HISTORY / CHRONOLOGY



This is the - great chronology - of the sometime artist, architect, drawer, designer, importer, inmate & outsider.

I do believe that everyone, everyone, has a story to tell. I am telling mine, so that you might tell yours.

"Memoirs are written for many reasons:
 Stars to celebrate a glittering career;
 Politicians to secure their place in history
 (and boost their pension funds).
 The rest of us are just trying to make sense of our own lives."

- anon

"He was a man of the Left, he had an outsider's distaste for orthodoxy and organization."

I am a man of the left. That heritage is my creative drive.

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1941


My father, Leonard Breen, was born 10 December 1909 in Kew, Melbourne, Australia. The 'Love of his Life', Mary Costello, was born in Paisley, Scotland on 24 April 1919. They were married in Darwin, NT, Australia. Their darling daughter, Maureen Elizabeth Breen, was born 14 August 1941.
 
 

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1942



On Monday, 3 NOVEMBER 1942 my father, Leonard Breen, was killed when the plane (an RAAF Wirraway A20-109) in which he was 'navigator', crash-landed on Dee Why beach (near Sydney, NSW). He was 32 years of age. My mother then was only 23 years old. They had been together only four years. My mother was two months pregnant.
 

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1943



RESIDENCE: 17 McNamara Street, West Preston, N17.:

JUNE 5, 1943: Leonard Vincent Francis Breen, born in Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne.
We stayed for a short time with my Uncle Vin, my father's oldest brother, and his wife Eunice ('Nanny', to us kids) and their daughter, Elva, at 17 McNamara streets.

Over the next seventeen or so years, the house at McNamara Street was my refuge. A place where I felt some warmth and protection. Cousin Elva, more of a big sister, became a good mate and mentor, later introducing me to classical music andopera, among many things. The family there never ever had a bad word to say about me. Very few people ever did find much good in me.

(To continue would be irrelevant if I did not here recognise the dreadful experience of mum was undergoing, would continue to do so, and would impound upon her life that would follow. Sadly I am writing this from a great distance in time. I was never was able to help at all at the time and that which followed too. She suffered much and significantly and heroically. Sorry mum.)

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1944



RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.:

January: Mother, Maureen, my sister, and I moved into 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.

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1945



RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.:

This was part of a newly built 'Housing Commission' estate but remained very much a tough, poor, working class area. Our May Street was fully tarmaced but all the surrounding streets were of dirt (clay - same as used for bricks) and very, very muddy when wet. But the mud was wonderfully tactile and malleable, with great ruts, forms and patterns made by carts, cars and trucks, or when walked on - or in. Might have considered becoming a sculptor had the concept been available to me!
 

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1946



RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.

TRAVEL:
December: Flew to Townsville (on an Australian National Airlines (ANA) Douglas DC-2) for Xmas in December. I remember it well. But I was 3 and a half years old! Generally, I think that the trauma of my past left me with a very high sensitivity and awareness - and sharpened memories.

While there I was burnt on my hand with a white hot poker by my 'cousin'. He was duly punished, you can imagine. My hand was treated with honey and was duly - and miraculously, I remember - healed.

NOTES:
Also from these times I had a very very strong recurring dream/nightmare which repeated well into my adult years. Dealt with in therapy years later too. More of that later.


 

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1947



RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.:

It was a very hostile environment, particularly for a kid without a father. Though it did however, nurture my imagination and grounded me in the art of survival - of 'the street'. Bullied a lot.

Cleaned up, I may have been a cute kid, as seen in the news photo-shoot arranged by my cousin, Elva for 'The Sun' (see left). Didn't get the cuddly-toy though - it could have been nice to have one! My sister Maureen, had one. Even at the age of three or four, I would have been called a 'sissy', to have or want a 'cuddly toy! Tough times.

 

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1948

RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.

EDUCATION:
I attended St Raphael's Catholic Primary School (aged 4 and a half) which was run by a mainly violent, religious order of deranged nuns - all called 'Sister Mary This' or 'Sister Mary That'. Was from time to time beaten by them for no reason. I was also regularly beaten by peers, my mother and other kids' parents, to whom my mother always deferred. 'Len was always in the wrong or most likely to be.'

Curiously, I was very good at organising imaginative play in the school yard. I even cleverly arranged battle games in the school field; even sort of lead them.

I was also a 'good friend' of one of the school bullies from an upper class, as I was regularly taking peers to watch him throw a ball in the air to see it almost disappear. He appreciated my role in that.

But otherwise, a sad, sick and skinny kid, always dressed in rags and patched up hand-me downs - future outcomes looking grim. Contracted the disease, Scarlet Fever, and was sent to the Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital where I stayed for a long, long time. It was not a friendly place. There, I was humiliated, had to sleep in a baby's cot, and fed a sickening diet which included raw carrots and tomatos in cold milk.

The overall experience of my early years, was one of addressing hostility. One or two friendly personalities, but in general this hostility was oppressive and alienating. Every characteristic of it was something that I learnt to despise and reject. It was a learning environment, certainly subconsciously, for a need to exchange this very unfriendly and debilitating world for anything else, anything different, different - though I had no idea what this could be. Significantly, I knew that this class, its aspirations, its way of thinking, believing, its carelessness, was not for me. So anything, anyone, I would come across, in the future would be a far more desireable and attractive alternative. The real shit of it was that I had absolutely no one to guide me - no father. Absolutely no one to look up to. I had to invent what was the 'right thing to do', but based only upon the narrow world that I saw about me - and that was largely the culture of thugs and bullies, people without sensitivity.
 

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1952

RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.:

EDUCATION:
Attended (from Grade 4 to 7 (Form 1)) St Patrick's Christian Brothers School, Fitzroy, which was run by a mainly benign, noncombatant (at the time), religious order of Christian Brothers - rarely, if ever, beaten by them, but some were definitely mad and bitter. Started the academic climb. Found visual expression fluent and pleasing. Was forced to wear a non-standard school uniform orchestrated by Mrs Gray, a bossy friend of my mother. (Further alienations were to follow.)

Qualified for entry to St Colman's Scholarship School. Beaten by bullies and 'New Australians' on my way home from school. Peter Hyland, who with other 'mates' ganged up to 'bash me up', complained that had I kicked him in the face. I'd actually missed him, but my mother nonetheless 'bashed me up' for the crime - taking a totally incredible, incomprehensible and weird position on the etiquette of street violence. A typical experience of mine.


NOTES:
We had a dog called 'Snowy', my 'best friend'. Couldn't bark which was embarrassing for a young kid. Saw him run over which traumatised me.

My very first drawings at that time were of of action football heroes and air warfare battles ('inspired' by the world of the Korean War raging at that time) - there began my love of drawing and art - though I would not actually recognise that for many years.

Became very good at dodgy appropriations and recycling - climbing onto rooftops to recover lost tennis balls, later golf balls (post 1956), and cleaning them up and trading them. I also had a remarkable success making and selling 'stink-bombs'. I traded and purchased 35mm cellulose film that had been discarded at the local cinema, the 'Progress Hall' or 'Flea-house'. This I rolled up into small cylinders, wrapped in a piece of newspaper, twisting the ends to make a sort of lolly' This would then be set alight, stamped upon to extinguish the bursting flame, to give off a very thick, acrid, continuous, impressive cloud of smoke. A good business really. And lots and lots of comics traded too. Apart from that, I learnt the art of inventing feasible / plausible explanations and denials. Worked too, sometimes!


 

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1953

RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.

NOTES:
Of all the peculiar and odd things one remembers, I have a strong, clear and vivid memory of the 'The Sun' newspaper reporting the death of Joseph Stalin. Why a ten year old kid living in West Preston, Australia, would be so struck by this alien event and image (left) of the death the leader of the Soviet Union, I just don't know! It has never ceased to amaze me.

Interestingly though, it does occur to me that I used to buy the 'The Sun' on my way to school on a Monday, with my 'dinner money' (it was in those days, breakfast, dinner and tea, remember) - for the football results and picture reports. Told my mother the paper was given to me by a Christian Brother which she believed. She would have reduced my already measly funds had she known - or bashed me up! Anyway, that's where I would have seen the 'front page' report (see left)!

 

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1954-1955

RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.

EMPLOYMENT:
Worked as a Newpaper Street Vendor selling newspapers, The Herald and The Sporting Globe, on Wednesday and Saturday evenings. Ripped off by boss, Mr Dole, a nasty bugger he was too. He told my mother that I stolen what were in fact tips given to me by my punters. Never worked for him again which, surprisingly, surprised him. 'Workers' Employment Rights' engaged! Perhaps my first 'political' act.

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1956
RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.

EDUCATION:
Attended the St Coleman's Scholarship School (Year 2/Form 2). Situated in a classroom above St Patricks, it was run by an eccentric old bugger, Brother Bowler. He was a bit too touchy for my liking.

