Works
Large-format oil on canvas. Each work applies the formal structure of Observerism: hyper-realistic focal zone, OAM spiral periphery, defined transition boundary.
The Observer of National Science
Dr Alan Finkel AC · Chief Scientist of Australia
Oil on canvas · 180 × 120 cm · 2025
Dr Alan Finkel AC served as Australia's Chief Scientist from 2016 to 2020, advising the nation on science, technology, and innovation at the highest level of government. A neuroscientist and electrical engineer by training, he shaped national policy on hydrogen energy, research infrastructure, and STEM education.
The founding work of the Scientist Series. The portrait shows Dr Finkel standing within the landscape of Australian science and energy infrastructure. The focal zone centres on his face and hands with hyper-realistic precision; the periphery dissolves into Observerism spiral geometry, rendered through the atmospheric and geological structures of the landscape behind him. Science policy as the national apparatus of measurement — the institutional machinery through which a country decides what to observe and what to fund.
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Finkel Study
Dr Alan Finkel AC
Oil on canvas · c. 80 × 60 cm · 2025
An intimate study of Dr Finkel with a darker palette and more aggressive OAM ring treatment. The concentric interference structures dominate the space around the subject, foregrounding the wave-state periphery. Where the large-format portrait places Finkel within the landscape of national science, the study strips that context away — leaving only the observer and the spiralling structures of light that surround him.
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The Observer of Fundamental Matter
Professor Elisabetta Barberio · SABRE Dark Matter Experiment, University of Melbourne
Oil on canvas · 180 × 120 cm · 2026
Professor Elisabetta Barberio is a particle physicist at the University of Melbourne and the lead scientist of the SABRE experiment — a dark matter detection project using ultra-pure sodium iodide crystals to search for weakly interacting massive particles. The experiment is housed at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory, one kilometre beneath rural Victoria, in the first underground physics laboratory in the Southern Hemisphere.
The portrait shows Professor Barberio inside the experimental testing zone for the SABRE experiment. In her hands is one of the ultra-pure sodium iodide crystals. Behind her, the machine she designed to detect dark matter sits in the silence of the deep underground. The crystal in her hands is collapsed reality; the detector behind dissolves into Observerism spiral geometry — the invisible matter that only her team can find, structured to evade direct observation.
SABRE Experiment · Centre for Dark Matter · UniMelb Physics
Entered, Archibald Prize 2026
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The Observer of Cosmic Expansion
Professor Brian Schmidt AC · Nobel Laureate in Physics, Australian National University
Oil on canvas · 180 × 120 cm · 2026
Professor Brian Schmidt AC is a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University and a Nobel Laureate in Physics. In 1998, his team discovered that the expansion of the universe is accelerating — a finding that revealed the existence of dark energy, the mysterious force that constitutes roughly seventy percent of all energy in the cosmos. He served as Vice-Chancellor of ANU from 2016 to 2024 and continues his research at the Mount Stromlo Observatory.
The portrait shows Professor Schmidt standing inside the observatory at Mount Stromlo — the place from which he helped make the observation that changed cosmology. The observatory burned in the devastating 2003 Canberra bushfires, yet Schmidt remains, working at Stromlo to unlock the secrets of dark energy and the fate of the universe. The dome becomes the transition boundary between collapsed reality and wave state; the OAM periphery renders the dark energy that fills the space between galaxies — present everywhere, visible nowhere.
Entered, Lester Prize 2026
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Lizard Rock
Landscape Series
Oil on canvas · 150 × 120 cm · 2025
A resting place in the Australian bush. The landscape collapses into the focal zone while the surrounding terrain dissolves into OAM orbital geometry, the wave state of the natural world rendered through geological and atmospheric structure.
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Red River Above the Blue
Landscape Series
Oil on canvas · 150 × 120 cm · 2025
A campfire at the Blue Mountains looking out over the night sky and Milky Way. The fire serves as the collapsed focal point while the cosmos above dissolves into spiralling OAM structures, the wave state of the universe visible from the Australian landscape.
Entered, Wynne Prize 2026
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