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ABOUT
Works shown below include selected sketches with Urban Sketches Brisbane and selected studio works.
HYBRID DRAWINGS
The works portray my long design background in architecture, urbanism, landscape, graphics and signage. At the most elementary level, I think of the outcomes as drawings ... to which things are added or taken away. I also consider them as pieces of graphic art. They aren't digital art of the type you draw on a tablet with a stylus via a drawing app. For gallery entry purposes I describe them as DIGITALLY EDITED + ASSEMBLED DRAWINGS or DIGITALLY ASSEMBLED DRAWINGS or HYBRID DRAWINGS.
Some works have been virtually completed on site with the layers created by using different coloured pens on a single sheet of paper. However, for other works, the only finished object exists on the computer to be realised on paper via the printer. Some of these latter drawings were made in fragments / layers on many separate sheets of paper before being digitally edited and assembled.
ENQUIRIES
alaninnes@me.com or 0414583851 or use the email form in CONTACT in the navigation bar above.
NOTE
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SOME RECENT SKETCHES.
1_Jindalee Bridge. 2_View to Kangaroo Point from City Botanic Gardens. 3_St Stephens Chapel, Brisbane CBD.
4_Chung Tian Temple, Priestdale. 5_Rutland Court in Gregory Tce Spring Hill. 6_Coffee At The Kombi, South Bank Parklands.
7_Artisan, Rosalie Village. 8_Entry to Maritime Museum, South Brisbane.
More sketches can be viewed on my Instagram account.
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SELECTED COMMISSIONS. 2020-2024. View HERE
GOTHA ST. FORTITUDE VALLEY.
TEMPLE RETREAT. PULLENVALE.
CATALINA YACHT. MORETON BAY.
HOUSE & GARDEN. AUCHENFLOWER.
GARDEN. ASHGROVE.
HOUSE. WILSTON.
HOUSE. GRACEVILLE.
HOUSE & STREETSCAPE. PADDINGTON.
BACKYARDS. TOOWONG.
CITYSCAPE. FORTITUDE VALLEY.
KO&CO ARCHITECTURE. RED HILL.
THE POWERHOUSE. NEW FARM.
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SATURDAY SOJOURN. Jan 2025.
Dornoch Tce Bridge. Boundary St West End. Brisbane.
A 21x21 hand drawing commenced as a site sketch for Urban Sketchers Brisbane. The work is available as jumbo cards and framed prints at HAHASHO in Boundary St West End. The original is for sale directly from me or from Hanasho. Buy large format prints directly from me.
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WALKING THE DOG. Jan 2025.
The Burrow. Russell St West End. Brisbane.
A 30x42 hand drawing. The work is available as jumbo cards and framed prints at HAHASHO in Boundary St West End. The original is for sale directly from me or from Hanasho. Buy large format prints directly from me.
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MARKET DAY IN PENANG. Nov 2024.
A hybrid drawing based on a market scene from Penang and a street stall in Cambodia, built from photos taken by others. It is a memoir of my trip to Penang in August 2024. The work comes in two graphic formats and is available as jumbo cards and framed prints at HAHASHO in Boundary St West End. Buy large format prints directly from me.
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RICKSHAWS. Nov 2024.
A hybrid drawing based on photos of Cheong Fatt Tze's Blue Mansion in Penang. A memoir of my trip to Penang in August 2024. The work is available as jumbo cards and framed prints at HAHASHO in Boundary St West End. Buy large format prints directly from me.
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AIXAI. Sep 2024.
Rialto. Hardgrave Rd West End. Brisbane.
A 21x30 hand drawing. The work is available as jumbo cards and framed prints at HAHASHO in Boundary St West End. Buy large format prints directly from me. The original has been SOLD.
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BOGGO. June 2024.
A 21x21 hand drawing built from a photo collage incorporating the old prison building, the signage from the pediment above the prison entry gate and the signage that announces BOGGO ROAD URBAN VILLAGE on the corner of Annerley Rd and Boggo Rd. The first 3 images show the transition from site photo, to photo collage mockup, to finished artwork. The finished drawing was edited in Photoshop so that the building is at 85% opacity; whereas the BOGGO ROAD signage, along with the street light and parking sign are at 100% opacity. This creates a much greater sense of depth in the image.
