David Hume

Australian Visual Artist

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Nixieland

Nixieland

Nixieland is a project I worked on in 2014. The idea was to build a nixie tube display and make a series of images from it. I ended up making just one image, and exhibiting that in a group photographic

David June 3, 2015January 18, 2019 Art, Photography Read more

les vélos qui sont Paris

les vélos qui sont Paris

I’ve been fascinated by the all the bikes here, the way people use them and how they interact while riding them. I’ve been peering at old bikes chained to fences and noticing the huge variety of riders as they whizz

David September 9, 2014 Photography, Travel Read more

Exhibition – The World We Live In

This post is about my most recent exhibition – a series of six works inspired by the LIFE Magazine book The World We Live In. In 1954 the US Magazine LIFE brought out an ambitious series of twelve articles under

David September 5, 2013April 4, 2015 Art, Photography Read more

Natural Light Food Photography – Then and Now

I’ve started having a look through my archived boxes of transparencies and putting some  on to a lightbox  to rephotograph with my DSLR. When I started doing food shots in the mid nineties I used a natural light, shallow depth of field,

David February 3, 2013 Photography Read more

Lessons Learned and Forgotten

I’ve been looking at old slides lately, thinking about the differences in taking photos 15 yrs ago compared with today, and I came upon this session from 1998. Shot with my Nikon FM2 and 35mm f2,8 lens on 100 ASA

David December 12, 2012December 27, 2020 Photography Read more
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Fleurieu, Perceptions of Place (2023)

Fleurieu, Perceptions of Place (2023)

A photographic exhibition for the SALA Festival of 2023

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I welcome feedback and like catching up with other visual artists, photographers and writers.

Cheers, David

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In this week's Substack, Gentle Reader, I ponder w In this week's Substack, Gentle Reader, I ponder whether we like film because it looks good, or whether we've simply learned to embrace its limitations. My Substack is linked in my bio. #filmphotography #fineartphotography #arttheory
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What’s Next for Team Dave?

In 2025 I'm working on a book based around a month I spent in Venice in 1995, as well as looking at new ways of rendering my ongoing low light seascape works.

In 2024 I began to develop ideas for some new work, which was exhibited in the Newmarch Gallery in May 2025.

2023 was mainly directed to working towards a solo show in August. This show formed part of the SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival and was held in Adelaide. It brought with it many wonderful things and made me very tired. I am now trying to recharge after three very challenging years. (Challenging, that is, by my standards.) I'm still working on a couple of series in 2024 though, and we'll see how that goes.

2021-22 saw the completion of a Masters Degree in Contemporary Art at UniSA. This was a return to full time study for the first time since 1984.

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