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Following the long European tradition of the singerie this is one of a series of monkeys representing a contemporary empire where followers display messages on their red caps. The artist found this wise Scottish proverb in Julian Barnes excellent book The Man in the Red Coat pub 2019; which explores the Paris Belle Epoque by examining the intersection of the art, literary, celebrity and medical elites.
Singerie Lexicon
A deipnosophist is skilled at dinner table conversation.
Lusus Naturae; freak of nature. Margaret Atwood utilizes the term to depict the tendency of society to isolate their members whose physical features look different from the rest. The main character is a girl who is rejected, called horrible, and nicknamed a monster because she suffers from porphyria (Atwood 265)
Ochlocracy: government by the mob; mob rule
The Pierian Spring of Macedonia was sacred to the Pierides and the Muses. As the metaphorical source of knowledge of art and science.
Fissiparous: tending to break or split up into parts: divisive. fissiparous tendencies within a political party.
Ned Ludd is the legendary person to whom the Luddites attributed the name of their movement. In 1779, Ludd is supposed to have broken two stocking frames in a fit of rage.
Salaud: French generic derogatory term for swine, scoundrel or creep but originally used by Sartre in the specific political sense of someone who refuses to take responsibility for their acts, demonstrates bad faith and self-deception, a denial of human freedom, abdication of responsibility towards oneself and others.
Hetrodox can describe someone actively challenging or opposing accepted doctrines.
Accidie or accedie has been variously defined as a state of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one's position or condition in the world. spiritual sloth; apathy; indifference.
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Characterised by robust figures and suburban dramas, Woodrow has earned significant recognition, including winning the Gold Coast Art Award twice and Brisbane’s first major art prize, the GIO Art Award along with a solo exhibition at Phillip Bacon Galleries. Becoming a full-time artist also allowed him to complete an art history degree at the University of Queensland. After completing his studies, he left Queensland, first relocating to Canberra to work at the National Gallery of Australia, and later accepting a position at the School of Fine Art at the University of Newcastle in New South Wales. During this time, he held regular exhibitions in Newcastle and Sydney and earned both a Master of Philosophy and a Doctor of Philosophy from The University of Sydney.
While Woodrow has worked across most art mediums, his return to Queensland in 2006 to teach at the Queensland College of Art at Griffith University, marked a shift to an almost exclusive focus on printmaking. A pioneer in using the Internet for teaching and visual arts research, he offered Australia’s first online art theory course in the 1990s. However, his artistic focus on the graphic arts and historical print technologies stems from their ability to interrogate and explore the status and significance of iconic and symbolic images.
Woodrow’s research often centres on representations within the field of physiognomy, a recurring theme in both his writing and creative work. His engagement with the synergy between old and new technologies informs the critical operations underlying the muscular iconography in his prints. This approach makes his work conceptually rich, technically proficient, and deeply resonant in exploring the complexities of visual representation.
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