It was a case of cramming for the end of year scholarship exam which could take you to the secondary school - or failing that you would be dispatched to Abottsford Technical School - for 'inadequate learners' and a future in trade! - to be avoided at all costs. I found the learning rewarding and the 'Intelligent Tests' just incredible fun. And English provided me too with some accolades (and some self-esteem) as I, it would appear, was the only one to have access to an encyclopedia (that rare book) at home. With synonymns included I appeared quite learned, though I had no idea what the words I presented meant!

Loved the sport too (medicine ball racing was my specialty) and made some 'lasting' friends. I went to the footy (Aussie Rules) with one Bobby Reed - see photo top right of the two of us from the front page of 'The Sun'. (My mother got very angry at me for this for some strange reason!?)

Became noted amongst my peers for my ability to forge old Bowler's signature, which was useful for them avoiding punishments. Was able to forge my Uncle Vin's elaborate signature too at that time, but he was not at all pleased.

Won the Scholarship to CBC Parade.

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1957
RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.:

EDUCATION:
Attended the Christian Brothers Parade College, East Melbourne, achieving some academic (mathematics, physics and like subjects) and sporting (football and athletics mainly) successes .

Abused by Christian Brothers Frawley (a psychopath) and Weston (a paedophile) and Father Penn Jones, the College Chaplain. There were a lot of very bad-tempered, if not violent, brothers and lay teachers. We (some) can laugh about them now, then, you certainly could not dare protest if you were ever aware that things could or should have been different. I remember the severe and malicious batterings of Kevin Mackey, Flavio Calandra and John Walker by Frawley. Frightening, very disturbing, haunts me to this very day.

But some were gentle and dedicated. I was warmly mentored by the antithesis of the above, Bro 'Frank' McCarthy.

EMPLOYMENT:
Worked as a 'Shop Assistant' in Myers' Emporium department store in Bourke Street, Melbourne (where I was required by my peers to ship out artifacts to their secret lockers at Flinders Street Railway Station). (1960)


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1958
RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.:

NOTES:
The VFL football team that I supported, barracked for, was Collingwood (stil do!). All the other members of the 'extended family' followed Essendon, Uncle Vin, Nanny (Eunice), Elva, and my sister Maureen. At the time I chose to follow Collingwood, it was a conscious choice not to follow the team the others did. I am not sure exactly why, at less than ten years old, I would go against the popular choice. It was decades later that I became in possession of my fathers 'archive'. This included a book of essays he wrote while a pupil at the Jesuit Seminary school. A particular essay concerned the achievements of a football hero of his [name] who was a Collingwood star player. I had choosen to follow the football team that my father once followed. Proud of that. He would have been too, I'm sure. Mum, showing no support for her alienated son (nor loyalty for her departed Len), claimed, diplomatically, to barrack for Footscray (Now the Western Bulldogs).

In 1958 Collingwood won the VFL Premiership - which was the gentle reminder for this story/anecdote.



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1959
RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.:\

EDUCATION / EXHIBITION:
I was in 'Leaving' - Year 11, I think it is now - at Parade College. Brother McCarthy had organized the the first Art Show in the Gym and I, with extraordinary nervousness and embarrassement, submitted three paintings that I had completed at home in the laundry.

The first of these used various left-over house paints that my mother had lying about at home, and was an abstract version of the Victorian poet, Matthew Arnold's, 'Vision of the Future'. Another featured a a version of a view of Mt Fuji in Japan, from a decorated trick box that my cousin Elva had brought back for me from her Japan travels - using poster paints. And the last one was a copy of a a cubist painting of 'Fish with Newspaper', by Braque, or Gris, or Picasso perhaps (I have have never in all these years been able to find who it was actually by!). This book was a featured colour plate representing the history of art in a encyclopedia which we surprisingly had.


My first exhibition no less, and it lead to Bro McCarthy summoning me out of the classroom to warmly and enthusiastically congratulate me. Art, at that time, was a very wierd and rare thing that I did not realise that anyone did!

See left.

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1960
RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.:

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1961
RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.

My dear, dear Nanny died. The event really really shocked me.


EDUCATION:
Edited the school magazine, 'The Bluestone Pile' (1961); Head Prefect (1961); Captain of Cross-country Team (1961); member 1st XVIII Footy Team; Debating Team Captain.

Won a Commonwealth Scholarship to go to Melbourne University, based upon my top 'Matric' results in 'Pure Maths, Calculus & Applied Maths' and 'Physics'.

[NOTE: Recently (2021) I have begun to re-evaluate the role of Brother McCarthy in his support for me at this time. He may have had some role in supporting my scholarship success!?]

Bullied at school by arrogant middle-class kids for years. I remember one bully's confrontation - his name was Geoff Donald, to which I replied, "Well, I'm different!". He replied, "You sure are different, Breen!". Badly wounded, it took years and years to heal, to get over this humiliation, and never forgotten. [If you are reading this, in those day it was very dangerous to be 'different'. And now too of course! - 26 August 2022]


EMPLOYMENT:
Worked in the summer as a' Timber Merchant Assistant - a 'labourer' in a timber processing factory. Got beaten up by some 'New Australian' nutter. Learnt a lot about the curing processes of wood, timber, etc, though.


ADDENDUM: [added in 26 August 2022]
The Breen's at 17 McNamara Street, about a quarter mile away from #57, were central to the lives of Mum, Maureen and me from the early '40's to this time and Later.

'Nanny' was married to Vincent Lewis Breen, the oldest of the Breen family, of which my father Leonard was the youngest.

Her maiden name was Eunice Stoneham. She was notably a vegetarian, a rare thing, suffered severely from asthma, was frail and delicate and belonged quietly to a religious group [check/research]. But she was always my best friend and supporter. I missed visiting her in the few weeks before she suddenly died. Sad.

However quiet qnd reerved she was, she was, I recently discovered, the child of a very long line of Stonham's, all connected to the sea, mainly from a long line of Seafaring Ships Captains - at present, traced back to the 18th Century. No one in the family ever mentioned that. [I will do my best to expand upon this. Also a note about Elva Breen to add.]

[Also, only posh people had 'nannies', and 'nanny' was a grand-mother anyway, so it was decidedly not acceptable, for poor, sub-working classes to have, or use the term, 'nanny'. Left me marginalised regarding someone so dear to me.]


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1962
RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.:

EDUCATION:
Commenced Engineering ay Melbourne University, Faculty of Engineering. (February).
Studies generously sponsored and significantly financed by the Services charity, 'Legacy'.
Did exceptionally well at 'Engineering Drawing' [Reference] and 'Engineering' but was useless at, and could not see the point of, the other two subjects.
Then Eric Tierney introduced me to the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, which looked most inviting.
December: Had to go before the University Senate (a full sitting) to overturn a rejection from Architecture. Terrifying experience but won my case.


EMPLOYMENT:
December: Worked as a 'Production Assistant Manager' in a domestic goods factory run by W A Smith. Learnt a lot of things and made some clever contributions too; also about the extraction of silver bromide from hospital X-ray film.


NOTES:
I was the rear seat passenger in a horrific car crash, where a taxi sped across an intersection in Carlton and smashed into the side of my friend Jimmy Mount's, '1948 Packard' - a 'tank', luckily. Face and eye cut-up, broken finger and dreadful shock, but my mother turned up at the hospital - she had probably got a very bad shock hearing about me. But all ignored by the tutors at Uni - 'Get on with it!' - 'it' being a totaly opaque and alien engineering physics lab experiment!? Affirming the alienating approach of my First Year Engineering Course.


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1963
RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.

EDUCATION:
Moved to study Architecture in the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Melbourne University. Some of the best years of my life followed. Seemed to be all about amazing things that I didn't know existed, drawing, art, and technical invention.
Met Indranee Gladys Gunaratna, fellow student on the BArch course.
Architecture Student Union representative (1963-1967).


TEACHING:
I was one of a few 'mature' students in First Year Architecture, and came there with a love and engagement with drawing - refer Engineering Drawing [see notes]. I immediately clearly and practically understood the lecture on the 'Construction of Shadows in Measured Perspective', most others did not. So I spent a lot of time after the lecture explaining and demonstrating the process - over and over again until my colleagues were satisfied. I felt like a teacher - and it was good!

[Create a reference to Colin Glazebrook and his help to me.]


ARCHITECTURE:
Hipwell, Weight and Ross, Architects. My first architectural placement. Presentation drawings. (November - December)



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1964
RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.

EDUCATION:
Studying Architecture (Year 2).


GALLERIES / ARTISTS:
About this time, saw my most memorable art exhibition of work by Leonard French, at the Argus Gallery. Wonderful oil paintings on a religious theme - but really gave value to the aphorism, 'Art trancends Religion'. His work remains impressed on my imagination to this day (2012).

EMPLOYMENT:
Worked for (summer); Cabinet maker, supplying furniture for architectural projects. Working practices there were interesting though somewhat dodgy.

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1965
RESIDENCE: 57 May Street, West Preston, N18.

EDUCATION:
Studying Architecture (Year 3).


ENGINEERING:
WP Brown Associates, Civil Engineers, on Tullamarine Airport Terminal (and Kingsford-Smith, Sydney). Produced some fine engineering drawings which ended up (seelater) being tabled at a Royal Commission into the structural collapseof the aforementioned terminal buildings. (December to February 1966).


