BLACKARTPROJECTS & TOM O’HERN PRESENT

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Sydney ContemporaryCarriageworks245 Wilson StreetEveleigh, New South Wales10 - 13 September, 2015

Heya, sorry for the delay.

Here are the images. I’ll get some words through tonight, but essentially they are pictures of Australian megafauna, but they’re inbred and they’ve got facial tumors and they’ve been hit by cars and they’re struggling. The big image is modelled on The Fall of the Rebel Angels (one of Bruegel’s works from the 16th century) and is meant to depict a great big extinction level event; be that the great dying of the dinosaurs or whatever it is around the corner waiting for us. The titles are all drawn from Buddhist and Hindu and Christian philosophy. They’re kind of taking the piss, but I was also trying to show just how meaningless and futile everything is compared to the great crush of time.

Anyway hope you like them.

-Tom

War in Heaven (2015)acrylic on wood3 panels, 215 x 360 cm overall

War in Heaven (detail)acrylic on wood3 panels, 215 x 360 cm overall

Aing Namah (Bulluckornis planei) (2015)acrylic on canvas122 x 102 cm

Become what you are (Procoptodon goliah) (2015)acrylic on canvas122 x 102 cm

The jewel is in the eye of the lotus (Zaglossus) (2015)acrylic on canvas122 x 102 cm

The kingdom of god is within you (Palorchestes) (2015)acrylic on canvas122 x 102 cm

There is no time and nothing matters (Diprotodon) (2015)acrylic on canvas122 x 102 cm

I’ve taken my vitamin D and I’ve gone for a walk on Knocklofty and I’m feeling much better now, really (2015)ink on paper160 x 210 cm

Images courtesy of Lou Conboy

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