When Shaunak Mukerji was a boy, his parents enrolled him in school holiday workshops at the Wollongong Art Gallery with his sister.
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Mukerji quickly found his life's passion.
Not only did he attend as many workshops as he could, the Cordeaux Heights resident has since become an established artist and hosted several exhibitions.
His father Saugato said his son was somewhere on the "spectrum".
"His development is not uniform," he said.
"All of us have got different faculties. So some of his faculties which relate to art and colour, some of them are very advanced.
"There are so many intelligences, so the more conventional intelligences which relate to maybe maths, comprehension or abstract thinking, they might not be that uniformly developed.
"So it's a skewed development, which leads him to have a different perspective on many things."
His father said Mukerji's works expressed how he sees the world in this unique way, and each exhibition showcased his artistic development.
"People who see his pictures, it's like looking at it through a different filter.
"We look at things in a certain way, but when he looks at it and draws it, it looks a bit different."
In 2017, Being Shaunak was a collaboration with other Illawarra artists to showcase the energy and colour of Mukerji's digital works through collage.
The 30-year-old will host his latest exhibition, Frames, at Port Kembla's Red Point Gallery. It's been curated by Deirdre Arthur Armstrong and Bettina Kaiser.
The works featured are a blend of digital art and hand-drawn art.
The digital works created in Windows Paint by Mukerji have been adorned with a frame.
The works themselves have been embellished by a hand-drawn frame, creating almost a window-like illusion.
Mukerji has added appropriation and alteration to further enlarge his already wide variety of pet topics and themes.
"What we have found is artists draw certain favourite topics, and he has some favourite topics," his father said. "Every couple of years, he adds one or two new topics to what he used to draw."
The exhibition was officially opened on Monday, and will run for two weeks.
Visit http://redpointart.org.au/ for more details.
Brendan Crabb
I'm a member of ACM's national property team, covering the Illawarra and South Coast. Based in Albion Park, NSW, I write about exciting, interesting or just downright quirky properties that have been listed for sale, major sales, market trends, auctions and more. One of my favourite aspects of being a journalist is I believe everyone has a story to tell. What's yours?
I'm a member of ACM's national property team, covering the Illawarra and South Coast. Based in Albion Park, NSW, I write about exciting, interesting or just downright quirky properties that have been listed for sale, major sales, market trends, auctions and more. One of my favourite aspects of being a journalist is I believe everyone has a story to tell. What's yours?
