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Meet the artist: Brian Coldrick
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Brian Coldrick designs our Diesel Weasel and Obscure Remixer pages, as part payment we were obliged to interview him, so lets get this over and done with as quickly as possible so we can all move on. Brian is a member of the Tender Trio and the Illustrator's Guild. Apparently on entering the latter he had to run naked through a small seaside town and fellate a donkey wearing a sombrero. Brian is one of the nicest and most talented young artists in Dublin but he will smoke your cigarettes and take your beer like it was his god-given right to.
Has your job ever got you laid, free drink, arrested?
It's definitely got me some free booze on a few occasions, which in turn, may have led to me getting laid and/or arrested.
What did you want to be as a kid?
An adult? I don't ever remember wanting to be a fireman or a pilot or anything like that. And I was probably too well adjusted a child to believe I could grow up to be a robot assassin. Though I did like the idea of being an archaeologist because of Indiana Jones.
What's the best tool of your trade?
I'd love to say my hands or an imagination or something sincere like that. But to be honest I have to say my shiny MacBookPro. It fixes everything I draw, entertains me, and makes me toast and tea in the morning.
Why did you choose these three images?
Well I had to include a picture of the Sloth or he would have been cross. I like the weird one of the kids playing chess because I can't really remember what the hell I was thinking when I drew it and it turned out a strange mix of ingredients. And the last one I included because it features the interviewer so I thought that might get me a good intro blurb or something. I look forward to seeing the results of my flirtation with bribery.
How would you describe them to a blind person?
Three pictures featuring, amongst other things, pink tattoos, severed hands and a drunk sloth. It's really a very hard question when you start to think about it, and Steve Ryan had already used up the answer 'with difficulty' when you interviewed him.
If your art was music what would it sound like?
Like the theme tune to the sixties tv show 'Dangerman', starring Patrick McGoohan.
Slate yourself.
I'm 27, broke and I recently moved back in with my parents. Ouch.
Big up yourself.
I'm better than average.
How far have you gone for your art?
Not very far I'm afraid. 90% of the stuff I do starts and finishes with me hunched over a computer or a piece of paper. In 2007 I was drawing on a wall at the Garden Party; sounds fine but it was the hottest day of the year and the walls were super reflective white. So I almost went blind and got dehydration. But it was still loads of fun so...eh I guess the answer is not very far.
If you want to see more than just the paltry few images we were able to scrounge together click here
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Matthew @ 18 Sep 2008 14:51Those designs are tremendous!!
Very good art work , impressive , the lad has talent.
Wow...this man is criminally good...
and he's a member of a Guild don't you know...great stuff!
I like it, I like it a lot.