Jodam was born in 1956 in Busamang Village, outside of Lae.  He was adopted by an Australian family in 1971 and went to Melbourne to boarding school where he also completed his art studies at the Royal Melbourne Insitute of Technology. 

His career as an artist, fine art professor and house-husband has enabled him to live and work in different places around the world broadening his experience from PNG and Australia to the UK, Zambia, Nepal and the USA.  He currently resides in the Philippines working from his painting studio in Pasig City and sculpting on Romblon Island in the Visayas.  He is married with two daughters.