Another dark and moody bus stop taken late at night while driving through Redfern. This is a companion image to Urban Landscape # 31 Operator and / Urbanlandscape # 2 Parramatta Road Bus Stop /
Acrylic on matt board
this funny old photograph of Redfern station was shot out of the very grimy windows of a then derelict building that overlooks the station…... that building has long since been converted to very valuable bit of real estate but back then it was occupied by punks and pigeons ….... and this was their view…...
have ever wondered how hard it must be for punks and goths during the hot australian summers? there is quite possibly nothing so uncool in whole world as a hot punk…... this ancient analouge image was shot sometime in the middle of the summer of 1982 in a derelict building that a punk band called ‘The Real Fucking Idiots’ was squatting in.
a portrait of a young punk shot many years ago in a derelict Refern squat….....he was one of the many ‘extras’ around the punk group ‘The Real Fucking Idiots’.....this chap here was what LostGod would describe as a’”fucktard’
3rd November, 2007 / Cleveland Street, Redfern / Sydney, Australia Click here for Google Street View of location. This photo is included in my book Accidental Archaeology #1
3rd November, 2007 / Cleveland Street, Redfern / Sydney, Australia Click here for Google Street View of location. This photo is included in my book Accidental Archaeology #1
3rd November, 2007 / Cleveland Street, Redfern / Sydney, Australia Click here for Google Street View of location. This photo is included in my book Accidental Archaeology #1 It was also featured in the RedBubble Pop Art group in July 2009 The photo was manipulated for use in a poster I made for “Collage” at the Esplanade Hotel, in December 2007. Click here to view the poster.
18th November, 2007 / Cleveland Street, Redfern / Sydney, Australia Click here for Google Street View of location. This photo is included in my book Accidental Archaeology #1
Photoshop black and white photo of the mural and the city on Lawson st.
photoshop half color tone Redfern Mural and city background
Redfern Mural and City
Redfern and the City
many years ago I knew some punk musicans called The Real Fucking Idiots and they all lived in a derelict squat in Redfern… and in that huge sprawling messy space were lots of interesting little snippets of what made up a normal life for them….. like this image of a grubby abandoned punk baby doll pinned to a fuse box with a number of used syringes….none of those living there were diabetic either so draw your own inferences….. this image was subsquently used as the main focus of a particularly iconic poster that was used at the time to take a rather large stick to the Australia Council for the Arts….. the ability of the dispossesed to find a voice outside the mainstream and to be articulate and powerful is something I’ve never doubted…...just depends on how you look at things I guess….. anyway….. smack smack your dead sister dear but the echo of that time lingers on…. / . / . / . /
another idle observation from a derelict inner city squat inhabited at the time by the ratty brilliant doomed and occasionally quite demented band called The Real Fucking Idiots….. shot a very long time ago in Sydney before it aquired it’s shiny city status…. it goes with the image I just uploaded called drug doll and another image that has been here for a little while called jesus died….. it was a time and place… it was real and it was unreal and it’s echo remains…. time passes and time stands still…. fuck art let’s just live / . / . / . /
Redfern, 2008
a tee shirt version of the dyptich image of the same name I uploaded yesterday. . / and below here is the image as a laminated print / . /
I’ve been scanning some older work just of late and thinking about how best to present some of these images. And as dyptich’s and tryptich’s have been all the go around here I thought I do a version here with these two shots of an older more industrial Sydney. / . / best viewed large / . / / . / also goes with this one / . /
this is mock up of a typtich I’m thinking about…. goes with this one Double Industrial that I just put up / . / best viewed large / . / / . / also goes well with this one / . /
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