David Ryan

David Ryan completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Central School of Art, the Victorian College of Art and the University of Melbourne.  Masters at RMIT University, Melbourne.  He has had 22 solo exhibitions in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Auckland and Nelson, including the Suter Art Gallery.  Also 33 group exhibitions including National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of NSW, Auckland Art Fair, Whitespace Gallery.  Ryan's work is held in Public Collections including the Australian National Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, and the James Wallace Collection.  Ryan was former Co-Director of Project Space Gallery, Melbourne and a former senior lecturer at the Faculty of Art and Design, RMIT University, Melbourne.  

"How do you evoke that which is sliding away, constantly changing, and becoming something else, where things are both too far and too close... sometimes a small insight will surface and in that one moment there is possibility and a chance to see and perhaps understand." (David Ryan).   

The majority of the works listed below are from David Ryan's recent exhibition at the Quiet Dog Gallery.  Titled 'LAST TRACE Pale Ice Dark Light' the series of works were paintings, drawings and notations on the art of walking. 

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