Once an architect building spaces, now a writer crafting worlds. His path has always been about creation, shaping clay as a potter, capturing fleeting moments as a photographer, burning things in a restaurant kitchen, and even directing the ambience of a hotel. Now, he channels all of that into storytelling, approaching it with a designer’s precision, an artist’s eye, and just enough humour to keep things from feeling too serious.
In his latest work, he explores the notion of hiraeth, a deep, nostalgic longing for something intangible, something that perhaps never was.
This theme resonates in his narratives, as he creates stories of spaces to wander, of places filled with memory, mystery, and that bittersweet ache of things just out of reach. The stories he writes is an invitation to explore a place familiar yet unknown, one page at a time.
Registered – Board of Architects NSW
Member of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects
Member Society of Authors
Member Writing NSW
Member Design Institute of Australia
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