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David Stephenson

Photography

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Vaults 2006 - 2007
9 November to 4 December 2007

Marking Time
16 March to 8 April 2007
Gallery Carnegie

Skeletons
12 to 25 March 2003

Dome Photographs
12 October to 7 November 2001

Visions of Heaven: The Dome
in European Architecture

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David Stephenson - Curriculum Vitae (November 2007)

Born 1955 in Washington, D.C. USA
to Australia 1982, American and Australian citizenship

Academic Qualifications

2001 Doctor of Philosophy, University of Tasmania
1982 Master of Fine Art, University of New Mexico
1980 Master of Art, University of New Mexico
1979 Bachelor of Fine Art with Honors, University of Colorado
Bachelor of Art with Honors (Art History), University of Colorado

Academic Appointments

2004- Head of Research, School of Art, University of Tasmania
1984-2004 Head of Photography, School of Art, University of Tasmania
1982-83 Tutor, School of Art, University of Tasmania
1979-81 Teaching Assistant, Art Department, University of New Mexico

Grants and Commissions

2007-08 Australia Council Visual Arts Fellowship
2002

IRGS Grant (with Bill Hart)

2001 Australia Council Visual Art/Craft Fund Project Grant
2000 Australian Research Council Grant
1996 Australia Council Visual Art/Craft Fund Project Grant
1995 Australian Research Council Grant (with A MacDonald, R. Arnold)
1993 Arts Tasmania Project Grant (with Anne MacDonald)
1992 Australia Council Visual Arts/Crafts Board Overseas Studio Grant
1991 University of Tasmania Antarctic Commission
1990 Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board Art in Public Places Commission
1989 Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board Art in Public Places Commission
1988 University Research Grant
1985 University Research Grant
1984 New Parliament House Photography Commission
1983 CSR Photography Project Commission
Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board Grant
1980 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1979 Ford Foundation Grant, through the University of New Mexico

Individual Exhibitions

2007

Vaults, Julie Saul, New York
Vaults 2006-07
, Boutwell Draper, Sydney
Selected Photographs 1993-2003
, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

Marking Time
, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart

2006

Symétries sublimes, photographies de David Stephenson, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, curated by Jorge Calado, with full colour 140 page catalogue

2005 Drawing Time, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2004

David Stephenson, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Cupolas, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Dome Photographs 2000-2003
,
Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta

2003 David Stephenson: The Dome Project, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, NY
Skeletons, Bett Gallery Hobart
2000 Heaven, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Cupolas, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Dome, CAST Gallery, Hobart
Virtual Dome, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
Starlight: David Stephenson Photographs, Cleveland Museum of Art, USA
Space + Light: David Stephenson Photographs, 1982-1996, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Dome Photographs, 1993-2000, Bett Gallery Hobart
1999 Stars, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
Domes, Dolphin, Kansas City
1998 Sublime Space: David Stephenson Photographs 1989-98, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Anatomies, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Domes, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Domes, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
1996 Transfigurations, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Transfigurations, Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland for Fotofeis International Festival of Photography in Scotland
1994 Winter, James Danziger Gallery, New York
Dark Nature, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart (collaboration with Anne MacDonald)
The Ice, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1993 Dissolution, Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne
The Ice, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1992 Vast, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
Vast, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
1991 Vast, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
Vast, Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery
1990 Untitled 1989-90, Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne
Untitled 1989-90, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
1989 David Stephenson, Selected Photographs 1979-89, Salamanca Place Gallery, Hobart
David Stephenson, Gallerie Cimitiere, Launceston
1988 David Stephenson, Salamanca Place Gallery, Hobart
1987 Mountain/Sea, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart
David Stephenson, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1985 David Stephenson, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
David Stephenson, The Friends of Photography, Carmel
1984 David Stephenson, The Developed Image, Adelaide
1983 The Divided Landscape, Robert Freidus Gallery, New York
David Stephenson, The Developed Image, Adelaide
Extended Landscape, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, Hobart
1982 David Stephenson, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
1981

David M Stephenson, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco
Trans Alaska Pipeline, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Group Exhibitions

2007

Ingenuidades: Fotografia e Engenharia 1846-2006, curated by Jorge Calado Galeria de Exposições Temporårias da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (BOZAR)
Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund
, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, Sydney
Cross Currents: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art
, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2006

From an Island South (Asialink/Devonport Regional Gallery touring exhibition curated by Jane Stewart) touring venues in Asia.
aniGma-2006 The 3d Novosibirsk International Festival of Digital Imaging,
Animation & Video-Art, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia, curated by Andrey Martynov.
Different Dimension, 1st Novosibirsk International Festival of contemporary photography, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia, curated by Andrey Martynov.
A Precipitation in Time, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport, curated by Troy Ruffels
Artbank: Celebrating 25 Years of Australia Art, Redland Art Gallery,
Queensland, and national tour, curated by Antonia Syme et al.

