Thank you to Wik Wikholm for his post about my art in the September Media section of GLBTQ - the world's largest encyclopedia of lgbtq culture.Carl Gopal Applies Queer Lens to Tough Problems (Posted by: Wik Wikholm on 09/12/11) ...Read more>
Tikkun daily (of Tikkun magazine) 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. Please take the time to visit and read their high quality content which challenges the barriers we ...Read more>
These portfolio books contain a collection of images from my website. You can now purchase a book online featuring paintings from Sedition and Other Bedtime Stories and We'll Always Have Paris in my portfolio art book My Own Private Weltanschauung Paintings 2005-2008. Most of my early works are also available ...Read more>
This portfolio book contains a collection of images from my website for people who like to carry their art and poetry in their duffle bag. You can now purchase a book online featuring paintings from The Assassination of Judy Garland - A Metaphorical Portrait of America Part 1. Paintings 2008-10. More books ...Read more>
Hey, great to be one of the 3 'honourable mentions' in the Spring 2011 issue of Visual Overture Magazine in Atlanta, GA, USA. (out February 18th). My painting featured is called There is Nothing Like a Drone, from my exhibition series The Assassination of Judy Garland. A lot to do ...Read more>
I have art in the LGBT Literature Issue of Phati'tude Magazine in New York City. You can preview the issue via the link below but my image only appears in the hard copy, available from their website or Amazon. http://phatitude.org/online/phatitude-magazine/plm-lgbt-summer-2010-preview/ ...Read more>
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. It is now published and available online or by subscription. Many ...Read more>
Now AvailableLady 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 featuredartist for their second issue with a 7 page interview and several more of my recent paintings from The Assassination of Judy Garland, especially given ...Read more>
Publishing July/August 2010 Busy month.In July I'm helping out to promote the value of diverse communities. LGBT writers in NYC and grassroots political art and poetry in Regina, SK, Canada. In this sense, it's a part of my social activism and belief that art can help to move thinking in new ...Read more>
3CR Melbourne's In Ya Face presenter James McKenzie interviewed me a few weeks ago on his live radio program. I just want to thank them again (belated post) for a frank, informed and lively discussion. I came away from that grateful for being able to explore different views on questions ...Read more>
My painting And Starring Benyamin Netanyahu as Norman Maine uses the main characters from the 1950s musical A Star is Born as metaphor for the current relationship between America (Esther) and Israel (Norman). It was very much a personal response to the January 2009 ground invasion of Gaza and ...Read more>
Purchase a copy of Issue 9 online or at the following bookshops:In Paris (@Librairie Les Mots la Bouche)In London (@Gay's the Word)In San Francisco (@City Lights Bookshop)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 ...Read more>
It's a privilege to be able to support the work of Same Sex Domestic Abuse Group (SSDAG) in Western Australia through their use of my art for the cover of their new resource booklet Towards Freedom (SSDAG, 2009). The story behind the whole 2001 "Untitled" exhibition (see side menu) ...Read more>
My second cover art for US poetry magazine Breadcrumb Scabs is out for February 2010. View the full cover in the 'Media' section (click left). Lena's poets always dive off the edge and this issue is no different. A great supporter of diverse cultures and bad-tempered poets. The cover is ...Read more>
I have new cover art in the US, for 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 ...Read more>
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 in a way I thought had disappeared. Lucky that quality is still around. ...Read more>
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.New PaintingsLike everyone else, I never thought to see the day. Obama will need a lot of goodwill and support-this planet is ...Read more>
The ‘silencing effect’ of laws that make being ‘un-Australian’ (or Un-American-Un-British) harder to measure, while increasing the power to detain us indefinitely without sufficient evidence of guilt, creates a real fear of self-expression. It dampens the creativity and honesty in our work. - Carl Gopalkrishnan, 2006 My photo from the 'Suburban ...Read more>
This is the updated image for the review in Brontë Blog for a painting which got into the head of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and discovered some quantum shenanigans going on. Thanks guys. And this is also the Kate Bush Song that played up in the painting.... ...Read more>
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 which was being reviewed by Congress during the publishing of this issue. ...Read more>
A quick round up. I did a few illustrations for online magazine New Matilda, just to see how it would go. A great experience, but not something I continued as I'm working a full time job paying off a number of things including a new exhibition in 2008. But a ...Read more>
This is an interview I did after I was invited to speak about the various political 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 think ...Read more>
NEW EXHIBITION: CUNY Graduate Centre NY April 2007 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. ...Read more>
(transfered from my old blog)The catalogue exhibition - artist statement from Sedition and Other Bedtime Stories, 2006. Right click to vew larger.Invitation with image Viva Las Shiva.Photos copyright Amanda Brown 2006. ...Read more>
This is an interview I gave to promote the Sedition show with McKenzie Murray interviewing me.RTRFM Radio in Perth have been very supportive, especially with Sedition and Other Bedtime Stories. They were really surprised that I was doing the only art exhibition that challenged Australia's Anti-Terrorism Act 2005 (similar ...Read more>
Art Of The Possible UK | Cambridge University Politics Dept | Due March 2012
Tikkun Magazine USA | 19 July 2011
Lady Jane Miscellany USA | 11 July 2010
