Dead Money

Watching the video is like watching a snuff film, you can’t quite believe they’re going to do it – but then they do: they burn the profits from their music careers as a gesture against the art world.

Gems of Simplicity

“Andrew Frost is writing on art for the Guardian? Stand by for a gushing article about Tom Polo.”

Super 8 Deluxe

I remember colours; the orange cast of Kodachrome 40, Ektachrome 180 blue, and the Japanese-green of Fujichrome.

Art School Confidential

My musical skills were so rudimentary I couldn’t really ‘play’ in any meaningful way and the sounds I made on the tapes were grungy collages of TV samples, movie quotes and drones made by feeding back a melodica through a flanger.

Into the Black

And so it came to pass that I was driving McLean Edwards in my wife’s car to an opening of his work at Goulburn Regional Gallery.