Introduction

Started in high school

Echuca High School

Descriptive geometry

Draw the Paramatta River

Influenced by teachers?

A number of influential teachers

Influenced by attitude not by work

Any outstanding fellow students?

A number of them

Did not maintain contact with any

Beginning to work in an abstract expressionist manner

Organic rhythms of the landscape

Some external influences

Someone will find a way of preserving it

Little sense of landscape based work

Change to Pop

Working at a boy's high school

Starting to become figurative

Review by a critic

Winning the Sulman prize

The arrival of Pop Art in Australia

Different to American and British pop

Satirical comments on exhibitions and openings

Other pop artists at that time

Contact with other pop artists

Contact only through exhibitions

Draw more on American pop

Satirical and whimsical character of work

Want stuff to be different

Eliminate the whimsy and satirical elements

The play between abstract shapes and female nude figure

Still hung up on life drawing

Addiction to TV

Erotic quality of the figures

20 year old models fronm next door

First model was a student

The move to photography

Move to far greater abstraction

A logical development

Being eliminated from any group

Many things brought about use of photography

Intrigued by blowing up of the image

Blowing up nude photographs

Fascination with shapes and numbers

International exhibitions of contemporary art

Discover nobody is doing what I'm doing

It was me

The Engine Exhibition

Met through a hairdressing salon

An interesting way of doing things

Took off like a lead ballon

Fallen on deaf ears

A show before it's time

Unfairly overlooked

Multimedia, multi-sensory works

Alfa Romeos

The window dresser's dummies

Dummies lit up

Artcomp, the computer

Enviromachine, puffing perfume

Sticking gallery

Noises and flashing lights

Nothing like it before

Not too many people involved in kinetics

Resonating car and figure

The car as sculpture

A Car Art exhibition

A passion for European cars

Owned a Saab the longest

Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education

Studio shows

Developing the school

Something had to give

On appointment, there was me and nothing else

Started two weeks late

A school, a jail and a baby powder factory

Exhibtions at Bloomfield Gallery

A new theme of signs

Nudes behind road signs

Back to geometric formats

Inclusion of banners

Printing onto canvas

A difficult process

Putting large frames around nudes

Nudes, frames and road signs

Tongue in cheek quality about frames

The photograph to be art

Interpret it any way they like

Candid photography

Happy snapping

Studio photos are contrived

Photos of the back of cars

Most of its instinctive

Public space sculptures

A series of cubes

Winning a competition

Left with a wristwatch

Cubes infilled with glass

Marland House

The fixing of the cubes

A submarine trapdoor

Able to last indefinitely but didn't

Left in a paddock

The sculpture fixed up

The attraction of vandals

Sculpture not vandalised

Clem Meadmore

Strippers from Sydney

Nobody contacted the police

Made the local papers

Was this a departure from pop art?

Turning the picture to three dimensions

Will pop art continually refresh itself?

They think they've discovered it

Things are very cyclic

The New South Wales branch of the COntemporary Art Society

Travelling with the secretary of the CAS

Exhibiting at Macquarie Gallery

Pastels on paper works

Shocked by satirical works

James Gleeson and Barry Stern

The middle class and the working man

The furniture

Enamoured by the Memphis people

No attempt to integrate imagery from another place

A picture gone three dimensional

Touched by famous hands

Thank you

Credits