Name:

Clever Like a Monkey

Place of birth:

Australia

Currently living in:

Sydney

Train, bus, bike, or other:

Bikes, skateboards, pram and walkabike.

What’s the most important object in your studio?

Softly: My Mary Blair doll, handmade by her niece.  Darren: Softly.

Paper or plastic? 

Poole.

If you could resurrect one no longer living person to have lunch with, knowing you will have to return them to the grave right after coffee, who would it be? 

Bill Hicks, good for a laugh. 

Preferred method of dealing with an encounter with an acquaintance whose name you can’t remember?

Softly: Embarrassing amounts of honesty and cringing later. Darren: Fake it. We make an odd pair. 

Why don’t you flip the tortoise over, Leon?

‘cos we’re running its batteries down.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Ned… Ryerson. “Needlenose Ned”? “Ned the Head”?

Favourite client so far?

Melbourne Writers Festival, JWT Melbourne. 

Favourite imaginary client?

Anyone with chocolate, wine or holidays to sweeten the deal.

How does your mother describe your profession?

Succintly.

Coffee or tea? 

The earth moved. The angels wept. The Polaroids are, are, uh… are in my other coat.

What’s your earliest drawing memory?

Softly: repeatedly and obsessively drawing print registration marks in the corners of paper.  Darren: Garfield, Greedo & Gizmo.

How do you prefer to spend your mornings?  

Out in the park with our kids, coffee and BLT in hand, enjoying Sydney’s weather.

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