Career
Growing up in Canberra, Cornish worked blue-collar jobs before picking up stencil art as a hobby in the early-2000s. All of his work is done by hand through cutting out sheets of recycled acetate with a scalpel. Some of Cornish"s stencils contain over 80 layers.
Cornish currently lives and works in Sydney.
His work is held in public and private collections around the world, most notably his portrait of former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, which was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in 2013. 2014: Louder than words, Stolen Space, London 2014: Clusterfuck, Metro Gallery, Melbourne 2014: Sex & Death, w/ Will Coles, Art Equity, Sydney 2013: Before Afghanistan, Art Equity, Sydney 2012: Not with lieutenant., Metro Gallery, Melbourne 2011: Look what you made me do.., Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne 2011: This is why we can"t have nice things.., Oh really Gallery, Newtown, Sydney 2010: How you like me now Bitch?, Front Gallery, Canberra 2014: Bond University Collection, QLD.
