Studio Session 1

A. High School Creative Work

The characters Edward and LemonDog were born out of a Year 9 Graphics design brief in which we were to design cover art for a Triple J CD. It began with Edward with his 'normal-sized' LemonDog for a companion, wearing its favourite studded collar, while Edward looked to the sky (seemingly soul-searching). By the end of the year LemonDog had grown appreciably in size and lost his studded collar (perhaps LemonDog grew out of its rebellious adolescence...) Over the years, Edward and LemonDog developed into a one-frame comic, basing itself in satire and many puns, while also mimicking life's trials and the internal inhibitions and struggles. Shown above are the original first two episodes I ever drew, dating back to about 2005. It is certainly not a technically challenging work, but I chose this because it reminds me of the simplicity in clean lines and that everything complex is built on something much simpler (that and this piece wasn't located back at home, 150km away).

B. A Building That Inspired Me To Become An Architect

This is a photograph of the northern side of Westminster Abbey in London that I took in 2005 while I was visiting my sister in the UK for the Christmas holidays. It certainly is not this single piece of architecture that inspired me to be study this course, but it represents all the places that I have travelled to and had the time and opportunity to take a moment to appreciate a building as architecture as opposed to 'that building that I walk past every Thursday'.






C. An Original Photograph Of Something Beautiful

This is my dog Koopa. He is a Jack Russell and his birthday is the 20th of June; he will be eight this year. He enjoys sunbaking and has had skin cancers removed twice from his underbelly. He also has a penchant for eating grass and is scared of the sound of rain falling on the pergola (and thus runs away from the pergola... into the rain). He lives 2 hours away from me and during the semester I miss him as much as my mum's cooking (that's a lot). Being essentially an only-child (my sisters are much older than me), Koopa is considered my furry canine sibling. He even gets mail addressed to him (Koopa Low), albeit only from the veterinary once a year.

The Clients:

Sidney Nolan - Death of Constable Scanlon (1946)

disarray. regret. sunken.

Patricia Piccinini - The Young Family (2002-3)

membrane. shackle. furrowed.

Rickey Swallow - Flying On The Ground Is Wrong (2006)


cold. tense. rigid.