

'A Boy's Look' ... behind the scenes 2
...more back-story on the artwork 'A Boy's Look', from the exhibition 'HE, SHE, THEY'. (Bunbury Biennale 2021, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery ) Another ancient relic from my 1970's childhood: my beloved Airfix catalogue. I would troll through its pages, ticking the kits I desired. At night, I eyed off the real boxes in the toy shop in which I lived... ... well, that's how I remember it: we actually stayed at the back of my Grandpa' shop in Victoria - briefly a toyshop - for a t


'A Boy's Look'... behind the scenes 1
...a back-story on the artwork 'A Boy's Look', from the exhibition 'HE, SHE,THEY'. (Bunbury Biennale 2021, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery ) Colour blindness is a boy's thing, and so too, it seems, are dinosaurs. Bet they never knew that. For the artwork 'A Boy's Look', I'm putting the first dots of enamel paint onto the discs. I'm copying the colours from Ishihara plates used to determine this male affliction... Dr Shinobu Ishihara developed these ingenious plates in 1917 and