is a Cuban-born, Brisbane-based multidisciplinary artist working across oil painting, papermaking and printmaking. His practice centres on male intimacy — how it is experienced, how it is suppressed, and how it survives in the space between the two.

Jorge works from photographic archives — institutional collections, vernacular sources, and personal photographs — where historical images of men bathing, resting, and touching together sit catalogued as military or social history but never acknowledged for the intimacy they contain. His large-scale oil paintings reactivate what these archives leave unnamed, using abstraction, layered colour, and thick impasto to build bodies that insist on physical presence.

In his papermaking practice, Stratopulp, men's discarded clothing is destroyed, reduced to fibre pulp, and reconstituted as paper in which images of male intimacy are formed — the depiction and the substrate made in a single process. The material carries the trace of the bodies it once held.

Born in Cuba, Jorge lived in Bolivia and Chile before emigrating to Australia in 2018. His background in psychiatry informs his attention to what remains unspoken in human relationships. He is currently developing a practice-led PhD research project at the Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University, investigating how studio practice can function as a form of archival enactment — making visible the intimacy that institutional archives have refused to name.