2005

Studies in Meditation, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, New York.
Looking South, Plimsoll Galley, Centre for the Arts, Hobart.
The Place Where Three Dreams Cross,
Plimsoll Galley, Centre for the Arts, Hobart (national tour).
Breaking Ice, Adam Art Gallery,
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Idiosyncrasy: Painting and Photography, Qld Centre for Photography, Brisbane.
Transformer, Long Gallery, Hobart.
Points of View: Australian Photography, 1985-95,
Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney.
Olhares Estrangeiros, Fotografias de Portugal, Colecçao da Caixa de Depositos, Fidelidade Mundial Chiado 8, Lisbon.    

2004

Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Foundation for the Arts Photography Award
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise.
I want to take you higher, McKenzie Fine Art, New York.
Australian Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.
Tidal: City of
Devonport Art Prize (Tasmanian Artist Award winner)
Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport
The Nature Machine
,
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

2003 Sky Lounge – Future Projections, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
First Impressions: Contemporary Australian Photograms, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Future Perfect, Bett Gallery Hobart and assorted venues
Second Sight: Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
American Beauty, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
2002

Gold Coast Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award (winner)
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise.
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
In Sequence, Dolphin Fine Art, Kansas City.

2001

Striking: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Monash Gallery of Art Collection, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne.
Between Phenomena-The Panorama and Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart.
Night Light: Photographs of heavenly bodies, 1885-2000, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston.

