THE ARTIST

I am a self-taught autistic artist working in combinations of paint and analogue photography.

I possess a unique neurocognitive profile that forms the foundation of my aesthetic sensibility and visual language. Temporal processing deficits result in visual and auditory experiences that are more like hyperdetailed instants than orderly chronological sequences.

I have visual snow syndrome, a rare disorder caused by hyperconnectivity of neural networks that is characterised by internally generated visual static. For me, this snow is accompanied by flickering images, palinopsia (afterimages and comet tails on moving objects), and spontaneously generated lines and colour fields.

I live on Bundjalung Country in Northern New South Wales with my wife, fellow neurodivergent artist Maneesha Bahuguna, and our small dog.

THE WORK

My creative practice is a combination of abstract conceptualisation, technical development, and improvisation.

My philosophy of art is deeply rooted in first-generation abstract expressionism of the New York School and its surrealist antecedents. The creative endeavour is equal parts self-examination and individuation.

I employ a range of techniques and compositional structures to facilitate continual shifts in awareness when viewing my pictures. One's attention is continually drawn through the depth of the image and redirected between global and local information processing. This is similar to the experience of immersion in polyphonic music or soundscapes. The pictures owe as much to Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane as to Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock.

The pictures are subject to various sources of signal degradation that echo the effects of visual snow syndrome and the resulting perceptual uncertainty.

Further exploration of individual series can be found on their respective gallery pages.