P U B L I C I T Y

These are the commissions which have the least practical limitations. They are also for the most varied set of clients and based on little more than a conversation and a photo or two.

The Next Wave Festival required a poster background for their 'Containers' exhibition. A series of containers is stacked in a warehouse and stocked with work from a multitude of artists. Exploring the maze is like looking for treasure. It's grungy and industrial on the outside but lit within. The image needed a lot of empty space for adding text over, and the potential to be cropped for a tiny image grab in the festival catalogue. 2 days work.

The City of Banyule required three scenes for inclusion their 'Sustainable Homes' letterbox pamphlet. Firstly, a healthy home requires family exercise and entertainment. This can take place in an alternative transportation corridor that's right under our noses, bike paths on our creeks and rivers. Secondly, these are the days of being water wise. Especially important in the garden, an older generation can educate and spend time with the young. Thirdly, green options are coming online for sourcing our power. Standing on the back of a wind turbine has quite a lot in common with the exhilaration of sailing a boat. 4 days work.

Alex Jarvis needed some images to speak for his music. Deep, textural looped guitar noise and intimate lyrics set in wall of solid drumming. It's about longing and searching. The listener is immersed in the initial overwhelming power of the music only to find something warm and more subtle deeper within. I think pictures speak much better than words, particularly for music. 3 days work.

Mount Buller Resort Management celebrated their mountain village turning 50 by commissioning a poster. The subject, Kooroora Lodge, was a remote outpost easier to get to by horse. I suggested they present it as a panoramic postcard from another era. This way it could be used as a mailout as well as a larger size poster. In that fifties kind of way, it needed a sense of travelling adventure with colours that were not quite right. Font from original 50's sign. 6 days work.