NUROC has a long and esteemed history in Melbourne's graffiti culture; starting at the age of eleven and progressing to spray paint & piecing at the age of sixteen.

Fred rarely writes the same way twice. He has used this restlessness as a very specific prism through which to express his ongoing visual investigation of the Word, as well as knowledge systems and symbolism of the ancients and moderns - those both common and great.

Exposure to art from Oceania and Papua new Guinea at an early age has led Fred to examine patterns, language, imagery and meaning as it appears in traditional societies, and apply this learning to his contribution and deciphering of the native urban culture he inhabits.