James Gulliver Hancock feels sick when he's not drawing. He panics
that he may not be able to draw everything in the world at least
once. His obsession with re-imaging his world has seen him work for
major print, TV and music publishing releases including: Coca-Cola,
Ford Motors, Herman Miller, Businessweek Magazine, The New York
Times and Simon&Schuster.
He has participated in projects in the USA the UK, Indonesia,
Austria, Germany, France and Australia, taking his whimsical
perception around the world. He grew up in Sydney, Australia, and
studied Visual Communications at the University of Technology,
Sydney. In kindergarten he remembers devising the most complex
image he could think of . refusing to move on to the next activity
after painting, instead detailing a complex drawing of a city of
houses including every detail, every person, and every spider web
between every house. He still has the drawing. In high school, he
discovered technical drawing. He has always been obsessed with
machines and the way things work and rendering the meeting of tiny
screws in perfect perspective was a delight. This is now married
with a love of colour, paint, and controlled mess as well as
connecting it to deeper conceptual and philosophical meaning. He
has traveled extensively including an overland journey from Sydney
to London via S.E. Asia, China, Japan, Russia and Europe. Rolling
in a typhoon in the sea between Japan and Russia he wondered how
hed save his sketchbook when the ship sank. He undertook artist
residencies all over Europe and most recently has been living in
New York where he has worked for a wide variety of high profile
clients and taken the city by storm with his personal project
www.allthebuildingsinnewyork.com. Currently he works out of two
studios: one in The Pencil Factory in Brooklyn, New York, and from
his homeland studio by the beach in Sydney, Australia.
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