Artist Tom O'Hern wants more people to embrace the art of drawing badly, saying life has become too full of perfection.
But, the participants were all good drawers."For the more experienced ones, it's all about the paradox of becoming experienced and you get all this experience and knowledge and that can block creativity because you're coming at it from already knowing what the answer is.A lot of his work is public murals, and he approaches each one differently.Everyone is born an artist
O'Hern went to school at Geilston Bay High on Hobart's eastern shore and then Rosny College before art school."Everyone starts out really into art, it's just that most people stop being into art at some point," he said.He said "compulsion and an unhealthy addiction to drawing" has kept him going.Early in his career he moved to Melbourne and learnt to live very cheaply and worked out of cold, leaky warehouses.
"I'm trying to push back on that, sometimes things take me ages and sometimes they don't and often it's the things made quickly I think actually are better."O'Hern's current solo exhibition Bum Steer at the Bett Gallery features works he produced on a "secret island" over a month."It was a really nice way of working. No sketches, no fixing anything up, just see what happens.
"I've spent so much time in really cold studios flogging myself, when I could also just be on a beach taking it easy and going for a swim," he said. His other major project at the moment is a commissioned public art piece for the Hobart City Council.
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