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Billy Shannon
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Australian visual artist
Art of a questionable reality.
No Ai here…
https://www.billyshannon.com/
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Billy Shannon @billysart.bsky.social · Jun 10
Palette view

#wip #StudioLife
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Delivered and installed today!
A beautiful, commissioned painting of a ‘Sleeper’. I love working with this series.
Next week I’m starting a portrait of someone awake!! How unusual!!

#WallArt #InteriorDecor #CommissionedArt #LoveYourLife #LoveYourWork
August 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Three paintings waiting to be delivered to their new homes!! One commission, one sold in a charity auction and one recently sold from my studio!
Busy times!!!

#BrisbaneArtist #IndependentArtist #LoveYourLife #LoveYourWork
Several large paintings on easels in an artist’s studio. A landscape, a large spiral painting with a moon as it’s focal point. And a sleeping figure. The room has mural covered walls, sky with a giant pomegranate exploding.
August 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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lava sea
Hawaii

#photography #seascape #nature #ocean #lava #zen #tropical
July 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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‘Conversations with Eugene’ is a digital portrait of my good friend Eugene Gilfedder, made a couple of years ago. Our 40 year friendship has been full of fascinating conversations and fun.

Only 1 is left of the edition of 3, but I’ll probably keep it.

#DigitalArt #BrisbaneArtist #QueenslandArtists
A digital painting of the actor and musician, Eugene Gilfedder by Billy Shannon. Eugene is looking to the left, holding a glass of champagne, and is deep in conversation. There’s an overlay of conversational fragments relating to the nature of consciousness.
July 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Hello @flashes.blue & @bsky.app
July 10, #abstract #analog #collage on a #tin lid

@bsky.art #Artist #Art #HandMadeArt #BlueSkyArtShow #ArtSky #ContemporaryArt #ArtShare #TissuePaper #Layers #Recycling #CollageArt #HandMadeArt #Papercutting #Paper #AbstractArt #Collagista
July 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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An intersection of the perception of light and time.
Listening to Carlo Rovelli talk on the physics and philosophy of time, while I work this morning

#loveyourwork #loveyourlife #wip #ArtAndPhysics #CarloRovelli #BrisbaneArtists #perception
July 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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A view of Pink Lake from a sheltered section of the footpath. The lake, calm after a rainfall, perfectly mirrors its densely wooded shoreline. The evergreen tree canopy is visible in the foreground.
July 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Final layers and varnish on this commissioned painting this morning. It was such a lovely process to create this work!

#commissionedart #sleepseries #studiolife #paintinglife #loveyourwork #loveyourlife #BrisbaneArtist #AustralianArtist
Final varnish applied to a golden painting. Light reflecting off the surface, showing other areas of the painting studio
July 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Playing with pretend settings for my work.
The Rose Series explores the impermanence of roses, and the deep, fleeting joy we feel in their presence.
A meditation on beauty and transience

#ArtOfAQuestionableReality #RoseSeries #ContemporaryPainting #Impermanence #DarkBotanicals #StillnessAndMotion
A large dark painting by Billy Shannon of deep red roses emerging from a black background. It is set in an dark, ornate dining room A large dark painting by Billy Shannon of deep red roses emerging from a black background. It is set in a bright, summery, casual lounge A large dark painting by Billy Shannon of deep red roses emerging from a black background. It is set in an dark, ornate hall with gothic windows and gothic fireplace A small dark painting by Billy Shannon of deep red roses emerging from a black background. It is on a dark wall above some ornaments
June 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · May 18
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books
Title: How to focus on writing your book There follow eleven tiny images telling a story. The captions read: Turn your devices off (a writer with a phone and laptop. The screens are dark). Put them in a drawer. Lock the drawer. Throw away the key. Leave the house. Do not look back. Keep to backroads and hedgerows. Feel your old life slip away. (the writer has shed his clothes) Sleep by day. Forage in the evening. Write by the light of the moon When you have a passable first draft, commit a minor crime and use your phone call to contact your agent. (the naked writer is in a prison holding a phone while an unamused police officer looks on).
May 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Just listed on Bluethumb'Are we Hologram'

Exploring the notion of holographic universes. Some are holographic echos of lower dimensional universes, some sustain life, others are lifeless

bluethumb.com.au/billy-shanno...

#universe #holographicuniverse #BrisbaneArtist #ArtScience #AustralianArtist
June 12, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Logos – Hamish
From my Sleep series. Hamish owns a landmark Brisbane bookstore & sees himself as a servant of λόγος, Logos. Painted dreaming amongst the stars above him when he was born & above Eastern Australia where he has always lived

#logos #BrisbaneArtist #nebula
A painting of a man floating in the night sky. You can see the east coast of Australia superimposed over a view into the Orion Constellation Hamish Alcorn owns a landmark Brisbane bookstore and considers himself a servant of λόγος, Logos. He is painted here dreaming amongst the stars above him when he was born and at the same time above the eastern coast of Australia where he has always lived. A painting of a man floating in the night sky. You can see the east coast of Australia superimposed over a view into the Orion Constellation Hamish Alcorn owns a landmark Brisbane bookstore and considers himself a servant of λόγος, Logos. He is painted here dreaming amongst the stars above him when he was born and at the same time above the eastern coast of Australia where he has always lived.
June 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Palette view

#wip #StudioLife
June 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Early mornings in my studio usually start with a jazve coffee.

Here are some commissioned works and one for a small show that I’m working on.

The ‘Sleep’ commission is part of a series of works that’s been going for 10 years.
Early morning Armenian coffee made in a haz e wakes me up! Emotional painting of a woman sleeping. Multi-imaged as she rolls around in her sleep. Painted in warm tones, gold and bronze. A square format, acrylic on canvas, though the layers make it seem like an oil painting. Two small rose paintings. More about the ‘breath’ of roses rather than the form. One painting in reds and golds the other a dark red rose floating out from a black background
June 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM