Basil Eliades is a teacher and student. He is also a rare polymath. He operates in many fields simultaneously, pushing boundaries and achieving excellence and recognition in education, philosophy, public art, his own painting practice, and writing, in particular poetry. Basil created The Men’s Deck to help people expand into their potential. He says, “Any tool for self-reflection and awareness is only as good as your willingness to be open and flexible about who you are, and who you can be. The Men’s Deck offers a new way to see yourself, and the context of your life.”

Basil’s fiction and poetry are extraordinarily complex texts that reveal their beauty slowly. He is reverent of the form of words and their plasticity, and the energies they carry. He is also a dynamic performer, extracting everything from himself, the text, and the audience. To see him in action is to redefine one’s understanding of the meaning of a word, and the parameters of poetry. His oil paintings are expressive, fluid, and exciting. They tend towards the large (up to seven meters [23 feet] in length), and can be found in private collections around the world. For a taste you can visit his website www.basileliades.com. He has lived, exhibited and performed extensively from Melbourne to London, and from Sydney to Stockholm, with stops in New York and Mongolia along the way.

See www.basileliades.com for more information.