GALLERIES / ARTISTS:
Saw another memorable exhibition at the (old) National Gallery of Victoria in Swanston Street. It was an exhibition of extraordinary inkline portraits of famous people. Each seemed to be an intense and dense construction made by a single, seemingly scribbled, line. But by whom?


Research [2021] has just revealed that it must have been Louis Kahan (apparently he had just recently won the Archibald Prize for a portrait of Patrick White) and the exhibition was titled. 'Artists and Profile'.I was mortally embarrassed as I asked someone there if I could buy one - from the National Gallery - a bit silly! But I was most impressed and very moved by the images.

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1966
RESIDENCES:
57 May Street, West Preston, N18.

2 Kooyong Koot Road, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Hawthorn:

EDUCATION:
Studying Architecture (Year 4).


Married fellow architecture student, Indranee Gladys Gunaratna, born 10 July 1944. Moved to the First Floor of 2 Kooyong Koot Road. Very trendy, cool.

ARCHITECTURE:
December (to March 1967): Blythe & Josephine Johnson, Architects & Planners. (Can't remember what I did there though. They were very nice and pleasant to work for, I remember. Ah, yes, I drew a perspective view of a new private hospital in Melbourne somewhere.)


NOTES:
My mother started smoking when my father died. She developed continuous, racking, uncontrollable, coughing fits all day long, on nearly every single day I lived at 57 May Street - getting on for 20 years of unbelievable torment. If anything drove me mad - to the very edge - it was that. Found peace on moving out of the 'Spare Room' for good. The 'Spare Room' was both my hiding place from the world but, on reflection, was also a sad and lonely place.

Ironically, she gave up smoking at the time of my departure. She became a frightful critical annoyance to all smokers henceforth!


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1967
RESIDENCE: 2 Kooyong Koot Road, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia:

EDUCATION / ARCHITECTURE:
Studying Architecture (Year 5).


Produced and edited, the first academic research publication for the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, 'Locus'.
Design Thesis: 'A major general hospital for the Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne'.
Finished the course in November).

EMPLOYMENT:
No work - a recession - for architectural graduates.
Landscape Architecture: Job watering gardens - using clever logistics won praise from rich owner of the garden - a High Court Judge.

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1968
RESIDENCE: 2 Kooyong Koot Road, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia:

EDUCATION:
Graduated with B.Arch from the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture and Planning.


TRAVEL:
Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and the UK. (left Aus on October 29)


ARCHITECTURE:
Emile Browne & Associates, Architects. (January 22-26).
An extraordinary experience with a greedy incompetent architect with very rich clients. Left after a week. Great story...

Emille Browne was a Melbourne architect designing residential buildings. In the week I was there, on very poor pay, I helped a builder with some basic calculations that Browne was totally unable to manage. I also visited a site (of a luxury dwelling in Essendon) where the concrete slab had been laid, solidly fixing the position of all the plumbing, drainage and electrical ducts. The builder was very confused, Browne could not understand what was going on.

The problem, I determined, was that the positions of the utilities (fixed in reinforced concrete) had no relationship to the position of the walls yet to be constructed. What had happened, I concluded, was that the previous assistant architect had got so pissed off with Browne that he had 'invented' all the dimensions on the drawings. Browne of course had no idea and the result was diabolical. I asked for a pittance more salary - he thought and thought about it but couldn't bring himself to it. I left him to it. Good laugh I've had for years on this one.


ARCHITECTURE:
Victorian Railways, Architecture Department. Project Architect. Designed a 'Worker's Amenities Block'. (February to September).
The experience was wonderful, the project dreadful - depressing way to start one's career.


Private architectural practice. (June to October).
Projects: Interior Design, Melbourne. Pitts and Tallarida, Solicitors.
Residence for Panowski, Melbourne.


ARCHITECTURE (Sri Lanka):
Justin Samerasakera and Associates, Colombo. Project Architect: Olympic Swimming Pool, Kandy; Industrial Estate, Jaffna. (November 6 - December 25).

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1969
RESIDENCES:
Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Gunaratna Household).
UK, London. (Mrs Zurita's Boarding House). Then...?


TEACHING:
University of Sri Lanka, Department of Architecture. Visiting Tutor.
The Architectural Association. Tutor. (Housing project).


TRAVEL:
INDIA. Rail, bus and air travel in India and Kashmir. (January 20 to February 18). (Check the itinerary with IBB).
UK, London. Left Sri Lanka for the UK (arriving February 25).


ARCHITECTURE:
Building Design Partnership (BDP), London. (April 21 1969 to May 31 1970)
Assistant Architect: UN Conference Centre, Vienna.
Central Area Development, Leicester.
Retail Complex, Liverpool. .

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1970
RESIDENCE (main): London, Rome (Camping Monte Antenna and various places):

TRAVEL:
'EUROPEAN GRANDE TOUR': June 9: Left UK by train for Italy (bought Fiat 500 in Rome) and set out through : Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Germany, Austria, etc, and back to Italy (Rome: September 19).

IGB recorded all the locations/slides we took on that journey, which may provide a glimpse of the experience (read down columns):
Rome (Italy)
Vesuvius (June'70)
Pompeii
San Marino
Rimini
Ravenna
Firenza
Pisa
Milano
Monaco (Monaco) (July)
Antibes (France)
French Riviera
Barcelona (Spain)
Valencia
Toledo
Madrid
Segovia
San Sebastian
Bordeau (France)
Angouleme (Netherlands) (August)
Chartres
Paris
Reims
Waterloo (Belgium)
Brussels
Gent
Rotterdam (Holland)
Amsterdam
 Antwerp
A bit of (Germany)
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Den Haag (Holland)
Otterloo (Kronor Muller)
Heidelberg (Germany)
Gothenberg
Dachau
Munich
Vienna (Austria)
Venezia (Italy)
Pescara
Vatican City
Rome (September)
ARCHITECTURE:
Finished at Building Design Partnership (BDP), London. (departed May 31).

Rader and Mileto (Interplan), Rome, Italy. Assistant Architect.
(September 28 to February 15, 1971)
Projects:
Competition: Iranian Embassy, Islamabad, Pakistan. Iranian Embassy, Islamabad: design development
Hyatt Resort Hotel, Caspian Sea, Iran.
Hyatt Tourist Complex Dakar.


NOTES:
All this while mainly living on the camping site at Monte Antennae in Rome - in a small 'Pirelli' tent.
IGB meanwhile, studied Italian language and culture.
Remember: Franco D'Alaya Valva.



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1971
RESIDENCES: Rome, London, Colombo (Gunaratna family).(Check with IBB).

TRAVEL:
UK: Left Rome and returned to London (March 7).
INDIA & SRI LANKA. (December 14 to May 1972).


ARCHITECTURE:
Crowley Moore-Ede, London.
Project Architect: Office building, Nigeria;
Posh Mews Townhouse, Kensington, London. (June - September).

Building Design Partnership (BDP), London. Assistant Architect: (September 27 to December 10).

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1972
RESIDENCE:
Flat 1/12 Garton Street, North Carlton, Melbourne:
Lived the flat facing Princess Park. (from February)


TRAVEL:
Depart India (is this the 'ferry story' ?). (January 12).
Arrive Sri Lanka. (January 13).
Returned to Australia via Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. (February 24).


ARCHITECTURE:
Meldrum and Partners, Architects and Planners, Melbourne. (June to December).
Projects:
National Bank, Queen Street, Melbourne: design proposals.
National Bank of Australia, Prahran Redevelopment: feasibility study.
National Bank, Coburg, Melbourne: sketch designs proposals.
National Bank, Warnambool, Victoria: sketch design proposals.

Departed from there after submitting letter condemning their racist practices and management (unfortunately and regrettably upsetting my very kind and supportive project leader).


Leonard Breen, Architect, Melbourne. (1972-1973)
Country Residence, Dr Rosemary West
High Court of Australia Architectural Competition. (with G Patterson).
Mult-diagnostic Sheltered Workshop: design, development & supervision.



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1973
RESIDENCE: Flat 1, 12 Garton Street, North Carlton, Melbourne:

EXHIBITION:
'Leonard Breen - Fosters Apathy', Ewing Gallery, Melbourne. (Oil crayon posters.) First one-person exhibition. (October).


ARCHITECTURE:
Bates,Smart and McCutcheon, Architects and Planners, Melbourne.
(May 28 to February 25 1974).
Projects: Government Offices, Turrangon, ACT: design development. RMIT D-Block, design development Prahran College of Advance Education, design development.

Leonard Breen Associates, (Private Practice).
Major Project: Multi-diagnostic Sheltered Workshop, Heidelberg, Melbourne.[CHECK dates]

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1974
RESIDENCES:
Flat 1, 12 Garton Street, North Carlton, Melbourne:

London (at various places): Uncle Alex's, Freda's, Hap Choy and Cliff's, Primrose Hill (Leslie and John Stuttard).


TRAVEL:
UK, London: Returned to London (April 27) (via Singapore: depart April 22).

