Q&A Greedy Hen | Artists
Greedy Hen is the collaboration of Katherine Brickman and Kate Mitchell. They are story tellers, illustrators, artists, collectors, bookmakers, explorers and adventurers. They use various mediums in projects intent on creating images alluding to a playful black humour, unwritten fables or subtle off-kilter sinister elements lurking amongst a kinder-esq beauty. Step into their quirky world and say hi.
Name: Greedy Hen (art collective / studio / duo / mighty force made up of the collective powers of Katherine Brickman and Kate Mitchell)
Profession: Artists
Location: Surry Hills in Sydney, Australia
Passions: Kate – “sweat and chocolate” and Katherine – “music and art”
How we got our break: By being fools and jumping in the deep end
Our top tricks of the trade: Creating incredible sights for sore eyes
Our styles in a sentence: Kate – “loose caboose beauty” and Katherine – “eclectic collage and calamity jams”
Travel destination and tips:
Time spent on a plane is like being nowhere. You are in no particular time zone, no postcode, no country, no one can contact you. sometimes you are travelling backwards in time, or skipping a day into the future. It is the closest we can get to being nowhere.
We bet you didn’t know we can: Wrestle
We get our inspirations from:
David Attenborough, old books, bathroom wall graffiti, The Beets ‘Spit In The Face Of People Who Don’t Want To Be Cool’, rad people making and doing rad things.
Our latest project is about:
We are currently making a music video for an amazing band we are really excited about called The Middle East for their song ‘Blood’. Also, if you are up Brisbane way, Greedy Hen are having an art exhibition with Dylan Martorell and Nathan Gray titled “cloudy muddy messy mucky crystal clear”, at Metro Art from August 18th – September 8th 2009.
Last purchase: A giant powerful cup of coffee.
Current favourite mecho item: Lindt ginger chocolate
Pssstt…..One time… : Kate pissed herself laughing.
NOTE: ARCHIVE ONLY from AUG-09. You may leave a comment but please note GreedyHen is no longer actively responding to any questions post 31 Aug-09.
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Kienism | August 1st, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Some great looking work there. Almost Dave Mckean without the weird and scary. You’re obviously influenced by many different styles. What would be your favourite medium to work in, and where do you see your art evolving to in the future?
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SteveRack | August 4th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Wow! Amazing work. It’s got a whimsical vintage feel to it: like I might come across it in an hidden away collector’s shop full of mysterious trinkets and forgotten antiquities. Your work is comforting and full of imagination. Do you have an ongoing narrative in any of your works?
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GreedyHen | August 11th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Thanks for your question Kienism. Yep we are influenced by the world and its contents. Hmmm… our favourite medium? …that’s a toughy. We like to work with what ever medium suits our idea best and that usually is paper based.
we hope to be able to continue working in the way that we are, being open to as many different types of projects as possible, and just evolving with the natural flow of things.
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GreedyHen | August 11th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
hello steve!
there’s always some form of hidden narrative.
there’s a common thread that unites all of our work, the story is intuitive, a sense of a familiar fable that’s faded in memory. like telling a joke that you’ve forgotten the punch line to but knowing that it’s seriously funny. it’s a mood that can’t quite be pin pointed but is indeed in the realm of the whimsical … “whimsical” without being naff.
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Lara | August 11th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Hi GreedyHen,
Fantastic work! Like your attitude to go with the flow and evolve
Do you seek out those you would like to create something for or do they usually come knocking on your door?
LL
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Robert | August 12th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Where does the name GreedyHen come from?
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Lee | August 26th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Hey GreedyHen! how is your exhibition in Brissy going? and is your music video ready yet? Amaziing how you can make a living out of your passions!! //Lee//
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