frank
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ABOUT FRANK:

I began creating with pencil, oil, and pastels under Trevor Opray in the late 2000’s when I was a teen, but was held back for the next 15 years by mental health struggles. Creativity was my refuge from the world, and I spent all my time hiding in my bungalow, teaching myself fibre art, digital painting, carving, and more, unable to tie myself down to one medium.

In 2018 things started to change for me as I took the first small steps in the long process of rebuilding myself.

I started learning ceramics with Helen Cornell in 2024 with the help of disability supports, and am now spending more time engaging with other humans and sharing my art.

My style has changed throughout the years, but usually incorporates gothic, visionary, and psychedelic elements. I hope to convey and celebrate the interconnected universe we live in, but am in no way opposed to making an object for nothing but the sake of looking cool. I’m particularly fond of contradictions, merging horror with cuteness, or vibrant rainbows with bleak voids. It just tickles my brain in some inexplicable way. I hope it might tickle your brain in turn.

I wander behind, walking at my own pace, making my own path to heal from the trauma of being neurodivergent in a neurotypical world. Art is my way of communicating the cosmic insignificance of the vapid competition we’ve trapped ourselves within, to prompt the viewer to look deeper, and see the unfolding miracle of our existence.

Medium: digital art, ceramics, fibre art
Tags: gothic, visionary, psychedelic