David Newman-White

I have been commissioned to create 6-10 large scale portraits for the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, North West of Sydney. These works are for an exhibition titled 'Time Leaves its Mark'. 'The exhibition aims to explore ideas and experiences of ageing in our society, to challenge negative perceptions around ageing, to explore the different attitudes of men and women to Ageing, and to have fun with notions of graceful versus disgraceful ageing.' Elissa Blair, Gallery Curator

Born 1952,Nowra New South Wales, Australia. Currently lives in Morts Estate, NSW. Fine Artist and painter of the human form and portraiture.The two art disciplines I work in are painting and drawing. My preferred medium is oil on canvas and I like to use a mixed media approach to drawing and drawing with pastels both oil and chalk . My inspiration for subject matter is based on portraiture, the human figure and I am currently doing a portrait of Harold Hunt, Aboriginal author and activist and at the same time a second portrait of Kate Bracks, the 2011 Winner of the Australian 'Masterchef' series.
Other subject matter I paint includes landscape, still life and genre.
In 2012 I exhibited at the Swiss Art Space in Lausanne Switzerland and was published in a 65 ...

1994-1996 M.A.(Hons)-UWS1980-1981 Grad.Dip.Prof.Art Studies - A.M.C.A.E.1979 Grad.Dip.Education - Sydney Teachers College1970-1976 Diploma in Fine Art National Art School (Sydney)

1998 'ART IN PUBLIC SPACES'DAME JOAN SUTHERLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE, PENRITH
1999 'ANIMA ESPIRITO' CASULA POWERHOUSE, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
2000 'NEEDHAM RELIGIOUS ART PRIZE', RIDDOCH GALLERY, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
2004 'GENESIS' AGORA GALLERY, MANHATTAN, NEW YORK
2006 'ENSIEMME' UNIVERSIT OF WESTERN SYDNEY
2008 'AU NATURAL'CLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE, PORTLAND OREGON
2009 'GROUP SHOW' Shipley Gallery
2010 'PORTRAIT PRIZE' Bathurst Regional Gallery
2011 'ART FAIR' Bathurst Regional Gallery
2011 'GOLDEN MOMENTS' ARNOLD FREIN & DAVID NEWMAN-WHITE, PAINTINGS DRAWINGS & PRINTS
2012 'DRAWING 2012',SWISS ART SPACE,LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND November 1 - November 30.
2013 'VASE PAINTINGS 20 ARTISTS' Norman Lindsay Gallery & Museum, Faulconbridge NSW.
2014 'SKULLS PROJECT' Lithgow City Council
2015 'SKULLS PROJECT' Lithgow City Council
2015 GALLERY BLACKHEATH January 1 -31st December - Artist Cooperative. Changing shows every 8 weeks.
2016 'Pastel Portraits' Ben Roberts Gallery, Lawson NSW.
2016 'The Portraits in Pastel of David Newman-White', OZ Arts Magazine, Spring 2016
2017 'Time Leaves its Mark' Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Wondsor NSW, Australia. Commissioned to produce several large scale drawings of Artists from the Hawkesbury ...