Blog Space ATTENTION EVERY ONE New Links every one, I can noe be found on a variety of places on the World Wide Web. Here is an opportunity keep up to date with other creative projects I am involved with. Myspace I can be found on the link below. Jamahl's MySpace ABC artpost; An online Astralian wide artist regester. I can be located as Jamahl Pollard. Contains audio inverviews and slide show of my work. Facebook, A selection other creative outlets such as my music and soon some vidio pieces. I can be located under Jamahl Pollard. ABC Open, an audio & photo slide show providing another example of what it is like to be an artist with a vision loss. Produced by Susan Rooney-Harding regional photographer and producer for ABC Open Program. To locate me head to ABC Broadcasting Australia and follow the links to ABC Local, click on Riverland and on the main page you will find ABC Open. There you will find a variety of stories about the many different lives of people living in the Riverland region of South Australia, I can be found under "Blind Artist." *I also feature on ABC Local Radio (SA-Riverland) as the "Can Do Artist" with a short vidio of the challenges of being a vision impaired artist and my latest commission for the blind author Anette Siketta. Let me know what you think. If you are passing by in Berri (Riverland) regon of S.A. please give me a call on 0414395340 to arrange either a lesson or viewing of my work. WARNING, if you like what you see then act fact as I have a dendentcy to rework and create new art over old art, as I live on a disability pension and rely on sucsesfull arts grant applications and sales of my original art works. So I am running short of much needed $$$$ to purchase much needed funds to expand my career as an artist to cover the cost of; *Running a web site, would like to set up new pages for the site and direct online auction page. You're chance to bid for original art work at resonalbe prices. *Equipment/materials, a selection of acrylic/oil,spray paint, canvas, bulk pack of wood, Triton jigsaw for my 2001 workstation, digital cammera, color printer. *Exhibition costs; Would like to continue exhibitions with Artistic Lisence but need to sell more work to cover hire costs. Expand to have exhibitions at Hill Smith Fine Art Gallery - Pire St Adelaide, Crossbay Gallery - Sydeny, Wardnurse Gallery - New Yourk City and the list goes on. *Transporting art works around the world to participate in exhibitions and competitions. *Resarch Mterial; I could do with a copy of Russle Drysdales new book at only $150. Research DVDs from ABC bookshops, A history of German Art, Kakoda, Australians At War ANAC and the list goes on. And thats just a few things I require to get thing going. So if you could help that would be great, invest in mine and you're future today. Event Photos Commercial B Flyer Commercial B Info Commercial Bacteria 1 Commercial Bacteria 2 Murry Messanger Commercial Bacteria 24,2,011 919 winery Juxtapose Amadio Wines 2, 6,5,011 Juxtapose Amadio Wines 4, 6,5,011 Juxtapose Amadio Wines 6,5,011 Juxtapose 919 ,2,4,011 Artisitic Licinse 9,9,011 Toys Artistic Lisence 9,9,011 3 Exhibition Details Above far left, Feb/March 2011 Exhibition at the Loxton Terc Gallery. Detials are on attached flyer located on following image, providing detials as to why I had created this exhibition. Following photo I took just before people started to arrive to show the set up of the art exhibition. I didn't get much time to take more. Following photo are just some of the many visitors to the gallery. Roughly arround 50 people came along to view the work on the opening day. Many people expressed strong interest in the work and had found that many of the techniques of using hair in my work complimented the out come of the art. Others had thaught I had had my work professionaly framed and were amazed to find that I had created the frames myself. Following photo is of local Riverland Weekly Messanger news paper article about the exhibition. Also had radio interview with local ABC 1062 Riverland SA on Wed 16th of March on their Art/Culture in the Riverland. Following images are over several exhibitions I have participated as part of the Art & Wine Nights at Juxtapose Studio, Shop 6 Cinema Place Adelaide-just off rundle St East. Art & Wine Nights have included wineries such as 919, Amadio, Buneler and many more to come. I will keep you infored of the next exhibition. Currently I have no works on show at Juxstapose Studio. Following photo of exhibition flyer. Also every one don't forget that the Spring Exhibition at Artistic License during the month of September. This is where my first reall big break into the art world began. Gallery are re-locating from at 148 Melbourne St North Adelaide at the end of October, will privide detials of the move ASAP. Following photo; of just some of my work on show at Artistic Licence Spring Exhibition held in September of 2011, Melbourne St North Adelaide. In 2008 I relocated from the city (Adelaide)to the country (Berri) of Soth Australia (Australia). I could no longer afford to pay the high private housin rentals in Adelaide, as my education had