cofa talks
Art and Music
Steve Clark, Reg Mombassa, George Washingmachine and Ken West
speak at the college of fine arts, UNSW
WHEN WHERE
6.30 pm College of Fine Arts, UNSW
Tuesday May 5th Cnr Oxford Street & Greens Rd,
Paddington, Sydney, NSW, 2021
Main Lecture Theatre, EG02
There is a well established connection between contemporary
art, art schools and music; think the Beatles, the Rolling Stones
and even Sydney’s own Mental as Anything. In this panel discussion,
Big Day Out organiser Ken West and musician/artists Reg Mombassa,
Steve Clark and George Washingmachine chat about the inspirational
links between Art and Music.
Steve Clark is a musician, artist and designer. During the 80’s
and 90’s Clark recorded and toured extensively with the band
Died Pretty. In 2006, he graduated with a PhD in Architecture,
Planning and Design. His current artistic/academic research
investigates the design of sound installations as places in both
physical and virtual spaces. Clark is the COFA Academic Fellow.
Ex-pat Kiwi Reg Mombassa (a.k.a. Chris O’Doherty) has lived
in Australia since 1969. He was a founding member of the rock
band Mental as Anything and has exhibited at Watters Gallery
in Sydney since 1975. Since 1986, Mombassa has worked as a
Caption: Reg Mombassa, Guitar Landscape (detail), charcoal and coloured pencil on paper, 22 x 30cm. Photo: Michel Brouet, Mixed Media
Photographic Studio. Courtesy the artist and Watters Gallery.
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS  |  T HE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Phone 9385 068 4 Email cofa@unsw.edu. au Web w w w.cofa.unsw.edu. au
WHO COST
Steve Clark Free and open to the public
Reg Mombassa
George Washingmachine
Ken West
free-lance artist for Mambo graphics and he currently plays in
the band Dog Trumpet, which he founded with his brother
Peter in 1990.
George Washingmachine is a musician and an artist and his artworks
combine both his passions. In 2007, he recieved a commision from
Swiss photographer Bernd L. Göllnitz-Bischofberger to make
linocuts based on photographs of Australian musicians at The
Ascona Jazz Festival. In 2008, Washingmachine completed a
series on famous American jazz men for photographer Riccardo
Schwamenthal.
Ken West is a graduate of COFA (then Alexander Mackie College
of Advanced Education) and he says, “Art for me is purely about
what makes me happy.” But despite his training in the visual arts,
West is best known as the co-founder of The Big Day Out music
festival, a 12 hour multi-stage, multi-media extravaganza.