Bill Flowers an Australian painter, printmaker, cartoonist, animator & snake wrangler who lives in Ulverstone, Tasmania. The Lowbrow

Lowbrow (art movement)

Lowbrow, or lowbrow art, describes an underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles, California, area in the late 1970s. Lowbrow is a widespread populist art movement with origins in the underground comix world, punk music, hot-rod street culture, and other subcultures. It is also...

 artworks of Flowers consist of wildlife based works and cartoon animations.

Flowers was a key figure in the Australian comic art scene of the 1990s.
Flowers created 'The Cat' for Southern Aurora Comics and 'Father Rice the fearless vampire slayer' The Father Rice comics went on to be short films for the Off Planet Films 'Drakenstien' and 'Albino Santa Cop'.
Bill Flowers(II) and Tom Priestley developed a style of animation that lead to first place in 2004 Trasharama A-Go-Go

Trasharama A-Go-Go

Trasharama A-Go-Go is an annual low-budget/no-budget short film festival started in 1997 by Dick Dale of Adelaide bands Gacy's Place and Kamikaze...

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The cartoon film, “Detour in the Wheelie of Life” produced and directed by Bill Flowers and Tom Priestley was the winner of an Australian Film Institute 2001 short film completion

Links

• http://www.tco.asn.au/newsletter.cgi?parentID=172634&pagenumber=5
• http://www.scaryminds.com/reviews/short04.php
• http://www.theadvocate.com.au/multimedia/18783/159885/artists-wild-at-heart.aspx?Start=0&page=1