Blog Archives
Blog Archives
Blog Archives
Blog Archives
Over the past two decades, Carl Gopalkrishnan's artwork has garnered international recognition for his ability to forge meaningful connections between art & literature and the complex dynamics driving international law, intervention and global conflict. Carl transforms familiar cultural artefacts into new myths so legal and military minds can explore the creative, subconscious and emotional stories that shape their doctrines of war & peace. (Photograph copyright © Amanda Brown 1992)
Open Letter: Red, White & Blue = Lavender. In 2024 we turn desperately to our young people to paint a better future.
Creation is not only for artists. Students who are discovering their voices to call for a ceasefire in Gaza are, collectively, creating a moment in history. Those opposing it will apply the same silencing, disparaging comments, and threats, as they have to artists who have challenged doctrine for millennia.
New Painting: ‘Gaza, Monsters of the Id. A painting in red, white and blue’ I turn this painting against the wall before I sleep, Jan 2024
Artists paint especially when there are no words left…
New Publishing: The Australian Fabians Review #6 re-publishes my 2010 Gaza paintings, January 2024 AU
Deeply grateful to editors of The Australian Fabian Review # 6, 2024 for featuring my four 2010 paintings & extract from my blog post last year about the provenance of wars in Gaza. Their cover art is very clear: “Stop Killing Children”.
Commentary: Keeping a tiny sliver of hope alive as we journey through grief
I urge you to take a break from people who don't allow you to grieve, and it's ok to tunnel vision for a short while, but leave the door to your tunnel ajar, for all our survival depends on that tiny sliver of hope, of light we allow, like a thread to keep us from getting lost in the forrest.
Studio Notes: New Painting ‘Livni as the Sibyl of Cumae with dancing Follies’. 2009
A lot of the issues which have arisen since Obama's Egyptian speech reminded me of the prophetic silence of the 'Sibyl of Cumae' (Roman prophecies, Homeric stories, Virgil's Aeneid VI etc). It is exploring the role of prophecy in modern political life. Lately I have been thinking about "Tzipi" Livni's 'non-presence' in the evolving public discussion around the search for peace.
Studio Notes: New painting: ‘Oh Barack, don’t let’s ask for the moon’, 2009
"Oh Barack, Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars. " Chick Flick: Acrylic, screenprint on 16 x 20" canvas. This is a continuation of my using Broadway and Hollywood metaphors, in examining the US/Israeli/Palestinian relationships.