David is an award-winning Visual Artist with a Master’s Degree in Art from the USA. He retired as a visual art educator and Head of Department, Visual Art after 40 yrs. David focuses on his passions of drawing and/or oil painting and has had success winning numerous art awards and awarded entries into juried exhibitions in the Brisbane area art scene over the past few years. David’s inspiration is the environment, using light as a catalyst and how it imparts on the subject matter. “When light hits an object, whether it be glass, metal, water, the human form or the everyday environment, it reflects, refracts, casts shadows and is even absorbed in the object. What I focus on is how I interpret this light as it reveals colour and form.” David’s work is in private collections in Australia, Europe and USA.
Grace Cross
I spent my adult 35+ career years teaching Visual Art in High Schools and TAFE here in Queensland. Since retiring from teaching in 2008 I have been fortunate to pursue my love of creating art through textile and mixed media design, winning various awards in several QLD Art prizes, and selected juried exhibitions for my mixed media/textile works.
My artistic process of personal discovery is intuitive, creating complex layered mixed media/textile artworks with a fusion of rusting, fibres, fabric, paper, acrylics, stitching and embellishments. Inspired by the organic ‘scapes’ of nature and the environment, my own personal vocabulary of marks journey through my artworks and help to compose my creative form of expression. By continuously adjusting the composition, I maintain a balance between harmony and disorder, placing texture, imagery, and marks on the surface.
For the past 10 years my focus has been on investigating, exploring, and creating with rust, using it in dying and printing formats on paper, fabrics, and canvas. I have found that incorporating rusted surfaces into my work has added luscious, fragmented layers that highlight the beauty found in the inherent processes of aging and decay. My rusted papers were a natural progression into my current foray of artist books and assemblages as well as continuing with collage and my textile explorations using slow stitch and other embellishments.
Awards and Recognition DAVID –
2021 First Place, Painting, Expressions Art Show, Shorncliffe, Dianne Hodge, Judge
2021 Best of Show, First Prize, Matthew Flinders Art Awards, Bribie Island, Judges, Pete Martin, Jo Duke
2021 Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington QLD, Rick Everingham, Marian Drew & Paula Quintela, Judges
2021 Best of Show, Easter Art Show, SASart, Wyn Vogel & Michael Cawdry, Judges
2019 Finalist, Milburn Art Prize, BIA Windsor QLD, Daniel Templeman, Judge
2018 Grand Prize Winner, NOW Nundah Village Art Awards, Margaret Campbell-Ryder, Red Hill Gallery, Judge
2017 Clayton Utz Art Awards Finalist, Allison Kubler, Judge
2017 Third Place, Matthew Flinders Art Awards, Bribie Island
2017 Nundah Village Art Awards, Highly Commended
2013 Highly Commended, Landscape 15th Annual Matthew Flinders Art Exhibition, Bribie Island, Guest Judge, John A Robinson
2012 1st Place 2D, Bluewater Art Exhibition, Guest Judge; Peter Martin
2012 1st Place- Land/Sea/City Scapes, Matthew Flinders Art Competition, Bribie Island, Guest Judge, Karen Tyler, Moreton Bay Regional Galleries Curator
2011 Highly Commended-Oil/Acrylic, Arts Alliance of Pine Rivers, Guest Judges, Eric Whisson, Sue Ford & Yutaka Tadakoro
GRACE –
2022 Solo Exhibition, Layered Landscapes, Baaia Gallery, Sandgate
2022 Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington
2022 Finalist Libris Awards: The Australian Artists’ Book Prize, Artspace Mackay, Adele Outtridge, Judge
2022 First Place 3D, Highly Commended 2D Sandgate Easter Art Show, Judges: J Robinson, C Coezte
2021 First Place, Mixed Media, Expressions Art Show, Shorncliffe, Dianne Hodge, Judge
2021 Finalist Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington
2021 Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington
2021 First Place 2D, First Place 3D, Highly Commended Digital Imaging, Sandgate Easter Art Show, Judges: Wyn Vogel Director of Fish Lane Studios, Artist, Michael Cawdry
