I can see just how you would have been as a kid #art #collage
Sometimes you meet someone new and you can immediately see how they would have been as a kid. In fact, it’s one of my favourite internal...
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Ray Monde
- May 12, 2014
A serendipitous encounter with Hassan Sharif in Al Quoz
There’s a dazzling brightness to Dubai that is almost too much to bear – a jammed brilliance that fills every corner of your periphery....
Ray Monde
- Apr 10, 2014
The Good and Evil of #Collage #19BOS #MCANow
Collage is a funny thing, you’re always appropriating someone else’s work. For me, I love cutting up and reworking high-end glossy...
Ray Monde
- Apr 1, 2014
LaserCat feeds on your art and he’s very hungry #art #bizarre #hungrycastle
“What did you do today, honey?” “Fed my art to LaserCat so he can project it on the moon.” This is the kind of conversation artists are...
Ray Monde
- Mar 11, 2014
One of the best exhibitions in the world, ever: #darkheart at the Art Gallery of South Australia
It’s a big call I know but it’s true, Dark Heart at the Art Gallery of South Australia is magnificent. Sensation at the Royal Academy 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 23, 2013
Inspired by Picasso, an online exhibition curated by Rebecca Wilson
Saatchi Online is an enormous gallery that anyone in the world can step into and wander among hundreds of thousands of artworks by...
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
- Aug 28, 2013
Back to basics, re-learning to draw
Crushed espresso cup, conte on cartridge paper I’ve decided to go back to school and learn to draw all over again. After spending 20...
Ray Monde
- Jul 5, 2013
What my teddy bear taught me about idolatry
When you think about religious art, the first thing that comes to mind for many is little baby Jesus with a golden halo. Not so, when it...
Ray Monde
- May 14, 2013
What is smaller than matchbox but can move mountains?
It’s nothing much to look at. A few words in a column relegated to things to do to fill in lazy Friday afternoon. But for me it was a big...
Ray Monde
- Apr 2, 2013
Is video art real art?
Sophie, 6 seconds of fame, post-pop portrait, click to view I’m looking at the months ahead and they look like a gaping yawn, a wide open...
Ray Monde
- Mar 18, 2013
Dark side of the Road, the complete suite of work
Big blow outside Crookwell Black Spot on Bombay Road Damn near the Shoalhaven River Dead end on Reservoir Lane Killer on the King’s...
Ray Monde
- Mar 14, 2013
Is that a little bit of Basquiat in the Archibald’s this year?
This has to be one of my absolute favourite times of the year. You can almost feel the zappiness in the air as artist’s around the...
Ray Monde
- Mar 13, 2013
Why you want to bite into Ben Quilty’s work, just mind the nipples
I was lucky enough to stop by Ben Quilty‘s exhibition at the National Art School. Ben was the offical war artist in Afghanistan,...
Ray Monde
- Mar 12, 2013
Questions you should never ask an artist.
In all the hubbub and excitement of my opening last week at Gaffa Gallery, I completely forgot to take any photos. I would have loved to...
Ray Monde
- Mar 5, 2013
An organised artist: is that an oxymoron?
At home, I don’t mind being disorganised or messy, as you would have seen from my kitchen photos earlier on. But when I’m in the public...
Ray Monde
- Feb 28, 2013
Art Month sneak preview: Dark side of the Road
Black Spot on Bombay Road There’s only one week to go before the opening of Dark Side of the Road at Gaffa Gallery. If you can make it on...
Ray Monde
- Feb 26, 2013
Why dumb ideas should die. Oh the shame!
I’m red-faced even as I write this. I thought it would be a great idea to write my ‘to-do’ lists on index cards. It works fairly well, I...
See The River, the latest series by Ray Monde exploring the awesome beauty of the Shoalhaven River.
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