Life and work
Born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1951, Keeling spent his younger years there before moving to Melbourne in 1970, to attend the Swinburne Film and Television School. He returned to Tasmania in 1973 after completing his studies at Swinburne, and commenced a new course at the Tasmanian School of Art. [1] He went on to study at the Alexander Mackie School of Art in Sydney in 1981, and completed his master's in fine art at RMIT in 1999. Keeling currently lives and works in Hobart. [1]
David has acted as Chairman and Board Member of Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, and Artbank, Sydney. One critic has written: "Through a David Keeling frame, the tensions between change and continuity, survival and flourishing, interiors and the outside, a close pathway to an opening or an edge, are so often evident." [2] Another has described his work as: "An honest approach to the craft of painting." [3]
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