not secured any menaingfull sustanable employment despite me education. Living in rural Australia has been quite challenging and isolating. But at least I can paint. Below are just a few of my cartoon sketches for you to view. I would like one day to rurn these into T'shirts. Event Photos Australia's Greatest Auction Job Vacancy Dam IT Help Desk Work For The Dole Textbook Counseling The Working Poor Australia Mine Varonic & Jamahl at Artistic Lisence Mary & Jamahl Juxtapose Studio Loki's Dance Cover Mars And Beyond Book Cover print out blurb Book 1 im 16 cover Book 1 im 17 Horse Dark The Ghosts of Camals College Front Cover with Text-JP The Ghosts of Camals College Back Cover- with textJP Lion & House 3 Lion & House 9 I've been busy ART WORKS AT LOCAL GALLERIES Finaly I have had some art works at several major galleries in Adelaide. Far left photo of Varonica and myself viewing some of my work at Artistic License. I have recently exhibited a variety of works at the gallery from November 010 to September 011, where I was fortunate enough to sell 2 paintings titled Toys and The Great Divide. Artisic License 48 Melbourne St North Adelaide SA(Australia), are re-locating, will provide detials ASAP. Above following photo Mary and myself viewing some of my work for selection at Juxtapose Studio, where I have had work recntly on display. Loacated at shop 6 Cinema Place Adelaide SA(Australia), open Wed to Sun 10:30am to 2:30pm then 6pm till late, or ph; (08)82328287. Following photo is of ilustration work for author Kevin Phelan for his latest book, Loki's Dance (Enter Into Chaos, Book One). To understand more aout the book click on the blurb and is available for live feed read on Amozon Books under Kindle. I am also working on another 2 book covers for author Kevin Phelan and will keep you posted of the progress. Following photo; I also have justt completed ilustration work for author Annette Siketa for her fist book The Gosts of Camals Collage. Following photo is the back cover, I Following 2 photos are of the completed cover with text of the book, The Ghosts of Camals College. Will be working on the coming art works for the next 2 books in earlly 2012, will keep you posted. COMING ILUSTRATION Sent out several quotes to authors and publishing companies for some more ilustration work and have managed to secure some work through Digital Print Australia for a book cover for one of their clients. This photos shows a work in progress of the Lion and The House. Following work of the completed art work, more details to come. ABC Radio Interview. I have been a part of many radio invterviews here is just one of them with Radio National as part of their Meet The Listener as part of their morning Life Matters program. The intervew was conducted on Tuse 23/9/08 at 9:45am. To listen to the intervew head to www.abc.net.au/rn and look for the program n Their Tracks. You may be able to still hear it through their links. I'll try and find it myself and will put a link in. ATTENTION ALL; Will be participating in a charety auction for the Royal Society for the Blind on the 25tth of Feb. Moere details to come. Below the following photos shows the progress of the reworking of one of my paintings titled Stopped In Their Tracks. Can be located in the Gallery section under Military. Originaly created in 2007, I had felt some time after completion that the work needed adjustments made as it felt flat. So in 2009 re-working had bgan to improve overall impact of the harshness of war. I conducted much research to bring to life the ferocity of the First World War to depict just a moment of how deadly artilary had become. Here the cold light of morning unvails the left overs of a battle. Rain bogged the men and beast down in the mud catching them in a barrage, trapping them where they stood. Event Photos Stopped In Their Tracks Stopped In Their Tracks, Work in Progress 2 Stopped In Their Tracks No 6 Lots More Below far left photo are the old business cards in opperation from February 207 to 2010. New business cards have been designed an are going through a feed back stage before printing. They will be available soon and thanks to the Richard Llewellyn Disability Arts Trust I would not be able to afford printing them. Middle X box is a collection of art works presented as a 3 piece titled; The Lonely Bull Collection Can be viewed by clicking on the title. These are 3 of my sold commissioned works in 2007 showen as a set. Enjoy. Following image is of the approved letter for my application for the Richard Llewellin Arts Trust for artist with a disability No 2010. With out this application being approved I would not have been able to put together my current exhibition Commercial Bacteria. Far right; are my new business cards floating about the world as we speak. I designed them and had them professionaly printed. A special thanks to the Richard Llewellin Arts Trust as I would not have been able to afford to have these printed if it were not for my arts grant application to be approved. Event Photos Business cards from 206 to 010 doc file: The Lonely Bull Collection . Letter of Aceptacne for Exhibiton Commecial Bacteria New