Christopher O’Doherty aka Reg Mombassa is a New Zealand born Australian musician and artist. He is known for his membership in bands Mental as Anything, Dog Trumpet and The Pinks. Reg has written, recorded, and toured with these bands. The Mentals released a total of 9 studio albums and Dog Trumpet has released 7 albums to date. Mental as Anything won an ARIA award in for Best Cover Art featuring Reg’s artwork on their Liar, Liar Pants on Fire album, and in they were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
He worked with Mambo Graphics designing t-shirts and posters since and exhibited paintings, drawings and prints at Watters Gallery from to In Reg was made a Fellow of the National Art School in Sydney. He is now represented by Diane Larter at Rogue Pop-Up Gallery. His diverse range of projects also includes taking part in solo and group art shows in Australia, New Zealand, Italy, USA, France, Britain, China and Thailand. He has had survey shows at The SH Ervin Gallery in , the Manly Gallery and Museum in (with his brother Peter O'Doherty) and Ambush Gallery ANU Canberra Reg designed several props for the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games in , and in he was commiss
Chris O'Doherty
Chris O’Doherty (b. ), also known as Reg Mombassa, is an artist and musician. The O'Doherty family came from New Zealand to Sydney in , when Chris commenced study at the National Art School. In he became a founding member of Mental as Anything, one of Australia's most successful bands. All the band's original members are visual artists including O'Doherty’s brother Peter, with whom he formed the band Dog Trumpet in From O'Doherty designed prints for the surfwear label Mambo, devising the flatulent dog, demons and incarnations of 'Australian Jesus' in distinctively Australian settings that also recurred for many years in his paintings. His work Bush Suburbs was printed on the lining of the Australian team blazer for the Sydney Olympics, and several of his creations featured in the closing ceremony of the games. Over the past two decades, he has participated in many group shows and held several solo exhibitions at Watters Gallery, Sydney, becoming well known for his evocative landscapes and views of workaday dwellings.
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Christopher O’Doherty aka Reg Mombassa is a New Zealand born Australian musician and artist. He is known for his membership in bands Mental as Anything, Dog Trumpet and The Pinks. Reg has written, recorded, and toured with these bands. The Mentals released a total of 9 studio albums and Dog Trumpet has released 7 albums to date. Mental as Anything won an ARIA award in for Best Cover Art featuring Reg’s artwork on their Liar, Liar Pants on Fire album, and in they were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
He worked with Mambo Graphics designing t-shirts and posters since and exhibited paintings, drawings and prints at Watters Gallery from to In Reg was made a Fellow of the National Art School in Sydney. He is now represented by Diane Larter at Rogue Pop-Up Gallery. His diverse range of projects also includes taking part in solo and group art shows in Australia, New Zealand, Italy, USA, France, Britain, China and Thailand. He has had survey shows at The SH Ervin Gallery in , the Manly Gallery and Museum in (with his brother Peter O'Doherty), and Ambush Gallery ANU Canberra in Reg designed several props for the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games in , and in he was comm
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Christopher O’Doherty, also known as Reg Mombassa, is a musician and artist who exhibited with the highly regarded Watters Gallery from to , when it closed. He designed graphics for ‘Mambo’ and collaborated with Art Projects and Clayton Utz earlier this year. He is socially conscious and rebellious. His work captures our attention with a witty, joyous and biting lens through which we can view Australian culture, its charm and failings. As such, the first few remarkable months of from bush fires to the pandemic have seen the artist leaning into his feelings of ‘alarm and anxiety’, and expressing this through art.
In his many decades of practice, Mombassa has held solo and group art shows in Australia, New Zealand, Italy, USA, France, Britain, China and Thailand. The artist had a survey show at the S.H. Ervin Gallery in and Manly Galler
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