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)
New Publishing: The Australian Fabians Review #6 re-publishes my 2010 Gaza paintings, January 2024 AU
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”.
Rearview Mirror: An AI ‘origin story’ starring Killer Robots & the Pursuit of Love
My Rearview Mirror posts are a remembrance of things I did in the past, which have come full circle to bite us. The exponential exposion of AI, and the launch of ChatGPT, has made everyone aware that AI has made a gigantic leap and left the test tube. Those of us in the margins of creative thinking who tried to warn policy makers over a decade ago perhaps feel less awful about that today. After all, they have ignored bigger fish like Stephen Hawking…
New Publishing: Critical Military Studies, London, Volume 9 #2, May 2023
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.
AUKUS Chronicles/Studio Notes: Painting the ‘Indo-Pacific’ through the 18th century lens of English poet William Blake
My painting re-imagines William Blake’s poem America A Prophecy (1793) exploring Australia in the Indo-Pacific. I followed a similar journey to Blake, exploring my own spiritual and mythic values, in the political theatre across decades. Blake’s character, Orc challenges our view of what’s right and wrong. ‘Australia A Prophecy’ asks if military leaders see themselves as Orc the Saviour or – like the Hindu God Shiva – Orc the Destroyer of Worlds.
AUKUS Chronicles/Commentary: Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11
On the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, it feels natural to me to revisit the paintings I did from 2003 to 2005 to process the profoundly altered society we were navigating at that time.In hindsight, I can see how we altered our world. I found the policy profession after this event no longer demanded of its practitioners…
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.