David Egan

Central to David Egan’s work is a commitment to a practice of painting and an ongoing inquiry into acts of looking and the materiality of images. David 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, Ian Potter Museum of Art and Margaret Lawrence Gallery of Art (2016), all in Naarm.

His book of essays, Colour Handling, which grew out of his PhD project was published by Discipline in 2022.

David is a Lecturer in the Department of Fine Art at Monash University.