Sweden: Ferry and train to Sweden to buy the orange 'SAAB 99L'. Travelled around Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany ("followed the Moselle to Trier"), Luxembourg, France. (July 4 to September 11) (Check with SLIDES ??).
France, Paris: (May to June) (Check with IBB and/or Slides)


ARCHITECTURE:
Crowley Robin Moore-Ede Design, London. Site Architect.

Renau & Mitchell, Architects, London. Architectural drawings for Milton Keynes.

Sir Richard Sheppard, Robson and Partners, Architects and Planners. Assistant Architect: Projects: Retail and commercial. (June late to October)


GALLERY /ARTISTS:
While in France we went to Paris where we saw the Equipo Cronica exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. It was the first 'political art' I'd seen and made a powerful impression on me. (See poster left.)
And also saw the enormous Miro exhibition at the Grande Palaise - the tapestries were outstanding in scale and 3D texture. Returned to London. Stayed with Alex. Then with Hap Choy and Cliff.


POLITICAL ACTION:
Sometime after leaving Richard Sheppard's, I collaborated with Chris Anglin and removed sensitive architectural drawings concerning the design of prisons and gallows for the Libyan Government.
I later became a significant 'whistleblower' when I passed all the information over to to the Observer/Guardian, to much fanfare.


EDUCATION:
Started Post-graduate studies 'Advanced Studied in Printmaking' at the Central Faculty of Art & Design in London. (September).


NOTES:
The most significant part of my life began when walking along Southampton Row I happened to come across the Central Faculty of Art Annex. Went in and found this old geeza, Larry (?) having a sandwich surrounded by wonderful artist's printing machinery, screen-printing and lithography. Got a tour and he invited me to join the Advanced Studies in Printmaking course. "Whatever you smell you get!", he said. But I had begun to study and be an artist - and printmaker, something that for me was the meaning of life. Fantastic. Initially there for two days a week. Met David Gluck (Head), Graeme Henderson (Master Screen Printer), Ernest Groome, Nancy Hocking, Ahmed Mustafa, Juan Muñoz, and others (list here). Amazing times followed.

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1975
RESIDENCE:
28 Rathbone Place, Soho, London WC1A:
(Moved to Mike Fedeski's flat on 31 March 1975).


EDUCATION:
Post-graduate studies at the Central Faculty of Art & Design. (Year 2)


GALLERY / ARTISTS:
Drove to France to see the Hundertwasser exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (see poster left). Met the artist Hundertwasser himself but was somewhat dumbstruck and overawed by this striking character and arty presence. (First saw his work in Melbourne in 1974, he was surprised that I had been all that way to see his work.) (June).


TRAVEL:
Belgium, France (August: 6th Belgium, 10th Dover). (Check slides - did we go to Kroner Muller Museum?)


ARCHITECTURE:
Rock Townsend Architects and Planners. Projects: Middlesex Polytechnic, Bounds Green Campus.
Performance Specifications, design development site survey, illustrations.(July 7 to November 1976 - part-time).
Hammett Norton & Drew, Architects. Middlesex Guildhall. Design development. (April).


EXHIBITION
'Fitzrovia Artists', Curwen Gallery, London. Serigraphs, 'Atomic Series 1 to 4' were exhibited. (June)


COMMISSIONS:
Educational Audio Visual. Photographic images of INDIA.
Natioinal Union of Students, London. Illustrations.


NOTES:
(IGB: to Sri Lanka and Australia 26 November to March 8 1976).


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1976
RESIDENCE: 28 Rathbone Place, Soho, London WC1:

EDUCATION: Post-graduate Studies: Central Faculty of Art & Design. (Year 2).
Collaborations with Juan Munoz.

TRAVEL:
ITALY. Did we visit Noela Hills? (August 27 - September 20)
PORTUGAL. With 'group of friends'. (December 19 - January 1 1977).
IRAN. London to Iran via Moscow (Check). Tehran to Ghubayra. (July 14 - August 25 1977).


EXHIBITION:
'6th International Poster Biennale', Warsaw, Poland.


EXHIBITION / DISTINCTION:
'Peace-Disarmament-Cooperation', Fédération International des Résistants, Warsaw, POLAND. (Poster, see left.)
My poster, 'Chile', was selected to hang alongside posters by prestigious artists, including, Miro, Picasso, Hockney, Fekuda, Heartfield, Staeck, Ceislewicz, Calder, Piech, Sprague, and many illustrious others.


EXHIBITION / NOTABLE:
ICA (Institute for Contemporary Art) Director, Linda Lloyd-Jones offered me an exhibition (on the staircase well), to replace Jean-Michel Folon who had withdrawn. Extraordinary that I was to replace such a master artist and illustrator. Bit of an insult to offer him the staircase gallery. In any case, the director changed and I was unceremoniously rejected along with her departure. Nearly there! (April 9)


COMMISSIONS:
Red Dog Arts, London. Corporate identity & Lodo
Latin American Society,
Chile Cultural Committee,
War on Want. Photographic Exhibition (curator, designer, artist). (Note re Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation)
War on Want. Photographic Exhibition for the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO)


ARCHAEOLOGY / DISTINCTION:
IRAN, Ghubayra: University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, Archaeological Excavations in Ghubayra, Iran,
Site Architect, Illustrator. (July 14 - August 25) (Souvenir, see left.) (See Diary 1976.)

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1977
RESIDENCE: 28 Rathbone Place, Soho, London WC1:

POST-GRADUATE STUDIES:
Advanced Studies in Fine Art Printmaking, Central Faculty of Art & Design. (Graduated in July 1977).
Collaborations with Juan Munoz.

TRAVEL:
London to Kandahar, Afghanistan, via Moscow, USSR. (September 25 - December 17)
Travelled through the Kyber Pass to Pakistan and India. Wedding of Jang Dilawari's nephew in Ambala. Visited some historic, mainly Buddhist, stupas/sites.
Madras to Sri Lanka . December 26-28 January) Then Australia (to June 2 1978).

EXHIBITIONS (Group):
'Popular Power - Popular Culture', Conway Hall and Other Cinema Gallery, London.
'The Poster Collective', Other Cinema Gallery, London. (Included my work)
'The Poster Collective', Carila (Committee Against Repression in Latin America), Bristol.
(Included my Posters) - 'exhibition by Palistinian students'.
'International Book Design Exhibition', The Leipzig Book Fair, Leipzig, DDR.
'Photomontage Now', Half Moon Gallery, London. Collages (with Juan Munoz and David Dahlson).

ARCHITECTURE:
BBC, London. Architect/Designer, 'When the Boat Comes In'. (Didn't last Long!) (April 18).
Resigned due to arrogant, pompous BBB Designer

ARCHAEOLOGY:
'Archaeological Excavations in Old Kandahar', University of London, Institute of Archeology , Afghanistan. Site Architect, Illustrator. (September 25 - December 17) (See Diary 1977.)

COMMISSIONS:
London University, Institute of Afghan Studies, Illustrations,
Percival David Foundation (Archaeological Illustrations), Institute of Archaeology.

PUBLICATIONS:
Wedge: 'No need to adjust the Set - It's your Vision growing Dim' - (illustration) (Date CHECK).
Science for People (illustration) (Date CHECK).
national Union of Students. Handbills and Posters.


NOTES:
My time at the Central Faculty of Art, three years in total, was just an exceptional and superior, learning experience, and in all respects a 'life changer' for a 'kid originally from the other side of tracks'. [See notes].

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1978
RESIDENCE: 28 Rathbone Place, Soho, London WC1:

STUDIES (Post-graduate Studies):
'Marxist Economics', Birkbeck, University of London, Tutor: David Yaffe, (and 1979).


TEACHING: Kingston Polytechnic.


TRAVEL:
Sri Lanka (depart) for Thailand, Bangkok, Australia. (January 28 to June 20)


COMMUNITY ARTS:
The Poster Collective, London. [Projects, Photo-journalism, Research, Political Action].


EXHIBITIONS (Group):
'7th International Poster Biennale', Warsaw, Poland.
'International Book Design Exhibition', Leipzig, DDR.
'Posters from Europe', University of Melbourne, ACTU Trades Hall, Collingwood Town Hall, RMIT and PrestonIT. Melbourne, Australia. (Curated by LB)


ARCHITECTURE (Consultant & Assistant Architect):
'Hammett, Norton & Drew', Assistant Architect.
    Projects: Middlesex Guildhall, Middlesex Hospital.
'Ameron Process Systems Ltd'.
    Project Architect: North Sea Oil production platform, accommodation units. Interior Design, information systems design and illustration. With Richard Lovering. (June - September)
'Kyle Stewart Engineering and Constructions'.
    Project Architect on Nine Elms Post Office Development, London. (September - October) (Anecdotes of interest here.)

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1979
RESIDENCE: 28 Rathbone Place, Soho, London WC1:

STUDIES (Post-graduate Studies):
'Marxist Economics', Birkbeck, University of London, Tutor: David Yaffe, (and 1978).


