James Bonnici

About

James Bonnici is a Melbourne-based contemporary artist specializing in oil painting and charcoal drawing, working in the tradition of figurative realism while exploring themes of distortion, manipulation of reality, and a sense of rupture in existence. Influenced from a young age by his father's hobby painting, he pursued formal training, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Art majoring in Painting from RMIT University in Bundoora/Melbourne between 1996 and 1999. His work draws from evocative, ambiguous images that challenge physical representations, invoking strangeness and the ambiguous nature of being.

Contemporary surrealism with figurative realism, focusing on distortion and manipulation of reality