(b. Australia)
Lives and works, Los Angeles

Exhibitions + Residencies

2023 March - May, Artist Residency, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
2022    Launch LA - Neon at La Cienega and West Third, Miracle Mile, Los Angeles
2022    Vivid Light – Neon collaboration project with author, Chelsea Watego, Sydney, Australia
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, Australia
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, Australia
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, Australia
2018    Center for Contemporary Art – Music for your Eyes, Finalist, Orange County, USA
2017 UNSW Art & Design – Annual 17 (group show), Sydney, Australia
2017 Los Angeles Center for Digital Art – Electron Salon (group show), Los Angeles, USA
2017 Gaffa Gallery – Off Site (group show), Sydney, Australia

Education

University of NSW Art & Design, Australia
2018 Master’s Degree, Fine and Studio Arts

Central Institute of Technology, Australia
2004 Associate's degree, Animation

ual: University of the Arts (formerly London College of Printing), UK
1991 Undergraduate degree, Graphic Design

Awards

2017 UNSW Art & Design, Sculpture & Installation Award

Professional organisations

Los Angeles Art Association
ArtShare LA
National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)

Gough’s multidisciplinary art practice links elements from drawing, painting, digital and light-based media - into a practice that unearths and visualizes connections between people and the environment, with her conceptual framework exploring the real and the referential in an ongoing inquiry into concepts of the ‘unknown’ and the illusion of time (ourselves) flowing continuously from past to present and into the future.

Her art practice draws from years of experience as a designer. In the late 80’s, she moved to London to undertake design studies at The London College of Printing (now the University of the Arts London). These were formative years, from which her love of typography, minimalist design and Bauhaus theory and 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 6 month traditional animation traineeship at the Disney Studios in Sydney in 2005 was pivotal in her conceptual thinking. In hand drawn animation, a sequence of 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 and how we experience it.

Her more recent Master of Fine Art studies at the University of NSW Art & Design in Sydney encouraged a fusion of traditional art school subjects such as drawing and painting – with cutting edge technology such as 3D printing and spatial computing (AR). This was the perfect environment for her to bring the depth of her technology driven design practice into her art works.

She has exhibited in the United States 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. Recent exhibitions in Los Angeles include the Made in California group shows, outer building neon installations at the Launch LA gallery and more recently, a public art installation in the Miracle Mile district with the support of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

Contact d.gough@unswalumni.com

Donna Gough. Artist.