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Everyone loves a girl with a shaven head, boots and a big freaking spanner.

And if you don’t, well, best say you do and avoid a spannering.

This image features the character “Blank” from Surfing The Deathline (free stuff to the first person to correctly identify the origin / reference of her name). I think as an image this is the best of the posters, mainly for the sense of weight and inertia the character carries to one side, balanced by the cog wheel.

Fun fact: the rusty metal surface of the cog is a photo of my coffee table.

The poster of this image is A3 size and printed in full colour on 200gsm stock. It’s a limited signed and numbered printrun of 50 only, and they’re available from the Golgotha store.


Supernova Sydney 2007

Supanova Sydney 2007 saw the release of a new poster “Surrender”, which was somewhat more cheesecake than the other posters.

Exhibited Works:

  • Surfing The Deathline Episode 1
  • Surfing The Deathline Episode 2
  • Blank
  • Cliche
  • Surrender

Sydney Writers’ Festival Zine Fair

The SWF Zine Festival was held outdoors on the finger wharfs in Sydney Harbour. One of the most interesting locations I’ve been in to exhibit work.

Exhibited Works:

  • Surfing The Deathline Episode 1
  • Surfing The Deathline Episode 2
  • Blank
  • Cliche


Supanova Sydney 2006

Supanova Sydney 2006 was the first  convention at which I exhibited graphic novels and posters.

Exhibited Works:

  • Surfing The Deathline Episode 1
  • Surfing The Deathline Episode 2
  • Blank
  • Cliche

orana credit union

This design was created for Orana Credit Union. Many years later, I still think it’s a beautifully elegant layout, with the vertically and horizontally opposed icons for primary navigation. The bottom ones are all verb enablers, leading to functions, whereas those on the top are for informational division

The entire design scales to any browser size, and the yellow space on the home page was an adjustable post-it note space for quick news pieces etc. It’s a frames based site, which I wouldn’t do these days, but given when the design was done, that was the sanest technology choice.


cloudlands house

Cloudlands house is a place you can rent in the blue mountains west of Sydney. It may look like a simple weatherboard cottage, but once you’re inside it’s all dark wood panelling, fireplaces and big clawfoot baths.


bradley’s head

This was a student project from an instructional design class. It uses html, flash, & quicktime to deliver a rich-media tourist guide experience.

Yes, the voiceover is cheesy.


railway pedestrian tunnel stairway

When it comes to panoramas, this is my masterwork so far.

The other end of the Enmore tunnel, it’s a pair of staircases, perpendicular to the tunnel itself, and is the very reason I got into panoramic imagery – to hunt down these filthy run down inner city locations, and find the beauty of their geometry. I’m going to get back into it in a big way in the near future hopefully.


railway pedestrian tunnel

This tunnel is one of the great and interesting locations of Enmore. Said to be haunted (suuuure) it’s almost certainly had its share of muggings and unpleasantness over the years. It’s such an obvious ambush location you can’t help but feel trepidation as you walk through it.

At one stage it was filled with graffiti, really good graffiti that must have been decades old, well before the artless tagging style that arose in the 90s. Much of it actually brushwork. The council in their wisdom decided to destroy that particular bit of local history and repaint it all with a fresh coat of yellow. In the 7 or so years since it’s filled with grafiti again, but it’s all spraycan tagging crap.