Brad Rumble

My work begins in the geometric forms that arrived during meditation and altered states, when the architecture of consciousness became briefly, startlingly visible. The Core Device series is my attempt to build that visibility into something permanent. A nine-stage map of how awareness constructs itself from birth to adulthood, from the pre-self fog of early experience through to recursive self-observation, rendered in digital sculpture, large-scale print, and animation. 

I arrived here through survival. Years of reading philosophy and psychology, namely Jung, Robinson and Watts, alongside direct, embodied investigation of consciousness through meditation and psychedelic experience, gave me a framework that formal study later gave language to.

I graduated with a First Class BA in Fine Art from Norwich University of the Arts, but the research began long before that, in the places most people don't talk about publicly.

Before The Core Devices, I built the Grum Reapur, a character, a community, and an unofficial crisis network that eventually reached thousands of people worldwide and helped strangers find each other across continents. That work taught me that art can function as a research instrument and a lifeline simultaneously....

BA Fine Art, First Class Honours — Norwich University of the Arts (2024)
Creative Computing Level 5 Diploma — Norwich University of the Arts (2023)
Arts Management — UAL Short Courses (2025)

Creative Tech Festival — Basildon, UK (2025)
Peace/Conflict — Nails In The Wall Gallery, New Jersey, USA (2024)
Gradfest — Norwich University of the Arts (2024)
The Cut Open Studios — Halesworth, UK (2024)
White Barn Open Studios — Collusion Cambridge (2023)