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Ray Monde
- Jun 27
- 3 min
What comes after Rauschenberg’s ‘most powerful image of anal intercourse ever’?
Art critic Robert Hughes famously described Rauschenberg’s Monogram as “The most powerful image of anal intercourse ever to emerge from...
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Ray Monde
- Jun 17
- 4 min
Nine artists to fall in love with during Pride Month 2022
On a hot summer night in 1968, the streets outside the Stonewall Inn in New York City erupted as queer folk defended a space where they...
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Ray Monde
- May 5
- 1 min
Love on the Moon: finalist in the National Works on Paper 2022
My artwork, Love on the Moon, is a finalist in the National Works on Paper 2022. The work is one of just 78 artists from all corners of...
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Ray Monde
- May 5
- 1 min
Nick Mitzevich, Director of National Gallery of Australia opens What the Wayfarer Saw.
The exhibition, What the Wayfarer Saw, at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery charts an 86 kilometre odyssey on foot from Goulburn to Braidwood...
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Ray Monde
- Dec 8, 2021
- 2 min
Red Fish, Blue Fish art exhibition at Purple Noon Gallery.
One of the things I love the most about Australian summers is the abundance of delicious, fresh seafood. Prawns and oysters have become...
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Ray Monde
- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min
What does it mean when a crown is upside down?
What is the symbolism of a crown that is upside down? It’s stitched into my trousers and jeans. It's embroidered on my shirts. I wear it...
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Ray Monde
- Aug 8, 2021
- 1 min
How small observations of Puget Sound, create a big audience.
On Fridays in the studio, I take a break from my big projects and work on little things. I open my window on Cherry Street and watch the...
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Ray Monde
- Jul 20, 2021
- 2 min
Monet is not the man you think he is.
Look, I admit it. I was never much of a fan of Monet. When we look at his ‘pretty pictures’, it’s easy to forget the struggle behind...
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Ray Monde
- Feb 27, 2021
- 2 min
Masks of quarantine: does hiding your face liberate your soul?
There are only 20 passengers on the plane from LAX. We’re shepherded along together, six feet apart. At passport control, a long darkened...
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Ray Monde
- Nov 26, 2020
- 2 min
After The Fires opens at Purple Noon Gallery on 5 December 2020
This new exhibition at Purple Noon Gallery is a series of landscapes that examine the aftermath of the bushfires around Braidwood in...
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Ray Monde
- Oct 30, 2020
- 2 min
Ray Monde: finalist in the 2020 Blacktown Art Prize
When I was 12, my older brothers moved from the Burrell Creek in rural NSW to the Western Suburbs of Sydney to live and work, eventually...
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Ray Monde
- Oct 12, 2020
- 3 min
I'm a finalist in the 2020 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
There are some art prizes that you dream of being finalist in and for me and the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize is one of them. Working...
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Ray Monde
- Sep 21, 2020
- 2 min
Painting with soot and glacial water 水墨
Thousands of years after the glaciers melt, we ride up the waters of Lake Chelan. The Stehekin River flows in at the top of the lake at...
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Ray Monde
- Aug 14, 2020
- 1 min
I'm a Finalist in the 2020 National Works on Paper Prize
I'm a finalist in one of the most prestigious prizes of its type in Australia.
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Ray Monde
- Jul 27, 2020
- 2 min
24 artworks sold in 24 hours.
How to sell 24 artworks in 24 hours in the pursuit of a fair vote.
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Ray Monde
- Jul 20, 2020
- 2 min
Viral murals: paintings of a pandemic.
While some of the hoarding is coming down off shopfronts around Seattle, many remain shuttered. When they first went up, the streets...
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Ray Monde
- Jul 16, 2020
- 1 min
Some days are shit. That’s the shape of it.
Sometimes this heavy cloak drops over us, makes it harder to do everything. Sometimes it’s easy to pinpoint where the darkness comes...
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Ray Monde
- Jul 12, 2020
- 2 min
An unexpected three-way.
This week I had an unexpected three-way. Summer is here, temperatures are rising and people are emerging from lock-downs around the...
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Ray Monde
- Jul 2, 2020
- 2 min
A turn to the dark side: from ashes to artwork.
Flicking through the photos on my phone, I came across a shot of the bushfires around Braidwood in December last year. It jolted me back...
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Ray Monde
- Jul 2, 2020
- 2 min
A turn to the dark side: from ashes to artwork.
Flicking through the photos on my phone, I came across a shot of the bushfires around Braidwood in December last year. It jolted me back...
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