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Howard's paintings are punk. They're punk mainstream. I studied at Prahran TAFE and

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then Prahran College majoring in
painting and he was one of the teachers

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there. Howard Arkley had outstanding art
exhibitions they were really something

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special. They weren't just oh we're having another show

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they were like 'bang'. The whole world
stopped for Howard Arkley. I think

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from Howard's exuberance and personality a lot of people got inspired

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Howard grew up in suburbia, Howard was
involved with suburbia, Howard lived in

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suburbia, Howard's studios later on were in suburbia and Howard would have seen

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suburbia day-in-day-out as being the
major reality of Australia. I've only

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just started painting suburban paintings
in a pixelated style. I've done a few

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suburban paintings in a sort of
traditional classical style but I

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haven't really shown them to anyone. We
look at his work as being dominated by

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line but one of the interesting things
about that line is that it's actually

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not a line at all it's a spray. It's more
like an atomised abstraction. When I

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look at that painting I see both Howard Arkley and Nick Cave and also I do see an

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anonymous mask-like figure that can
represent the generation of that punk

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eighties mentality. There's a lot of
attitude in that painting and that

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attitude comes from both the teacher and
the painter