Dr David Chesworth

As a cross-disciplinary artist, composer and researcher, David has worked collaboratively and creatively in a wide range of fields, including visual art, music, screen-based media, performance and installation for the public domain, major museums and artist run initiatives. As a leading artist who represents Australia internationally, his practice involves video artwork production, composition, sound design, text and spoken-word.

Recently David has collaborated with Sonia Leber creating several large-scale video artworks and installations including for the Venice and Sydney Biennales.

David's practice-based research led him to his recent PhD investigation into ontologies of listening that included a case study of artists' rooms at Dia:Beacon in Upstate New York, featuring Robert Smithson, Robert Ryman, Max Neuhaus and Gerhard Richter. The research explored concepts that elucidate how framed experiences of sound and duration (qualitatively endured), enabled experiential insights not readily available through spatial and visual modalities. 

David was recently Associate Investigator at ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), where, with Sonia Leber, he completed 'Where Lakes Once Had Water', a significant research-based art/science artwork that investigates the Centre's climate research themes.

Arts website:  http://leberandchesworth.com/news/

Wiki website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chesworth

• Bachelor of Arts in Music (Honours), La Trobe University.
• PhD Fine Art, Monash University.  (Mollie Holman Medal for Best Faculty Thesis)

David Chesworth has a considerable range of collaborative project experience, through project commissions with arts organisations across many stratas of Australian culture. This has enabled him to develop creative and technical expertise in sound design, multimedia, sound art, visual art, performance, virtual/interactives, film and theatre.

Commissioning organisations include:

• ACT Public Art Program, Canberra
• Adelaide City Council 
• Adelaide Festival 
• Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria 
• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
• Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 
• Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne 
• Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney 
• Brisbane Powerhouse 
• Biennale of Sydney
• Biennale of Venice
• Botany Bay National Park, Sydney
• Cairns Esplanade Public Art Program, Cairns
• Cankarjev Dom Arts Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
• CDP Media, Sydney 
• Chamber Made Opera, Melbourne 
• Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK 
• Commonwealth Games, Melbourne 
• Customs House, Sydney 
• Detached Gallery, Hobart
• Freeman Ryan Design, Sydney
• Fremantle Arts Centre
• Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Zealand
• Helsinki International Art program
• IAS, Perth
• LAVA laboratory for visionary architecture, Sydney
• Lightwell, Sydney 
• London Olympic Delivery Authority, UK 
• Madrid Abierto, Spain 
• Major Projects Victoria, Melbourne
• Melbourne International Arts Festival 
• Melbourne Theatre Company 
• MONA FOMA, Hobart
• Melbourne Planetarium
• Museum of Sydney 
• Museum Victoria, Melbourne 
• National Museum of Australia, Canberra 
• Old Parliament House, Canberra 
• ORF Kunstradio, Vienna, Austria 
• Paris Autumn Festival 
• Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
• Port Arthur Historic Site, Tasmania 
• SoundCulture, Sydney 
• Sydney Olympic Park Authority 
• Taylor Cullity Lethlean landscape, Adelaide
• Tonkin Zulaikha Greer architects, Sydney
• UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
• West Space, Melbourne