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David Stephenson    statement | biography | links + press

born Washington, D.C. USA 1955
Lives and works in Australia since 1982

EDUCATION

 

1979 Bachelor of Fine Art with Honors, Bachelor of Art with Honors (Art History), University of Colorado

1980 Master of Art, University of New Mexico

1982 Master of Fine Art, University of New Mexico

2001 Doctor of Philosophy, University of Tasmania

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 Vaults, Julie Saul Gallery, New York

2006 Sublime Symmetries, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, curated by Jorge Calado (hard cover catalog)

 

2005 Drawing Time, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney

 

2004

David Stephenson, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne

Dome Photographs 2000-2003, Jackson Fine Arts, Atlanta, GA

Cupolas, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

 

2003

The Dome Project, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, NY

Skeletons, Bett Gallery, Hobart

Skeletons, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney

 

2001

Starlight: David Stephenson Photographs, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Space + Light: David Stephenson Photographs, 1982-1996, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart

Dome Photographs, 1993-2000, Bett Gallery, Hobart

 

2000

Heaven, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

Cupolas, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

Dome, CAST Gallery, Hobart

Virtual Dome, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne

 

1999

Stars, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne

Domes, Dolphin, Kansas City, KA

 

1998

Sublime Space: David Stephenson Photographs 1989-98, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Anatomies, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne

 

1997

Domes, Julie Saul Gallery, New York

Domes, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart

 

1996 Transfigurations, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne

 

1995 Transfigurations, Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland for Fotofeis International Festival of Photography in Scotland

 

1994

Winter, James Danziger Gallery, New York

Dark Nature, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart (collaboration with Anne MacDonald)

The Ice, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

 

1993

Dissolution, Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne

The Ice, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

 

1992

Vast, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart

Vast, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

 

1991

Vast, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia

Vast, Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne

 

1990

Untitled 1989-90, Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne

Untitled 1989-90, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

 

1989

David Stephenson, Selected Photographs 1979-89, Salamanca Place Gallery, Hobart

David Stephenson, Gallerie Cimitiere, Launceston

 

1988 David Stephenson , Salamanca Place Gallery, Hobart

 

1987

Mountain/Sea, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart

David Stephenson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

 

1985

David Stephenson, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

David Stephenson, The Friends of Photography, Carmel

 

1984 David Stephenson, The Developed Image, Adelaide

 

1983

The Divided Landscape, Robert Freidus Gallery, New York

David Stephenson, The Developed Image, Adelaide

Extended Landscape, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, Hobart

 

1982 David Stephenson, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

 

1981

David M Stephenson, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Trans Alaska Pipeline, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2007 Ingenuidades: Fotografia e Engenharia 1846-2006, curated by Jorge Calado, Galeria de Exposições Temporårias da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa


2006

From an Island South (Asialink/Devonport Regional Gallery touring exhibition, curated by Jane Stewart) touring venues in Asia

aniGma-2006, The 3d Novosibirsk International Festival of Digital Imaging, Animation & Video-Art, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia
Different Dimension, 1st Novosibirsk International Festival of Contemporary Photography, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia

A Precipitation in Time, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport, curated by Troy Ruffels

Artbank: Celebrating 25 Years of Australia Art, Redland Art Gallery, Queensland, and national tour, curated by Antonia Syme et al.

 

2005

Studies in Meditation, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, New York

Looking South, Plimsoll Galley, Centre for the Arts, Hobart

The Place Where Three Dreams Cross, Plimsoll Galley, Centre for the Arts, Hobart (national tour)

Breaking Ice, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Transformer, Long Gallery, Hobart

Points of View: Australian Photography, 1985-95, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Olhares Estrangeiros, Fotografias de Portugal, Colecçao da Caixa de Depositos, Fidelidade Mundial Chiado 8, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2004

Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Foundation for the Arts Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise

Want to Take You Higher, McKenzie Fine Art, New York

 

2003

Sky Lounge - Future Projections, National Museum of Australia, Canberra

First Impressions: Contemporary Australian Photograms, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Future Perfect, Bett Gallery, Hobart and assorted venues

 

2001

Striking: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Monash Gallery of Art Collection, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne

Between Phenomena-The Panorama and Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart

Night Light: Photographs of heavenly bodies, 1885-2000, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA

 

2000

Gold Coast Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award (winner), Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise

Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Dolphin Fine Art, Kansas City, KA

 

1999

Mount Wellington - Peak and Pinnacle, Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart

An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (national tour)

Artificial Nature: a survey of vintage and contemporary photograms, Julie Saul Gallery, New York

Striking: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Monash Gallery of Art Collection, Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne, Casula Powerhouse Gallery, Sydney

Earth Sky, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta

Tempus Fugit/Time Flies, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

 

1998

Waterproof, Festival of 100 days/EXPO '98, Belen Art Centre, Lisbon. Click, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne

Parliament House Photography Project: David Stephenson and Debra Phillips, Parliament House, Canberra

Constellations, University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art, Kansas City

Drawings from Light 2: The Contemporary Imagination, Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne

Ground Control, Lombard-Freid Contemporary Art, New York

 

1997

Oceans and Galaxies, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York.

Vantage, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

Site and Sensibility - selections from the Art Bank Collection, S. H. Irvin Gallery, Sydney

What's New II, Waverley Gallery, Melbourne

The Blake Prize, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney

 

1996

Imagine Nature, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania Centre for the Arts, Hobart

Brushing the Dark: Recent Art and Tasmania, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart (national tour)

The Power to Move: Recent Australian Photography, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Inheritance, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

Contemporary Australian Photography from the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Out Takes: Obscure Works by Gallery Artists, Julie Saul Gallery, New York

Gold Coast City Conrad Jupiters Art Prize (winner), Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland

City of Hobart Art Prize, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart

 

1995

Likeness, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.

Figure/Ground, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart

The Derwent Collection: Australian Art of the 1980s and 1990s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart

The Blundstone Contemporary Art Prize (Aquisitive Award), Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston (national tour)

 

1994

Tradition and the Unpredictable: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Pictograms: Aspects of Contemporary Photographic Practice, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne (national tour)

The Full Spectrum: Colour and Photography in Australia 1860s to 1990s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Landed: Landscape Art in Australia, 1960-90, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

Antarctica: Secrets of the Frozen World, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, and Museum of Victoria, Melbourne Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, (international tour)

Tableaux: Works from the Monash University Collection, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

 

1993

To the Surface-Contemporary Landscape, Centre for the Arts, Hobart

Artists in Antarctica-Visions of the Frozen World, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart

Reflex, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, (national tour)

 

1992

A Show of Strength, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart

Location, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, (Australasian tour)

Intimations of Mortality, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Contemporary Works, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart

 

1991

42° South, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart (Australia/ NZ tour)

David Stephenson/Ray Arnold, Cradle Mountain Visitor Centre, Tasmania

Agfa National Photography Exhibition, Albury Regional Art Centre, New South Wales

 

1990 Fragmentation and Fabrication: Recent Australian Photography, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

 

1989

Night, Nacht, Noir, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart

Tableaux Mourant, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania

 

1988

Australian Photography: the 1980's, Australian National Gallery, Canberra (national tour)

The CSR Photography Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Landfall, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart

A Place For Art, Centre for the Arts Gallery, Hobart

 

1987

Photogenics: Works from the University Collection, University of Tasmania, Fine Arts Gallery, Hobart

Australian Contemporary Photographers, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

On Collecting Photographs: Master Photographs from St. Louis Private Collections, University of Missouri, St. Louis

The New Romantics, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney (regional tour)

 

1986

New Views: Landscape Photographs From Two Continents, University of Missouri, St, Louis

CSR Photography Project, Queensland Art Gallery and regional tour

Recent Australian Photography, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

 

1985

Festival of Perth Exhibition, Editions Gallery, Fremantle

Approaching Landscape, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart and Penrith Regional Gallery, New South Wales

 

1984 Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

 

1983

Australian Perspecta 1983, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, (national tour)

Landscape/Cityscape, Susan Spiritus Galley, Newport Beach

Not a Picture Show, Long Gallery, Hobart, (national tour)

Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

 

1982

Recent Acquisitions, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Year of the Tree, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Southwest Regional Photography, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Northlight Southwest, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, AZ

 

1981

New Photographs, Robert Freidus Gallery, New York

Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

Northlight Southwest, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe

Contemporary Photoworks, Downtown Centre of the Arts, Albuquerque

Five States Photography, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico

Exposure Time V, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Exposure 1981, Cheltenham Art Centre, Pennsylvania

Sixth Annual Magic Silver Show, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky

Prints and Photographs, The Print Club, Philadelphia

 

1980

Western Landscape Photography, 1850-1980, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

Contemporary Photography, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York

La Grange National V, CVAA Art Gallery, La Grange, Georgia

Eccentricities, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia

Conceptions Southwest, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Northlight Southwest, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University

Photospiva 80, Spiva Art Center, Joplin, Missouri

University of New Mexico Travelling Exhibition, to galleries in New York, Maine, Virginia, and Texas

Photo-Media, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

MA/MFA Exhibition, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque

 

1979

Photograph as Document, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia.

