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Saint Cloche is delighted to present Mapping Perception this June, bringing together the practices of Thomas Thorby-Lister and Daniel O’Toole through a shared investigation into how information, sensation, and experience are translated across material and sensory forms.

Working from distinct starting points, scientific data and lived perceptual phenomena, both artists engage processes that destabilise fixed ways of seeing, foregrounding interpretation, transformation, and the active role of the viewer. Through material exploration, noise, and systems of translation, their works converge as parallel inquiries into how the world is perceived, processed, and reconstituted.

Extending beyond the visual, this dialogue unfolds through sound, where data and perception are rearticulated as temporal, immersive experience.


Mapping Perception will also feature a special live performance immersing audiences in a collaborative sonic work bringing together O’Toole’s perceptual distortions and Thorby-Lister’s atmospheric data translations as an expansive sensory encounter.

Daniel O’Toole is a Melbourne-based artist working across painting, photography, video, and sound. Informed by his lived experience of Visual Snow Syndrome, his practice explores perception, instability, and altered visual states through analogue and material processes.

Combining painterly abstraction with alchemical photographic experimentation, O’Toole creates immersive fields of colour, noise, and vibration that challenge fixed modes of seeing and invite viewers into fluctuating perceptual environments.


Thomas Thorby-Lister is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice investigates the intersections of data, technology, movement, and material translation. Drawing on weather systems, satellite imagery, and scientific mapping processes, his works reconfigure digital information into tactile, perceptual forms through screen printing, photography, and sound.

Through abstraction and process-driven experimentation, Thorby-Lister examines how information is interpreted, distorted, and experienced across sensory registers.

Daniel O’Toole is a Melbourne-based artist working across painting, photography, video, and sound. Informed by his lived experience of Visual Snow Syndrome, his practice explores perception, instability, and altered visual states through analogue and material processes.

Combining painterly abstraction with alchemical photographic experimentation, O’Toole creates immersive fields of colour, noise, and vibration that challenge fixed modes of seeing and invite viewers into fluctuating perceptual environments.


Thomas Thorby-Lister is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice investigates the intersections of data, technology, movement, and material translation. Drawing on weather systems, satellite imagery, and scientific mapping processes, his works reconfigure digital information into tactile, perceptual forms through screen printing, photography, and sound.

Through abstraction and process-driven experimentation, Thorby-Lister examines how information is interpreted, distorted, and experienced across sensory registers.

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