2026 Moores Building Art Space (solo show), Fremantle, AU
2025 Jacky Winter Gallery, Assembly (group show), Melbourne, AU
2024 Loy Luo Space, YELLOW (group show), New York, USA
2024 Contemporary Art Chronicle, VOLUME 7, Barcelona, Spain
2024 Launch LA, YOU ARE (solo show), Los Angeles, USA
2024 Aesthetica Art Prize 2024, Longlist Artist, York, UK
2023 Institut für Alles Mögliche, YOU ARE (solo show), Berlin, Germany
2022 Launch LA, Neon at La Cienega + West Third, Los Angeles, USA
2022 VIVID Light Festival, Neon collaboration with author Chelsea Watego, Sydney, AUS
2022 Brea Gallery, 37th Made in California (group show), Finalist, Los Angeles, USA
2022 Shockboxx Gallery, Regulated Garbage (group show), Los Angeles, USA
2022 Artshare LA, There from Here (group show), Los Angeles, USA
2021 Brea Gallery, 36th Made in California (group show), Finalist, Los Angeles, USA
2021 Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, The 66th Blake Prize, Finalist, Sydney, AUS
2020 Shockboxx Gallery, Minimalism (group show), Los Angeles, USA
2020 Launch LA Gallery, Neon installations on outer building, Los Angeles, USA
2020 Shockboxx Gallery, Word (group show), Los Angeles, USA
2020 Gallery 825, Penumbra (group show), Los Angeles, USA
2019 M16 Artspace, Drawing Prize, Finalist, Canberra, AUS
2019 Gallery 825, Applied Science (group show), Los Angeles, USA
2019 Center for Contemporary Art, Finalist, Therefore I Am, Orange County, USA
2018 Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, The 65th Blake Prize, Finalist, Sydney, AUS
2018 Center for Contemporary Art, Music for your Eyes, Finalist, Orange County, USA
2017 UNSWAD, Annual 17 (group show), Sydney, AUS
2017 Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Electron Salon (group show), Los Angeles, USA
Interviews + Publications
2025 Al-Tiba9, Directory of International Contemporary Artists
2024 Al-Tiba9, Limited Edition Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue 16, featured artist, September
2024 Al-Tiba9, Limited Edition Contemporary Art Magazine, artist interview, Issue16, September
2024 Contemporary Art Chronicle, Volume 7, online, August
2024 Aesthetica Art Prize, 2024, online profile, February
2023 British Vogue magazine, September
2023 The World of Interiors magazine, November
2022 Made in California, catalogue, April
2021 Made in California, catalogue, April
2020 The 66th Blake Prize, catalogue, February
2018 The 65th Blake Prize, catalogue, March
Education
University of NSW Art & Design, Australia
2018 Master’s Degree, Art
Central Institute of Technology, Australia
2004 Associate's Degree, Animation
ual: University of the Arts London, United Kingdom
1991 Undergraduate Degree, Graphic Design
Academic Appointments
2025 Murdoch University – Lecturer in Creative Media/Graphic Design (part-time)
Residencies
2025 Six month Fremantle Arts Centre, Artist in Residency Studio Program, Fremantle, Australia
2023 Three month artist residency, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
Awards
2017 UNSW Art & Design, Sculpture & Installation Award
Bio
Gough is a contemporary artist whose practice uses abstract geometry to explore connection – between individuals, communities and the environments they inhabit. Working across drawing, painting and sculpture, she visualises relationships rather than objects, using geometry as a shared visual language through which to consider how we are linked rather than separate. Her work draws on ideas from nature, cosmology and systems thinking, treating geometry as a bridge between physical and metaphysical realms. These forms become tools for reflecting on existence, interdependence and the ways in which human experience is embedded within larger ecological and social structures.
While each work operates as an individual composition, her paintings are conceived as interrelated elements within a larger system. Shapes, colours and structures echo across the series, forming visual links that mirror human connection – between people, places and shared environments. At a time when communities are negotiating cultural, political and social division, Gough’s work proposes an alternative visual language grounded in relationship and continuity. Through abstraction, it offers a contemplative space for considering how connection is formed, sustained and imagined.
Her art practice draws from years of experience as a designer. In the late 80’s, she moved to London (from Australia) to undertake design studies at The London College of Printing (now ual:). These were formative years, from which her love of typography, minimalist design and an introduction to Bauhaus aesthetics became the foundation of her 30 year design practice and, where threads can be seen in her current day art practice.
An opportunity for a traditional animation traineeship at the Disney Studios in Sydney in 2005 became a pivotal part of her conceptual thinking. With hand drawn animation – still drawings are presented linearly over time, to create the ‘illusion of life’ when viewed sequentially. It was here that she started to think deeply about time (ourselves) as it flows continuously from past to present and into the future.
She has exhibited in the United States, Germany and Australia – where her work has been included in the 65th & 66th Blake Prize and the Sydney VIVID Light Festival, along with achievements such as the UNSWA&D Sculpture & Installation Award. Exhibitions in Los Angeles have included: Made in California group shows, outer building neon installations and neon sculpture in the Miracle Mile district. A three month Berlin residency in 2023 concluded with a solo presentation and her recent solo exhibition in Los Angeles was featured in Curate LA’s ‘This Week’s Must See Art’ member news.
Connect
d.gough@unswalumni.com
@donna_gough
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