Devils and Demons
Devils, demons and infernal scenes.
These started as a reflection on aspects of my childhood, but now have extended to an interest in devil masks and faces in the art of various societies
Not that my childhood was particularly bad- more that my great grandmother had a devilish art collection.
Pearl Gibson lived in a tiny flat, on the site of what is now North Sydney Library. It was intensely decorated with a variety of artworks, but the thing I most remember was at least one image of a devil in strident colours- red and green. As one of her children, Jack Gibson, drew a cartoon series based on Hell (it ran in Man magazine for about 40 years) he may have been the source of that image. She was also an associate of Roslyn Norton (go and goole here!) and family legend has it that she was once a model for Norman Lindsay.
But if you were a reader of the Woman's Weekly in the 80's then you will probably know as much about her as I do, as she made regular appearances as Auntie Pearl in her grandson Mike's regular column.
This was a very exotic place and made a huge impression on me as a kid, and is in some ways my artistic foundation.
The scary stuff didn't stop there- when she visited us she would delight in telling us really scary stories before bedtime.
These started as a reflection on aspects of my childhood, but now have extended to an interest in devil masks and faces in the art of various societies
Not that my childhood was particularly bad- more that my great grandmother had a devilish art collection.
Pearl Gibson lived in a tiny flat, on the site of what is now North Sydney Library. It was intensely decorated with a variety of artworks, but the thing I most remember was at least one image of a devil in strident colours- red and green. As one of her children, Jack Gibson, drew a cartoon series based on Hell (it ran in Man magazine for about 40 years) he may have been the source of that image. She was also an associate of Roslyn Norton (go and goole here!) and family legend has it that she was once a model for Norman Lindsay.
But if you were a reader of the Woman's Weekly in the 80's then you will probably know as much about her as I do, as she made regular appearances as Auntie Pearl in her grandson Mike's regular column.
This was a very exotic place and made a huge impression on me as a kid, and is in some ways my artistic foundation.
The scary stuff didn't stop there- when she visited us she would delight in telling us really scary stories before bedtime.