William BIL Anderson JR

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William Anderson Jr. aka William “BIL” Anderson JR. is a neuro-diverse Australasian Psychedelic Quantum Super flat pop artist, synthesizer and music designer from New South Wales, Australia. BIL is an accidental savant or unlikely artist, referring the Black Swan Theory by Nassim Nicholas Teleb beyond the realm of normal expectations or highly improbable. He was inspired and compelled to create work after seeing the Japanese cartoon anime works of Takashi Murakami and his super flat art movement.

While recovering from an acquired or traumatic brain injury, BIL began to see abstract visions of mathematical objects and geometry transposed onto Japanese anime bipedal humanoid characters inspired by works created by Francis Bacon, Brett Whiteley and Damien Hirst. At his first exhibit at the Japan Foundation he called them Yetis, but after finding out that he has both convict Scottish Australian and indigenous ancestry he later referred to them as Yowies or Yowie Quinkin, after Australian indigenous Quinkin mythology.

Unaware for many years of his accidental savantism, he was later diagnosed with Asperger’s and is on the autism spectrum. Informed of his Acquired Savant Syndrome, BIL developed his own outsider theory calling it the Quantum Superflat Art Movement where BIL creates art in the Quantum state of ambiguity. He has had numerous exhibitions at Barangaroo, the Japan Foundation, The Art Gallery of New South Wales and Gosford Regional Gallery.

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