Chris Ferric

Rough stylised yellow text in all capslock reads: SNUFF SALOOON. Then there is a rough mixed pastel and paint drawing of a skull, styled after Snuff Puppet's iconic skullie puppet. There are paint splatters and clear drawing marks and smudges. A huge pink shape is emerging from between its teeth, maybe a tongue, maybe bad breath, maybe a dick. Smaller white text in all capslock reads: MUSIC ART PUPPETS BAR
Snuff Salooon promo image, mixed pastel and paint by Chris Ferric

Chris Ferric is drawing at Snuff Salooon for Snuff Puppets, live, projected onto a massive screen next to the stage.

Each Salooon Ferric responds to new performances, new music, and classic Snuff Puppets, with a mix of collaboration and improvisation. Across 3 hours they produce on-average 5 complete pieces.

Ferric uses artist soft pastel onto wooden boards that they prepare themselves: they are cut, shaped, sanded, mounted, and applied with layers of primer using rabbitskin glue, calcium, and iron oxide. Ferric is exploiting traditional Western ways of working, from recipes in books so old that it forbade a woman’s company, to reconnect with agency and hands-on processes. This becomes a multimedia presentation as it is filmed and projected live and as it engages with performers during their acts: presenting a much-gate-kept Western form of art in a non-traditional way.

You are warmly invited to get in touch with any questions. “For sale” links go to the corresponding individual listings on Paypal.

Pictures hanging at Snuff Puppets Headquarters, The Drill Hall, Footscray.

December 2025 Snuff Salooon

Carabiner Нет войне (No To War), is a reference to Russian band t.A.T.u. which played as an opening song. Carabiners aren’t necessarily associated with queer liberation in Russia. Here they are offered as a symbol of solidarity.

In 2003 t.A.T.u wore T-shirts that bore the slogan “Хуй войне!” (Dick to the [Iraq] war) on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. They were also asked not to kiss on camera and in response they kissed behind their hands. They were banned by the NBC (USA).
The slogan “Хуй войне!”, as well as “Нет войне” (“No to war”) has been used since 2022 at rallies to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

While t.A.T.u. was a problematic project in many ways, it became an internationally recognised symbol of the struggle for queer liberation. In 2023, the “international LGBT movement” was declared an “extremist organisation” by the Russian Supreme Court. Symbols like the rainbow flag are being hunted and destroyed, with those displaying them taken to court.

For sale with the entire amount going to local partner organisations of documentary Welcome To Chechnya.

Alternatively, donate directly here.
Snuff Puppets’ MC’s mouth, drawn during Carolyn Connors incredible mouth-defying performance.
For Sale.
Snuff Puppets’ MC’s loose eye as they assemble their head.
For Sale.
Pomme de Terre
For Sale.
Skullie wants one, too.
For Sale.
Snuff Puppets’ Big Slug.
For Sale.

November 2025 Snuff Salooon

A spooky evening of fine art and butchery.

Snuff Puppets‘ Skullie reclines against cow carcass nestled in the mince meat.
(sold)
Finished pastel drawing of an upright Snuff Puppets pig puppet is holding up an apple to the light.
Hamlet.
(sold)
Collaboration with Blood of a Pomegranate for their performance with Bacchus Harsh, described as “ancient melodies meeting experimental noise in immersive, ritual-driven sonic necromancy: ‘Chthonosonic Necromancy’”. They raised the dead and summoned an underworld dragon, the Armenian Andndayin Odz (Abyssal Serpent/Black Dragon of the Dark Waters). It came through an Armenian viper, restless. The dead are moving, their searching eyes gazing toward the roots of the Tree of Life. It lifts a pomegranate to their outstretched hands. The waters ripple out from the world.

Support Artsakhtsi refugees who were displaced by the 2023 genocide of Artsakh with Noise for Artsakh.

For sale with the full amount going to Noise for Artsakh.
Pastel drawing of Fat Fruit. Sarah Ward is white, fat and queer, with dark straight hair in two buns. She is wearing a sheer skirt over white and green briefs that highlight the curve of her tummy, and green ruffles around her neck and shoulders. She wears clown-like white makeup, with heavy eye liner and red circle cheeks. She is speaking into a microphone and gesturing toward the crowd with two pointed figures, from which multicoloured laser beams shoot. Behind Sarah is Bec. Bec is sitting at a drum kit, animatedly beating it, one stick in the air from which a laser beam emits. Bec is wearing multicoloured puffy sleeves and top. She is white, queer and has light curly short hair with shaved sides and heavy dark-rimmed glasses. Above Sarah and Bec is one of the heads they wore during their performance, but it is hanging from the top of the picture like a disco ball. It's is beige with a simplistic face drawn on.
Fat Fruit with laser fingers, doing an Apocalyptic disco.
(sold)

October 2025 Snuff Salooon

Bodies and bits.

Celebrated upcoming honouree, Snuff Puppets’ The Butcher, Resting His Legs. Probably while contemplating the name of his wife.
For sale.
Snuff Puppets’ Penis & Virgina dancing to Sandstorm by Darude.
For sale.
Lachlan Plain with Sanctum Studios. short film ‘cloudhead visits grandma’ – heads sprout like fungi after rain.
For sale.
Snuff Puppets – vignette from Everybody’s Born.
For sale.
Snuff Puppets heart from Everybody
(sold)

This set included a live response to Yumi Umiumare x Rama Parwata, and improvised set with drums, butoh, and freeform performance which included screaming at the sky.

September 2025 Snuff Salooon

Animal parade.

Snuff Puppets’ Seagulls Eat Skullie
For sale.
Snuff Puppets’ Koala from Swamp.
For sale.
Captain Ruin – punk rock sideshow clown stretches & pulls at the limitations of the human body
(sold)
Snuff Puppets’ Albrecht the Rhino
For sale.
Giant Fly. 300 x usual size. Flying above. Grab a can of fly spray.
(sold)

Not pictured:

image of Sanctum Studio – hallucinogenic fever dream of puppetry, bhutto, stop motion animation & spoken word

August 2025 Snuff Salooon

Our first Salooon! A very special night.

Maria Moles’ solo improvisation on drum kit
for sale
Snuff Puppets’ Bufo the Cane Toad
(sold)
Jet Stir‘s Rodney Rattus, connoisseur of chaos, business rat with a love for red wine.
(sold)

Not pictured:

sausage woman‘s Mother, the ideal woman: radiant, active, endlessly caring — or so it seems… (sold)