David Spencer

Born in dusty outback Dampier in the 70s, David Spencer parlays childhood memories into raw, emotive art that everyman can enjoy. His aesthetic isn’t easily pigeonholed, culminating in an eclectic and diverse portfolio that reads as a veritable journey through shape and colour, materials and mediums.

Inspired by this own history and the colours, sounds, people places, textures and art he was exposed to on his travels, his own memories and sensations have became food for his artist’s brain. Each of Spencer’s paintings is a living journal of a life lived, laid bare on stretched canvases. As a collective, his body of work is as varied and diverse, because no two emotions are ever identical.

“Whatever mood I was in, whatever thought or memory I was trying to express, each piece is always from the heart,” Spencer says. “That’s why I find people have an instant connection when a piece speaks to them.”

At his exhibitions, art buyers are often known to beeline for a piece, briefly discussing it and then purchasing it without hesitation or debate. “They simply wanted it because they loved it and that’s what is defining about my art – it is for people who value their own particular reasons as to why they love art, rather than what’...

1991-94 Completed Diploma of Fine Arts, Central College of Tafe, Perth

1986-91 Completed “Special Art Program”, Applecross SHS, Perth

Solo exhibitions

2021 “Residence” Old Customs House, Fremantle (WA)
2019 “Somatosensory”, Wills Domain, Yallingup (WA)
2018 "Mirror", dual solo exhibition with Margaret Heenan, Gallows Gallery, Mosman Park (WA)
2018 "Slow days, fast years", Robert Oately Winery, Margaret River (WA)
2016 "Made you look", Black Brewing, Margaret River (WA)
2016 "The reason for flowers", Gallows Gallery, Mosman Park (WA)
2014 “This is how I feel”, Gallows Gallery, Mosman Park (WA)
2014 “Traverse”, Hay Shed Hill, Margaret River (WA)
2012 “Everything so far”, Buratti Fine Art, Fremantle (WA)
2011 “Redux”, 19Karen Gallery, Gold Coast (QLD)
2010 “David Spencer Vs Johnny Romeo”, United Galleries, Perth (WA)
2009 “Tourist”, United Galleries, Perth (WA)
2008 “There’s a ghost in me”, United Galleries, Sydney (NSW)
2008 “32,000 days”, United Galleries, Perth (WA)
2006 “Finding Emily”, Code Red Art, Fremantle (WA)
2004 First one man show, “Spencertive”, Hudson Gallery, Perth (WA)

Selected group exhibitions

2021 “Setting the tone”, Art Marx Gallery, Fremantle (WA)
2021 “Vibrance”, Art Marx Gallery, Fremantle (WA)
2021 “Lifeline Group Exhibition”, Juniper Galleries, Darlington (WA)
2019 “St Brigid’s 90th Anniversary Art Exhibition”, St...