TRAVEL:
Greece with Isabel and Chloe (August 25 (to September 8)).
Baghdad, Iraq for award ceremony (May 14 to 21).


EXHIBITION:
'Baghdad International Poster Exhibition', London and Baghdad, Iraq; also, Lebanon, Syria, Morocco and USA. Awarded an honorary prize and with IGB were tripped off to Baghdad for the award ceremony (May 14 to 21). Met lots of interesting artists and experienced a bit of the Iraqi culture. (nominally with Juan Munoz and IGB.)

'7th International Biennale of Sport in the Fine Arts', Barcelona, Spain


COMMISSIONS:
Exhibition Banner: 'Culture & Resistance', Conference on Basic Human and Democratic Rights, University of London Union, London. (assisted by IGB, Nin Choong and Will Wilkins)

Posters: COBRA, Iraqi Cultural Centre.


PUBLISHED:
'Black Phoenix', London. Illustration: 'The Culture of Fear'.


ARCHITECTURE:
BB+ST Design International, Architects, London.
This was a 'startup' company I created, with Bill Tonge, Mike Scudamore and IGB to seek collaborations with NGO's in Bangladesh.

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1980
RESIDENCE: 28 Rathbone Place, Soho, London WC1:

STUDIES: Computer Graphics, Kingston Polytechnic.

TEACHING: Kingston Polytechnic.

TRAVEL:
Poland, Netherlands, DDR, Czechoslovakia. Poland for the exhibition (below). Camping (Renault 4) with IGB. (June 4 - 30).


EXHIBITIONS (Group and Indvidual).
'Leonard Breen - ANGLIA', Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Torun, Poland. (53 posters)
'Urban Public Transport - ATM', Milano, Italy.(Poster Competition)
'Recent Acquisitions', Victoria and Albert Museum, London. (2 posters).
'Tales of Mozambique', The Africa Centre Gallery, London. (4 illustrations).


PUBLISHED:
Young World Books, London. (4 Illustrations).


NOTES: (IGB in Australia: November 30 to January 26 1981.)

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1981
RESIDENCE: 28 Rathbone Place, Soho, London WC1:

STUDIES: Computer Graphics, Kingston Polytechnic.

TEACHING: Kingston Polytechnic.

EXHIBITION: '4th Lahti Poster Biennale', Lahti, Finland.

ARCHITECTURE / DISTINCTION
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, Permanent People's Tribunal, Antwerp, Belgium. History and political economy of the Philippines. Exhibition design, including research, photography, etc.


CURATING:
'Red Mother Collective', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. A collaboration with Thomas Kruse of 'RØDE MOR', Denmark. (24 May to July 5).

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1982
RESIDENCE: 28 Rathbone Place, Soho, London WC1:

STUDIES: Computer Graphics, Kingston Polytechnic.

TEACHING: Kingston Polytechnic.

TRAVEL: AUSTRALIA, (July 7 - September 6), (with IGB)

EXHIBITIONS:
'2nd Baghdad International Poster Exhibition', Baghdad, Iraq. Awarded 'Mention Honorifique'. (For 'Members Only'.)

'The Poster Collective', Other Cinema Gallery. London. (included work by LB).

'International Book Designer Exhibition', Leipzig Book Fair, Leipzig, DDR.

'International Poster Exhibition', Arhus, Denmark. (October)

'Photomontage Now', Half Moon Gallery, London.


COMMISSIONS
Marram Books:
Grassroots Publishing. Corporate Identity, Art Direction, 'FUEMESSO'.
Zed Press. Book cover: 'The Armenians'.
Hellyar Contracts, Wimbledon. Corporate Logo and branding.
Lonipoh Ltd, Singapore. Corporate Logo.
Action for Disability, Kensington & Chelsea. Design of access guides and handbooks.


NOTES: My dearest cousin Elva Kappe (nee Breen) died.

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1983
RESIDENCE: 28 Rathbone Place, Soho, London WC1:

STUDIES: Computer Graphics, Kingston Polytechnic.

TEACHING:
Kingston Polytechnic. Introduced Computer Graphics to (Fine Art and Graphic Design) curriculum.


TRAVEL: France, Paris. (June 3 to 6)

EXHIBITIONS:
'International Book Designers & Typographers', Travelling Exhibition, Leipzig, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Berlin, Cottbus, Eilenberg, Bad Oüben, DDR.

'Art in Action - Against Unemployment', London and travelling exhibition throughout the UK.

'Ruth First Memorial Exhibition', Piccadilly Church, London. (Commissioned Poster)

'Poster Exhibition', Iraqi Cultural Centre, London.


COMMISSIONS:
Marram Books
Zed Press
ICOM Publishing
Blenkinsop Associates, Architects


COMMUNITY ARTS:
Political Intervention: Partizans at AGM of RTZ, London. Anarchists against exploitation, pollution and corruption by RTZ. (LB as Mr Beard)


NOTES: (IGB: November 28 1983 to February 21 1984: Australia.)

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1984
RESIDENCE: 28 Rathbone Place, Soho, London WC1:

STUDIES: Computer Graphics, Kingston Polytechnic.

TEACHING:
Kingston Polytechnic.
Leicester Polytechnic. Introduced Computer Graphics to (Fine Art and Graphic Design) curriculum.

TRAVEL: May 25 to June 12: Travelled across Europe in the Renault 4, with SKB to receive the prize. (See below)


EXHIBITIONS:
'Intergraphic '84', Berlin, DDR. With SKB, see report: Journal #6 (1984).
Curated a Kingston student exhibition at the show.

'Captor-Captive', Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad, Iraq.


COMMISSIONS:
Philippines Support Group;
FUEMESSO;
National Rubella Council;
Housemann's Publishing;
Pluto Press.


ARCHITECTURE:
Dual Building Design. Architectural illustrations.
Holder and Mathais, Architects. Architectural illustrations.


DISTINCTIONS:
DESIGN: Dial-a-Ride Logo. Used across England on 'DaR' buses but promised the lot, Len only paid for one - no credit - another rippoff!

ICOGRADA, Intergrafik '84, Promotion poster and honorary award, Berlin, DDR.

CONSULTANCY: 'London Against Racism', GLC Ethnic Minorities Unit, London. Advertising Campaign, ConsutancyI produced pages and pages of designs but was basically ignored. But very good and satisfying work.


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1985
RESIDENCE: 28 Rathbone Place, Soho, London WC1:

STUDIES: Computer Graphics, Kingston Polytechnic. (Post-graduate courses)

TEACHING:
Kingston Polytechnic.
Leicester Polytechnic.


TRAVEL:
France, Paris. Memorable train journey.
Food too: the Nigerian fish restaurant!!. (With SKB - July 13 to 21).


EXHIBITIONS:
'Posters for Peace', Moscow, USSR.

'6th Lahti Poster Biennale', Lahti, Finland.


COMMISSIONS:
Calypso Beat
Bright Carver
Commonwealth Secretariat.


ARCHITECTURE:
Crack the Concrete, Retail premises. Design.


PUBLICATIONS:
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, London;


DISTINCTIONS:
Amnesty International, International Secretariat;


NOTES: (IGB: February 26 to September 29: Australia.)

NOTES: Received my 'Special Award' for my 'Posters for Peace', from the Ambassador of the USSR, Alexai Nikiforov, in person, at the Embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens. Very posh!


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1986
RESIDENCES:
28 Rathbone Place to June 1986: then Len forced out by landlord. (Add notes here.)

97 Belgrave Road, Pimlico: togethter with SKB too.


TEACHING:
Kingston Polytechnic.
Middlesex Polytechnic.


TRAVEL:
March 20 to April 17: Greece and Australia via Singapore (April 16 to 19) (LB with Mike Scudamore).

France, Spain, Portugal. SKB 'sick as a dog' incident. (August (18 to ?).)


EXHIBITION:
'Poster Exhibition for the Third World', Tokyo, Japan.


COMMISSIONS:
Tamil Times (Cartoon).
IPOH Ltd (Malaysia) (Logo).
Action for Disability Kensington & Chelsea (Catalogues).


DISTINCTIONS:
Amnesty International, International Secretariat, (Poster).


NOTES: (IGB: January 18: Moves into 31 Old Gloucester Street.)


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1987
RESIDENCE: 97 Belgrave Road, Pimlico:

TEACHING:
Kingston Polytechnic.
Middlesex Polytechnic.


TRAVEL: July 21 to August 16: France and Italy. With SKB camping (I think).

EXHIBITIONS:
ACAVA: 'Artists Working in ACAVA Studios', Open Space Gallery.
ACAVA: 'Pigs Can Fly', Float, Community Festival, Hammersmith, (with Bryn and SKB).


COMMISSIONS: ACAVA. Publicity (CHECK Building Survey?).


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1988
RESIDENCE: 97 Belgrave Road, Pimlico:

TEACHING: Middlesex Polytechnic.

TRAVEL:
France (Paris) - for Middlesex Poly. (April 8 to 13).

France (Camping in France). (June 26 to July 21).

