Harold David has established himself as one of Australia's leading celebrity portrait and fashion photographers. With an ability to create compositions that have been placed on many prominent magazine covers, his visceral images are enchanting and iconic.
In this new body of work, David explores the medium of painting. The influence of photography can be seen in his composition style, offering a sensation that ventures into his subconscious perspective, in expressionistic movements of colour.
David's new body of work, Beauty and the Apocalypse, encapsulates the beauty in uncertain times via means of abstraction. Rather than escaping from uncertainty, the work emphasises the fragile beauty found within uncertain moments.
"Each colour compliments the other sublimely as they sit on the edge of the unknown.
"The paintings are drawn from my subconscious and are non objective. Our time here is not infinite, and I choose beauty," said David.
The opening of Beauty and the Apocalypse is on Saturday, October 5 at 2pm. It runs until October 21 at Day Gallery, Govetts Leap Rd, Blackheath. Open Fri 11am-4pm, Sat-Sun 10am-5pm.
