Diablo Mode has been a practitioner of plant fiber sculpture since his graduating exhibition at the National Art School in 1996. Since that time he has continued to work and exhibit in this medium, in both group and solo shows.
In 2000, he was commissioned by Australian fashion designer Coogi to design and make organic jewelry for the launch of it’s Spring Range during New York fashion week. In 2004, he was the only male in the first major overview of Basketry in Australia. The Woven Forms exhibition toured nationally.
More recently, his work was exhibited at the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery as part of the Tradition and Beyond Exhibition and at The Vanishing Point Gallery in a show highlighting contemporary baskets and basketry.
Being self taught, he is free form tradition and cultural constraint; which gives him a high degree of creative freedom. Drawn to the etchings of Ernst Haekel and Albertus Seba, who both focused on art forms in the natural world, he draws inspiration from the mathematics of nature.