David Egan
Dr David Egan
David Egan is an artist and lecturer at Monash University. Central to his work as an artist is a commitment to a practice of painting and an ongoing enquiry 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; 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 received his PhD from Monash University in 2022.