Monty Blackham is a 19-year-old self-taught traditional artist, author/illustrator and graphic designer from Perth, Western Australia. Monty has been creating art from a young age, running his own business as an artist and taking commissions since early high school. Monty studied a Cert IV in graphic design at Mount Pleasant College and uses his skills as a freelance designer to create branding and logos for local environmental organisations, along with working with musicians and bands, bringing their ideas to life through merchandise, posters, EP and album art. Monty enjoys working with others to explore complex ideas and emotions through art, as well as depicting these themes in his illustrations, writing and poetry during his own time.Themes that influence Monty’s work include the human condition, surrounding moral conflict, the diversity and contrast of emotions and how we communicate, express ourselves and see the world around us. Winding his own experiences and understanding of emotions and identity, along with personal anecdotes and ideas from clients and collaborators into imagery, Monty creates what he can only hope to be somewhat of a journal of the experiences of being human and growing into the world around us through art. Monty hopes to continue his art, writing, illustrating and designing into the future, working and collaborating with others and looks forward to where his passion might take him. The ideas of good and evil have been a reoccurring theme in human history. Two sides in stark contrast, pillars with which to align our morals and therefor our actions as individuals, strewn throughout mythology and religion . Angels and demons, appearing in many different parts of the world, fascinate me. The idea of light and dark, good and evil and the symbolism and even colours associated with them falling together in a way I can visualise and attempt to feel in a cohesive manner through art. That’s what this is. A melencholy pondering of our own nature, of good and evil and how this idea has shaped us as a species. https://instagram.com/pigeondrawingz