USA, Atlanta, Georgia. SIGGRAPH '88. (July 30 - August 7) (LB first trip to SIGGRAPH.)


COMMISSIONS:
Zuriya Theatre Company (poster) (with SKB).


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1989
RESIDENCE: 97 Belgrave Road, Pimlico, London.

HISTORIC NOTE: November 24: at 2:54pm, Kesar Francis Birdi Breen born. At 97 Belgrave Road, Pimlico. Just the greatest day of my life. SKB very pleased indeed. And so!

STUDIO: ACAVA, Faroe Road Studios, Hammersmith, London. ACAVA, Hetley Road Studios, Hammersmith, London.

TEACHING: Middlesex Polytechnic.

TRAVEL:
Australia, Melbourne, for Mum's 70th birthday. (April 17 to 6 May) (SKB & LB)

France (Paris) - for Middlesex Poly. (May 26-27). (LB).

USA, Boston. SIGGRAPH '89, Boston. (July 29 - August 8) (LB).


COMMISSIONS:
Makonde Arts, London & Nairobi.


DISTINCTION:
Bristol Animation Festival. Animation masterclass tutor, along with John Lasseter (Pixar), Martin Reiser. A claim to fame no less- see left. (My student at the time, Nigel Hardwidge, went on to work with Lasseter and win an Academy Award for WALL-E.) Praise Len!

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1990
RESIDENCE:
97 Belgrave Road, Pimlico:
Moved with family to 31 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury, WC1N 3AF.


STUDIO: ACAVA, Hetley Road Studios, Hammersmith, London.

TEACHING: Middlesex Polytechnic.

TRAVEL:
Holland (Utrecht) - for Middlesex Poly. (January 18).

Holland (Utrecht) - for Middlesex Poly. (March 6).

Spain (Palma de Mallorca) - for Middlesex Poly. (June 27).

Brussells. (Don't have any recollection of this! May have driven to Holland? Or student placement visit in Germany!!) (September 18)

USA, Texas, Dallas. SIGGRAPH '90. (August 4 - 11)


EXHIBITIONS:
ACAVA: 'Artist's Open Studios'.

ACAVA: 'West London Visual Arts Festival'.



COMMISSIONS (Graphics):
'Dial-a-Ride', London Regional Transport Authority, (also for Local Authorities nationwide (another rippoff!).

ACAVA. Publicity.

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1991
RESIDENCE: 31 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury.

STUDIO: ACAVA, Hetley Road Studios, Hammersmith, London.

TEACHING: Middlesex Polytechnic.

TRAVEL:
Netherlands - Middlesex Poly (SKBB and KFBB) (February 19)

USA, New York - for SIGGRAPH meetings (LB). (April 26).

USA, Dallas, Texas - SIGGRAPH meetings(LB). (July 27).

USA, Las Vegas, Navada. SIGGRAPH '91, (July - August 3).

France (camping in Bellgarde), Switzerland (stayed with Ruth and Bernard) - SKB, LVB and KFBB. (August 15 to September 12).


EXHIBITION:
Exhibition ACAVA: 'Christmas Show', Central Space, LONDON. Gallery.


SIGNIFICANT NOTE:
July 6: LVB and SKBB married with much fanfare with friends at Camden Registry Office, London.
Memorable champagne party followed.


SKETCHBOOKS | JOURNALS
    1991 - 14
    1991 - 15
    1991 - 16
    1991 - 17
    1991 - 18



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1992
RESIDENCE: Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury.

STUDIO: ACAVA, Hetley Road Studios, Hammersmith, London.

TEACHING: Middlesex Polytechnic.

TRAVEL:
USA. Siggraph '92, Chicago, Illinois. (SKB and Kesar). (July)

Australia. SKB and Kesar. Melbourne drive to Sydney. Len with torn Achilles tendon. August/September: (Return via Singapore September 8). Crashed into a kangaroo (story to tell here).

USA. New York - SIGGRAPH meetings (LB, SKBB, KFBB). (May 8).

USA. New York - SIGGRAPH meetings (LB, SKBB, KFBB). (July 25).


EXHIBITIONS:
ACAVA Open Studios: 'West London Visual Arts Festival'.

ACAVA: 'Christmas Show', Central Space Gallery.

'The Exquisite Fax', FISEA, Minneapolis, USA.

'Exchange and Art', Centre 181 Gallery.


COMMISSIONS: ACAVA. Publicity.



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1993
RESIDENCE: 31 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury.

STUDIO: ACAVA, Hetley Road Studios, Hammersmith, London.

TEACHING: Middlesex Polytechnic. (Resigned. Zionists seem to have been out to get him!)

TRAVEL:
USA, New York - SIGGRAPH meetings (LB). (March 5 -). (CHECK ALL DATES)

France to Spain (camping) to see Bob, Mercedes, and kids (LB, SKBB, KFBB). (June 9 to July 6).

USA, Los Angeles - SIGGRAPH meetings (LB).July 29:

Australia, Melbourne (LB, SKBB, KFBB). (August)

USA, SIGGRAPH '93, Anaheim, California. (August)

USA, New York - SIGGRAPH meetings (LB, SKBB, KFBB - stayed at United Nations Plaza Hotel then at Brigid's). (November 4 to 13)


EXHIBITIONS:
ACAVA Open Studios: 'Western Exposure'.

Mural: 'The Complete Works of Elvis Picasso', Hetley Road Studios, London.

'The Exquisite Fax', FISEA, Minneapolis, USA.

'Welcome to Britain', Edge Gallery, London.


COMMISSIONS:
London Footprints (Maps).
James Hartcup (Logo).
Computer Animation: Felix Films, 'Mountain Sequence'(with Gregg Moore).
Computer Animation: Central Television, 'Mathematrix' (with Gregg Moore).




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1994
RESIDENCE: 31 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury:

STUDIO: ACAVA, Hetley Road Studios, Hammersmith, London.

TRAVEL:
USA, Chicago - SIGGRAPH meetings (LB) (April 13).

Rome - SIGGRAPH meetings. (LB). (May). Excelsior Hotel (Very very posh. Bumped into Boris Becker and family. 'Buon Giorno', I said. He had just lost the Italian Open to Pete Sampras and was probably in a bad mood; he replied, "è un idiota del tardo pomeriggio".).

France. (July 12). (CHECK)

USA, Orlando, Florida. SIGGRAPH '94, (LB) (August)


EXHIBITION:
ACAVA Open Studios: 'West London Visual Arts Festival'.CHECK

'Art Auction', Angle Gallery, Birmingham.


COMMISSION:
Exhibition Design: ACM SIGGRAPH (International Groups), Orlando, Florida, USA.



1995
RESIDENCE: 31 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury:

STUDIO: ACAVA, Hetley Road Studios, Hammersmith, London.

TEACHING: Media Production Facilities.

TRAVEL:
USA, Boston - SIGGRAPH meetings (LB) (April 6).
USA, New York - SIGGRAPH meetings (LB) (June 1).
USA, Los Angeles, California. SIGGRAPH '95 (LB) (August).


PUBLISHED:
'Take the First Step - Stand on Your Head'


EXHIBITIONS:
ACAVA Open Studios: 'West London Visual Arts Festival'.


COMMISSIONS: BBB Press. WWW Site.

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1996
RESIDENCE: 31 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury, London:

STUDIO: ACAVA, Hetley Road Studios, Hammersmith, London.

TEACHING:
Media Production Facilities.
Brunel University, Department of Design, Englefield Green Campus. (Started - CHECK DATE).

TRAVEL:
Australia, Melbourne and Sydney (April) To place Mum's ashes in 'Big Len's' grave. (see Story)
Cornwall and Glastonbury: Camping Cornwall and Glastonbury.(May)


PUBLISHED:
'Noetic Landscapes'.


EXHIBITION:
ACAVA Open Studios: 'Western Sensibility'.


COMMISSION:
Brunel University.




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1997
RESIDENCES:
31 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury, London (to 13th March).
The Gatehouse, Englefield Green: (From 14 March 1997).


STUDIO: ACAVA, Hetley Road Studios, Hammersmith, London.

TEACHING:
Media Production Facilities.
Brunel University.


TRAVEL:
France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway. Camping and driving. (May).


JOURNAL COMPLETED:
#34.


EXHIBITION:
ACAVA Open Studios: 'Western Currency'.


COMMISSIONS:
Brunel University; 'Product Design and Education '97' (Conference).

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1998
RESIDENCE: The Gatehouse, Englefield Green:

STUDIO: ACAVA, Hetley Road Studios, Hammersmith, London.

TEACHING:
Media Production Facilities.
Brunel University.


EXHIBITION:
Victoria and Albert Museum: 'The Power of the Poster'.
ACAVA Open Studios: 'Western Tenor'.


CURATING:
'Landscape into Art' (Alban Low), Runnymede Gallery.


PUBLISHED:
e-Book:'Connections Among Meanings Doubtful'.


COMMISSIONS:
Amnesty International (Universality of Human Rights).
Brunel University (Design Exhibition).

