duckpond is a melbourne based artist, lighting designer and advocate of pyjamas as semi formal pleasure wear. the following is a non chronological outline of his activities and influences.

abandoned formal training as a mummies boy in the early 1980’s to become a semi famous underground lighting designer to local australian music artists and several international bands travelling thru australia in the late 80’s.

departed australia on government funded sickness benefits leave programme travelling thru continental europe ending up on a spring   loaded couch on the wrong side of the tracks in south east london.

travelled extensively thru northern scandinavia with “the triffids” in the late 80’s in short pants, with a small plastic koala, a spare pair of under-pants and a toothbrush packed in primary school lunchbox and used empty vodka bottles as a pillow.

commissioned to return to australia to design the lights for the first big day out festival in january 1992, thereafter assigned as ambience director of the festival to give punters the impression there was acid in the beer.

after several backstage stunts endangering lives at the feet of irate rock gods, created “the lilypad” together with several other goons from melbourne; an oasis of stupidity in a sea of black t-shirts.

lived in london and berlin during the 1990’s experimenting with battery operated plastic record players and tin foil and plasticine sculptures from an east berlin studio.

on a visit to mumsie in 2007, newspaper, charcoal and a lab coat inspired a new beginning in visual arts and cartoon characterisation. it was then, that the first bunnies appeared on the horizon of a telly tubby landscape.

after the first summer of the new millennium, spent in pyjamas on the lilypad stage, brazenly made some guerrilla appearances at sydney fashion week with other half-baked melbourne fashionistas, resulting in several reviews in the sydney social pages and a cover of marie claire.

finally, may 2011 first commercial range of duckpond’s pyjamas escapes to the adoring public via duckpondsworld.com and 12 volt solar system art exhibition at mart gallery, Sydney.

“the bunnies and other characters in my work are sub and semi conscious reflections of ourselves as we go about our lives in the twenty first century. rolling eyes and maloc’cluded dentistry portray the need for asymmetry in our lives and balloons our escape from vertical challenges. boomerangs flying thru the air are symbols of good luck, that we will come back to. analogue and retro are hip again. the future is low voltage. take the bunnies and run."