2011

Well ... I just did a quick survey of 2011 ... it feels like it was quiet year for Drive West Today concerts but I still managed to squeeze in about 10 concerts which seems to be my average over the last 5 years or so. In fact - that means I've now done over 50 concerts in that outfit ... which sounds like a big number doesn't it!

2012 is looking interesting with projects both musical and visual with
Taking part in an Opera in January in Hobart ... can't say more ... perhaps afterwards.

A concert at the Forest Festival in February where I'll perform a once-off composition for the Tassie forest.

At some point in the year I shall be accompanying my beautiful wife Nadine on her fellowship trip to Boisbuchet in France so she can attend a design workshop of some description ... I'm going to hang out, eat camembert and probably draw comics ... might see if I can get to Paris and meet David B ... and then fawn all over him ... with poor French skills.

Plans in the wings for another collaborative production with the wonderful Chris Downes for a comics/theatre crossover ... stayed tuned for that later in 2012.

My graphic novel is more than half complete ... the full first chaper can be read online here at Joshua Santospirito Art, if you like what you read you'll hopefully like it even more when I get it in print ( that is, after all, how it's designed to be read ... not on a computer screen ).

Late in the year I'm going to be doing a fairly massive comics-exhibition in Hobart which should keep me occupied for some time.

So - I'm liking the lookie of 2012 ... I shall be telling you all about my creative pursuits when the appropriate moments come up ... in the meantime - enjoy Summer (if you're in Australia) and enjoy Winter (if you're in a Northern part of the planet).

My new art website

I don't know if I've written this here before at the Collossal Adjective ... but I'm writing it here now - if you're interested in my comic art then check my other website - Joshua Santospirito Art. There you can read a few of my one-pager comics, look at my slowly growing long-form essay-comic The Long Weekend in Alice Springs (I'm slowly putting up pages from it as I complete them) and other bits and bobs that I think to put on the web for people to have a gander at.

I will also be looking at a large-scale art project in the next year which I shall exhibit in Hobart in December next year, I might place bits of that up as it slowly evolves as well ... so check back every now and then if you're interested in the process.

www.joshuasantospiritoart.com

Heading back to Sydney

Looking forward to this - In December I'm headed back to Sydney for a gig at the Silent Hour XX, which is a tops night held at the General Store gallery, a beautiful sounding space in Wooloomooloo. In November, in the meantime, Greg Haines, Tim Coster and Spartak will be at TSH XIX on the 19th of November which should be nice ... but I won't see it.

Ooo ... big city of lights.

December 2nd, (Friday) from 8pm there'll be a few acts on for a fundraiser for the General Store. Playing on the night will be Paul Heslin - who's got some cool little videos you can gawk at here - >