Dr David Eastwood | UNSW Research

Keywords

australian contemporary art

haptic model making

Fields of Research (FoR)

Fine arts, Visual arts

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The creative arts

Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing

Polymeric Materials (e.g. Paints)

Materials performance and processes

Biography

Dr David Eastwood is an artist and academic whose practice is primarily situated in drawing and painting. He uses the interior as a genre through which to construct composite images that reconfigure spatio-temporalities, reevaluating relationships across historical periods and locations. His recent research examines the “afterlife” of artists’ studios recontextualised as posthumous museum artefacts, revising our understanding of the modernist studio and its relationship to contemporary art practice. In 2018 he completed a PhD on this topic, proposing a nuanced reinterpretation of the artist's studio as an assemblage of distributed materialities and agencies, an approach informed by the thinking of Gilles Deleuze and new materialism. Eastwood also has a continuing interest in model-making as a tool to inform imaging practices. Of key interest is the model’s status as a hypothetical object with agency to provoke speculative thinking.

Eastwood is represented by Robin Gibson Gallery in Sydney and is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Art & Design, where he teaches in the Fine Arts program and is available to supervise Higher Degree Research candidates in Masters and PhD programs. He has examined PhD candidates at ANU and Curtin University; Masters candidates at USyd, UniSA, NAS and UNSW; and Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design (Honours) at ACU.

Completed Postgraduate Supervision:

Timothy Phillips (PhD, 2024) Oblique Strategies: Queer Opacity in Figurative Painting, ANU (Associate Supervisor, external, with Dr Peter Alwast and Ruth Waller).

Megan Fizell (PhD, 2021) Gastronomic Body: Sensory and sociocultural dimensions of food art (supervised jointly with Dr Lindsay Kelley).

Louise Zhang (MFA, 2016) Monstrous Masses: horror and slime in art (supervised jointly with Dr Lindsay Kelley).

Theresa Darmody (MFA, 2015) The Continuous Line: transcoding knitted stitch patterns through painting in an investigation of the affective potential of pattern (supervised jointly with Dr Astrid Lorange).

Peter Nelson (MFA, 2012) Extensions of a No-Place: structure and narrative in invented landscapes.

Alexander Sims (MFA, 2010) Synthetic Modernism and the Grid.

My Grants

2008-09 Visual Arts Board Skills and Arts Development Grant: Paris studio residency (three months), Australia Council Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

My Qualifications

2013-18 Doctor of Philosophy, UNSW Art & Design

1997-99 Master of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales

1993-96 Bachelor of Fine Arts with First Class Honours & University Medal, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales

My Awards

2021 Highly Commended, Hazelhurst Art Award: Art on Paper
2019   Dean’s Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Research, UNSW Art & Design
2019 Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis, Graduate Research School, UNSW
2013-2017   University Postgraduate Award, UNSW (Scholarship)
2013-2017   UNSW Research Excellence Award (Scholarship)
2010   Kedumba Drawing Award
2008-09   Visual Arts Board Skills and Arts Development Grant: Paris studio residency (three months), Australia Council Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2003   Viewers’ Choice Award, Redlands Westpac Art Prize
2001   Commended, Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship
2000   Winner, Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award
1998   Willoughby City Art Prize People’s Choice Award
1998   Highly Commended, Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award
1998   Three month studio residency, UNSW studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
1997-99   Australian Postgraduate Award (Scholarship)
1997   University Medal, University of New South Wales
1997 First Prize, UNSW Union Art Competition

My Research Activities

Solo Exhibitions

2023 False Monuments, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2021 Artificial Artefacts, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2019 Vue d’atelier, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2018 The Posthumous Studio, UNSW Galleries, Sydney

2016 The Atemporal Mirror, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2013 Pseudo Studio, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2011 Decoy Décor, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2011 Showroom, Australian Institute of Architects, Sydney

2009 Ulterior/Interior, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2007 Mise en scène, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2005 Marks, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2003 Split, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2001 Crumple, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

1999 Tilt, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

1999 COFA Exhibition Space, Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 Salon Des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney and The David Roche Foundation, Adelaide

Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Salon, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney.

The King’s School Art Prize, The King’s School, Sydney

Fabrication, Draw Space, Sydney

2023 Hazelhurst Art Award: Art on Paper, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Gymea

Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Croydon, Sydney

2022 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW (touring)

Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Croydon, Sydney

Hazelhurst Art Award: Art on Paper, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Gymea

2020 Love in the time of COVID-19, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

2019 The Drawing Show, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

New Now, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2017 A Working Model of the World, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, and Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York. Curated by Dr Lizzie Muller and Holly Williams.

9 Hours Underground, Sydney opera House Cave, Sydney. Curated by Kate Smith.

Re-Launch, ADspace, Sydney

2016 Small World | Small Wonders, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

Wall to Wall, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2015 Salon, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

Well Red, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

Drawing Now, ADspace, Sydney

2014 (Small) Gems, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

Monochrome, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney

For Lease: Reinterpreting Place, Breezeblock, Sydney. Curated by Chloe Wolifson.

