''David Warren (b.1945, Melbourne), painter, teacher and graphic artist (lithography and photogravure), received popular acclaim early in his career, and exhibited since the 1960s at such prestigious venues as Gallery A and Powell Street Graphics in Melbourne, and Holdsworth Galleries in Sydney. He taught painting and graphics in Victoria and Tasmania, and in the early 1980s worked and studied in the United States. He was the winner of the Perth International Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia (1970), and has been a finalist in the Warrnambool Print Prize, the Kedumba Drawing Award & the Dobell Prize for Drawing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
The artist currently lives and works in Melbourne and exhibits regularly in Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane. His works have entered the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Warrnambool Art Gallery, the City of Bendigo, Gippsland Art Gallery, the Artbank, PRATT Graphics Collection (New York) and private collections in Australia and overseas.
Current exhibition gathers a representative selection of his recent works. Warren's male and female nudes are poised in a state of dreamy fragile sensuality. Their averted gaze does not confront the viewer, allowing space for reflection and contemplation. The limited colour palette of the background and dramatically lit foregrounds focuses attention on delicate skin tones of the models and rich textures of the draperies.''
Warren's landscapes, inspired by the Victorian coastline, take the viewer on a journey that stretches from East Gippsland, around the Mornington Peninsula, and along the Great Ocean Road. Executed in the same precise and observant style, his breathtaking expanses of land and sea are imbued with a peculiar intangible atmosphere, haunted with premonition of human presence.
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The artist currently lives and works in Melbourne and exhibits regularly in Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane. His works have entered the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Warrnambool Art Gallery, the City of Bendigo, Gippsland Art Gallery, the Artbank, PRATT Graphics Collection (New York) and private collections in Australia and overseas.
Current exhibition gathers a representative selection of his recent works. Warren's male and female nudes are poised in a state of dreamy fragile sensuality. Their averted gaze does not confront the viewer, allowing space for reflection and contemplation. The limited colour palette of the background and dramatically lit foregrounds focuses attention on delicate skin tones of the models and rich textures of the draperies.''
Warren's landscapes, inspired by the Victorian coastline, take the viewer on a journey that stretches from East Gippsland, around the Mornington Peninsula, and along the Great Ocean Road. Executed in the same precise and observant style, his breathtaking expanses of land and sea are imbued with a peculiar intangible atmosphere, haunted with premonition of human presence.
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