Photoworks, Bellevue Art Museum, Washington

Exposure: Ideas and Images in Contemporary Photography, Boulder Arts Centre, Colorado

Colorado Photographers, Emmanuel Gallery, Auraria Campus, Denver

Pictures, Diablo Valley College Gallery, California

Four Corners Exhibition, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Boulder Arts 1979, Boulder Arts Centre, Colorado

Albuquerque Contemporary Arts, Downtown Centre for the Arts and Meridian Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico

 

1978 Works on Paper, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, TX (seven gallery regional tour)

 

GRANTS AND COMMISIONS

 

2002 Australian Research Council Grant (with Bill Hart)

2001 Australia Council Visual Art/Craft Fund Project Grant

2000 Australian Research Council Grant

1996 Australia Council Visual Art/Craft Fund Project Grant

1995 Australian Research Council Grant (with A MacDonald, R. Arnold)

1993 Arts Tasmania Project Grant (with Anne MacDonald)

1992 Australia Council Visual Arts/Crafts Board Overseas Studio Grant

1991 University of Tasmania Antarctic Commission

1990 Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board Art in Public Places Commission

1989 Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board Art in Public Places Commission

1988 University Research Grant

1985 University Research Grant

1984 New Parliament House Photography Commission

1983 CSR Photography Project Commission

1983 Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board Grant

1980 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1979 Ford Foundation Grant, through the University of New Mexico

 

BOOKS AND CATALOGS

 

Calado, Jorge, David Stephenson: Sublime Symmetries, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2006.

Stephenson, David, Visions of Heaven: The Dome in European Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2005.

Crombie, Isobel and van Wyk, Susan, Second Sight: Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003.

David Stephenson (with essay by Greg French): Skeletons, Space + Light Editions, Hobart, 2003.

Green, Charles and Smith, Jason, Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002.

Schall, Jan, editor, Tempus Fugit: Time Flies, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, and University of Washington, Seattle, 2001.

Stephenson, David (with essay by Keith F. Davis), Stars, Julie Saul Gallery, New York. Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, Space + Light Editions, Hobart, 1999.

French, Blair, editor, Photo files: an Australian photography reader, Power Publications, Power Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, 1999.

Van Wyk, Susan, Sublime Space: David Stephenson Photographs, 1989-98, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1998.

Davis, Keith F., An American Century of Photography: From Dry Plate to Digital (2nd Edition, Revised and Enlarged), Abrams, New York, 1998.

Calado, Jorge, A Prova de Agua/Waterproof, Edition Stemmle, Zurich, 1998.

Stephenson, David, "Transfigurations", 5 colour illustrations pp. 98-103, in Pedersen, B M , editor, Fine Art Photography 2, Graphis Inc, New York, 1997.

Hammond, Victoria, editor: Brushing the Dark- Recent Art and Tasmania, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Hobart, 1996.

Hay, Peter, editor: Imagine Nature, School of Art, University of Tasmania, 1996.

Kirker, Anne, The Power to Move, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1996.

Stephenson, David and Hammond, Victoria, Cupolas, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, and Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, 1996.

Foster, Gill, McArthur, editors: Fotofeis '95- International Festival of Photography in Scotland, Fotofeis Ltd, Edinburgh, 1995.

Colless, Edward, The Error of My Ways, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1995.

Koop, Stuart and Stephenson, David, The Ice, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1994.

Museum of Fine Arts, The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection: Tradition and the Unpredictable, Houston, 1994.

Davis, Keith F., An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, Hallmark, Kansas City, 1994.

Stephenson, David, "Marks in the Landscape: Notes 1979-1991", Our Common Ground- A Celebration of Art, Place & Environment, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects & The Centre for Environmental Studies, Hobart, 1994.

