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I was very moved by this open letter. It’s not often you feel that a talk you gave or paper you wrote really connected with anyone. I feel very welcomed by The Blake Society, and I really think many people of different cultural and faith background throughout the Asia-Pacific would enjoy Blake’s ideas and find gems of thoughts very aligned with Eastern spiritual mythologies and cultures.
I was very moved by this open letter. It’s not often you feel that a talk you gave or paper you wrote really connected with anyone. I feel very welcomed by The Blake Society, and I really think many people of different cultural and faith background throughout the Asia-Pacific would enjoy Blake’s ideas and find gems of thoughts very aligned with Eastern spiritual mythologies and cultures.
I have two articles in Radical Commons! (or Radco! as it is known by the student body) this month. Radco! is a new left student zine started by students at the University of Michigan Law School which was formed to create a safe space for left students in what is recognised as a fairly conservative profession…They also published my 27th February blog post on the death of Aaron Bushnell, may he rest in peace.
Deeply grateful to editors of The Australian Fabian Review # 6, 2024 for featuring my four 2010 paintings & extract from my blog post last year about the provenance of wars in Gaza. Their cover art is very clear: “Stop Killing Children”.
My visual essay in VALA, the journal of The Blake Society in London, is called "A Field Manual for A Lost Soldier: William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell as a Course in Complexity". Their theme is War & Peace. Marriage can help us unravel the complexity of our times. Military leaders also need reminding that limiting their creativity to technologies to kill blinds them to the shape-shifting qualities of Blake’s God and Satan.
I have new artwork in the most recent Issue 5 of The Australian Fabians Review 2023. Their editor invited me to share my painting ‘Australia a Prophecy’ under their topic of AUKUS in a large issue with many writers expressing themes shared by the Australian wing of the Fabian Society, an international labour movement think tank which has its origins in the UK in 1884.
This canvas is one of 4 images I painted for my visual essay in VALA 5. Written for an international audience, it is a comparative reflection on William Blake's rather complex 1790s poem ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ and the ‘UK Defence Doctrine 2022’ (UKDD), together with some philosophical classics which together create an alternate lens on new capabilities amidst current global, geopolitical tensions in both Europe and the Indo-Pacific of 2023…I hope it makes a positive contribution at a very challenging time for us all.
In this article of Volume 9, #2, 2023 of Routledge London journal Critical Military Studies, I share my experience of using William Blake’s 1793 poem America a Prophecy as a lens to explore the mythic, subconscious and literary constructions of military interventions in the Indo-Pacific with my 2021 painting ‘Australia a Prophecy’ & a 2000 word essay.
An amazing night with a repeat walking performance of The Lion Never Sleeps by Noamie Huttner-Koros at The Blue Roome theatre (well, we started walking from there) for which I was interviewed in 2019 for her 2019/20 season. It tells stories of Perth's LGBTIQ community during the AIDs crisis in the early to mid 1980s, part of the largely undocumented and overlooked history of Western Australia that wasn't considered 'acceptable' history for decades.
I was invited to give an illustrated talk to the Blake Society in London in January about my painting Australia A Prophecy in January 2023 around my connections with ORC, the fictional character from his 1793 poem America A Prophecy. Blake’s poem inspired me explore the fictional, metaphorical and mythological dynamics occurring in the ‘Indo-Pacific’ where I live.
My new article for the Routledge journal Critical Military Studies explores my painting ‘Australia A Prophecy’ where I invite William Blake’s 18th century character Orc - from his poem America A Prophecy - to travel forward in time to Australia to guide an alternative imaginary lens to unpack the gendered, mythological stories driving geopolitical & military tensions in the Indo-Pacific where I live.
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.
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.
Media Archives 2, 2009-2019
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.
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.
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)
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.
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
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.
“When I first heard the suggestion that the judiciary and greater Parliamentary oversight could 'save the day' and redress the reckless use of new capabilities by Britain's security service GCHQ, an image flashed into my mind of a 1903 painting by Australian impressionist Tom Roberts - known locally as The Big Picture. It records, historically and artistically, the first Parliament in Australia. Or in American filmic terms, the Birth of A Nation.
Thank you to RTRFM for inviting me to speak about my exhibition The Assassination of Judy Garland at 464 Smart Space, Perth WA. RTRFM has always been a consistent supporter of my work for many years.
I was interviewed by the ABC about arts funding in WA and the plight of closing art galleries.
I am holding my 5th solo exhibition of my paintings - The Assassination of Judy Garland - at 464 Smart Space, a fairly new urban art space in a 100 year old building.
Queer theory isn't for everyone I know, but if you know me, you know that I have different levels to my work. Thank you to The Qouch for inviting me to write about my series of paintings - The Assassination of Judy Garland
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,
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.
The international 2 day workshop at The Centre for International Intervention [cii], School of Politics, University of Surrey, UK ‘Hitting the Target?’ features my work in the poster session discussing how new capabilities & new technology affects intervention at a legal, political and military level.
Late last year I was interviewed by Dr Jocelynne A. Scutt, a fellow Australian with a distinguished career in international human rights law for The Art of the Possible, the Cambridge University Journal of Politics
Tikkun Daily ( Tikkun Magazine's daily blog) interviewed me about my art and, as always with good interviews, made me think better about my painting and how (and why) I go about what I do.
Michael Newth flew to Perth after completing an original production of The Song of Roland from his translation from Old French. I connected him with voice actor Greg Marsden and we celebrated the audio book over dinner.
I have art in the LGBT Literature Issue of Phati'tude Magazine in New York City. These poets, they really inspire me.
I am the featured artist in The French Literary Review this October, an elegant little journal in the south of France focusing its passion for poetry and prose around France or themes in connection with its history and culture.
