{"id":89,"date":"2005-01-10T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-10T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=89"},"modified":"2009-12-31T16:43:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T16:43:16","slug":"the-blad-artist-interviews-no-2-ricky-swallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/01\/the-blad-artist-interviews-no-2-ricky-swallow.html","title":{"rendered":"The BLAD artist interviews, no.2: Ricky Swallow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Remember, if you display an emotion of any kind all your less successful artist mates will call you a wanker. Yeah, I'd leave the country too.\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/swallow.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">After November&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2004\/11\/blad-artist-interviews-no1-stelarc.html\">trenchant, incisive interview with Stelarc<\/a> some readers thought I&#8217;d run out of artists to interview, but long-term readers knew I was just too lazy to upload more treasures of Australia&#8217;s cultural heritage.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vceart.com\/artists\/swallow\/\">Ricky Swallow<\/a> became a household word after he handcrafted Melbourne&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crowncasino.com.au\/\">Crown Casino<\/a> complex entirely out of cardboard, balsa wood and carpet remnants, complete with a fully-working model of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/mediawatch\/transcripts\/s1183229.htm\">Steven Jacobs<\/a>. After being named &#8220;Australia&#8217;s Most Collectable Young Artist&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/cleo.ninemsn.com.au\/cleo\/\">Cleo magazine<\/a> for three years running, he has now fled the country. This interview was conducted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gertrude.org.au\/\">200 Gertrude Street<\/a> last year. <\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"left\">BLAD: Hello.<br \/>SWALLOW: Hey there! You know, you look more like <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2004\/11\/people-or-things-i-have-been-mistaken.html\">Jim O&#8217;Rourke<\/a> every time I see you.<br \/>BLAD: Huh?<br \/>SWALLOW: Whoops, gotta go! <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"><em>Ricky Swallow has been selected by the Australia Council for <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozco.gov.au\/council_priorities\/international\/venice_biennale\/\"><em>ritual sacrifice<\/em><\/a><em> at the 2005 Venice Biennale.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After November&#8217;s trenchant, incisive interview with Stelarc some readers thought I&#8217;d run out of artists to interview, but long-term readers knew I was just too lazy to upload more treasures of Australia&#8217;s cultural heritage. Ricky Swallow became a household word after he handcrafted Melbourne&#8217;s Crown Casino complex entirely out of cardboard, balsa wood and carpet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2227,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/2227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}