wait till your father gets home, collage and synthetic polymer paint, by Monde Monde I’m frantically working on my final works for my...

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...

I started this series almost on a whim. Experiences as children sharply determine who we will be as adults. As we mature, we become...

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...

Crushed espresso cup, conte on cartridge paper I’ve decided to go back to school and learn to draw all over again. After spending 20...

It’s nothing much to look at. A few words in a column relegated to things to do to fill in lazy Friday afternoon. But for me it was a big...

If anyone knows anything about Sidney Nolan, they know his Ned Kelly series: an Australian bushranger immortalised in enamel on...

Jack Featherstone is an amazing man. He spent a great deal of his life travelling the Australian outback, giving dental care to remote...

I was lucky enough to stop by Ben Quilty‘s exhibition at the National Art School. Ben was the offical war artist in Afghanistan,...

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...

Years ago I lived in Bloomsbury in London and shared a mad 3 storey house with all kinds of inspiring folk. There was a guy who made...

A surprise trip to Adelaide took me to the Art Gallery of South Australia. For a relatively small gallery, it really punches above its...