Lady Jane's Miscellany magazine features the work of critically acclaimed poets, dramatists, essayists, short story writers, artists and more! I'm really pleased to be the featured artist for their 2nd issue.
3CR Melbourne's In Ya Face presenter James McKenzie interviewed me about my views on gay marriage, art and politics and the US Tea Party Movement.
My second cover art for US poetry magazine Breadcrumb Scabs is out for February 2010. View the full cover in the InPrint section.
I have a painting in the current issue of Chroma Journal in London, themed "Americas". It's my acrylic and stencil/spray on canvas painting Obama in Conversation with Vishnu and Daleks (above). Chroma is funded by Arts Council England and it's literary pieces get positively reviewed in The Times.
The last 2 months I had a very interesting experience working with a politician in Western Australia, MLA John Hyde, the opposition minister for Arts and Heritage and Multiculturalism in Western Australia.
Literal Latté in New York City for the June 2009 issue. This publication has been helping new writers to get a foot in the door of the traditional publishing world for many years now. Literal Latté remains committed to finding and nurturing great talents both on its website and in its new annual anthology, in book format. It's been great making new friends with the editorial team there and learning about the NYC editorial culture. So pleased to be this month’s featured artist.
This month I have an oil pastel on the cover of Breadcrumb Scabs' Issue 6, June 2009 [pictured], a new independent poetry magazine from Michigan. This little publication is raw, quirky, and a bit in your face
I am a featured artist in the latest issue of Drexter Magz, the pdf arts and culture magazine from indonesia. Many thanks guys. Some great artists in this issue and for me, really great to engage with my Indonesian artistic colleagues in our Pacific neighbourhood.
Media Archives 1, 1991-2008
Daily Constitutional Launch - By Proxy (Issue 6, Summer 2008, Saturday, August 16, 2008. I wrote an article about the double sides of “innovation”
[Edited 23 September 2023] I re-tagged this 2008 post and photograph under my 2023 AUKUS Chronicles because I can’t really add to it in terms of describing the stunning silencing and political acquiescence of Australians to the AUKUS agreement. Led like children, and in 2023 the Australian Defence Force (ADF) is literally trying to recruit children with nuclear submarine ‘school projects’ to acculturate them into a culture of war (and by default, to train them to distrust the Chinese from childhood).My photo from the 'Suburban Dreamtime' series… is featured on the 2008 cover of Vancouver arts magazine Front Magazine.
My new show, We'll Always Have Paris - bent tales from the sub-atomic is now open at Keith+Lottie Gallery, from January 17 to February 01, 2008.
My print Shanghai Romance (digital print) about rewriting classic narratives with a quantum lens is part of the group show the Beauty of Physics Art Prize 2007 University of Waterloo
This exhibit opened at Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA, USA on September 14 until October 20, 2007. It is a continuation of Gary Huck's touring exhibition 'Reflex' and I have two paintings/images in it.
First interview in almost 10 years as I get back inot exhibiting after a long break. Thanks to Artrage Festival media and Drum Magazine
Cover Art: Social Policy Magazine, New Orleans, USA. 2007 (Education Reform). I really found this a challenge, as I worked with a great editor, Caitlin, who sent me the complex articles on the No Child Left Behind Act
This is a rearview post from the past. The editor wanted something in like, 2 days, and I threw this together as a sketch with a photo for the New Matilda Magazine article Strange Liberators in May 9, 2007. I was flirting with the idea of being a regular illustrator but the fast deadlines did my head it, so I never went down that path. I do admire artists that can do editorial on demand, it’s tough…
This is an interview I did after I was invited to speak about the various art projects I was doing, including the Social Policy Magazine cover, the Reflex exhibition in NYC, and some work I was doing for New Matilda magazine in Australia. The interviewer is Matthew Perkins.
I will have 2 pieces in Leading labour cartoonist Gary Huck's Reflex: An exhibition of political cartoons. A world view of the United States to be launched April 26-28, 2007 at the CUNY Graduate Center, 34th Street and Fifth Avenue, New York City. The show will travel throughout the US in 2007
Artist statement and invitation for my new exhibition Sedition and Other Bedtime Stories at Keith+Lottie Gallery, William STreet Northbridge WA.
Perth visual artist Carl Gopalkrishnan’s new exhibition “Sedition and Other Bedtime Stories” opens at Keith and Lottie’s shop-gallery in Northbridge on Wednesday August 6 2006 at 6pm. The artist’s new work includes a series of drawings and painting based on the idea of a child waking up in our post-September 11 world.
A sign of how long I’ve been doing this is that websites don’t use Flash anymore, but this interview is in the RTRFM archives somewhere.
A group exhibition of artists and artisans where I was able to share my ‘other side’, which is my craft and skills in art doll making, sculpture and fabric design. Diana Bostock was the sweetest most supportive art gallery director I have met then or since.
During the creation of my Dualities exhibition, I was heavily influenced by the works of T.S. Eliot, and particularly his Four Quartets. Eliot's writing often explores the complexities and contradictions of the human experience, and this connected with me deeply as an artist. The exhibition was my own exploration of duality - and perhaps my realisation at 25 that life was more complex that I myself was at the time. I discovered the power of abstract ideas to reveal hidden truths, which was wonderful and frightening at the same time.
My gallery section has a selection of paintings from my first solo exhibition Carl Gopal Solo. I was 23 years old. It was held at Bridge Gallery in Northbridge in 1992, Western Australia. They are largely dry and oil pastel paintings on card and paper. I love the lack of complexity, to be quite honest, and their simple response to the world around me. Nothing else documented from this era (it was Glasnost, post-AIDs, pre 9/11 & the Internet, so…). Above is a local newspaper that ran a story on me on their front page and brought in a LOT of sales, so thank you kindly.