2017 Highly Commended 2D, Sandgate Easter Art Show, Judge Wyn Vogel Director of Fish Lane Studios
2015 First Place 2D, Bluewater Art Show, Brisbane, Judge M Bowden, Art Director Warrior Women
2014 First Place 2D, Expressions, Sandgate, Judge Tricia Reust
2013 First Place, Mixed Media, Expressions, Sandgate
2013 Open 3D Second Place, Bluewater Art Show, Shorncliffe. Guest Judge, Stephanie Outridge-Field.
2012 Highly Commended 3D ‘Expressions” Exhibition Sandgate. Guest Judge, Karen Tyler, Moreton Bay Regional Galleries Curator
Exhibitions DAVID –
2022 Easter Art Show, SASart, Shorncliffe
2022 Matthew Flinders Art Awards, Bribie Island
2022 Solo Exhibition, Cross Reflections, Baaia Gallery, Sandgate
2021 Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington QLD, Rick Everingham, Marian Drew & Paula Quintela, Judges
2021 Best of Show, Easter Art Show, SASart, Wyn Vogel & Michael Cawdry, Judges
2019 Finalist, Milburn Art Prize, BIA Windsor QLD, Daniel Templeman, Judge
2018 Grand Prize Winner, NOW Nundah Village Art Awards, Margaret Campbell-Ryder, Red Hill Gallery, Judge
2018 ‘Quilt Challenge’, Hervey Regional Gallery, invited exhibition, curator S Lewis
2017 Clayton Utz Art Awards Finalist, , Allison Kubler, Judge
2017 Third Place, Matthew Flinders Art Awards, Bribie Island
2017 Nundah Village Art Awards, Highly Commended
2016 “Journeys”, Toogoolawah Regional Gallery, The Condensery
2016 “Perception”, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery
2016 Moreton Regional Art Awards, finalist 2D, Pine Rivers Regional Gallery Juried Exhibition
2015 “Let There Be Light”, Cathedral of St Stephen Art Group Winter Art Exhibition
2014 “PIER” Naracoopa B&B Art Gallery
2014 16th Annual Matthew Flinders Art Exhibition, Bribie Island
2013 “Scapes & Scopes”, 6 artists 6 directions, Graydon Gallery, New Farm
2013 15th Annual Matthew Flinders Art Exhibition, Bribie Island, Highly Commended, Landscape
2013 Rotary Art Spectacular, Riverside Centre Brisbane, Juried Exhibition
2012 14th Annual Matthew Flinders Art Exhibition, Bribie Island,1st place 2D
GRACE –
2022 Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington
2022 Finalist Libris Awards: The Australian Artists’ Book Prize, Artspace Mackay, Adele Outtridge, Judge
2021 Foot Square Exhibition, Aspire Gallery, Paddington QLD
2021 Finalist Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington
2021 Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington
2020 The Art of the Paper Bag, Cross Gallery Bundaberg, finalist 2D
2020 Brooching the Subject, Timeless Textiles Newcastle, finalist Textiles
2019 Milburn Art Prize Finalist, BIA Windsor
2019,2017, 2016, 2013 Moreton Regional Art Awards, finalist 2D, Pine Rivers Regional Gallery
2013 Rotary Art Spectacular, finalist 2D, Riverside Centre, Brisbane
2012 Pine Rivers Regional Gallery, “Dare to Do Square”. 30 invited artists explore the aesthetic of the square. Curator, Karen Tyler
Group Exhibitions:
2021-2022 Matthew Flinders Art Prize, Exhibition, Bribie Island
2018 “The Quilt Challenge”, invited exhibition Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, QLD, Curator Susie Lewis
2017 ‘Sensed Consequences’, invited exhibition Jugglers Art Space, Brisbane
2017, 2012 Matthew Flinders Art Prize, Bribie Island.
2017 Sandgate Easter Art Show, Shorncliffe
2016 “Journeys”, Toogoolawah Regional Gallery, The Condensery
2016 “Elemental”, invited exhibition Entangle Art Gallery, Dayboro
2016 “Perception”, invited exhibition Hervey Bay Regional Gallery
2016, 2012 “Botanique” Richard Randall Gallery, Brisbane Botanical Gardens
2015, Bluewater Art Show, Shorncliffe, First Place 2D 2013, Open 3D, Second Place
2014 “Expressions”, Sandgate, First Place 2D. 2013, First Place, Mixed Media. 2012, Highly Commended 3D Guest Judge, Karen Tyler, Moreton Bay Regional Galleries Curator
2014 “PIER”, Naracoopa B&B Art Gallery, Qld
Other DAVID –
Professional Teaching Appointments:
1982 to 2008 Grace Lutheran College, Rothwell, QLD. Head of Department, Visual Art.
