CrumpArt

Nine and a half years ago, I met Mr Crumpet.

My friend was seeing this guy who played drums in a band, and she owed me a favour, so took me out for a night on the town to one of their gigs. Mr Crumpet was also friends with the band, and that’s how we met.

Van was the drummer in question. He started a degree in painting at RMIT that year, and even then he was very, very good at what he did. We don’t see each other all that often these days, but it’s always cool to catch up at shows and stuff. We’ve even shown work together once before.

Yep, I’ve had an art show with the nephew of the Prime Minister of Australia. The one degree of separation is kinda trippy…

Van is a quiet, reserved, smart, hardworking, polite, extremely talented and really a lovely person. His politics only really come to the fore in his artwork. I’m finding all this press so awesome. Go Van!