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)
Collie Art Prize 2020: I was a finalist with a self-portrait I painted after my father’s death 2 years ago
Not many people saw this painting, because Covid-19 hit hard as this exhibition just got started. I was short-listed for the Collie Art Prize with this work, but they had to close down early for the lockdown. I hope it gets a longer viewing because it is my spiritual diary during these times. 2020 was so disturbing and disorienting for us all.
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.
Faith: Privileged to meet and speak to the Vatican Interfaith delegation & Muslim community leaders in Melbourne in October 2018
I was very honoured to be part of an inspiring conversation when I met with the Delegation of the Ecumenical and Interfaith Commission of the Archdiocese (EIC) at a meeting hosted by the Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV)
Collie Art Prize 2018: Who’d have thought my triptych ‘Bombshell’ about young, white, fashionable terrorists would make the finalists’ show?
The exhibition is on show 10am-4pm 3 March until 15 April 2018. My painting is entitled Bombshells 1-3 and is about youth radicalisation, ideas as hate couture and the accessing of memory and identity in a globalised and interconnected world.
New book cover: Kyle Grayson’s book on drones and targeted killing, Routledge, London 2017
I was so pleased when Dr Kyle Grayson asked if Routledge London could use my painting There is Nothing Like a Drone (2011) for his new book on targeted killing
New Publishing: London Progressive Journal article, “Re-Packaging Masculinity in Tony Abbott’s Body Politic” July 2015
This article was first published in the London Progressive Journal, 5 July 2015. It was my response to the rise of right-wing elements in the Australian political scene and targeting of my Muslim friends in Melbourne.