I live and work in the hills of northern New South Wales Australia.
My primary focus is sculpture. Once a week I attend a life drawing session, and I can't help but point my camera at the changing light and seasons of the country where I live.
I hope you enjoy what you see.
David
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Awards
2008 Winner of the 57th Blake Prize with A Local Girl Comes Home 2007
short listed
2015 Maning Regional Gallery, Naked and Nude Art Prize, with Standing Woman 2015
2023 Manning Regional Gallery, Naked and Nude Art Prize, with Demeter 2021
2023 Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Still Art Prize, with Rae’s Bottles Remix 2023
solo exhibitions
2020 Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery: sites of transformation : ceramic objects
2015 New England Regional Art Museum : timber and ceramic sculpture and drawings
2014 Grafton Regional Gallery : timber and ceramic sculpture and photography
2014 First Avenue Gallery : timber and ceramic sculpture and photography
2011 Glen Innes Gallery : timber and ceramic sculpture, photography
2008 John Gordon Gallery : ceramic figure sculpture
2007 New England Regional Art Gallery : ceramic figure sculpture
2006 John Gordon Gallery : ceramic figure sculpture
2005 John Gordon Gallery : ceramic figure sculpture
1999 Newling Gallery, Armidale : wood and mixed media sculpture
1994 New England Regional Art Museum : wood sculpture, drawings
group exhibitions
2014 First avenue Gallery Sawtell
2007,2007, 2009 Brenda May Gallery
2009 Manly Gallery : White Heat
2009 St. Ives Uniting Church : Stations of the Cross
2007 John Gordon Gallery
2005 New England Regional Art Museum : New England Objectives
2001 Object Galleries : Tactile Art
Published in
2020 The Journal of Australian Ceramics: Sites of Transformation
2012 Art Monthly ‘seeing the spiritual in Australian Art’ article by Rod Pattenden
2011 ‘The Blake Book, Art, Religion and Spirituality in Australia’ Rosemary Crumlin, Macmillan Art Publishing
2000 Object Magazine ‘Tactile Art’ article
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