"Hurry, though - I turn 80 this year: Les Murray's urgent words to me
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...
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Ray Monde
Jan 5, 2019
Art work, work, work: 2019
What's the future of art in 2019. Ray Monde takes a look at the year ahead and plans to get stuffed
Ray Monde
Oct 22, 2018
What does it mean for an artist to be shown in a public art gallery?
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...
Ray Monde
Mar 23, 2017
Is Dan Kyle the next Arthur Boyd?
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...
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 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
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
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
Feb 20, 2014
Dry your tears: the child within us #art #collage
I started this series almost on a whim. Experiences as children sharply determine who we will be as adults. As we mature, we become...
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
Aug 28, 2013
Back to basics, re-learning to draw
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...
Ray Monde
May 14, 2013
What is smaller than matchbox but can move mountains?
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...
Ray Monde
May 3, 2013
A mammoth work of staggering brilliance: Nolan’s Snake
If anyone knows anything about Sidney Nolan, they know his Ned Kelly series: an Australian bushranger immortalised in enamel on...
Ray Monde
Apr 23, 2013
Art with a story is better than art for art’s sake
Jack Featherstone is an amazing man. He spent a great deal of his life travelling the Australian outback, giving dental care to remote...
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
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
Nov 14, 2012
Anna Hymas’ style is lyrical and beautiful
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...
Ray Monde
Sep 21, 2012
Anna Platten is devilishly crazy
A surprise trip to Adelaide took me to the Art Gallery of South Australia. For a relatively small gallery, it really punches above its...
See The River, the latest series by Ray Monde exploring the awesome beauty of the Shoalhaven River.
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