DAVID KEATING
SEGMENTARY BODIES
OCTOBER 10 - NOVEMBER 2, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION
OCTOBER 9, 6-8PM
REQUEST THE CATALOGUE
SEGMENTARY BODIES
OCTOBER 10 - NOVEMBER 2, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION
OCTOBER 9, 6-8PM
REQUEST THE CATALOGUE
UPCOMING / ARCHIVE
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Segmentary Bodies is the exhibition title for a new body of work by Australian artist David Keating which explores how human bodies are coded, by a myriad of forces from the political and sexual to the ideological.
Composed of works on paper and video installation, Keating further suggests the body is a contentious site in which micro narratives between these forces play out, tracing how the body is inhabited, experienced and understood in contemporary society.
Dr. Keating focuses on several extensive series of line drawings, characterised by subversive humour and an idiosyncratic personal iconography filled with dissonant cultural vocabularies - which the artist calls ‘cinematic drawings’.
First solo exhibition, A Sun In His Head was a collaboration between CHAUFFEUR and COMA Gallery across two spaces in Darlinghurst 2019. Following on with The Containers at CHAUFFEUR Sydney in 2021. Segmentary Bodies is David Keating´s third solo exhibition at CHAUFFEUR, Sydney.
Past institutional commissions and participation include Sculpture Park at Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach (2012) and Art Altstetten Abisrieden, Zurich (2015) for Public Sculpture. Keating´s first institutional solo exhibition Endless Nameless at Kunsthaus Basel curated by Dr. Ines Goldbach and reviewed in Artforum (2014). Other significant institutional participation in the 1st Brussels Biennale at Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2009) and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (2008).
David Keating
Curious Syncronicities
Ink and acrylic on Saunders 425 gsm Paper and white board, acrylic framing
Paper: 38 x 50.5 cm, Acrylic box frame: 43 x 55.5 cm
2024
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Shitting Bricks
Ink and acrylic on Saunders 425 gsm Paper and white board, acrylic framing
Paper: 38 x 50.5 cm, Acrylic box frame: 43 x 55.5 cm
2024
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The Acrobat
Ink and acrylic on Saunders 425 gsm Paper and white board, acrylic framing
Paper: 38 x 50.5 cm, Acrylic box frame: 55.5 x 43 cm
2024
Keating lives and works in Regional Victoria and recently obtained a Doctorate in Philosophy at La Trobe University, Victoria (2023) and holds Bachelor of Fine Arts (Distinction) from The Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. The artist has been awarded the Australia Council Studio Residency, Los Angeles, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder Studio, Trondheim, Norway, the Danish Art Council Grant and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Scholarship.
Public collections include Auckland Art Gallery / Chartwell Trust Collection NZ. Private collections in NZ, Australia, USA, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and Germany.
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Can´t get you out of my head
Ink and acrylic on Saunders 425 gsm Paper and white board, acrylic framing
Paper: 38 x 50.5 cm, Acrylic box frame: 55.5 x 43 cm
2024
Segmentary Bodies is the exhibition title for a new body of work by Australian artist David Keating which explores how human bodies are coded, by a myriad of forces from the political and sexual to the ideological.
Composed of works on paper and video installation, Keating further suggests the body is a contentious site in which micro narratives between these forces play out, tracing how the body is inhabited, experienced and understood in contemporary society.
Dr. Keating focuses on several extensive series of line drawings, characterised by subversive humour and an idiosyncratic personal iconography filled with dissonant cultural vocabularies - which the artist calls ‘cinematic drawings’.
First solo exhibition, A Sun In His Head was a collaboration between CHAUFFEUR and COMA Gallery across two spaces in Darlinghurst 2019. Following on with The Containers at CHAUFFEUR Sydney in 2021. Segmentary Bodies is David Keating´s third solo exhibition at CHAUFFEUR, Sydney.
Past institutional commissions and participation include Sculpture Park at Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach (2012) and Art Altstetten Abisrieden, Zurich (2015) for Public Sculpture. Keating´s first institutional solo exhibition Endless Nameless at Kunsthaus Basel curated by Dr. Ines Goldbach and reviewed in Artforum (2014). Other significant institutional participation in the 1st Brussels Biennale at Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2009) and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (2008).
David Keating
Curious Syncronicities
Ink and acrylic on Saunders 425 gsm Paper and white board, acrylic framing
Paper: 38 x 50.5 cm, Acrylic box frame: 43 x 55.5 cm
2024
Shitting Bricks
Ink and acrylic on Saunders 425 gsm Paper and white board, acrylic framing
Paper: 38 x 50.5 cm, Acrylic box frame: 43 x 55.5 cm
2024
The Acrobat
Ink and acrylic on Saunders 425 gsm Paper and white board, acrylic framing
Paper: 38 x 50.5 cm, Acrylic box frame: 55.5 x 43 cm
2024
Keating lives and works in Regional Victoria and recently obtained a Doctorate in Philosophy at La Trobe University, Victoria (2023) and holds Bachelor of Fine Arts (Distinction) from The Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. The artist has been awarded the Australia Council Studio Residency, Los Angeles, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder Studio, Trondheim, Norway, the Danish Art Council Grant and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Scholarship.
Public collections include Auckland Art Gallery / Chartwell Trust Collection NZ. Private collections in NZ, Australia, USA, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and Germany.
Can´t get you out of my head
Ink and acrylic on Saunders 425 gsm Paper and white board, acrylic framing
Paper: 38 x 50.5 cm, Acrylic box frame: 55.5 x 43 cm
2024