Donna Gough. Artist.
Exploring the real and the referential, linking elements from drawing, sculpture, installation and light-based media - parallels of light and consciousness underpin my conceptual framework.
Lives and works, Los Angeles
Group exhibitions
2020 Gallery 825 – Penumbra, Los Angeles, USA
2019 M16 Artspace Drawing Prize – Finalist, Canberra, Australia
2019 Gallery 825 – Applied Science, Los Angeles, USA
2019 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art – Finalist, Therefore I Am, Orange County, USA
2018 Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre – Finalist, The 65th Blake Prize, Sydney, Australia
2018 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art – Finalist, Music for your Eyes, Orange County, USA
2017 UNSW Art & Design – Annual 17, Sydney, Australia
2017 Los Angeles Center for Digital Art – Electron Salon, Los Angeles, USA
2017 Gaffa Gallery – Off Site, Sydney, Australia
2016 Los Angeles Center for Digital Art – Snap to Grid, Los Angeles, USA
Awards
2017 UNSW Art & Design, Annual 17 – Sculpture & Installation Award
Education
UNSW Art & Design, Australia
Pres. Graduate Certificate, Visualisation, Simulation, and Immersive Design
UNSW Art & Design, Australia
2018 Master’s Degree, Fine and Studio Arts
Animation Mentor, USA
2009 Associate's degree, Character Animation
Central Institute of Technology, Australia
2004 Associate's degree, Animation
ual: University of the Arts London, UK
1991 Undergraduate, Graphic Design for Print
Professional organisations
Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA)
National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)
Exploring the real and the referential, parallels of light and consciousness underpin my conceptual framework – embodying Vedic philosophy, quantum thinking and various multidimensional subjects with metaphysical and imaginative implications.
I am interested in the effect that light has on our psychology and spatial perception, with its inherent ability to influence the eye and mind of the viewer – and in using it as the means to contemplate space through the ephemeral nature of installations, where light adds an illusory dimension.
Linking elements from drawing, sculpture, installation and light-based media, my practice is an ongoing enquiry into concepts of the ‘unknown’ and the illusion of time (ourselves) flowing from the past towards the future as a subjective experience of consciousness.
