Gwynney In Oz - oil on plywood panel.

An Unlikely Route To Salvation

Jimmy Willing constitutes an element sadly lacking in the firmament of Australian culture - an eccentric who produces telling, inspired work and is together enough to present it to the world.
In a sport-obsessed country ruled by vulgar phillistines and gombeens it's hard for renaissance men like Jimmy, unmoneyed, unversed in the brutal skills of the corporate world, to rise to the top of the pond, but by his obdurate persistence, his undeniable talent, his blinkered eccentricity that brooks no barriers, Jimmy is doing just that.
Abandoning the self-destructive hedonism of the Sydney rock world in the late Eighties he fled to the bucolic bush of NSW's far north coast and took to travelling in a gypsy cart like a cracked, puppet-wielding troubadour - an unlikely route to salvation but one that took him by many degrees and odd turns to where he stands today - a respected bush-bard, sculptor, painter, father and pillorier of the community.
Renowned for his political activism as well as his odd, Old Testament demeanour, he is a vital element in a small community - a link to sanity through the electric world of pure art. In this peevish, money obsessed world of corporate, weedy churchly jive, if Jimmy Willing didn't exist I'd goddam well be forced to invent him.

Mick Daley 2007

Mick Daley reveiws Hick-Ups Self titled debut album

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