A Pride of Dudes Photograph

Mark Hillsdon is a multi-discipline visual artist, designer, writer, and creative director who divides his time between Brisbane, Australia and Cape Town, South Africa. For many years he ran a respected commercial design studio with deep experience in graphic design, typography, photography and art direction. As an artist he has been headlined in over ten significant exhibitions across Australia over a period of 20 years. As a designer and writer his commercial clients have included banks, major corporations and government. During the nineties he freelanced extensively, working for many of Australia’s iconic advertising agencies. A visual artist with an MBA, his focus and passion now extends to painting, photography and digital art. His work featured here explores the intersection between the material and the virtual, enquiring into mystery and delusion, transmutation and surrealism.