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Over the past two decades, Carl Gopalkrishnan's artwork has garnered international recognition for his ability to forge meaningful connections between art & literature and the complex dynamics driving international law, intervention and global conflict. Carl transforms familiar cultural artefacts into new myths so legal and military minds can explore the creative, subconscious and emotional stories that shape their doctrines of war & peace. (Photograph copyright © Amanda Brown 1992)
New Publishing: In VALA 4 ‘War+Peace’, William Blake untangles complexity & our 2022 UK Defence Doctrine, Nov 2023, London, UK
My visual essay in VALA, the journal of The Blake Society in London, is called "A Field Manual for A Lost Soldier: William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell as a Course in Complexity". Their theme is War & Peace. Marriage can help us unravel the complexity of our times. Military leaders also need reminding that limiting their creativity to technologies to kill blinds them to the shape-shifting qualities of Blake’s God and Satan.
Media Release: Sedition and Terrorism Troubles Artist in Latest Exhibition at Keith+Lottie Gallery, “Sedition + Other Bedtime Stories”
Perth visual artist Carl Gopalkrishnan’s new exhibition “Sedition and Other Bedtime Stories” opens at Keith and Lottie’s shop-gallery in Northbridge on Wednesday August 6 2006 at 6pm. The artist’s new work includes a series of drawings and painting based on the idea of a child waking up in our post-September 11 world.