1987 Lecturer: Pratt Community College, Kansas USA.
1978 to 1981 Wavell State High School. Brisbane QLD. Teacher of Art.
1975 to 1978 Nambour State High School, Nambour. Teacher of Art
Selected Press
Artist’s Palette, 2016, Issue 149, pg 52-59, An Artist’s Journey and My Biggest Fan Revisited
The Artist Palette Yearbook Magazine, 2015, pg 48
GRACE –
Professional Appointments:
2022/2021 Coordinator of the inaugural 4017 Bayside Open Studios, Bracken Ridge, Deagon, Sandgate, Shorncliffe
2022/2021 QLD Spinners, Weavers & Fibre Artists, Guest lecturer, Workshop Tutor, Rust Workshop: Rust, Layer & Embellish, Concertina Artist Books with Vintage Ephemera
1982 to 2008 Visual Art Teacher Grace Lutheran College, Rothwell, QLD. Visual Art.
1991 Guest Lecturer: St Charles Lutheran College, Missouri USA. Visual Art
1975 to 1981 Wavell State High School. Brisbane QLD. Visual Art.
Selected Press
Textile Fibre Forum, Sept Issue, 2022
Textile Fibre Forum, Sept Issue, 2021
Sandgate Guide, 2021, 4017 Bayside Open Studios
Fibre Arts Australia, E. Zine, 2020, Volume 4, Art Textile/Fibre Arts
Sandgate Guide, 2020, Art and Soul
The Artist Palette Yearbook Magazine, 2015, pg 48
Weekend Notes, Resolution Art Exhibition at Art & Design Precinct, 1/13, Tina Walsh
D.W. Thorpe in association with National Association for the Visual Arts, “Who’s Who in Australian Visual Arts”, Fibre Arts/Textiles, 2nd Edition, 1995
Textile Fibre Forum, Nov 6, 1988, p3
Artist Biography
David Cross
David is an award-winning Visual Artist with a Master’s Degree in Art from the USA. He retired as a visual art educator and Head of Department, Visual Art after 40 yrs. David focuses on his passions of drawing and/or oil painting and has had success winning numerous art awards and awarded entries into juried exhibitions in the Brisbane area art scene over the past few years. David’s inspiration is the environment, using light as a catalyst and how it imparts on the subject matter. “When light hits an object, whether it be glass, metal, water, the human form or the everyday environment, it reflects, refracts, casts shadows and is even absorbed in the object. What I focus on is how I interpret this light as it reveals colour and form.” David’s work is in private collections in Australia, Europe and USA.
Grace Cross
I spent my adult 35+ career years teaching Visual Art in High Schools and TAFE here in Queensland. Since retiring from teaching in 2008 I have been fortunate to pursue my love of creating art through textile and mixed media design, winning various awards in several QLD Art prizes, and selected juried exhibitions for my mixed media/textile works.
My artistic process of personal discovery is intuitive, creating complex layered mixed media/textile artworks with a fusion of rusting, fibres, fabric, paper, acrylics, stitching and embellishments. Inspired by the organic ‘scapes’ of nature and the environment, my own personal vocabulary of marks journey through my artworks and help to compose my creative form of expression. By continuously adjusting the composition, I maintain a balance between harmony and disorder, placing texture, imagery, and marks on the surface.
For the past 10 years my focus has been on investigating, exploring, and creating with rust, using it in dying and printing formats on paper, fabrics, and canvas. I have found that incorporating rusted surfaces into my work has added luscious, fragmented layers that highlight the beauty found in the inherent processes of aging and decay. My rusted papers were a natural progression into my current foray of artist books and assemblages as well as continuing with collage and my textile explorations using slow stitch and other embellishments.