1999 Mount Wellington – Peak and Pinnacle, Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart
An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. and national tour
Artificial Nature: a survey of vintage and contemporary photograms, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Striking: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Monash Gallery of Art Collection, Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne, Casula Powerhouse Gallery, Sydney
Earth Sky, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
Tempus Fugit/Time Flies, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
1998 Waterproof, Festival of 100 days/EXPO '98, Belen Art Centre, Lisbon
Click, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
Parliament House Photography Project: David Stephenson and Debra Phillips, Parliament House, Canberra
Constellations, University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art, Kansas City
Drawings from Light 2: The Contemporary Imagination, Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne
Ground Control, Lombard-Freid Contemporary Art, New York
1997 Oceans and Galaxies, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York
Vantage, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Site and Sensibility - selections from the Art Bank Collection, S. H. Irvin Gallery, Sydney
What's New II, Waverley Gallery, Melbourne
The Blake Prize, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
1996 Imagine Nature, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania Centre for the Arts, Hobart
Brushing the Dark: Recent Art and Tasmania, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, and national tour
The Power to Move: Recent Australian Photography,  Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Inheritance, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Contemporary Australian Photography from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Out Takes: Obscure Works by Gallery Artists,  Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Gold Coast City Conrad Jupiters Art Prize  (winner), Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
City of Hobart Art Prize, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart
1995 Likeness, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Figure/Ground, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
The Derwent Collection: Australian Art of the 1980s and 1990s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
The Blundstone Contemporary Art Prize (Aquisitive Award) Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, and national tour
1994 Tradition and the Unpredictable: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Pictograms: Aspects of Contemporary Photographic Practice, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne and national tour
The Full Spectrum: Colour and Photography in Australia 1860s to 1990s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Landed: Landscape Art in Australia, 1960-90, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Antarctica: Secrets of the Frozen World, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart,  and Museum of Victoria, Melbourne
An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, and international tour
Tableaux: Works from the Monash University Collection, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1993 To the Surface-Contemporary Landscape, Centre for the Arts, Hobart
Artists in Antarctica-Visions of the Frozen World, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Reflex, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, and national tour
1992 A Show of Strength, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
Location, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, and Australasian tour
Intimations of Mortality, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Contemporary Works, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
1991 42° South, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart, and Australia/ NZ tour
David Stephenson/Ray Arnold, Cradle Mountain Visitor Centre, Tasmania
Agfa National Photography Exhibition, Albury Regional Art Centre, New South Wales
1990 Fragmentation and Fabrication: Recent Australian Photography, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1989 Night, Nacht, Noir, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart
Tableaux Mourant, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania
1988 Australian Photography: the 1980's, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and national tour
The CSR Photography Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Landfall, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart
A Place For Art, Centre for the Arts Gallery, Hobart
1987 Photogenics: Works from the University Collection, University of Tasmania Fine Arts Gallery, Hobart
Australian Contemporary Photographers, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
On Collecting Photographs: Master Photographs from St. Louis Private Collections, University of Missouri, St. Louis
The New Romantics, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, and regional tour
1986 New Views: Landscape Photographs From Two Continents, University of Missouri, St, Louis
CSR Photography Project, Queensland Art Gallery and regional tour
Recent Australian Photography, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1985 Festival of Perth Exhibition, Editions Gallery, Fremantle
Approaching Landscape, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart and Penrith Regional Gallery, New South Wales
1984 Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
1983 Australian Perspecta 1983, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and national tour
Landscape/Cityscape, Susan Spiritus Galley, Newport Beach
Not a Picture Show, Long Gallery, Hobart, and national tour
Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1982 Recent Acquisitions, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Year of the Tree, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Southwest Regional Photography, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Northlight Southwest, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University
1981 New Photographs, Robert Freidus Gallery, New York
Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Northlight Southwest, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe
Contemporary Photoworks, Downtown Centre for the Arts, Albuquerque
Five States Photography, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico
Exposure Time V, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia\
Exposure 1981, Cheltenham Art Centre, Pennsylvania
Sixth Annual Magic Silver Show, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky
Prints and Photographs, The Print Club, Philadelphia
1980 Western Landscape Photography, 1850-1980, Crocker Art Museum,  Sacramento, California
Contemporary Photography, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
La Grange National V, CVAA Art Gallery, La Grange, Georgia
Eccentricities, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
Conceptions Southwest, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Northlight Southwest, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe
Photospiva 80, Spiva Art Center, Joplin, Missouri
University of New Mexico Travelling Exhibition, to galleries in New York, Maine, Virginia, and Texas
Photo-Media, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
MA/MFA Exhibition, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
1979 Photograph as Document, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
Photoworks, Bellevue Art Museum, Washington
Exposure: Ideas and Images in Contemporary Photography, Boulder Arts Centre, Colorado
Colorado Photographers, Emmanuel Gallery, Auraria Campus, Denver
Pictures, Diablo Valley College Gallery, California
Four Corners Exhibition, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe
Boulder Arts 1979, Boulder Arts Centre, Colorado
Albuquerque Contemporary Arts, Downtown Centre for the Arts and  Meridian Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1978 Works on Paper, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, and seven gallery regional tour

Collections

Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Arizona State University, Tempe
Art Bank, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, New York

Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester
La Grange College, La Grange, Georgia
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Monash University, Melbourne
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Collection of Photography, Centro Português de Fotografia, Oporto

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Parliament House, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney

University of Sydney

University of Tasmania, Hobart
Victorian Department of Education, Melbourne

Wellesley College Museum of Art, Massachusetts

Corporate Collections

Bank of America
Citibank
Deutsche Bank
Goldman Sachs & Co.
Mellon Financial Corp.
Pfizer, Inc.

Books and Catalogues

John Stringer: Cross Currents: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2007

David Stephenson: Visions célestes: Les plus belles coupoles d'Europe, Éditions Citadelles & Mazenod, Paris, 2007.
Jorge Calado: Ingenuidades: Fotografia e Engenharia 1846-2006, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2006.
Jorge Calado: David Stephenson: Sublime Symmetries, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2006.
David Stephenson: Visions of Heaven: The Dome in European Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2005.
Isobel Crombie and Susan van Wyk: Second Sight: Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003.
David Stephenson (with essay by Greg French): Skeletons, Space + Light Editions, Hobart, 2003
Charles Green and Jason Smith: Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002

Jan Schall, editor: Tempus Fugit: Time Flies, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, and University of Washington, Seattle, 2001.