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1999
RESIDENCE: The Gatehouse, Englefield Green:

STUDIO: ACAVA, Hetley Road Studios, Hammersmith, London.

STUDIO: Brunel University.

TEACHING:
Media Production Facilities.
Brunel University.


TRAVEL:
Australia. Via Hong Kong. Went to Cairns and Port Douglas, back to Melbourne. For mum's 80th birthday. (LB, SKBB, KFBB). (March 19 to April 30).
New York. July 26: (Can't remember why or what for or for what!!??)


ART EXHIBITION:
'Seymour Chwast', Lustrare Gallery, New York.
Wonderful liberating 3-D works. Inspiring.


EXHIBITION:
'On Closer Inspection', Hetley Road Studios, London.

'Not Another Ism', 'Works on Paper', Beldam Gallery, London.


PUBLISHED:
'On Closer Inspection'.


JOURNALS COMPLETED:
#35. #36.


COMMISSIONS:
Bob Kenyon (illustration for [www.artprop.org]);
Brunel University, Department of Design. (www-site);
Media Production Facilities (www-site).

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2000
STUDIO: ACAVA, Hetley Road Studios, Hammersmith, London.

TEACHING:
Media Production Facilities.
Brunel University.

TRAVEL:
France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, (July 27). In new Astra. (LB, SKBB, KFBB)
Paris, to see Guston, Bueys (see sample in collection), (November 16-18).

COMPETITION:
Jarwood Drawing Prize (shortlisted).

EXHIBITIONS:
'Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition', Humberside University and Sierre, Switzerland.
'Western Encounters', ACAVA Open Studios:
'In-Out-Up-Down-Left-Right: The Personal Visions of Elvis Picasso'
'Day of the Dead - California Print Show', USA (Various Galleries
'Day of the Dead - London Print Show'.

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2001
RESIDENCE: The Gatehouse, Englefield Green

TEACHING:
Brunel University.

TRAVEL:
Australia via Singapore, (April 20 to May 6) (LB - Mum ill.)
USA, New York, (July 26). Australia, Sydney & Melbourne, (August 1 to 21). USA, Los Angeles & Phoenix, (August 21) (LB, SKBB, KFBB).

EXHIBITIONS:
'Art in the Bush', ACAVA Open Studios, Hetley Road Studios, London.
'Everybody's Got To Be Somewhere!', Hetley Road Studios, London.
'Art Upstream', Hetley Road Studios, London.

CONSULTANCIES:
Brunel University, ACAVA, Glasgow Women's Aid, Design Research Society, IGB Mental.

COMMISSION:
Amnesty International, 'UN Convention Against Torture', Posters (English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Slovenian, Turkish, Croatian, Philippino).




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2002
RESIDENCE: The Gatehouse, Englefield Green

TEACHING:
Brunel University.

TRAVEL:
Australia, Melbourne, (March 15).
Australia via Tokyo, (June 22). [Mum's ashes story].

EXHIBITIONS:
'More Art in the Bush', ACAVA Open Studios: .
'A World of Their Own', Hetley Road Studios, London.

COMMISSIONS:
Brunel University, ACAVA, International Artist Group.

NOTES:
March 15: Mum died, aged 82. Len at her bedside.
December: Heart attack.





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2003
RESIDENCE: The Gatehouse, Englefield Green:

TEACHING:
Brunel University.

TRAVEL:
USA via Ireland, (April 14 to 28) (LB)

EXHIBITIONS:
'Some More Art in the Bush', ACAVA Open Studios,
'The Last Broadcast From Egham', Hetley Road Studios, London.

COMMISSION:
'Riffathon', Academy of Contemporary Music, Guildford. www site (Art Director)



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2004
RESIDENCE: The Gatehouse, Englefield Green:

TEACHING:
Brunel University.

TRAVEL:
Europe: France & Spain (23 July - 16 August). Bilbao Guggenheim (CHECK)

EXHIBITIONS:
'New Art in the Bush', ACAVA Open Studios:
'Our Leaders Deliver the Goods', Hetley Road Studios, London.



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2005
RESIDENCE: The Gatehouse, Englefield Green:

TEACHING:
Brunel University.

TRAVEL:
France, (August 10 to 30), Camping in Falaise and Samaur and Gité at Blaignan, (LB, SKBB, KFBB and Ben).

GALLERIES:

EXHIBITIONS:

POSTERS:

DRAWING:

NOTES:

COMMISSIONS:
ACAVA.



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2006
RESIDENCE:
The Gatehouse, Englefield Green:
10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough. (Moved in March)

TEACHING:
Brunel University (Concluded - insert long story here. Zionists win again!).

TRAVEL:
FRANCE, Quimper, 8-23 August. (with SKBB, KFBB.[CHECK])

PUBLISHED:
'A Landscape of Meaningful Inscriptions'.

EXHIBITION:
'The War Portfolio', Hetley Road Studios, London.
'Even More Art in the Bush', ACAVA Open Studios:

DRAWINGS:

COMMISSIONS:
Peter Evans (Theatre Posters)
LARP (CD cover and www Site)
ACAVA (Information Graphics).

NOTES:

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2007
RESIDENCE: 10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough:

TRAVEL:

GALLERIES:

EXHIBITION:
'Battersea Contemporary Art Fair', Battersea, London. (May 11-13) - what a disaster!

POSTERS:

DRAWINGS:

NOTES:



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2008
RESIDENCE: 10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough:

TRAVEL:
FRANCE, 27 July-11 August. (SKB + LB + KFB)

GALLERIES:

POSTERS:

Drawings:

NOTES:
Ringwood Road: Refurbishments.

October: Kesar starts Engineering at Cambridge University.




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2009
RESIDENCE: 10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough:

TRAVEL:
Pompeii, Italy, 13-17 July, (SKB School).
FRANCE, 24-28 July. (LB & SKB)
NEW YORK, 23 Aug-1 Sept. (LB + SKB + KFBB)


PROFESSIONAL / APPOINTMENT:
Global Management Institute (GMI). Advisory Board.


PUBLISHED:
'The Elvis Picasso Gallery', 'elvispicasso.com'


GALLERIES / ARTISTS:
NY Subway: Tom Otterness, Bronze Sculptures. (Ref: ip0908)
Hampshire Sculpture Garden. (with M & B). (Ref: ip0911)
Jesus College Cambridge. Sculpture Exhibition, (Ref: iP0911)
The Lightbox, Woking. 'The Models of Leonardo da Vinci'. (ref: iP0911) POSTERS:

DRAWINGS:

NOTES:



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2010
RESIDENCE: 10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough:

TRAVEL:
AUSTRALIA, Parade College reunion. Keynote speech. 26 May-9 June. (Solo mio.)

KENYA and TURKEY, 23 July - 13 August. (LB & SKB & KFBB)

VISITED:

GALLERIES:

COMMISSIONS: India Savvy, Corporate Branding, Conference Brochures. (Crap client).

PUBLISHED:
'The Phantom Prison' - (e-Book).
'www.leonardbreen.com' - 'Big Len'.

DRAWINGS:

NOTES:
Year of shit depression, much depression.
Amazing stories of the Kenya experience - silenced!



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2011
RESIDENCE: 10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough:

TRAVEL:
None


GALLERIES:

EXHIBITIONS: London

COURSES:
Bookbinding. ([name] Studios. Made a hardcover book (for Kesar).

PUBLISHED:
'Orientalistic Goings-On' - (E-Book).
'Systems Malfunction' - (E-Book).
'Architectural Re-renderings' -(E-Book).
'A Complete Waste of Time' - (E-Book).
'Postcards from Prison - Kenya' - E-Book).


ARCHITECTURE:
Residence for Dr Gregg Moore, Wellingborough, Northants. Building survey. (May)


POSTERS:

DRAWING:

NOTES: Made a hardcover book - course work (for Kesar).

NOTES: Year punctured by depression, much depression.



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2012
RERSIDENCE: 10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough:

TRAVEL:
USA, New York, 6-15 April. (LB & SKB)
POLAND, 6-9 July (LB & SKB & KFB, Wedding)
FRANCE, Annacy, Cuvet. [CHECK] (SKB & LB)

GALLERIES / ARTISTS:
DIA, Beacon, New York. (April Ref iP1212)
'Keith Haring'. Brooklyn Museum. (April Ref iP1212)
The New Museum, Bowery, New York. (April Ref iP1212)
The Soloman Guggenheim Museum, 5th Avenue, New York. (Architecture). (April Ref iP1212)
'The Whitney Biennale 2012', New York. (April Ref iP1212)
Tate Gallery, London. (April Ref iP1240)
Saatchi Gallery. (Dec 2012) (Ref iP1264).


PUBLISHED:
'The Television War Artist'.
'www.lenbreen.com',(major revisions)
'www.elvispicasso.com',(major revisions)
'www.elvispicasso.org',

COMMISSIONS:
'www.inatevitality.com'. Corporate branding, website and illustrations.

Yately School, Hampshire. 'Italy'. (A job of 'no importance'. Yes a small job but time not valued or appreciated. )


DRAWINGS:

ART: New sculptures, posters, www (lots), photographic essays.

