“I photograph because photographs sit precariously on the edge of the real and imagined.”
David Symons is a Brisbane based artist. David studied photography in at Perth Technical College in Western Australia in the 1980s.
Collections
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Private Collections
Solo Exhibitions
2017 From where I am here, Stable on Hubert Gallery, Woolloongabba
Group Exhibitions
2017 iRIS Award, Perth Centre for Photography
2016 Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards, Pine Rivers Art Gallery
2015 Passages with Peter Annand, Judy-Ann Moule, Helen Malone , University of Queensland Library
2014 SOFA, University of Queensland Art Museum
2013 Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Tweed River Art Gallery
SOFA, White Canvas Gallery
2012 Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards, Pine Rivers Art Gallery
Photo-Spectral –with Phoebe McDonald, Queensland Festival of Photography. Pine Rivers Art Gallery
QFP4 Portrait Prize (Online Gallery), Queensland Centre for Photography
FLOOD: Anniversary Project, Queensland Centre for Photography
2011 Nudgee Art Prize
Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards, Pine Rivers Art Gallery
2010 SNAP! – Photography with a twist, Pine Rivers Art Gallery
2010 Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards, Pine Rivers Art Gallery
2009 Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture
Tweed River Art Gallery
1990 VisPoex – Visual Poetry International Artrage, Perth
Books / Publications
2017 Poetics of space -4 artist’s books
2016 Line of night
2013 Spectral Evidence
2009 Departures: David Symons – Photographs
2010 Australian Centre for Photography Newsletter
2009 Discovering Daphne: The Daphne Mayo Collection: An Online Exhibition, The University of Queensland
1990 Vispoex: Perth visual poetry
Commercial / Commissions
2015 The Taste of rain – Mark Cryle with Carmel Newman
2013 I’ve Got a Heart – Mark Cryle
2011 Sideshow Alley – Mark Cryle
2008 House of Cards – Mark Cryle
2008 12 Works– Private Collection