STILL STANDING 2023
SubStation No3. 207A Ipswich Rd Woolloongabba. Built c1917. Heritage listed.
A studio drawing/collage.
The building is well camouflaged from the street and it’s very difficult to find a drawable view. However this camera shot down the old stone wall with the bus stop signage panel provided a great opportunity for some visual drama and a place to showcase the old photo and blueprint working drawings of the substation. It took a bit of work to get the right look on the old pink porphyry stone wall … to portray highly weathered stones with unsharp edges. Images include
1: Finished artwork.
2: Cyanotype version of finished artwork.
3: Artwork mockup: Site photo with blueprint drawings.
1: Finished artwork.
2: Cyanotype version of finished artwork.
3: Artwork mockup: Site photo with blueprint drawings.
RADIO PHO ... LIVE AT FIVE 2023
A drawing of the PHO QUEUE Vietnamese Soup Kitchen in Cracknell Rd Annerley. They open at 5pm. My view is before opening time. Img 1 is the base drawing from which I built a gif [Img 3] to express the life and times of PHO QUEUE next to a busy set of traffic lights. The agitated armed guard on the left keeps the queue in order.
KOOROONGARRA 2023. A work in progress. Updated 29/7/2023.
Kooroongarra is a small historic township south of Millmerran on the Darling Downs with a population of 45 in the 2021 census. The artwork is a series of drawings of which two are virtually finished [cheese factory and butcher shop], four are photo collage mockups made from internet images [managers house, post office, Anglican church and community hall], and one for the general store is a placeholder. And there may be one for the cemetery for which I could find no images on the internet. My intention is to make a collection of hybrid drawings with a 1930s ambience ... an era I imagine as the township heyday.
HA HA 2023
Hai Hai Ramen. Latrobe Tce Paddington.
A work derived from a site sketch with Eri Yamaguchi and Tanya Ashworth. The colours and shadows were applied in Photoshop. The sky pattern is from a photo I took of a mural inside Hai Hai.
SHINKO'S DILEMMA #2 NOV 2022
Japanese Garden. MtCoot-Tha Botanic Gardens.
This artwork production is accompanied by a new greeting card in a series called FUSION FLAVOURS.
EASTER RABBIT APR 2022.
Black Rabbit Espresso. Musgrave Rd Red Hill.
50x50cm ink and pencil drawing on 300gsm hot press watercolour paper.
REMEMBERING ANTONIO BONET APR 2022.
Drysdales Corner. Cnr Water St + Kennigo St Spring Hill.
50x50cm pen and pencil drawing on 300gsm hotpress watercolour paper.
The drawing is a memoir for the Spanish modernist architect, Antonio Bonet Castellano, 1913-1989, who designed a house in Punta Ballena Uruguay in 1948. A photo was published showing a woman on a concrete stair landing looking out to sea. After posting the work on Instagram, a comment was made by Victoria Bonet Marti. She subsequently posted the photo on her own Instagram account noting that the woman was her mother, Ana Maria Marti Abello de Bonet, the wife of the architect. Antonio Bonet is best known for the BKF Butterfly chair designed by Bonet Kurchan Ferrari architects. He designed many significant buildings in both South America and Spain.
TRUCKS ON THE OVERPASS FEB 2022.
Caltex Truck Stop. Port of Brisbane.
50x50cm pen and pencil drawing on 300gsm hot press watercolour paper.
The last image in the group is a hybrid version called called SHIPPING NEWS.
A gallery finalist in LETHBRIDGE 20000 ART AWARD 2022.
MANIPULATED OBJECTS | ARCHITECTS LICENSE | WINDOW DRESSING. NOV-DEC 2021
Three views of an old shop on the corner of Musgrave Rd and Hammond St Red Hill. The shop and the house on the adjoining property are relics of the 1860s which share an incredible patina of age, four brick chimneys and many roof vents. The old shop is undergoing refurbishment for KO&Co Architecture whohave bought my originals [bottom row] and are going to frame them in the new year. The top row are my hybrid versions which have transparent layers of grunge textures and tea coloured skys to give the effect of mouldy old prints. The originals are pen and pencil on 300gsm hotpress watercolour paper.
