World recognised artist for bas-relief-like sculptured paper art using sheet-formed, mostly handmade papers. Studio will be open for visits by appointment as of early 2025.
Private and corporate commissions have been Ray’s profession for 35-years since innovating his entirely self-taught techniques for sculpting dimensionally using only sheet-formed papers to create bas-relief-like artworks.
Born to artist parents, his achievements have led to world recognition with over 35 local and international awards and prizes, to mention some. Works hang in collections in London, Munich, Monaco, Denmark, Manhattan, Tokyo, New Zealand and throughout Australia.
Ray's palette of papers are mostly handmade and mould-made cottons from a wide variety of mulberry, hemp and flax fibred stocks from Australia, Europe and Asia. The extreme beauty of the papers is best appreciated when viewing the originals where the delicate translucence of some of the papers can truly be seen, some of which are a mere 4gsm. The largest works astound viewers for their rigidity, while all made from paper. Sculptures range from miniature to free-standing pieces over 6 by 3.8 metres.
Ray's styles can be abstract to figurative and even ultra-realistic, though he calls his signature style “Impressionist Sculptured Paper” for its use of torn, raw pieces arranged to form the subject matter. While likeness is important, the focus is to capture emotion, life and expression over realism yet always revealing the character of the papers from which the subjects are sculptured. His life-long love of nature is his favourite subject matter. Most works will take between 3-6 weeks to complete, are extremely archival and guaranteed to last many generations.
Born to artist parents, his achievements have led to world recognition with over 35 local and international awards and prizes, to mention some. Works hang in collections in London, Munich, Monaco, Denmark, Manhattan, Tokyo, New Zealand and throughout Australia.
Ray's palette of papers are mostly handmade and mould-made cottons from a wide variety of mulberry, hemp and flax fibred stocks from Australia, Europe and Asia. The extreme beauty of the papers is best appreciated when viewing the originals where the delicate translucence of some of the papers can truly be seen, some of which are a mere 4gsm. The largest works astound viewers for their rigidity, while all made from paper. Sculptures range from miniature to free-standing pieces over 6 by 3.8 metres.
Ray's styles can be abstract to figurative and even ultra-realistic, though he calls his signature style “Impressionist Sculptured Paper” for its use of torn, raw pieces arranged to form the subject matter. While likeness is important, the focus is to capture emotion, life and expression over realism yet always revealing the character of the papers from which the subjects are sculptured. His life-long love of nature is his favourite subject matter. Most works will take between 3-6 weeks to complete, are extremely archival and guaranteed to last many generations.