Awards and Recognition
DAVID –
2021 First Place, Painting, Expressions Art Show, Shorncliffe, Dianne Hodge, Judge
2021 Best of Show, First Prize, Matthew Flinders Art Awards, Bribie Island, Judges, Pete Martin, Jo Duke
2021 Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington QLD, Rick Everingham, Marian Drew & Paula Quintela, Judges
2021 Best of Show, Easter Art Show, SASart, Wyn Vogel & Michael Cawdry, Judges
2019 Finalist, Milburn Art Prize, BIA Windsor QLD, Daniel Templeman, Judge
2018 Grand Prize Winner, NOW Nundah Village Art Awards, Margaret Campbell-Ryder, Red Hill Gallery, Judge
2017 Clayton Utz Art Awards Finalist, Allison Kubler, Judge
2017 Third Place, Matthew Flinders Art Awards, Bribie Island
2017 Nundah Village Art Awards, Highly Commended
2013 Highly Commended, Landscape 15th Annual Matthew Flinders Art Exhibition, Bribie Island, Guest Judge, John A Robinson
2012 1st Place 2D, Bluewater Art Exhibition, Guest Judge; Peter Martin
2012 1st Place- Land/Sea/City Scapes, Matthew Flinders Art Competition, Bribie Island, Guest Judge, Karen Tyler, Moreton Bay Regional Galleries Curator
2011 Highly Commended-Oil/Acrylic, Arts Alliance of Pine Rivers, Guest Judges, Eric Whisson, Sue Ford & Yutaka Tadakoro
GRACE –
2022 Solo Exhibition, Layered Landscapes, Baaia Gallery, Sandgate
2022 Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington
2022 Finalist Libris Awards: The Australian Artists’ Book Prize, Artspace Mackay, Adele Outtridge, Judge
2022 First Place 3D, Highly Commended 2D Sandgate Easter Art Show, Judges: J Robinson, C Coezte
2021 First Place, Mixed Media, Expressions Art Show, Shorncliffe, Dianne Hodge, Judge
2021 Finalist Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington
2021 Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington
2021 First Place 2D, First Place 3D, Highly Commended Digital Imaging, Sandgate Easter Art Show, Judges: Wyn Vogel Director of Fish Lane Studios, Artist, Michael Cawdry
2017 Highly Commended 2D, Sandgate Easter Art Show, Judge Wyn Vogel Director of Fish Lane Studios
2015 First Place 2D, Bluewater Art Show, Brisbane, Judge M Bowden, Art Director Warrior Women
2014 First Place 2D, Expressions, Sandgate, Judge Tricia Reust
2013 First Place, Mixed Media, Expressions, Sandgate
2013 Open 3D Second Place, Bluewater Art Show, Shorncliffe. Guest Judge, Stephanie Outridge-Field.
2012 Highly Commended 3D ‘Expressions” Exhibition Sandgate. Guest Judge, Karen Tyler, Moreton Bay Regional Galleries Curator
Exhibitions
DAVID –
2022 Easter Art Show, SASart, Shorncliffe
2022 Matthew Flinders Art Awards, Bribie Island
2022 Solo Exhibition, Cross Reflections, Baaia Gallery, Sandgate
2021 Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington QLD, Rick Everingham, Marian Drew & Paula Quintela, Judges
2021 Best of Show, Easter Art Show, SASart, Wyn Vogel & Michael Cawdry, Judges
2019 Finalist, Milburn Art Prize, BIA Windsor QLD, Daniel Templeman, Judge
2018 Grand Prize Winner, NOW Nundah Village Art Awards, Margaret Campbell-Ryder, Red Hill Gallery, Judge
2018 ‘Quilt Challenge’, Hervey Regional Gallery, invited exhibition, curator S Lewis
2017 Clayton Utz Art Awards Finalist, , Allison Kubler, Judge
2017 Third Place, Matthew Flinders Art Awards, Bribie Island
2017 Nundah Village Art Awards, Highly Commended
2016 “Journeys”, Toogoolawah Regional Gallery, The Condensery
2016 “Perception”, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery
2016 Moreton Regional Art Awards, finalist 2D, Pine Rivers Regional Gallery Juried Exhibition
2015 “Let There Be Light”, Cathedral of St Stephen Art Group Winter Art Exhibition
2014 “PIER” Naracoopa B&B Art Gallery
2014 16th Annual Matthew Flinders Art Exhibition, Bribie Island
