Ricky Swallow, 23 May 2008.

I went and saw the Ricky Swallow exhibition at Darren Knight Gallery.

This is a solid bronze getto-blaster. I image Swallow brought this old getto-blaster from the market for a couple of dollars and used it to make this bronze casting, now worth thousands of times more. That's what I call art.

Signature Swallow.

His paintings has a Lucian Freud style very nice.

Bat wings.

Then I went to First Draft Gallery. This is Vincent O'Connor's work, Dark Mountain.

This is Monika Behrens work, Battle Nullius.

A line up of plastic animal figurines found in sweets. I have the Bilby.

Her paintings of these figurines really showed her fondness of these plastic animals. I'll never look at my Bilby the same way again.

Then I was on my way to see the Bill Henson's show until I saw this headline. As a member of Australia's art community, I felt so embarrassed for some of our community's ignorance towards Henson's work. Fair dinkum.

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