David Wills is a visual artist working predominantly with digital photography and photo installation. His practice is street-based, bringing to attention the insignificant details of our urban and civic spaces, particularly the unloved and unwanted. Focus is on the residue of consumer activity and traces of human interaction. In addition to his significant archive of digital imagery, Wills is also interested in the notion of image saturation through the pages of mass-market magazines. Images are gleaned from thousands of magazines and sorted into files producing an archive that considers human aspiration.
Wills has recently completed his PhD at the Australian National University in Canberra. He was a recent Artist in Resident at the Fraser Street Studios in Chippendale. He currently lives in Sydney and lectures at the National Art School and Sydney College of the Arts in the Photography and Photomedia workshops respectively. David's self-portrait Puddled State was selected for the National Photography Portrait Prize 2009 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery which is currently touring regional Australia.
Turnstile has been archived by the National Library of Australia as part of the Pandora Australian web archive project.
Exhibitions: Depending on the day Five or Free performance Puddled State There are too many things in the cupboard Suburban Zeitgeist Unthink* Midweek Social Salad Days Lurker Is Howard a tosser? He Said She Said Libidinal Cement Howard's Heroes Who is Happy? Too much chicken on your hands Bootlegs (Spycam) Bootlegs Audience or idol Birdfancier B3 Beauty Grab Proximity Question Why What we have lived through Extort
Also see: Paris Residency Cultural Mulch Five or Free Artist in Residence, National Art School Achievements