2013 “Scapes & Scopes”, 6 artists 6 directions, Graydon Gallery, New Farm
2013 15th Annual Matthew Flinders Art Exhibition, Bribie Island, Highly Commended, Landscape
2013 Rotary Art Spectacular, Riverside Centre Brisbane, Juried Exhibition
2012 14th Annual Matthew Flinders Art Exhibition, Bribie Island,1st place 2D
GRACE –
2022 Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington
2022 Finalist Libris Awards: The Australian Artists’ Book Prize, Artspace Mackay, Adele Outtridge, Judge
2021 Foot Square Exhibition, Aspire Gallery, Paddington QLD
2021 Finalist Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington
2021 Finalist Lethbridge Landscape Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington
2020 The Art of the Paper Bag, Cross Gallery Bundaberg, finalist 2D
2020 Brooching the Subject, Timeless Textiles Newcastle, finalist Textiles
2019 Milburn Art Prize Finalist, BIA Windsor
2019,2017, 2016, 2013 Moreton Regional Art Awards, finalist 2D, Pine Rivers Regional Gallery
2013 Rotary Art Spectacular, finalist 2D, Riverside Centre, Brisbane
2012 Pine Rivers Regional Gallery, “Dare to Do Square”. 30 invited artists explore the aesthetic of the square. Curator, Karen Tyler
Group Exhibitions:
2021-2022 Matthew Flinders Art Prize, Exhibition, Bribie Island
2018 “The Quilt Challenge”, invited exhibition Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, QLD, Curator Susie Lewis
2017 ‘Sensed Consequences’, invited exhibition Jugglers Art Space, Brisbane
2017, 2012 Matthew Flinders Art Prize, Bribie Island.
2017 Sandgate Easter Art Show, Shorncliffe
2016 “Journeys”, Toogoolawah Regional Gallery, The Condensery
2016 “Elemental”, invited exhibition Entangle Art Gallery, Dayboro
2016 “Perception”, invited exhibition Hervey Bay Regional Gallery
2016, 2012 “Botanique” Richard Randall Gallery, Brisbane Botanical Gardens
2015, Bluewater Art Show, Shorncliffe, First Place 2D 2013, Open 3D, Second Place
2014 “Expressions”, Sandgate, First Place 2D. 2013, First Place, Mixed Media. 2012, Highly Commended 3D Guest Judge, Karen Tyler, Moreton Bay Regional Galleries Curator
2014 “PIER”, Naracoopa B&B Art Gallery, Qld
Exhibiting Galleries
Naracoopa Gallery, Bracken Ridge, Queensland
Other
DAVID –
Professional Teaching Appointments:
1982 to 2008 Grace Lutheran College, Rothwell, QLD. Head of Department, Visual Art.
1987 Lecturer: Pratt Community College, Kansas USA.
1978 to 1981 Wavell State High School. Brisbane QLD. Teacher of Art.
1975 to 1978 Nambour State High School, Nambour. Teacher of Art
Selected Press
Artist’s Palette, 2016, Issue 149, pg 52-59, An Artist’s Journey and My Biggest Fan Revisited
The Artist Palette Yearbook Magazine, 2015, pg 48
GRACE –
Professional Appointments:
2022/2021 Coordinator of the inaugural 4017 Bayside Open Studios, Bracken Ridge, Deagon, Sandgate, Shorncliffe
2022/2021 QLD Spinners, Weavers & Fibre Artists, Guest lecturer, Workshop Tutor, Rust Workshop: Rust, Layer & Embellish, Concertina Artist Books with Vintage Ephemera
1982 to 2008 Visual Art Teacher Grace Lutheran College, Rothwell, QLD. Visual Art.
1991 Guest Lecturer: St Charles Lutheran College, Missouri USA. Visual Art
1975 to 1981 Wavell State High School. Brisbane QLD. Visual Art.
Selected Press
Textile Fibre Forum, Sept Issue, 2022
Textile Fibre Forum, Sept Issue, 2021
Sandgate Guide, 2021, 4017 Bayside Open Studios
Fibre Arts Australia, E. Zine, 2020, Volume 4, Art Textile/Fibre Arts
Sandgate Guide, 2020, Art and Soul
The Artist Palette Yearbook Magazine, 2015, pg 48
Weekend Notes, Resolution Art Exhibition at Art & Design Precinct, 1/13, Tina Walsh
D.W. Thorpe in association with National Association for the Visual Arts, “Who’s Who in Australian Visual Arts”, Fibre Arts/Textiles, 2nd Edition, 1995
Textile Fibre Forum, Nov 6, 1988, p3