David Wong
David Wong is a designer and artist working from his studio/home in Brunswick.
His work embraces a wide range of media including paint, wood, metal, glass, found objects, and plant and earth materials. His assemblages challenge perception, using material as landscape, and landscape as material. He has completed several public art commissions and has exhibited at galleries including Heide Park and Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Victoria Access Gallery, and at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show. He is well represented in public and private collections.
David facilitates communities in projects, including the design and construction of the Chapel of Hope for the House of the Gentle Bunyip at the Community Church of St Mark. He has worked as a design team member for the Ian Potter Children’s Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne and the City of Melbourne CH2 Building.
David received the Thomas J Watson Foundation Fellowship award in 1973 to study alternative communities Europe, the Middle East and Australia. While in Melbourne he met Athol Gill and became involved with the House of the Gentle Bunyip as an associate member and a staff worker. He has also been a member of the Community Church of St Mark.
David is a lecturer at university and at community organisations. With the Arts Victoria Artists in Schools program he facilitates projects on both primary and secondary levels. He has just completed an art project with the Brighton Beach Primary School.
You can contact David at: [email protected]
His work embraces a wide range of media including paint, wood, metal, glass, found objects, and plant and earth materials. His assemblages challenge perception, using material as landscape, and landscape as material. He has completed several public art commissions and has exhibited at galleries including Heide Park and Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Victoria Access Gallery, and at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show. He is well represented in public and private collections.
David facilitates communities in projects, including the design and construction of the Chapel of Hope for the House of the Gentle Bunyip at the Community Church of St Mark. He has worked as a design team member for the Ian Potter Children’s Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne and the City of Melbourne CH2 Building.
David received the Thomas J Watson Foundation Fellowship award in 1973 to study alternative communities Europe, the Middle East and Australia. While in Melbourne he met Athol Gill and became involved with the House of the Gentle Bunyip as an associate member and a staff worker. He has also been a member of the Community Church of St Mark.
David is a lecturer at university and at community organisations. With the Arts Victoria Artists in Schools program he facilitates projects on both primary and secondary levels. He has just completed an art project with the Brighton Beach Primary School.
You can contact David at: [email protected]
