David Pennay

David Pennay is an Associate Lecturer Digital Design, in the Animation and Interactive Media degree program, for the School of Design, within the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University. He has worked in the animation industry, Community Arts.

David is passionate about stop motion animation, creating art based animations and experimenting with alternative animation techniques. David has worked on many public projects and exhibitions, creating animated content from AR exhibitions to street projections including GSPF and White Night. 

David has been lecturing at RMIT since 2010, David, worked freelance creating educational stop-motion animations and has collaborated with many Melbourne based animation studios. For the past decade David has facilitated multiple stop-motion animation workshops at Footscray Community Arts Centre, animating with adults with intellectual and learning disabilities as a Teaching Artist. David has helped participants in using animation as an expression of identity, including Arts Victoria “Artist in Schools” projects, Running Hothouse and other workshops at ACMI, as well as working across many Melbourne councils facilitating a wide range of public animation programs.

David works have been screend nationaly and exhibited at The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery Of Modern Art - in The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art ‘The Magic Arts: Australian Animation from the 1970s to Now’ 2021-2022.