Busines Cards 2011 Proving a Point! Below Left 2 photos, I've put in some computer manipulated formats of the same art work. They look a bit like a photo, whats your thaughts? Far right 2 photos are of a chess set I recently put together. Had some scrap timber left over from another project I'm working on. It is quite larg as you can see but solid as a rock. A friend has helped me out quite a bit recently and so to help her out by providing a nice chess booard to go with her very nice chess set. Event Photos Stopped In Their Tracks BL 5 Stopped In Their Tracks BL 2 Chess board 2010 close up Chess board 2010 copy Commission Above far right phto; Well every one, I have finaly been taken seriousyl at last. I had putt forth an Arts Grant (Quick Responce) application to the Richard Llewellyn Arts Trust. The application was seeking assistance for materials and exhibition costs as I have been invited by the Terce Gallery located in Loxton (Riverland SA) for their Mardi Grass festival in March 2011. My application has been approved, so this means the exhibition can now go ahead. The exhibition is called (Comnmercial Bacteria), exploring how mass produced poster art is slowly killing althentic makers of original art. I'll keep you posted. Below far left photo to far right photos, I'm working on a mural at the moment for the care takers hut to brighten up the place. Mural location is the Min's Shed located on the Old Sturt Highway Paringa, just East of Renmark SA. The Men's Shed was set up for those in society that had gallen through the systems so the men from the group help support each other through lifes challenges. Been doing more on the mural at Paringa after some break away due to other commitments. Will upload some snaps soon. Started another mural at the Men's Shed to compliment the WW1 settlement Hut. Event Photos Paringa Mural 2 Paringa Mural 3 Paringa Mural Paringa Mual 01 Paringa Mural 02 Diggers Hut in progress 1 Gift Vouchers Some works have were selected for exhibiting at The Gallery located at 55 Cassilis St Coonabaraban New South Wales. Many attempsts have been made to retrive the art works but with no sucess. These are works have been reported as stolen. There isn't much I can do about it, because if I tried to follow it up with the faud claims unit it would cost me more than what the art work is worth. Below Left Whats that you say at the bottom left. That is my new artificial eye with one of my paintings inserted in to the puple. The painting can be seen in in the Gallery under the sureal section of my web site. The title of the work is Children Play No 2. Mr Peter Knowles is the one who helped put this together for me. He thaught I was a bit strange but he did it any way. I wanted to use this to help promote my web site. I have found that people are able to work out easier that I am vision impaired and also a lot more accepting of my vision loss. Also below are some photos of several deer skills I have attached to the grape vine in my back yard. I'm working on putting it in to a painting or several paintings. The grapes aren't ready yet but will be an interesting look when they do. Will take more photos at different times of the day. Haven't got arond to setting up a painting as of yet but will some time soon as I'm stretching up some canvas in the next few weeks. Event Photos P1010182 Deer 3 Deer 2 Deer 1 Deer 4 Deer 5 What Is It Like? "Whats it like to live with a vision loss?" is one of the most asked questions. Dispite all of my efforts to be as normal as you, my disability does dictate what life I am to have. My employment opportunities are quite limited due to not being able to drive a car. My qualifacations are often over looked, as employers are unable to see beyond my disability. The lack of income means I am unable to expand my art career further with joint or solo exhibitions. This also includes new materals to produce new works. My disability pesnion is not much to live on and any extra goes on artificial eyes, valued at $1200 and purchase other adaptive technology I use to live independently. I'm also socialy excluded as I'm not allways able to afford to participate in certain events with friends. I'd like to be in a loving relationship with a partner, but the down side is; I'm often treated like I need a support worker and then thier shocked at how independent I live. Also there is a strong possibility my disability is genetic. So children are off the agenda, as I know how difficult it is to live with a disability. Not only that not having a steady sustainable income means I can't support a family. Organisations supporting the disabled only cater to the needs of severaly mentaly or physically disabled, leaving me in the gap. I have never met a woman who can accpet and understand why I live my life the way I do, sadly I am conditioned by my disability. As much as I don't want it too, it is reality. I would like to earn money from a job I enjoy as I want to feel as though I am doing some thing, too feel connected to society. If I want a partner, then having no income apart from my disability support pension won't help. lets face it if you were a woman would