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Ray Monde
Mar 10, 2020
What to do when things go horribly wrong (in art)
Sometimes art goes bad. Look at her face. The horror. This is not intentional. I wasn’t trying to create an image of a women who had been...
Ray Monde
Feb 11, 2018
Art is dead. Long live art.
I’ve just gone through the most excruciating gestation for an artwork that I’ve ever gone through. And I’m still not sure the experience...
Ray Monde
Mar 1, 2017
Walking the tight-rope of an art commission
Getting a commission is an exciting prospect, being asked to create a bespoke artwork for a benefactor is exhilarating. But it’s also a...
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
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
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
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
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
Jan 7, 2014
SOLD, SOLD. Why sales validate artists.
SOLD. Idolatry, Acrylic and collage on canvas, Ray Leggott 2013. Stur Gallery, Xmas Group Show, 2013. Art for art’s sake is a beautiful...
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
Feb 21, 2013
Why kitchens are so inspiring (and messy)
The kitchen is a mess. There’s no question about it. I have a studio, so there’s no reason for the kitchen to look like this, but I work...
Ray Monde
Dec 4, 2012
Rauschenburg and Jasper Johns at MoMA
The first one is Rauschenburg, the second isn’t Jasper Johns. What I loved about my visit to MoMA today was seeing things I’d seen before...
Ray Monde
Feb 6, 2012
Married in the car my sister was murdered in
As you know, I’ve been working on this series of collages about the death of Azaria Chamberlain at Uluru in 1980. This car collage is the...
Ray Monde
Feb 2, 2012
Picasso vomit on a bad day
I’ve been working on this collage series for months now. I have a firm deadline as there’s about to be a Fourth and final inquest, on...
Ray Monde
Jan 30, 2012
A strange thing happened to me today
Today, the latest edition of GQ Australia arrived in the post. That’s not the strange thing. I don’t remember subscribing but that’s not...
Ray Monde
Jan 24, 2012
Back tracked, collage of Aboriginal tracker
After Azaria Chamberlain was taken by a dingo, Aboriginal trackers traced dingo footprints in the sand that was carrying a large bundle....
Ray Monde
Jan 23, 2012
Collage Showdown finalists announced
It’s really exciting to see the Top 300 artworks selected for the Saatchi Online collage showdown. I am disappointed that my work didn’t...
See The River, the latest series by Ray Monde exploring the awesome beauty of the Shoalhaven River.
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