photography by David Stephenson

Dome Photographs, 1993-2000

Exhibition Notes

David Stephenson was born in 1955 in Washington D.C., and studied at the Universities of Colorado and New Mexico, completing a MFA in 1982. That year he moved to Australia, and now heads the photography program at the University of Tasmania School of Art in Hobart. A fascination for the sublime has led him to travel and photograph extensively around the world, with journeys to both the Arctic and Antarctica.

The Domes project was begun in 1993 during an Australia Council residency in Italy, and he has returned several times to build a collection of hundreds of images of cupolas from buildings all over Europe.

Stephenson’s photographs have been exhibited widely in Australia and overseas, including individual exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (1993), the National Gallery of Victoria (1998) and the Cleveland Museum of Art, USA (2001). His work is represented in many private and public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the Bibliotecque Nationale in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.