1977
THINKING OF DOING A LITTLE PAINTING
Solo Performance - Botanical Gardens Mebourne. 1977
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DINNER for 4 at 8 AM
Performance: Simon Hopkinson piece - with Simon Hopkinson, Alison Richards + +
R.M.I.T. University - Melbourne 1977
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TWO ARTISTS – PAINTING – POWELL STREET
Powell Street Gallery - South Yarra 1977
Collaborative installation/performance/exhibition: with Simon Hopkinson
There is no limit to the range of their artistic range, which runs from history, philosphy and art's social relevance down to the nitty gritty of themselves as art'
Mary Eagle - The Age - 1977
WRITING- DRAWING – PICKING UP LEAVES
Collaborative Performance with Simon Hopkinson
Brighton Cultural Centre - Billilla House - Brighton 1977
ART-WORK
Collaborative installation/performance: with Simon Hopkinson
Mildura Sculpture Triennial - Mildura 1978
THINKING OF DOING A LITTLE PAINTING
Collaborative Performance: with Simon Hopkinson
National Gallery of Victoria - Central Court - 1978
1978
ART-PERFORMANCE-LECTURE
Collaborative performance: with Simon Hopkinson
La Trobe University – R.M.I.T.University, Melbourne
In fact all their prepartations, their references both pictorial and literary to the art of the past are nothing but false trails, red herrings dragged across a false trail of a non-existent path.
There is no art , there will be no art, and we are left in an Alice through the looking glass world where nothing is as it seems. We have an artwork in which no art is produced, a performance in which no performance takes place.'
Graham Sturgeon - 'No Art Produced for Art's Sake' - The Australian 1977
PERFORMANCE - WORK
Collaborative performance: with Simon Hopkinson
P.I.T. Performance Festival, Melbourne 1979
Salvador Dali Might Not Appear
Performance - directed by Simon Hopkinson
University of Melbourne - Union House - 1979
1978 - Art Works - Warehouse Galleries - South Melbourne
Conceptual paintings, drawings collage works
A large canvas entitled 'Monument' reassures the viewer about the scope of Willis's considerable talents, but with its scrawled graffiti it serves to affirm the general feeling of impermanence which pervades the entire performance/exhibition.'
Alan McCulloch - The Herald 1978
1978 - 1979
Moved to New York - Chelsea Hotel - Mudd Club - CB GB's - Art Beat
For more detail 'Diary of a Dead Beat Modern Art Type'