About
Harold David is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in the Blue Mountains on Dharug and Gundungurra Country.
After a long career in photography, David began painting in 2018. His work now moves between painting, sculpture and works on paper, shifting between abstraction and figuration. Led by intuition, his process is one of making, undoing and responding, allowing materials, gestures and revisions to remain visible. Images, fragments, words and marks accumulate, disappear and re-emerge as the work finds its own direction.
Rather than depicting what is seen, David explores how experience is felt. Family, identity, memory, popular culture and the strangeness of contemporary life drift through his work. Humour sits alongside unease, vulnerability and bodily presence, with each painting resisting polish in favour of something more immediate and honest.
David describes himself as a “momentist,” a term initiated by artist Tim Nerheim Chereck, reflecting an interest in what happens during the act of making rather than arriving at a predetermined outcome. Each mark becomes both an instinctive response and a record of its own making, at once personal and political.
His work has been exhibited widely across Australia, and he has been a finalist in a number of Australian art prizes. His work is held in private collections.
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