As one of my top two living painters, both happen to be gay and Australian, I love seeing new works by Ross Watson. I don’t know if it’s because I discovered his work about the same time as I discovered my sexuality and more fully realised who I was or if it’s just because his work is beautiful. Either way I was excited to see these new works from Ross.
This Introspection series is part of Ross 10th Anniversary Exhibition at the Ross Watson Gallery. Does Ross have a thing for guys in hoodies or is there something more to this? The exhibition runs from the 9th to the 24th of this month. One day I’ll be able to own one of his works.
A while back I posted the video of the NYC Grand Central Station freeze where hundreds of improvisation volunteers stood still for a few minutes baffling those around them. Well Improv Everywhere has done it again with this stunt on the subway. I love that they can make the famously jaded New York public laugh and take notice!
Anthony Larrisey sent me through these images yesterday of this series he’s been working on for a while. Anthony is a brilliant bodypaint artist that has been seen on the pages of Aussielicious a few times before. I can’t imagine how time consuming it must be to paint fishnets on a guy.
This has reminded me of something I saw on a profile on manhunt. Some guy had written “If you wear low v-neck t-shirts and have a drag queen for a friend then we won’t get on and I’m not interested.” Are some guys still so threatened by their own sexuality and full of self-hatred that they can’t chill out and have a bit of fun. I thought as gay men, we’d earned the right to express the feminine side we are supposed to be in touch with, even if it is for a laugh. Personally, I’m fine with the fact that I’m not the most butch thing in the world, nor the most camp and I love a bit of genderfuck theatrics if they are done well.
You have a few days left to catch Ross Watson’s exhibition in Sydney for Mardi Gras. This exhibition showcases his “Silence” paintings and his “Catalogue XXVIII” photography. It’s at Danks St Depot Gallery in Waterloo, Sydney from 11 am and finishes this Saturday 8th. I’m actually heading down this morning.
The beautiful image I posted earlier was a collaborative effort between the digital artist and BeautifulMag. You can download the high resolution artwork in three pieces from there directly, which I’m doing.
They’ve also been kind enough to create this video piece, using the artwork and a track by Madonna also called “The Prophecy” which I’ve always really liked since hearing it on the Justify My Love single.
I love it when an image stops me in my tracks. I haven’t had a lot of time to go through a lot of the blogs on my blogroll lately but thought I’d stop by Gayya Kuyusu today and was really struck by this image. It’s by a photographer called Aymeric Giraudel. I went to his site and there are some beautiful images there, but this one just blew me away. The hours he’s spent putting it together in photoshop are very well spent and of course the guys are HOT. It’s definitely worth clicking on the image to see it full size!
I found this video and tried to post it earlier today but it glitched out the blog. How bizarre and cool would it be to come across over 200 people just standing frozen still, as if time had wrinkled, in the middle of Grand Central Station. Very cool!
Angelo is taking part in a group show as part of this year’s Mardi Gras Festival, at the Tap Gallery from the 12 Feb to 1 March. There will be some great artists involved in the show along with a heap of other stuff to do over the festival so get out there and get some gay culture!
I’m notoriously slack when it comes to this kinda thing, but I’ll be doing my best to get out and about.
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