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J E MacMillan is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, and craft. Their creative work is shaped by the experience of living between realities, the everyday world and shifting imaginative overlays that have accompanied them for as long as they can remember.
As an AuDHD artist, MacMillan’s perspective has been shaped by a longstanding awareness of difference. Rather than fully aligning with prevailing expectations, they developed an independent way of observing, interpreting, and engaging with the world. Drawn to the unknown, the uncanny, and the symbolic, this orientation naturally found expression in their work.
In painting and sculpture, subjects are represented through altered features and symbolic forms, allowing space for exploration of perception, interpretation, and unseen inner worlds. These disciplines function as the expressive and investigative core of the practice, where ideas are examined and themes are developed. Alongside this, MacMillan’s craft work, including leatherwork, serves a complementary role. It provides a structured, methodical process grounded in tactile focus, repetition, and precision, offering balance through the physical act of making.
Across all disciplines, the work reflects a tension between what is visible and what is imagined, giving form to unseen layers of perception and the space between seeing and knowing.