About Billy Shannon...
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Photo: Paula Quintela I am a visual artist, based in Brisbane, Australia, working primarily in acrylic on canvas. |
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Visual ArtsA publicity shot for 'Subterranean Nights' a solo show at No. 9 artist run initiative in 2002 My shopfront studio in Merthyr Rd, New Farm.. I loved this place! Click here to see some photos of the opening night! After a while in the Merthyr Rd studio, my good friend Adam Head and I decided to take over the whole building and opened the New Farm Art Stockroom! Here we are doing what we do.. Click here for images of it and to see it's website! For the short time that it existed, it was fantastic! The first few days of the Bowen Hills Studio! Some lovely friends at the 2017 studio show A poster for the solo show, 'Icarus and Other Angels' in 1991. I was making sculptural paintings at the time and living in my studio in the old Target Building in Fortitude Valley. Working in the 2001 Bardon studio. It was a great place, until it was pulled down.. The Bardon studio, I took to the wall with a circular saw and installed some windows for northern light! A vast improvement, I worked in this excellent studio for a couple of years around the beginning of the century Various manifestations of studio computers which I built.. One in St Kilda and one in Bardon set in a wheel barrow so I could move it around the studio, my first portable computer! Painting in my Charles St. studio in New Farm, 2004. Many thanks to Juanita Broderick for the photos! |
Other ArtsHere's me at 20 years old in the Queensland Theatre Company's design studio.
Painting a backdrop for the feature film, Nim's Island. I was a leading hand scenic artist, in charge of murals and backdrops. I loved working on this film, and met some fantastic people! Nim's Island bath room, 2007 When I was between 28 and 30, I became involved with Horizon Circus in Hobart, Tasmania. I mainly did contact improvisation, juggling and clowning.. Rehearsing the 'Dragon Dance' with Debbie Rodrigues, Adam Wallace and John Campbell for 'Horizon on Fire' in 1990 Exhausted at the end of a training session with John Campbell, Debbie Rodrigues and Prue Dudley I designed and made 2 floats for the 2001 Australia Day parade i Brisbane.. 'Billy Cart' and 'Billy Tea' Painting the doors for The Met nightclub, for Heads Up Film Services A beautiful sculpture designed by Adam Head that we made and installed Playing slide didgeridoo with my sister's Irish band, Banshee in Hobart, 1994 |