Thanks Robert from The Victim’s Ball for sharing his musical journey with my artwork Bals des Victimes adapted for cover art for his new album Body Parts. They have an iconic Melbourne sound, obsess about the French Revolution and make you think of attending a carnival in an alleyway in the middle of a lost town somewhere beyond the black stump.

The Novocaine's new singles Freedom Please & Till Deathhave my artwork White Noise on the cover (click on the links). This new sound connects with metal in a really original way,

I often use the term 'gateway image"to describe a painting which is a bridge between one series and the next. Most of the time it is not that clean, because you travel a road and the landscape changes along the way. So there are not really any breaks between one idea/exhibition and another. Instead, I find there is a gateway image.

The title is from Ethel Waters' rendition of Suppertime from Irving Berlin's 1933 broadway revue - As Thousands Cheer. (play the song on You Tube below). People wouldn't know but this was an innovative revue based on a newspaper and the events of the day (remarkable, you'd never get that bravery today). I re-drew Obama's face with olive leaves, sort of a mask of Caesar.