NOTES: Kesar: Graduates (MEng) from Cambridge; placement in Japan (September-November); job with Chiswick startup company on return.

NOTES: January: gave up alcohol and carbohydrates and started walking - lost 2.5 stone by June. Depression seem/-s/-ed to be in remission.

NOTES: November 2: Depression - "Not an architect, an old person, meaningless graphics."

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Flood, Catherine. BRITISH POSTERS, Advertising, Art & Activism. V&A Publishing, 2012 ISBN 978185177 676 4
Poster: Leonard Breen, Juan Munoz and David Dahlson, "Capitalism Attacks Education", Refs: pages 67, 125, 128; plate 63



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2013
RESIDENCE: 10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough:

TRAVEL:
Australia, March-4 May, Australia (LB)
Amsterdam, Netherlands, Belgium, France, 7-22 August. (LB & SKB & KFB)
Ireland, 29 Sept-6 October. (LB with Maureen & Bob Pitts)

GALLERIES:

EXHIBITIONS: London

POSTERS:

DRAWINGS:

NOTES:



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2014
RESIDENCE / STUDIO: 10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough:
STUDIO: Englefield Green

TRAVEL:
France: Annacy, Cuvet, (July- September). (SKB & LB - M&J I&Y)
Italy: Pisa, (13-18 July). (SKB School)

GALLERIES / ARTISTS:
'Richter', (October), London
'Anthony Gormley', Manchester. (May) (LB)
'Julian Opie', Bath, (July).
'Ivan Chermayeff', De La Marr Pavilion, Hastings, (September).

POSTERS:

DRAWINGS:

PHOTOGRAPHY:

NOTES:



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2015
RESIDENCE / STUDIO: 10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough:
STUDIO:

TRAVEL:
Paris, (February 16-19), (SKB & LB -Euro)
Rotterdam, Ghent, August 24-29 (SKB & LB - Car)

GALLERIES / COLLECTIONS:
Serpentine Galleries, London, (July).
Saatchi Gallery, London, (July).
Saatchi Gallery, London, (August).

POSTERS:

DRAWINGS:

PHOTOGRAPHY:

NOTES:



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2016
RESIDENCE / STUDIO: 10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough:
STUDIO:

TRAVEL:
New York, (June 8-19) (LVB with M & B Pitts)
Italy, (July 11-15), (SKB School trip).
Vienna, (July 25-29), (LVB & SKB).
France, Switzerland (August) (LB with IGB and YD).

EXHIBITIONS:
(New York).
(Vienna).
(Basel, Switzerland).

PUBLISHED:
'Kandahar 1977', Photographic Essay, (2016)
'www.lenbreen.com (2016).
'www.leburr.com (2016).
'www.elvispicasso.net (2016).
'www.bbbpress.com (2016).

DRAWINGS: (approx 183 images)

POSTERS:



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2017
RESIDENCE / STUDIO: 10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough:
STUDIO:

TRAVEL:
Paris, (February 20-23), (LVB & SKB).
France, Switzerland, Italy (Villa), (July 31 - August 16) (LVB & SKB & KFB).

EXHIBITIONS:

DRAWINGS:

PUBLISHED:
'Z', January 2017.
'Drawings', February 2017.
'Lapsus Calami', March 2017.
'Drawings', June 2017.
'Drawings', October 2017.



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2018
RESIDENCE / STUDIO: 10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough.

TRAVEL:
Lille, France, (February 20-23) (LVB & SKB & KFB).
France, Switzerland, Italy (Tuscany, Villa), (July 31-August 16), (LVB & SKB & KFB).

EXHIBITIONS:
Lille Mètropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art.

VISITED:

POSTERS:

DRAWINGS:

COMMISSION:
'Witness for the Prosecution' (180903), Theatre Posters, (September).



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2019
RESIDENCE / STUDIO: 10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough:

TRAVEL:
Paris (February 20-23), (LVB & SKB).

EXHIBITIONS VISITED:
Sacré Cœur,Paris.
Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Musee du Quai Branly, Paris
Foundation Cartier, Paris

POLITICAL POSTERS:
'Now Europe' (190102)
'Hands Off Venezuela' (190204)
'Saving the Bits' (191215)

DRAWINGS:

COMMISSIONS
'The Crucible', Theatre Posters: (February).
'A Christmas Carol', Theatre Posters, (September).
'Brief Encounters', Theatre Posters, (November).

OBJET TROUVÉ:
[Various], (September to August).

PRODUCTIONS:
'The Random Breen O'Clock', A 3-D Object (December)

NOTES:
Became a British Citizen - June 2019 (Awful story to follow).



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2020
RESIDENCE: 10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough:
STUDIO:

TRAVEL:
PARIS, (February 18-21), (LVB & SKB).

ART GALLERIES:
Musée d'Art Modern de de Paris. Hans Hartung. Permanent Collection.
Hans Hartung.
(The Palais de Tokyo was closed.)

DESIGN:
Logo: Kesar Francis Birdi Breen (January).

PUBLISHED:
'Let's Face It', e-Book, June 2017.

POSTERS: February to August 2020.

PHOTOGRAPHY: February to August 2020.

OBJET TROUVÉ:
February to August 2020.
'The Holey One', 3-D Object, June.


NOTES:
February: Covid-19 Pandemic strikes - CHAOS rules.

The visit to Paris left me with a dreadful infection. Chest type flue lasted through March, self treated with Vitamin-C, which seemed to work as all symptoms disappeared. Methinks it was an odd-symtomatic Covid-19 infection; future will affirm.

Had been suffering from heart problems since last year. Great, great pain, but recently very wary of hospital treatment due to the Corona crisis. But on May 1st, committed to treatment. Extremely painful, but miraculous cure with brand new stent. Due to poorly administered [blood in arm thing - a canula] I missed out on some joyous morphine vital relief. Stupid junior doctor. Now recovered from all that.

Trigger for depression continues to be pulled by the usual catalysts. Mental health issues hence observed and determined. Is someone mentally ill when they...? I feel that I know it all but say not a thing to anybody. Reference is 'self and other'.

And now a dark dark cloud has fallen over humanity. Right-wing fascistic governments, kleptocratic leadership, terror, out-of-control destruction and pollution, and a devastating disease, no human blindness, are all that we have and can only envision for the future. Where is the art? Where is fuck? I don't have the words. And not forgetting the dumb right-wing foolish c*nts who are lead up by their arses into it. Stop! Stop!

Became an Irish Citizen - September 2020. (Story to follow).




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2021
RESIDENCE / STUDIO: 10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough, Hampshire.

TRAVEL:
PARIS. (February 18-21). (LVB & SKB).

ART GALLERIES:
Musée d'Art Modern de de Paris. Permanent Collection. ***
Musée d'Art Modern de de Paris. Hans Hartung. ***

DESIGN:
[CHECK].

PUBLISHED:
'Seeking Deeper Struths', e-Book, February 2021.
'The Conceptual Artist - Working from Home', e-Book, March 2021.
'The Artist - Taking a Dog for a Walk', e-Book, June 2021.
'Rogue's Line-up Gallery', e-Book (4 volumes), August 2021.
'Mastermind - The Final Drama', e-Book, September 2021.

POSTERS:

PHOTOGRAPHY:

OBJET TROUVÉ:

NOTES:

(Story to follow).




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2022
RESIDENCE / STUDIO: 10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough. (Nihil umquam mutat!)

TRAVEL:
USA, Dallas, New Orleans, (July 25-August 20), (SKB & KFB only).

PAINTINGS:
'Jazz Club Alley - Turin', Acrylic on Paper, 121cm x 91cm. (#220803).
'Domestic Portal'.Acrylic on Paper, 121cm x 91cm. (#220804).

DESIGN:

COMMISSION:
'The Gordian Knot', Raspuncher Theatre Company, Poster. (February).

PHOTOGRAPHY:

OBJET TROUVÉ:
Ringwood Road Gnomes (To update and document.)

NOTES:
Catalogue Raisonné (Started July 3, 2022. This Edit 08 November 2022.)
CHAOS continues to rule!
Tristitia lata et profunda.



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2023
RESIDENCE / STUDIO: 10 Ringwood Road, Farnborough. (Nihil umquam mutat!)

TRAVEL:
Nowhere. Go get the paper and come home. Drive for the shopping. Go up and down the stairs. Go out to the shed and come back.

PAINTINGS FINISHED:
'Jazz Club Alley - Turin', Acrylic on Paper, 121cm x 91cm. (#220803).
'Domestic Portal', Acrylic on Paper, 121cm x 91cm. (#220804).


WWW DESIGN:
 


COMMISSION:
'The Heiress', Tilbourne Players, Poster. (February).

PHOTOGRAPHY:

OBJET TROUVÉ:
Ringwood Road Gnomes (Gnomes de rebus pergo.)

NOTES:
Catalogue Raisonné (Started July 3, 2022. This Edit 08 November 2022.)
CHAOS continues to rule!
Tristitia lata et profunda.