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”.

These are my first drypoint prints for decades - Akinesia and Gloria which I did today. My pet project is reworking a selection of my visual diaries over the past 3 decades. I wanted to do a series of prints, but it's been two decades since I did any etchings and I don't own a press. So, I'm incredibly grateful to printmaker Monika Lukowska-Appel here in Perth in Western Australia at the Midland Arts Junction who ran a workshop for artists in my area.

I was so pleased when Dr Kyle Grayson asked if Routledge London could use my painting There is Nothing Like a Drone (2011) for his new book on targeted killing

Thank you to RTRFM for inviting me to speak about my exhibition The Assassination of Judy Garland at 464 Smart Space, Perth WA. RTRFM has always been a consistent supporter of my work for many years.

The title is from Ethel Waters' rendition of Suppertime from Irving Berlin's 1933 broadway revue - As Thousands Cheer. (play the song on You Tube below). People wouldn't know but this was an innovative revue based on a newspaper and the events of the day (remarkable, you'd never get that bravery today). I re-drew Obama's face with olive leaves, sort of a mask of Caesar.