Zok
A derelict surfer gets in trouble with the Mafia
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My 16 minute, 16 millimetre film from 1980.
Avalon: After the Neutron Bomb
I painted this work for an Easter exhibition in Torquay one year.
There wasn’t quite enough time to finish the painting, so I left it as it was, with no surfers, no beach-goers, no grommets in the car-park, in fact no human beings at all.
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Thredbo, 2005
Yes, I was a complete, utter moron…
In 2006 I was heavily into downhill racing on mountain bikes, stunt riding, and skimboarding in gnarly shorebreak. We had to wait for the right conditions to skim, but for the bikes we could take matters into our own hands.
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Love and Rockets
Cape Byron is seen though a nice tube at Cosy Corner, Tallow Beach, Byron Bay. All the surfers seem to be riding Rocket Research surfboards, made by… yours truly.
Painted this at 69 Massinger St.
Windshark
I was sailing a lot at Phillip Island and out at Cactus Beach, both notoriously sharky locations. I never got attacked by a shark (touch wood) but I certainly saw a few!
The sailboard was shaped by Tom Tyrrell, of Island Surfboards.
This artwork is in the collection of a well-known TV personality who keeps it (or used to) in his bedroom. Dunno what his wife makes of that!
I Live to Ride
I painted this one at the Data Express courier base in Douglas St, South Melbourne.
I had a little studio in the corner of the warehouse and I would paint in between jobs.
Working as a motorcycle courier was my all-time favorite job and I was very, very good at it.
But as time would tell, not quite so good at riding pushbikes