Visual Artist

I am a multidisciplinary artist and visual storyteller exploring human connection, fragility and exaltation.

Working across drawing, painting, digital and collage, I use colour, material and process to communicate stories.

My practice is shaped by dichotomies: fragility and strength, grief and delight, decline and vitality.

Through experimentation, labour and repetition, I create works that invite curiosity, allowing deeper and often taboo themes to emerge through closer looking.

Contact me to enquire about purchasing an artwork or for hi-resolution photos: hello [at] maxharman.au

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Professional Practice

Visual Artist
Multidisciplinary artist and visual storyteller exploring human connection through fragility and exaltation. Across drawing, painting, 3D works and collage, colour, material and process is used to tell stories. Max’s practice moves between grief and delight, decline and vitality - inviting curiosity into taboos.

Graphic Recorder
Creating real-time illustrations to capture conversations and speeches at seminars, workshops, panel discussions and forums.

Strategic Visualisation
Helping clients simplify complex information through hand-illustrated, visual representation.

CURRENT

International Touring Musician
An energetic DIY rock musician performing across more than twenty countries over a period of 10 years. Highlights include entertaining Australian Defence Force Members posted overseas, and featuring in festivals in China, Ukraine, Taiwan and Poland.

I.T. Project Manager
Active listening and the ability to simplify complex concepts was the key to project delivery success across Government and Corporate sectors.

SOLO EXHIBITION

2026 Debut Solo Exhibition ‘Coping’, Little Window Gallery, Collingwood

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 Biennale of Colour & Light - West End Art Space, West Melbourne

2026 Unbound 2026 - Gallery Unbound, Northcote

2026 smART 2026 - Track Gallery, Mt Waverley

2026 Expanded Practice Exhibition - The Art Room, Footscray

2024 Decade Alumni Exhibition - NCAT Exhibition Space, Melbourne

2024 Seeing is Believing - Quadrant Gallery, Hawthorn

2024 Incognito Art Show

2024 You Look Good on Paper - Red Gallery, North Fitzroy

2024 Gilbees - Abbotsford

2024 Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show - Royal Exhibition Building

2024 LEAP Graduate Exhibition - NCAT Exhibition Space, Preston

2023 60BySixtyFor60 - Red Gallery, North Fitzroy

2023 Member Exhibition - The Art Room, Footscray

2023 CREATE Student Exhibition - NCAT Exhibition Space, Melbourne

2016 Art After Dark Exhibition - Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra

2015 Art After Dark Exhibition - Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra

COLLECTIONS

Private collections Australia, UK, USA

EDUCATION

2023 Diploma of Visual Arts, Northern College of the Arts & Technology, Melbourne

ASSOCIATIONS

Current Professional Member of Graphic Recorders Association of Australia/NZ

Current Member of National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)

Current Melbourne and Victorian Artists (MAVA) - Current

SKILLS / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2026 VizConf - Conference for Visual Practitioners

2025 Expanded Practice - The Art Room

2024 Extended Drawing - Latrobe College of Art & Design

2023 VizConf - Conference for Visual Practitioners

2023 Australian Print Workshop: Linocut print making

2022 Baldessin Studio: Mokulito print making

2019 VizConf - Conference for Visual Practitioners

Recent Work