David Purdon’s photographic work is mostly landscape photography, but the beauty of digital photography is that the camera can be turned on anything interesting that appears before the photographer.
He studied sculpture and photography at the Tasmanian School of Art in the late 1970s. Since then he has been an Art Teacher at Burwood State College, Swinburne TAFE College, Melbourne Grammar School, and Girton Grammar School. He also worked for 25 years at Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre.
He has had previous exhibitions of photography, sculpture and painting in various galleries including The Tin Shed Gallery in Malmsbury, Finch’s of Macedon and Hawthorn City Gallery. He has also exhibited with groups including the Mount Alexander Photographic Society at their exhibition held last year at the Newstead Arts Hub.
His influences include painters, notably Jackson Pollock, Fred Williams and Jeffery Smart; and photographers, including James Brandenburg, Ansel Adams and Edward Weston.
David takes inspiration from the words of William Blake: “To see the world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
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