A brief introduction to my practice and what drives it.
I came to fine art through graphic design and before that through the visual language of subcultures. Skate decks, record covers, gig posters, zines. Things that existed largely outside the institutional art world.
My work is rooted in a single preoccupation. The pervasive nature of advertising, mass media and the quiet control it has over how we think, what we want and who we believe we should be. Every surface, every screen, every public space is spoken for. My practice is in direct response to that.
I work from a physical archive of found printed material. Old advertising, horror imagery, subcultural ephemera. Things designed to be consumed and discarded that I treat as my source material. The process is collage based, scaled up and hand painted. People assume it’s screen printed. Its not.
I’ve shown work across Australia and internationally, including a museum exhibition, multiple solo shows in Melbourne and a book launch at the Institute of Modern Art. I still work a full time job. I still make work at midnight in a garage studio in Brisbane.
The goal has always been the same. Make work that makes people feel something and hopefully make them look at the world around them a little differently.
If that sounds like something worth following, welcome.
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Shoutouts to @lorembm for the video too
Debris by James Bourbon
Installation View
Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina
Currently on show until 21 June
Debris presents a new series of large scale black and white hand painted banners installed as a disruptive presence within the gallery. Using scale and visual force to command attention, the works echo how advertising occupies space and shapes perception in everyday life.
Each banner is composed from fragments of discarded and outdated print material including posters, comics, newspaper clippings and ephemera. Through collage and painting, these materials collapse past and present, turning tools of persuasion into critique. The exhibition reflects on the saturation of commercial imagery and invites viewers to consider how consumer culture influences memory, identity and daily experience.
Between Sun and Shadow
Hand Painted Acrylic on 1.5m x 6m Canvas Hangings
Installation View
State of the Art: Reimagining Queensland
Rockhampton Museum of Art, Queensland Australia
July - October 2025
Memory, Myth & Magic
Installation view
@solgalleryspace Melbourne Australia.
November 2025
The exhibition transformed discarded media into haunting collage-based paintings and works on paper. Through layered reconstruction, I explored memory’s distortions and the myths mass culture embeds in our collective psyche.
These works come from an age where truth is malleable, nostalgia is manufactured and misinformation is weaponised. We are bombarded by images that infect memory, distort belief and program the collective unconscious one fragment at a time.
Many Types of Horror
Book Launch • August 2024
@ima_galleryshop@instituteofmodernart
This featured some large original paintings, projection works, tufted rugs, woven throws, one-off clothing pieces and a lot more.
Possession and Exorcism
132cm (w) x 146cm (h)
Synthetic Polymer on Stretched Canvas
Memory, Myth & Magic
Installation View
November 2025
SOL Gallery Melbourne
My largest exhibition to date, Physical Reality, featured over 50 pieces across a variety of mediums. Tufted rugs, woven hangings, paintings on stretched canvas, 15 minute looping video work over 3 CRT screens, flocked typographic hanging fabric banners, painted silk club banners, fabric patch zine and lots more.
Physical Reality
@backwoods.gallery
March - April 2023
Painting is often the largest focus of my practice but I spend a significant portion of my time either researching or making the plans for future paintings through the process of collage.
Often I find the graphics for my collages from my own personal archives including vintage books, magazines, posters and other printed matter.
Outside of my of vintage archives, I always love using reference books and some of my favourite publishers include @bibliomancers@masala.noir and @ritual.press for publishing my horror type book
As a child, the aisles of the local video store felt endless. Full of possibility and discovery.
Physical Reality draws from that feeling. Borrowing from the horror section, these works replicate twisted faces and otherworldly phrases in advertising capslock and haunting typography.
Installation view
Physical Reality
Backwoods Gallery, Melbourne
March - April 2023
This was my first time showcasing sketches on paper in an exhibition.
Up until this point everything had really lived at much larger scales, so this felt like something completely new for me. Whilst the pieces were smaller, the whole wall felt like an installation. The wall was completed covered with collaged prints. In a way, the smaller pieces kind of felt like one piece with the collage background wall in the gallery.
12 drawings, each built from collected imagery and reworked by hand.
Graphite on paper
A3 works, float mounted
16 × 20” Danish ash frames
Installation View
Memory, Myth & Magic
SOL Gallery Melbourne
November 2026
