Harold David | Quarter Moon And Blue Eye Shadow
Quarter Moon And Blue Eye Shadow | 2026
122 x 153 cm
Oil on canvas
$6,000
Bio
Harold David
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
Selected Exhibitions
1998 – Surface, Sydney Fringe Festival, Sydney
1999 – Texas Trailer Park, RubyAyre Gallery, Sydney
2000 – Rapture, RubyAyre Gallery, Sydney
2001 – Runway, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2002 – Others, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2003 – David vs. Megahy, RubyAyre Gallery, Sydney
2007 – Tracksuits of St Mary’s, Penrith Regional Gallery, Emu Plains
2008 – Tracksuits of St Mary’s, Hakusan City Museum, Japan
2008 – Tracksuits of St Mary’s, Fujieda Municipal Museum, Japan
2009 – Uniform, Penrith Regional Gallery, Emu Plains
2010 – Uniform, Fujieda Municipal Museum, Japan
2011 – Uniform, Hakusan City Museum, Japan
2012 – Tracksuits of St Mary’s, Carriageworks, Sydney
2015 – Survey, Day Gallery, Blackheath
2017 – Garage Barbershop, Blacktown Arts Centre
2019 – Beauty and the Apocalypse, Day Gallery, Blackheath
2020 – No Boundaries, Gang Gang Gallery, Lithgow
2020 – Twenty/Twenty in One Eye, Day Gallery, Blackheath
2021 – This and the Edge of the World, Fox Galleries, Melbourne
2021 – SubTerrane, Mr Minty’s, Sydney
2022 – Things I Didn’t Know, Fox Galleries, Melbourne
2022 – Adult Contemporary, Fox Galleries, Melbourne2022 – Into a Memory, Day Gallery, Blackheath
2023 – Residency, Fox Galleries, Melbourne
2023 – World of Echo, Becker Minty, Sydney
2023 – Where Time Collides, Day Gallery, Blackheath
2024 – Memory of a Marmoset, Fox Galleries, Melbourne
2025 – Modern Love, AK Bellinger Gallery, Inverell
2025 – The Sound of Air, Becker Minty, Sydney
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
