David Wadelton is an Australian artist who lives and works in Melbourne

Melbourne

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. He is best known for his cyber-pop painting

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

s, almost photorealist

Photorealism

Photorealism is the genre of painting based on using the camera and photographs to gather information and then from this information creating a painting that appears photographic...

 in style.

Career

Since 1984 he has had nearly 20 solo exhibitions in galleries in Melbourne and Sydney, including Pinacotheca, Melbourne and Annandale Galleries Sydney. The most recent exhibitions include Pop Life at Rex Irwin Gallery, 1998; Brand Power, Robert Lindsay Gallery Melbourne 1998; Techno Pop at Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, 2000; Brand New Release, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 2003 and a solo show at Tolarno Galleries during the 2004 Melbourne Art Fair. He has also been the subject of a major survey exhibition, "Pictorial Knowledge", at Geelong Art Gallery in 1998.

In addition to his painting career Wadelton has played in "new music" groups Ad Hoc and Signals with Dave Brown, Philip Thomson, Chris Knowles and James Clayden. Recently he has collaborated on a CD entitled "Morpho" with Dave Brown which was released in 2006.

Exhibitions

• 1982 Biennale of Sydney
  Biennale of Sydney
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• National Gallery of Victoria
  National Gallery of Victoria
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  - 2004 Australian Culture Now
• Australian National Gallery
• Art Gallery of New South Wales
  Art Gallery of New South Wales
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• MOCA Sydney
• Contemporary Arts Centre of South Australia
• Linden Art Gallery
• Museum of Modern Art at Heide
• Monash University
  Monash University
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   Gallery
• Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
  Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
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• 200 Gertrude Street Gallery
• City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
• Noosa Regional Gallery

Collections

• National Gallery of Victoria
• Australian National Gallery
• Monash University Art Gallery
• La Trobe University
  La Trobe University
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   Art Collection
• Artbank
• University of Queensland
  University of Queensland
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   Art Museum
• McClelland Art Gallery
• City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
• State Library of Victoria
  State Library of Victoria
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• Australian Opera