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I’m J E MacMillan, a multidisciplinary artist working across painting and sculpture. My work is shaped by the experience of living between realities: the world I move through each day, and the shifting imaginative overlays that have accompanied me for as long as I can remember.
As an AuDHD artist, I have always carried a sense of otherness that has made belonging difficult. At times I tried to align with expectations, but often I could not, and that difference became a defining part of who I am. Rather than repel it, I learned to embrace it. Drawn to the unknown, the uncanny, and the symbolic, I found kinship in the “other” and began to reflect it through my art. In my paintings, I represent subjects through altered features and symbolic forms, gestures toward perception and possibility that lie beneath the surface. In sculpture, I extend this into the tangible, shaping fragments of imagination into objects that can be seen and held.
Across both disciplines, my work reflects the tension between what is present and what is imagined, giving form to the unseen layers of perception.