Biography
DAVID HAWLEY is a visual artists based in Hobart Tasmania. His most recent body of work Ghost World was exhibited at Anita Traverso Gallery in 2013 AT_SALON program. Hawley completed a Master of Fine Art (Research) at the Tasmanian School of Art in Hobart in 2003. He has received multiple grants through both NAVA and state arts funding bodies and has been short listed for a number of awards including the Fremantle Print Award, the Burnie Print Prize and Tidal; the City of Devonport Art Award. The process of making art, particularly in relation to abstract painting, is an ongoing source of investigation and experimentation for Hawley. He is interested in the notion of expanded painting as a repositioning of absolutes and conventions to enable the continuation of specific strategies and ideologies. Hawley’s work is represented in private and public collections, including the Devonport Art Gallery, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Artbank and the Burnie Regional Art Gallery. He currently lives and works in Hobart.
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Training + experience
2003 Master of Fine Art (Research), University of Tasmania School of Art, Hobart
1992 Graduate Diploma in Art and Design, Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne
1990 Diploma of Teaching, University of Tasmania, Launceston
1989 Bachelor of Arts in Visual Art, Tasmanian State Institute of Technology, Launceston
Selected exhibitions
2013
Ghost World, ANITA TRAVERSO GALLERY, Richmond
Critical Operations, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
2012
Remote Control, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie and 146 ARTSpace, Hobart
Tidal, City of Devonport Art Award, Devonport Regional Art Gallery
2011
Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery
Register, S.P.A.C.E Gallery, Launceston
2010
Dark blue almost black, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne Double Exposure, Criterion Gallery, Hobart
Zero, Poimena Gallery, Launceston
Group Action 7, Criterion Gallery, Hobart
2009
Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery
Brink, Poimena Art Award, Poimena Gallery, Launceston
Test, 146 Arts, Hobart
Publications + interviews
2012
Dr Megan Keating, Remote Control, exhibition catalogue essay
2010
Eric Hiller, Double Exposure, exhibition catalogue essay Andrew Benjamin, Writing Art and Architecture, re.press, Melbourne
Awards + grants
2012
Arts Tasmania Project Grant
2010
Arts Tasmania Project Grant
2009
NAVA Visual and Craft Artists’ Grant
2006
Arts Tasmania Project Grant
2004
Arts Tasmania Project Grant
2001
Painting Commission, Humanities Building, University of Tasmania, Launceston
Collections
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery University of Tasmania,
Launceston Devonport Art Gallery Artbank,
Sydney Burnie Regional Art Gallery
ATG Exhibitions
Ghost World (28 May - 22 June 2013)