James O'Hanlon

James O'Hanlon is an artist and storyteller based in Armidale. He works at intersection of art and science and creates work that celebrates themes of nature, exploration, and discovery. James’ large scale public art pieces can be seen throughout Armidale and regional NSW and his original works have been featured in several solo and group exhibitions.

His debut novel ‘Silk and Venom: The incredible lives of spiders’ was released in October 2023, and he is currently illustrating a number of non-fiction childrens’ books. James was the 2021 recipient of the Varuna-New England Writers Centre Fellowship and the 2022 recipient of the Helen Dangar Memorial Bursary.

James is available for mural commissions, illustrations, and workshops/presentations.

I laugh at my own jokes.

Sometimes I tell them to other people, more often I make them into art.

Having spent years working as a scientist, quantifying the world through an objective lens, I relish in exploring the fantastical through a subjective (mostly silly) lens.

I create illustrations, written stories, large-scale murals, and the odd sculpture here and there.