John O'Driscoll

I studied history at uni and was drawn to art books in the library stack - a year studying Spanish fascism and the society that it came from gave an excuse to spend hours checking out Goya reproductions, and John Heartfield, among others

 There was no future in history, no future employment, as the culture wars were beginning, so I moved into a squat and started painting.

 Soon I moved into the Gunnery, where a lot of artists, musicians and performers grew around the theatres and exhibition space there, and the studios they created. I learnt how to paint and hang shows and worked as an animation painter on Toby Zoates Virgin Beasts, and made noise with oscillators. We managed to hold on to it for 5 years, the hottest venue in town

 Afterwards I kept painting and exhibiting, lived in the bush for a bit(I've also lived in Berlin and Melbourne), occasionally mucking round with sequencers and 4-tracks, drawing obsessively so I could get a bit better at it. I learnt C++, and revised my highschool geometry, to write a freehand tiling pattern creation program.

 Looking at some Holbein drawings got me into portraiture, I've been doing pencil portraits on the street for 15 years now, great practise and fun. I'll do yours for a fee.

 From 2012-4I painted a 6 x 2.4m Newtown Last supper at Newtown Mission (280A King St) portraying people who eat and volunteer there. That got me out of work for the dole, I'll do a bit more at the mission soon.

 I do commissions - canvases, ink and pencil, murals, etc including portraits, landscapes, cartoons and concepts . Email me on subgeometer@gmail.com or call 0401 29 64 78

 I publish political phantasms and other paintings and drawings on my blogs.