Blog Archives
Blog Archives
Blog Archives
Blog Archives
Over the past two decades, Carl Gopalkrishnan's artwork has garnered international recognition for his ability to forge meaningful connections between art & literature and the complex dynamics driving international law, intervention and global conflict. Carl transforms familiar cultural artefacts into new myths so legal and military minds can explore the creative, subconscious and emotional stories that shape their doctrines of war & peace. (Photograph copyright © Amanda Brown 1992)
Sharing my art with students of the classics reading ‘The Oresteia’, University of Florida.
I somehow got chatting with Prof Victoria Pagan, an expert in classic literature at the University of Florida in the US who was teaching an undergraduate class on The Oresteia. My painting A Many Splendored Thing (2020), and the Furies became a trigger for a class discussion.
Theatre: In ‘The Lion Never Sleeps’ I shared my personal stories from the AIDS crisis in the 1980s
I was invited to be a part of an inspiring interview experience for a new street-theatre oral history called The Lion Never Sleeps. Thanks to Noemie the director and creator who made this incredible audio journey that takes the audience on a live walk through the inner-city streets of Northbridge in Perth, Western Australia. They have re-created the stories of the people who were there (like me), and how we survived the AIDS Crisis in the 1980s.
My Archibald Entry 2019: It didn’t fly with the judges, but exploring my experiences in Melbourne was important for me
Fulfilling a promise made a few years ago, I asked Melbourne Muslim community leader Nail Aykan to be the subject for my portrait for the Archibald Prize.
Writings: My chapter in a new multicultural LGBTIQ Australian Anthology, Melbourne 2018
A wonderful new anthology I'm proud to be part of and, honestly, it's so readable and a breath of fresh air in terms of understanding the hidden cultural diversity in LGBT communities
Conference Exhibition: My portrait of Professor Caslav Brukner ‘A Parable Of A Physicist And Twin Torsos’, University Of Surrey Sept 2012 UK
My painting of Professor Caslav Brukner A Parable of A Physicist And Twin Torsos is showing at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Vienna for The Institute of Advanced Studies at The University of Sussex Sept 17 & 18, 2012.