Wade Goring

GWA (aka Wade Goring) is primarily a 2D digital artist and illustrator, but is always willing to try new things. His art is influenced by and comments on queer culture, comic art, street art, pop art, pop surrealism, cinema, concept design and advertising.

GWA's artistic interest began in high school where he studied art through out and learned many of the techniques he still employs to this day.

While traditional art study didn’t continue after graduating, GWA studied film and television production which relied on his visual strengths and further developed them.

Around 2006, He stumbled upon a set on online tutorials that showed an artist further developing their pencil sketches in Adobe Photoshop to make striking works that would be difficult to created if you weren’t an adept traditional painter. Inspired, GWA searched for more tutorials online and began to learn a great deal about the program but also became reinvigorated to draw and express through art. Years working in TV had disciplined GWA with regard to narrative and this affected the art he began to create.

To this day GWA continues to experiment with Photoshop, and many other mediums, always starting was pencil to paper. Sometimes the drawings all but disapp...

2015 - Light Space Time Online Art Gallery. Selected to exhibit in the annual ‘Animals’ exhibition.

2015 - Avant Card artist initiative. Selected as feature artist that saw 'Eyescream' printed on 10,000 postcards and placed in Avant Card stands nation wide.

2016 - Ambush Gallery, Sydney. Selected to exhibit as part of the Human 3.0 exhibition.

2016 - Selected to design the 2016 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras volunteers t-shirts worn by over 500 volunteers throughout the festival.

2016 - WINNER 'Best Painting' at Bent Art 2016 as judged by Matthys Gerber and Catherine O'Donnell.

2016 - FINALIST Contemporary Art Awards 2016.

2016 - FINALIST Nonesuch Art on Paper Awards, Nova Scotia, Canada.

2017 - FINALIST Inaugural Queer Art Prize Australia.

2017 - FINALIST Contemporary Art Awards 2017.

2017 - WINNER 2nd Prize Overall Exhibition Runner Up, Bent Art 2017.

2017 - Solo Exhibition 'Outrageous Animals'. The Shop Gallery, Glebe.

2017 - Highly Commended. ArtFest Digital.

2017 - Brunswick Street Gallery. Selected to exhibit as part of 'RESPECT - A Queer Affair'.

2017 - Budd Street Gallery, Collingwood VIC. Selected to exhibit as part of 'Queer Apocalypse'.

2017 - Lulu Cafe Gallery, North Melbour...