This October, artist Ghoul Guy unveils Magic Carpets — the eighth collection in a ten-year project to create one thousand original artworks. The show features 50...
Over 100,000 people walked through Design Festa Tokyo over a mid-November weekend in 2024, perusing over 600 booths of indie designers' work. Ghoul had a great corner...
Mike McGinnis was a quiet kid who could always be found scrawling intricate mazes. In 1979, as a high school student in California, he was given an art project to...
Chariots of the Gods?
Born in Switzerland in 1935, Erich von Däniken was like most boys, possessed by a wild imagination fuelled with mysteries of ancient cultures and the possibility of...
Big Balls Tanuki
If you've ever wandered around Japan, you’ll have seen statues of a raccoon-like creature. Your gaze may have lowered, eyes widening, as you caught sight of what was...
Canopic Jars
I know what you’re thinking, this looks like the perfect photo-op for a boy band’s album cover. But, while you're not wrong, this photo is actually of canopic jars from...
Grisly Beehives
This somewhat sad-looking sculpture may bear a striking resemblance to someone recovering from a big night out, but it's actually a centuries-old beehive called...
Tufting: knit with a gun
How did tufting, a craft whose roots stretch back to the world’s oldest rug, the Pazyryk Carpet, become a provocative underground movement in contemporary art? Yes –...
Dreaming with Beato
We don’t know a lot about Felice Beato. It’s believed he was one of the first people to take photographs in East Asia and one of the first war photographers. A death...
False Doors
You’re lost in an ancient Egyptian tomb, and you’ve come across something called a false door. They're not your typical doors that lead you to another room, or out of...
Creature Show at Wedge Gallery
When: 1st February to 13th February 2024. Where: Wedge Gallery, Kinokuniya. The Galeries, Floor 2, 500 George Street, Sydney. Ghoul Guy’s work builds a mythology...
Battledeck SXSW Sydney
Before we had a chance to catch our breath from PAX23 in Melbourne, we found ourselves in Sydney at Australia's inaugural South by Southwest festival the following...
Battledeck captivates PAX23
October 2023 saw the unveiling of Battledeck, our card and dice battle game, at Australia's premier event for video and tabletop gaming, PAX23 (Penny Arcade...
Custom Backdrops
Living remotely is forcing me to be inventive whenever I need to produce things like product photography. While looking for ways to shoot the Battledeck game I...
Australia 2023
It’s almost May, which means I’ve been back in Australia for four months since taking temporary leave from Tokyo. I’m in Kiama, on the coastline, and from grassy...
Meteor Show 2022
It was already September and I had no home for Ghoul’s 2023 show. I had an elaborate plan for my exhibition and a vague idea that somehow, somewhere within the sprawl of...
Digital Artifacts: OKPC
OKPC was created by @shahruz, @scotato and @cj_pais. I purchased 12 units on www.gem.xyz/collection/okpc/ You'll find units for sale on OS and LookRare as...
The Eye Idols of Tell Brak
These stone figurines have been dated to the Early to Middle Northern Uruk period, around 3700–3500 BCE. The true meaning, function and value of these artifacts remains...
The Jomon People
In the video game 'Zelda: Breath of the Wild' we come across ancient artifacts called Sheikah Technology. If you're a fan of Pokémon, you may be familiar with the...
Ghoul Loot Boxes
In 1929, following an apprenticeship in Hiroshima, a Japanese carpenter by the name of Matsuyoshi Masuda established 'Matsuyoshi Masuda’s Kiribako Shop’ in Fukuoka. He...
Sumeran ghouls
The objects pictured here are thousands of years old, dated around 300 BCE. Made from alabaster and stone, they were retrieved from archeological digs on the southern...
Ghoul’s on Cyber
Ghoul has launched an immersive gallery experience at oncyber.io/ghoul, featuring a selection of artwork from all three Ghoul collections. For those with wallets full...
The Second Wave
The Second Wave has crossed over into our world. Introducing the second set of ghouls, numbers #51 to #101. The collection feels more exotic than the first 50, with...
The Artifact 4K
The Artifact is a mysterious object that crossed over from the world of Ghoul into ours in May 2021. This short film documents how it came to...
Ghoul HQ Discord
Discord? You know, that place where you go to mute new servers and close an endless stream of nefarious DMs? Where one wrong click will empty your wallet and rob you of...
What is the Artifact?
Mystery and mischief are two words that perfectly describe what I'm shooting for with the Ghoul project. With the Artifact I set out to create something mysterious. An...
Almost Perfect
In May 2021 I spent two weeks developing the Ghoul project in a residence for artists called Almost Perfect. It's run by illustrator Luis Mendo and business entrepreneur...
Ghoul Site Launch
The skateboards, the trading cards, the voxel diorama posters, the digital collectibles for the non-fungibles among us. There's something for everyone. Since Ghoul...