you want a partner who wasn't working! This is not a sorry campagin but the cold hard truth as to what it is like to live with a disability. So there you have it, I'll let you come to your own conclusion as to what it is like to live with a disability. If you have other questions please don't hesitate to email me for further information. Exhibition 010 KEEP UP TO DATE with the web site as there are new works and events being added monthly. Below far left; here I am using power tools, proving to all of those people who believe that people with a disability can't do things. Middle photo below is my coffee table that is strong enough to tap dance on. Made from recyceld timber from hard rubbish nights. Radiata Pine foor boards with Jarra planks in the middle for the top. Origan frame and legs from an old varanda and Boltic pine floor boards for draws. Feet were from an old bed head. it is quite strong and is at the right hight for eating from on those cold nights infront of the TV and fire place. It was also quite good therapy as it helped me deal with the pain of my partner waling out on me. Following photo there I am playing with powertools again, recycling one thing to make some thing else. Far Right is of a pedastool stand I made for a pedastool that had a wrecked bass and I saved the stand from a friend who was going to burn it. Following photo shows the stand and bass attached, stained and varnished. Following photo showing the close up ot the restored stand. Following photo of the whole thing complete. Then for my Mother I gave it to her for her Birthday/Christmas. Even though our cat past away many years ago we still joke about how she would knock these stands over to get at the flowers and eat them. So I made this one strong enough to withstand the goast cat. Following photo is of a raised up table top for a fiend who is also vision impaired as he needs to read the screen up close I built him a table top so his key board sits underneath, which is also a way to learn how to touch type and save on desk top space. At this point in time I am working on making my own kitchen table and chairs out of recycled Origan and Maranti timber. Will upload photos when I have time. Event Photos Me with power tools1 My Coffee Table Me with power tools 2 Wood Working pedastoot bass Hallway stand 3 Hallwaystand 2 Hallway stand 1 Matts Desk Top For computer 2 Lost & Found Below far Left photo. Completed comission of an Avro MK 3 Lancaster WW2 bomber. I went to great lengths to ensure each details was done just right as the guy who had comissioned me was a big fan of WW2 aircraft. Below far right photo. Here is the pre-sketch of a Lancaster aircraft to give you an idea of the effort I go to to ensure each detail is covered in my work as part of a commission I was working on. I had thought that this pre-sketch was lost but as I was cleaning up about the place, I found it again. At the time of the comission (Peter) after viewing the pre-sketch had asked me to leave out the plane in the bottom left corner. It is interesting how people forget that the pre-sketch is a rough representation of the final piece. Event Photos Landcaster Lancaster color sketch Future prospects I am currently working on a commission for art work for book cover titled Mars And Beyond for Auther Kevin Phelan. Will keep you posted on further developments. Below Far left phot, a friend was looking at bying a coffe table at the local second hand shop, but he was most unhappy with the poor quality of them for the price they wanted. So I did him a special deal and now he is very happy. Made from recyled wood from hard rubish. Next photo are of me working away on the painting titled Out The Back, which you can view in the Gallery section of this site under the Landcape banner. Next are recent photos and flyer for 919 Winery situated just out side of Berri. I was invited to exhibit some of my paintings along side Tim Balderstone (Scluptur) for celebrations of the South Australian Living Artists Festival (SALA), held annually through out each August. Plese drop in and try some of the wounderful wines they have on offer. Head to Hodges Rd out side of Berri or contact Jenny on 0408855272 or Eric 0417997414. Event Photos Matt's Coffee Table 2 Working away 919 Gallery SALA 919 Gallery SALA No 8 919 Winery Flyer 919 Winery Flyer 1 919 Gallery SALA No 5 919 Gallery SALA No 3 Berri Iformation Below Left are 2 photos of an amazing artist Richard Maurovic, who opened my first ever art exhibition in 1998 at the Port Adelaide Art Community Arts Centre. If you get a chance check his work out as his reputation is going from stregth to strength. His work reminds me very much of Jefery Smart. The next 3 photos are of a man who is doing much for the art world here in Australia and overseas. Stefan Maguran, who established an onging arround the world exhibition for artist who can't get into galleries. I partook in the 2010 OUTSIDER EXHIBITION during the Adeladie Fringe in March. Exhibition was held at the Right Street Community Centre. Event Photos Richard No 1 Richard No 2 Outsiders Sturt St 010 No1 Outsiders Sturt St 010 No 2 Outsiders Sturt St 010 No 3