The Artist

Raym is best known in Australia as an artist for his work as the founder of the Melbourne based Performance Art group “Primary Source”, which created large scale public performances (The Ship, City Blocks, Sisyphus, The Sphere and Big Words) which opened the Melbourne, Sydney and Perth International Festivals in the early 90’s.

In Australia his work also came to public attention in the mid 80’s after his arrest during a performance, which the then Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Patrick McGaughey described as “…new ritual…” The charge of obscenity (for appearing naked) was dropped after testimony from Patrick, the Lord Mayor of Melbourne and other notables present at the performance.

Raym also presented a series of performances with DDart in the National Gallery of Victoria as a special guest artist, whilst artist in residence at Philip Institute of Technology in 1982.

Prior to that he had been creating pieces of public performance art in Britain and Europe since 1971. One of these pieces the “Circular Walk” in 1976, triggered untinentional controversy in the popular press. It was discussed in Parliament, leading to the effective banning of Ddart from ever receiving any kind of government arts funding in the UK or presenting in gvernment funded spaces. The group carried on regardless.

By the early nineties Raym’s work as a performance artist led him into creating ceremony for its own sake, without the presence of any spectators or audience. This in turn led to an in depth exploration of shamanism and sacred ceremony, ceremony that our modern Western culture has lost touch with. 

His awakening as a shaman and facilitator of drug-free expanded states of consciousness for others changed his life profoundly.

Over the past thirty three years Raym has created many sacred ceremonies for small and large groups on Sacred Site both alone and with other indigenous and non indigenous shamans. He has published three books on shamanism and has personally facilitated over 8,000 individual shamanic journeys for clients.

His Crystal Dreaming® process is taught worldwide, has over 880 practitioners and has positively affected many thousands of people. 

Raym is a twenty-first century shaman, a teacher of teachers, spiritual healer, author, columnist, Master of Ceremonies, Spiritual Tour leader and Performance Artist. He lives in the hinterland of Byron Bay, Northern NSW, Australia.