Harold David | Cause My Brains Never Pushing The Brakes
Harold David
Cause My Brains Never Pushing The Brakes
Mixed media on board
125 X 90 CM
Signed verso
$4500
Biography
Harold David is a multidisciplinary artist whose work moves between abstraction and figuration. His paintings are process driven, allowing materials, gesture, and revision to remain visible. Rather than depicting what is seen, the work explores how experience is felt, with vulnerability, humour, belief, and bodily presence recurring as central concerns. Each painting resists polish in favour of honesty, treating every mark as both personal and political.
Awards and Prizes
2017 – National Portrait Prize, Winner People’s Choice, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2021 – Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Finalist, Campbelltown Arts Centre
2022 – Paddington Art Prize, Finalist, Defiance Gallery
2023 – Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Finalist, Campbelltown Arts Centre
Collections
Public Collections: Penrith Regional Gallery. Private collections include Berlin, Brussels, New York City,
Sydney, Blackheath, Austin TX, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Prague, and Lithgow.
Selected Publications
Stellar Magazine, The Telegraph, 2012
Mountains Made Magazine (Cover), 2018
Jimon Magazine, 2019
Art Edit Magazine, 2020 and 2022
Artist Diaries Blog, 2020
10 Magazine, 2021
Australian Financial Review Magazine, 2022
Artist Profile Magazine, 2022
T Magazine, 2023
