Buildings In New York City, Illustration By James Gulliver Hancock

He grew up in Sydney, Australia, and in kindergarten remembers devising the most complex image he could think of… refusing to move on to the next activity after painting, instead detailing a complex drawing of a city of houses including every detail, every person, and every spider web between every house. He still has the drawing
In school he discovered technical drawing. He has always been obsessed with machines and the way things work and rendering the meeting of tiny screws in perfect perspective was a delight. His favourite tool was the mechanical pencil that could change between .25, .5 and .3 thickness lines. His ability to visualize 3d shapes and perspective in his head and draw them on paper drove him to continue to explore the medium. This is now married with a love of colour, paint, and controlled mess as well as connecting it to deeper conceptual and philosophical meaning.
He Studied Visual Communications at the University of Technology, Sydney. Graduating with the University Medal and Honours. In 2000 he stared a gallery in Sydney, Australia called SPACE3, with three friends, which welcomed artists in the local community to exhibit in an ornate bank vault. There they nurtured everything from graduating painters to the development of a music festival. The publishing of a 200 page hardcover book marked the end of 5 years of curating new art in Sydney.