He was born in Buffalo, New York, attended his first art classes at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, studied at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia USA and at the National Gallery School (Melbourne, Australia).

• Was a member of the South Park Gang,
• is a former Dean of the Victorian College of the Arts,
• worked in a sideshow of a travelling circus,
• has been a visiting artist/guest lecturer at Yale University, the New York Studio School and others,
• has been a steelworker and holder of a New York taxi driver's license,
• is a Fulbright Fellow,
• for a while called a park bench in New York his home,
• was made an Honorary Life Member of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,
• had an early education in making Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs,
• is the recipient of an Australian Violence Prevention Award from the Prime Minister,
• has spent a few nights in jail,
• has published a book on nonviolence,
• and has been called "an outrider of our personal conscience."

Collections: His work is in the United Nations Collection (Geneva, Switzerland), Museum of Modern Art (Melbourne, Australia), International Institute of Education (New York City), Durban Art Gallery (South Africa), Australian National Gallery (Canberra) and over 50 public, corporate, university and museum collections worldwide.

He maintains a studio in Melbourne, Australia and in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.