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)
New Publishing: In VALA 4 ‘War+Peace’, William Blake untangles complexity & our 2022 UK Defence Doctrine, Nov 2023, London, UK
My visual essay in VALA, the journal of The Blake Society in London, is called "A Field Manual for A Lost Soldier: William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell as a Course in Complexity". Their theme is War & Peace. Marriage can help us unravel the complexity of our times. Military leaders also need reminding that limiting their creativity to technologies to kill blinds them to the shape-shifting qualities of Blake’s God and Satan.
Writings: My chapter in a new multicultural LGBTIQ Australian Anthology, Melbourne 2018
A wonderful new anthology I'm proud to be part of and, honestly, it's so readable and a breath of fresh air in terms of understanding the hidden cultural diversity in LGBT communities
New Publishing: London Progressive Journal article, “Re-Packaging Masculinity in Tony Abbott’s Body Politic” July 2015
This article was first published in the London Progressive Journal, 5 July 2015. It was my response to the rise of right-wing elements in the Australian political scene and targeting of my Muslim friends in Melbourne.
Writings: My new article for The Queer Psychoanalysis Society’s journal The Qouch, April 2013, USA
Queer theory isn't for everyone I know, but if you know me, you know that I have different levels to my work. Thank you to The Qouch for inviting me to write about my series of paintings - The Assassination of Judy Garland
Conference Art: Contributing to international workshop on drones & international intervention at The University Of Surrey, July 2012 UK
The international 2 day workshop at The Centre for International Intervention [cii], School of Politics, University of Surrey, UK ‘Hitting the Target?’ features my work in the poster session discussing how new capabilities & new technology affects intervention at a legal, political and military level.
Art Review, Jocelynne A. Scutt, Cambridge University Politics Journal May 2012 UK
Late last year I was interviewed by Dr Jocelynne A. Scutt, a fellow Australian with a distinguished career in international human rights law for The Art of the Possible, the Cambridge University Journal of Politics