Art exhibition Under The Sun opens at the Cardinia Cultural Centre on 24 May and features the work of Melbourne based artist, David Trout.AN art exhibition featuring the work of Melbourne based artist David Trout is showing at the Cardinia Cultural Centre daily from Wednesday, 24 May until Sunday 4 June, 10am 4pm. (Note: not open to the public 26 May and 1 June)
The exhibition “Under the Sun” represents work completed during 2005 and 2006. The work is varied and includes digital photography, digital imaging and painting and is linked by the common theme of homeland by exploring ideas relating to sanctuary, home, place, displacement and memory.
The advent of digital photography has had an enormous impact on the way artists work and use visual images in the 21st century.
“I started to use digital photography in the context of my painting about three years ago,” said David.
“Initially, I was interested in the concept of digital painting and manipulated images to relate to my abstract painting.
“This exhibition explores the dialogue between painting and the digital image, between abstraction and the figurative. These paintings and photographs act to interpret and translate the composite of subjective memory, imaginations and acts of forgetting that form the lived experiences we carry into the present.
“The photography forms part of a series called Homeland that explores my response to a recent visit to South Africa.”
David Trout completed his undergraduate degree at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa. He later won a scholarship to study in the United States completing a Masters of Fine Art Degree (MFA) in 1988.
David works as a professional artist and is an art lecturer at a Melbourne TAFE.