Arnold, Ray, To the Surface-Contemporary Landscape, Plimsol Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, 1993.

Engberg, Juliana, Location, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1992.

Mcqueenie, John, 42° South, Chameleon, Hobart 1991

Levine, Fred, "And we fill the void with our presence- An introduction to the photographs of Stephenson, David, Vast: Photographs from Europe and Antarctica 1990-91, by David Stephenson, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, 1991

National Association for Visual Arts: Who's Who of Australian Artists, Thorpe, Melbourne, 1991.

Germaine, Max, Artists and Galleries of Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990.

Logan, Jim, Night, Nacht, Noir, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart, 1989.

MacDonald, Anne, Tableaux Mourant, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1989.

Ennis, Helen, Australian Photography: The 1980's, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, and Melbourne Oxford University Press, Oxford, Auckland, New York, 1988.

Byron, Sandra, The CSR Photography Project Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1988.

Backhouse, Sue. Tasmanian Artists of the Twentieth Century, Pandani Press, Hobart, 1988

Holmes, Jonathon, Photogenics: Works From The University Collection, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1987.

Stephenson, David, Mountain/Sea, Chameleon, Hobart, 1987.

Sturgeon, Graeme, The New Romantics, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1987.

Patton, Tom, New Views: Landscape Photographs From Two Continents, University of Missouri, St. Louis, 1986.

Godden, Christine, CSR Photography Project: Selected Works, CSR, Ltd. Sydney, 1986

McDonald, Jan, Australian Artists' Index, Arts Libraries Society, Sydney, 1986.

Stephenson, David, New Landscapes: Photographs From Two Continents, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1985.

Arnold, Ray. Approaching Landscape, Chameleon, Hobart 1985.

Puster, Glen and Pollard, Gayle, Not a Picture Show, Hobart, 1983.

Murphy, Bernice, Australian Perspecta 1983, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Tasmanian School of Art: Extended Landscape, Hobart, 1983.

Himmelfarb, Harvey and Clisby, Roger D., Large Spaces in Small Places, A Survey of Western Landscape Photography: 1850-1980, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 1980.

Boulder Arts Center: Exposure: Ideas and Images in Contemporary Photography, Boulder, Colorado, 1979.

 

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS

 

Cullum, Jerry, "David Stephenson and Rocky Schenck," ART News, November 2004

Cullum, Jerry, "Harmony, complexity through a lens," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 23, 2004

Glueck, Grace, "I Want to Take You Higher," The New York Times, June 25, 2004

The New Yorker, May 10, 2004

Holmes, Jonathan, "David Stephenson; Australia, Transfigurations," Fotofeis Mortality, 2001

University of Tasmania, Australia Council, 2001

Loke, Margarett, "David Stephenson: Heaven", The New York Times, February 11, 2000.

Koop, Stuart, "David Stephenson", Art/Text, No. 64, Sydney, February 1999.

Timms, Peter, "Finding that uncool beauty in nature", The Age, Melbourne, 5 May 1999.

Kirsch, Elisabeth, "David Stephenson: Domes", Kansas City Star, July 29, 1999.

Clabburn, Anna, "Male artists meet the heroic challenge", The Age, Melbourne, 16 September 1998.

Kidd, Courtney, "The Unframed Eye: Perspectives on Antarctica", Art and Australia, Volume 33, Number 4, Sydney, 1996.

MacDonald, John, "Peaks of inspiration", Sydney Morning Herald, 4 May 1996.

Auty, Giles, "Theories with holes", The Weekend Australian, 11-12 May 1996.

Falkiner, Susan, "Brushing the Dark", Art Monthly Australia, No. 90 June 1996.

Smith, Barb, "Fotofeis International Festival of Photography in Scotland", Art Monthly Australia, No. 90 June 1996.

Freiberg, Freda, "Photography"(review of Transfigurations at Robert Lindsay Gallery), The Age, Melbourne, 20 September 1996.

Read, Michael, "Phenomena", in See, Issue 1:4, The Friends of Photography,San Francisco, 1995.

Colman, A. D., "Photography", The Observer, New York, February 1994.

Kelly, Sean, "Dark Nature", Contemporary Art Tasmania Issue No. 3, Hobart, Autumn, 1994.

Artlink, "David Stephenson", Vol. 14, No. 2, Winter, 1994.

