Blog Space New Links every one Attention every one I now have a myspace blog set up. If you wish to know more about me Jamahl Pollard then follow the links and click on Jamahl's MySpace 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. SORRY TO ALL! I have relocated from the city (Adelaide)to the country (Berri), as I could no longer afford to pay the high rental in Adelaide. I also had to move as I'd sent out an easy 5000 applications for work over the last 10 years and spent my retirement fund of $24.000 on education and to get my art career up and running. In the end I gainned very little employment. Not enough to pay the bills and keep my art career afloat. Sorry to all of you who would like to see my work at a local art gallery near you. I am unable to be represented by reputable galleries as I don't make more than $30,000 in independent sales a year and therefore deemed a liability. I don't know where my art career is headed right now as I have a serious lack of funds to expand it furhter. I would like to create new work but am often unable to afford materials. Sorry to all of you who wanted to see a new broad range of works in 2009/10 and continued. This web site will close in June 2010 if sales fail to increase to support the running of this web site. If you are able to purchase any work, then that will help me build my career as a disabled artist. Not only that you will have purchased an investment piece of original art work that is easier to maintain than an investment property. REMEMBER the development of any art projects can only continue with your support. Thank you. Event Photos Australia's Greatest Auction Job Vacancy Dam IT Help Desk Work For The Dole Textbook Counseling The Working Poor Australia Mine Future prospects Above are some of my cartoon sketches that I one day would like to turn in to T'shirts. Will be aplying for an arts grant some time soon to begin to create some thing. Below far left is a fir surround I found in hard rubish. I only had to give it a quick clean, varnish and a polish. My partner at the time loved it, glad I din't gift it to her as I would have lost it when she walked out. Next phots are 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 photo is of another item I restored also found in a side of the road rubish heap. Some siad it was a bit of fire wook but once restored they loved it. Donated it to the Berri Arts Centre as I had no room left when I moved house. It sits in the kitchen for all f the coffe and tea to sit. Also a utensils holder for the Kitchen I made. It is about 5kg in weight, much better than these expensive metal bucket you pay for. 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 for celebrations of the South Australian Living Artists 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 Mirror Working away Wooden stand holder 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 I've been busy Below the following photos shows the progress of the reworking of one of my paintings titled Stopped In Thir Tracks. Originaly created in 2007, I had felt some time after the work needed adjustments as the overall impact had not been reached. A detailed study of the brutal ferocity of the First World War, of how the cold light of morning unvails the left overs of a battle. Rain bogged the men and beast down and a barrage trapping them where they stood. The black and white and also the sepia image of the painting was manipulated in photoshop, a play on experimenting with making the original colored painting in to photo taken on the front line during WW1. Head to the Gallery banner and look up Military in the tool bar, the art work is Stopped In Their Tracks. ABC Radio. I have just conducted a live to air radio interview with Radio National as part of their Meet The Listener a 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 titled Life Matters and you will find the intervew in the Meet The Listener section of the program. Coming project; 919 Winery are putting on a joint exhbition. Details to come; opening night 1/8/09. Event Photos Stopped In Their Tracks Stopped In Their Tracks, Work in Progress 2 Stopped In Their Tracks No 6 Proving a Point! Above I am proving a point that a person with a vision loss can use power tools. I am a self taught carpenter as no study institute will take me on as they feel I am an OHS risk. Here is mud in the eyes to those who have tried to dictate what I can and can't achive. Below I've put in some computer manipulated formats of the same art work. They look a bit like a photo, whats your thaughts? Event Photos Stopped In Their Tracks BL 5 Stopped In Their Tracks BL 2 Berri Iformation I have exhibited some of my work at the Berri Visitor Information Centre during Jul-Ag 08 located at the bottom of the Main Street on the River Murry. I was there painting out the front on the weekends when climatical conditions permited. Sold a painting and was quite happy. 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. 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 Gift Vouchers Above Midle photo is also a flyer advertising the wounderful work of Lorraine Marter. Every woman should not miss this opportunity, hand crafted garments, original desingns and accessories on offer at prices you can afford. Visit their Gallery at Kulkyne St Renmark S.A. Ph (08)85864445 The following 3 phots are from the OUTSIDERS Art Exhibition. Work by artists who are not recognized by major galleries, some or no formal training or have some sort of disability that prvents them from exhibiting in mainstream venues. Here Stefan, the man behind the creation of the exhibiton shows us his work. Head to facebook and look for Outsiders art - Adeladie Fextival. The currnet exhibition is held at 171 Sturt St Adelaide. From the 14/2/010 to the 7/4/10 Mon to Fri 9am to 5pm, weekends by appointment only. Ceck it out ans let me know what you think. Some works have been selected for exhibiting at The Gallery located at 55 Cassilis St Coonabaraban New South Wales. For enquires and further information please contact Claudia at her web site; www.thegalleryofc.biz Thans. 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. 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 $900 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. The down side is 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. 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. 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. The Lonely Bull 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. Event Photos Paringa Backpackers 2 doc file: The Lonely Bull Collection . Paringa Backpackers Paringa Pre Sketch Sign Back Packers 2 Paringa Backpackers 3 Commission Thank you to the Paringa Backpackers a small town just North of Renmark here in the River Land for Commissioning me. I am working on a sign promoting the business as they have a lot of back packers come in for the picking of localy grown fruit. Above you can see the work in progress, from the pre-sketch on the right to various stages of the project. Below far left photo is taken from an article from the local messanger paper promoting an open day at the Paringa Museum restoring old farm equipment and other realted activities. It is a place where we support each other to over come our difficulties/disabilities/problems. 2 great guys eating as usual by the BBQ, the feature of an old partly restored Beford Truck. I'm working on a mural at the moment for the care takers hut to brighten up the place. Photos below show me working away on the profect. More photos to come. Event Photos Paringa Mural 2 Paringa Mural 3 Paringa Mural Paringa Mual 01 Paringa Mural 02 Door Mat No More Door Mat No 1 Work in Progress As I have not been able to gain employment to support my art career I have not been able to have sufficient funds to pay for new materials, resulting in paintings being reworked or painted over. Above is a work created around 1999 and in 2008 I have started to rework. So if you like what you see then act soon as it may end up a different painting to what it was a few weeks ago. Am putting together some art works for the Cheffy Theatre for their 25th anniversary. Each month different artists from the Riverland region are able to exhibit their works. Photos to come. Below is another example of a painting that is no longer. Originaly painted in the late 1990s titled Country Town had been loved by many but not sold. I got sick of looking at it so painted over the top of it with an Aussy landscape of a sent set of an old homestead. In 2006 I entered the painting in the anual Port Adelaide Rotary Art Show and to my amazement it sold. Sadly the photo I took of the new work didn't turn out Event Photos Country Town - Oils on canvas board Exhibition 010 KEEP UP TO DATE with the web site as there are new works and events being added monthly. Middle photo below is my brand new coffee table I've just finished. 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. Event Photos Me with power tools1 My Coffee Table Me with power tools 2