The Finders Keepers Q&A

Asperatus is The Finders Keepers’ featured exhibition. The Finders Keepers are a design and art market that I’ve had my artwork and comics at over the past few years, since their humble origins as the Hope Street Markets and onwards into their current extravaganza at the Carriageworks facilities. We had a Q&A together about the origins of this series and exhibition, here’s an excerpt -

Asperatus felt fitting to me, it roughly translates to ‘agitated’ or ‘roughened’ in Latin. In recent times it’s appeared as the name for a newly discovered cloud formation, the first in over half a century. They are clouds that look heavy and dark, and they pulse down towards the Earth like ripples viewed from below the skin of water, but despite their appearance they disperse without casting a storm. It captures the zeitgeist for me – the turbulence of present times; the dis-empowering confusion of increasingly lateral problems; effects or consequences abstracted from the causes of modern challenges; and the mystifying signs and clues as to where we’re all headed. With this in mind, my process for this illustration series involved embracing chance, chaos, instinct, intuition, dreams and other subconscious states to create my symbols and construct visual compositions, rather than the usual deliberate and purposeful craft and conscious development that I’m accustomed to in my professional work.

Many thanks to the Finders Keepers team, you can read the full interview at their website.