Film

A career that began in the high-gloss, pre-digital heyday of advertising, when an idea had to be distilled into a single arresting image. Then he picked up a camera.

As a self-taught filmmaker he earned early recognition for directing Boy From the Blue Room, a hard-boiled but hauntingly beautiful documentary shot among the homeless and the sex workers of Sydney’s Darlinghurst. It won Best Documentary at the AMA Awards.

Formal film study followed, and then several formative years as Baz Luhrmann’s apprentice and assistant – an education in heightened, image-driven storytelling. A decade of directing and producing music videos, commercials and animation came next. 

His hand-drawn short A Little Death, which he wrote and co-directed, premiered at the Annecy Film Festival and is currently screening at festivals.

His first feature is in development, and an animated feature is in pre-production.

Fine Art

The paintings are swimming pools at midday, a little brother scoffing a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, dreamy petrol stations, lonely figures on rooftops: the everyday tipped into the atmospheric.

In oils and acrylics, he threads personal history with imagined narrative, making images that behave less like paintings than like scenes – theatrical, luminous, each holding a story in and out of frame. In sculpture, the same instinct reworks the natural world into invented forms: coral reefs abstracted into walkable underwater gardens, cacti into species no field guide would recognise.

Solo exhibitions: Beau Regard (Marie Jose Gallery, London, 2026), and Rêve Fauve (AP Gallery Space, New York, 2027). Reef Reverie was shown at Sculpture by the Sea and The Birds is installed at Perth Sculpture Park. The Afternoon He Stayed was shortlisted for the WellHung Gallery Painting Prize, and Mother for the Arts to Hearts International Artist Award. His work is held in private collections across the United States, the UK, Asia and Australia.

Theatre

On stage, those worlds have travelled furthest of all, reaching audiences around the globe through his production company Rockefeller Studios.

Known for award-winning puppetry and painterly, handcrafted worlds, his productions include The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, now in its thirteenth year and the most-performed children’s stage show in the world, alongside Disney’s Winnie the Pooh, Paddington and Sesame Street The Musical – all written and directed by Rockefeller.

Staged in more than 150 productions across 26 countries and seen by over five million people, the shows have grossed more than $350 million worldwide, earning two New York Times Critics’ Picks, winning multiple BroadwayWorld Awards including Best Direction, Best New Musical or Play, Best Production and two Drama Desk nominations.