Rooney, Robert, "Absence makes an odd appearance" The Weekend Australian, August 6-7, 1994.

Colman, Adrian, "Time and the Photographer", Research News No. 6, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1993.

Holmes, Jonathon, "The Green and the Wild: Dark Nature, Anne MacDonald and David Stephenson, Artlink, 1993.

Lynn, Elwyn, "Exposure to contrast", The Weekend Australian, July 31-August 1, 1993.

Lynn, Elwyn, "Photos to go places", The Weekend Australian, August 7-8, 1993.

Neville, Greg, "Conditioned Reflex", The Age, Melbourne, December 15, 1993.

Australian Photography, "Breaking Rules, Okay", Sydney, December 1993.

Neville, Greg, "An art in search of identity", The Age, Melbourne, December 31, 1993.

Rooney, Robert, "Focus on Asian Relations", The Weekend Australian, December 5-6, 1992.

Kelly, Sean, "42 Degrees South", Art & Text, Number 39, May 1991

Neville, Greg, "Stephenson has nature's power of astonishment", The Age, Melbourne, 22 November 1991.

Colless, Edward, "David Stephenson", Photofile, Number 34, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, December 1991.

Radok, Stephanie, "Anti-aesthetics", Artlink, Vol 11 No 4, Summer 1991/92, Adelaide, 1991.

Faust, Beatrice, "Focus is on the dignity of labor", The Age, Melbourne, Feb. 3, 1990.

Koop, Stuart: "David Stephenson at Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery", Agenda, Ewing and George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University, Melbourne, 1990.

McDowell, David, "Playing Dead and Other Affectations", Photofile, Summer 1989-90.

Leggett, Susan, "Monumental landscapes related to man", The Mercury, Hobart. 9/9/89.

Colless, Edward: "Hobart Commentary", Art and Australia, September 1989.

Faust, Beatrice, "Glamour, mystery, and magic", The Age, 24/6/87, Melbourne

Curnow, Heather, "Mountain/Sea", Photofile, Sydney, Spring 1987.

Curnow, Heather, "Talented interpreter captures essence of Tassie landscape", The Mercury, June 8, 1987.

McDonald, John, "Romantics under the umbrella", Sydney Morning Herald, Sept. 26, 1987.

Lynn, Elwyn: "Rescued from their ersatz agony", The Weekend Australian, p26-27 9/87.

Hinderacker, Mark, "Panoramas..", Sydney Morning Herald, April 1,1985.

Holmes, Jonathon: "Resuming our journey into the landscape...", Art and Australia, Volume 22, Number 4, Sydney, 1985.

Lea, Geoffrey, "Baring nature's soul", The Mercury, July 7, 1985.

Allison, Brian, "David Stephenson", Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Autumn 1984.

Holmes, Jonathon, "Provincialism and Art", Island 14, Hobart, 1983.

Hardman, Marion, "Not a Picture Show (Calling the Shots)", supplement to Island 16, Hobart, 1983.

Holmes, Jonathon, "Not a Picture Show", Photofile Spring 1983 Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 1983.

Van den Bosch, Annette, "Anzart-in-Hobart", Art Network Winter 1983, Melbourne, 1983.

Holmes, Jonathon, "Contemporary Visual Arts in Tasmania", Australian Art Review, Sydney, 1983.

Holmes, Jonathon, "Contemporary Visual Arts in Tasmania", Studio International, Volume 196, Number 1002, London, October 1983.

Lifson, Ben, "The Conscience of Collections", The Village Voice, July 22-28, New York, 1981.

Afterimage, Visual Studies Workshop, Volume 8, Number 5, Rochester, New York,1980.

Rifkin, Ned, "Southwest 1978- Works on Paper", Artweek, Number 18, San Francisco, 1978.

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 

Ackland Museum

Arizona State University

Art Bank, Sydney

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Australian National Gallery

Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento

George Eastman House, Rochester

Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland

Hallmark Collection, Kansas City

La Grange College, La Grange, Georgia

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne

Monash University, Melbourne

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Collection of Photography, Lisbon, Portugal

National Galleryof Australia, Canberra

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Parliament House, Canberra

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery University of Lincoln, NE

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart

University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque

University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney

University of Tasmania, Hobart

Victorian Department of Education, Melbourne]


Vault triptychs 2006-2007 [view images]


Domes 1993-2003 [view images]


Stars 1995-1996 [view images]