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David Egan
‘Cell Theory’
Brunswick
23 May.–21 Jun.
2025
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Central to David Egan’s work as an artist is a commitment to a practice of painting and an ongoing enquiry into acts of viewing and the materiality of images. Egan approaches painting as a procedure of ‘colour handling’ and considers the inherent paradox of this term—that colour is a neurological phenomenon which cannot be touched or handled—as fertile ground from which to interrogate some of the conceptual, emotional and spiritual registers of the medium.

David has exhibited regularly for the past decade including the solo exhibitions Fountain Gate, Neon Parc (2022); Green Seeks Little Attention, Hayden’s Gallery, (2021); CRYING ROOM, Sutton Projects, (2019); A Moveable Priest, Bus Projects, (2018); Actually Energy Help Light, curated by Helen Hughes, Gertrude Contemporary, (2015); Out Land Look Scape, West Space, (2015); Painting Playing Cards, Substation, (2014) all in Naarm. His work has been included in survey shows such as Thin Skin, MUMA (2023); Painting. More Painting, ACCA (2016); Fabrik; conceptual, minimalist and performative approaches to textiles, Ian Potter Museum of Art and Margret Lawrence Gallery of Art (2016), all in Naarm.

David’s book of essays on colour in painting, Colour Handling, was published by Discipline in 2022.

David is a Lecturer in the Department of Fine Art at Monash University, where he received his PhD in 2022.

From July 2025 he will commence a studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary.

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