The Democracy of Drawing, Airspace Projects, Marrickville, Sydney

2013 Presence and Absence, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong. Curated by Michael Beare.

Drawing Now, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

The Carpentry of Speculative Things, Alaska Projects, Sydney. Curated by Prue Gibson.

Speculative Spaces, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2012 Height x Width, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney

Cut & Paste, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

Redlands Westpac Art Prize, National Art School Gallery, Sydney

2011 Paper Trail, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2010 Kedumba Drawing Award, Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls, NSW

Untitled, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

Metro Art Award, Metro Gallery, Melbourne

Still Life Treasures, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2009 Small is the New Big, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2008 Drawcard, The National Art School Gallery, Sydney

Metro 5 Art Award, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne and Benalla Regional Art Gallery, Victoria

The Young Ones, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2007 Metro 5 Art Award, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne and Benalla Regional Art Gallery, Victoria

Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Croydon, Sydney

Hazelhurst Art Award: Art on Paper, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Gymea, NSW

Christmas Show, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2006 Praxis, Kudos Gallery, Sydney

Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney

Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria

Visions of a Municipality 2: The Second Exhibition of Lane Cove’s Art Treasures, Lane Cove Council, Sydney

ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, ABN AMRO Tower, Sydney

Three, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

Shelf Life, The Delmar Gallery, Ashfield, Sydney

Summery Christmas Show, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2005 Praxis, Kudos Gallery, Sydney

Hazelhurst Art Award: Art on Paper, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Gymea, NSW

Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

The Year In Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

The Alumni Prize, Kudos Gallery, Sydney

From the Stockroom, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

2004 Willoughby City Art Prize, Willoughby Civic Centre, Sydney

Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney

2003 Praxis, Kudos Gallery, Sydney

Destination Drawing, COFA Exhibition Space, Sydney

Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

Still Life, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

2002 Paris Days: The UNSW Studio in Paris, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

2001 Praxis, Kudos Gallery, Sydney

Preview, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

Alumni on Paper, Kudos Gallery, Sydney

Context, Kudos Gallery, Sydney and Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle, Australia

Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney

2000 The First Show of the Last Year of the Millennium, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

Praxis, Kudos Gallery, Sydney

The Postcard Show, Linden Arts Centre and Gallery, Melbourne

An Appointment with Reality, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney

Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award, Lane Cove Council Cove Room, Sydney and Atrium Gallery, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney

The Art of Drawing, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney

Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

1999 50th Anniversary Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

The King’s School Art Prize, The King’s School, Sydney

Willoughby City Art Prize, Willoughby Civic Centre, Sydney

MFA Graduates, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

1998 Uncommon Masters, COFA Exhibition Space, Sydney

Willoughby City Art Prize, Willoughby Civic Centre, Sydney

Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award, Lane Cove Council Cove Room, Sydney

1997 Six Recent Graduates, Crawford Gallery, Sydney

Jenny Birt Award, College of Fine Arts, Sydney

Hatched: Healthway National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia

UNSW Union Art Competition, University of New South Wales, Sydney

National Tertiary Art Prize, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle, Australia

Royal Over-Seas League 14th Annual Open Exhibition, Over-Seas House, London and Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland

1996 Salon Des Refuses, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

Eight is Enough, College of Fine Arts Gallery, Sydney

New Portraiture, College of Fine Arts Gallery, Sydney

Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award, Lane Cove Council Cove Room, Sydney and Atrium Gallery, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

Speculative Spaces, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, 2-26 March 2013.

Speculative Spaces examined the spatial and pictorial investigations of artists working with dioramas and maquettes, fabricated at tabletop scale and subsequently mediated through imaging techniques such as drawing, painting, photography, video, or a combination of these. The exhibition was curated for Robin Gibson Gallery as part of Art Month Sydney 2013.

My Research Supervision

Supervision keywords

Areas of supervision

Painting
Expanded painting
Drawing
Expanded drawing
Visual art
Contemporary art
The artist's studio
Models and model making
Interiors and spaces
Still life
Figurative art
Abstraction
Collage
Composite imaging
Material practices
New Materialism

Currently supervising

Emma Pinsent, Porous material afterlives of the intertidal zone, PhD candidate, UNSW (Primary Supervisor, with Secondary Supervisor Dr Bianca Hester)
Megan Rose, Hold Me: A post-qualitative study of the interplay between cuteness and the uncanny in artificial companion design, PhD candidate, Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW, (Joint Supervisor with Prof Deborah Lupton)
Kristy Gordon, Slow Marks and Drift: Repetition, Flow and Resonance in Slow Art Practice (Secondary Supervisor, with Primary Supervisor A/Prof Emma Robertson)
Joel Arthur, How can contemporary painting subvert modernist pictorial languages as a response to the colonial histories within Sydney's urban parks and gardens?, MFA candidate, UNSW (Primary Supervisor, with Joint Supervisor Peter Sharp)
Sadhbha Cockburn, Mourning the more-than-human: performative, sculptural place-making as posthuman grief, PhD candidate, UNSW (Primary Supervisor, with Joint Supervisors Dr Bianca Hester and Dr Prue Gibson)

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Location

Arts, Design & Architecture

Office F404, F Block, Paddington campus
(cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd)

Contact

+612 9065 5486

d.eastwood@unsw.edu.au

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