What I'm after:
It's all digital art, I'm combining it with different techniques to get some texture
in it, as digital art can lack the warmth and complexity that texture brings.

What's inspired me:
The landscape (obviously!) suggests these things to me in quite a direct way. I've
been coming to the Wimmera for 20 years and living here for 8 and, like any
good relationship, I just find it more beautiful. The harshness seems to make the
beauty and delicacy more pronounced, the epic skies, the perfect lines of the salt
lakes, the elegant trees.

On a human level I have been encouraged by selling work at the Nati frinj
festival, and by people (like Greg Pritchard) having their first visual art
exhibitions at the Goat Gallery. This is my first exhibition, and I have loved the
process, feel really inspired and hope it's the first of many.
And on that note, all of the work is for sale!

Background:
I've been doing freelance graphic design, web design, projection for
performance, animation, programming and video production since 2001. My
work's been at Fed Square, the Sydney Opera House and part of the
Commonwealth Games cultural programme. Locally I have worked on the silos
shows with Y‐Space and produced several DVD's such as Long Time Wet, Long
Time Dry for the Wimmera Catchment Management Authority. I am currently
making a documentary on the history of rockclimbing in Australia.

Douglas Hockly