Inkscapes
"These images are from a series of works on paper created over the last 2 years. Mainly created on site in the Central Victorian landscape Australia, with a few from the coastal area near Melbourne. My arts practice over the last 40 years has been predominantly sculpture. The last 6 years however I've been practicing works on paper using acrylic and ink."
— David Waters
David Waters
David Waters studied Bachelor of Arts - Sculpture at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Post Graduate studies at Victorian College of Arts. He transitioned from University to full time work in a nonferrous scrap metal/foundry, sustaining and informing his sculptural practice through found raw material and economic means.
In the early 1990’s, he began squatting and devoted intensive time to his arts practice, at the time being an unconventional form of leadlighting. He employed a punk ethos to use what was at hand and readily available, beginning a period of carving foam rubber.
Cont.
In 2000, a residency at Bundanon in New South Wales was a catalyst to have regular exhibitions, commercial galleries, and Artist Run spaces including various outdoor sculpture exhibitions around Victoria. He was a finalist at Lorne Sculpture Biennale and winner of the Montalto Award in 2005. During his time as Chairperson at Yarra Sculpture Gallery, an artist run space in Melbourne, Waters curated exhibitions and started thinking in terms of the gallery being a sculptural medium.
Over the past decade, he has had a parallel life as a restoration stonemason. These works on paper have provided Waters with the means to explore a medium that was spontaneous, utilising observation/referencing the coastal and inland environments he moves between.