David Stephenson (with essay by Keith F. Davis): Stars, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, Space + Light Editions, Hobart, 1999
Blair French, editor: Photo files: an Australian photography reader, Power Publications, Power Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, 1999
Susan Van Wyk: Sublime Space: David Stephenson Photographs, 1989-98, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1998
Keith F. Davis: An American Century of Photography: From Dry Plate to Digital (2nd Edition, Revised and Enlarged), Abrams, New York, 1998
Jorge Calado: A Prova de Agua/Waterproof, Edition Stemmle, Zurich, 1998
David Stephenson : "Transfigurations", 5 colour illustrations pp. 98-103, in Pedersen, B M, editor: Fine Art Photography 2, Graphis Inc, New York, 1997
Victoria Hammond, editor: Brushing the Dark- Recent Art and Tasmania, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Hobart, 1996
Peter Hay, editor: Imagine Nature, School of Art, University of Tasmania, 1996
Anne Kirker:  The Power to Move, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1996
David Stephenson and Victoria Hammond: Cupolas, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, and Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, 1996
Alasdair Foster, Ken Gill, and Euan McArthur, editors: Fotofeis '95- International Festival of Photography in Scotland, Fotofeis Ltd, Edinburgh, 1995
Edward Colless: The Error of My Ways, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1995
Stuart Koop and David Stephenson: The Ice, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1994
Museum of Fine Arts: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection: Tradition and the Unpredictable, Houston, 1994
Keith F. Davis: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, Hallmark, Kansas City, 1994
David Stephenson: "Marks in the Landscape: Notes 1979-1991", Our Common Ground- A Celebration of Art, Place & Environment, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects & The Centre for Environmental Studies, Hobart, 1994
Ray Arnold: To the Surface-Contemporary Landscape, Plimsol Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, 1993
Juliana Engberg: Location, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1992
John Mcqueenie: 42° South, Chameleon, Hobart 1991
Fred Levine: "And we fill the void with our presence- An introduction to the photographs of David Stephenson", Vast: Photographs from Europe and Antarctica 1990-91, by David Stephenson, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, 1991
National Association for Visual Arts:  Who's Who of Australian Artists, Thorpe, Melbourne, 1991
Max Germaine: Artists and Galleries of Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990
Sue Backhouse: Tasmanian Artists of the Twentieth Century, Pandani Press, Hobart, 1988
Jim Logan: Night, Nacht, Noir, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart, 1989
Anne MacDonald: Tableaux Mourant, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1989
Helen Ennis: Australian Photography: The 1980's, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, and Melbourne Oxford University Press, Oxford, Auckland, New York, 1988
Sandra Byron: The CSR Photography Project Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1988
Jonathon Holmes: Photogenics: Works From The University Collection, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1987
David Stephenson: Mountain/Sea, Chameleon, Hobart, 1987
Graeme Sturgeon: The New Romantics, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1987
Tom Patton: New Views: Landscape Photographs From Two Continents  University of Missouri, St. Louis, 1986
Christine Godden: CSR Photography Project: Selected Works, CSR, Ltd. Sydney, 1986
Jan McDonald: Australian Artists' Index, Arts Libraries Society, Sydney, 1986
David Stephenson: New Landscapes: Photographs From Two Continents  University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1985
Ray Arnold: Approaching Landscape, Chameleon, Hobart 1985
Glen Puster and Gayle Pollard: Not a Picture Show, Hobart, 1983
Bernice Murphy: Australian Perspecta 1983, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Tasmanian School of Art: Extended Landscape, Hobart, 1983
Harvey Himmelfarb and Roger D. Clisby: Large Spaces in Small Places, A Survey of Western Landscape Photography: 1850-1980, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 1980
Boulder Arts Center: Exposure: Ideas and Images in Contemporary Photography, Boulder, Colorado, 1979

Articles and Reviews

Margarett Loke: “David Stephenson: Heaven”, The New York Times, February 11, 2000
Stuart Koop: “David Stephenson”, Art/Text, No. 64, Sydney, February 1999
Peter Timms: “Finding that uncool beauty in nature”, The Age, Melbourne, 5 May 1999
Elisabeth Kirsch: “David Stephenson: Domes”, Kansas City Star, July 29, 1999
Anna Clabburn: “Male artists meet the heroic challenge”, The Age, Melbourne, 16 September 1998
Courtney Kidd: "The Unframed Eye: Perspectives on Antarctica", Art and Australia, Volume 33, Number 4, Sydney, 1996
John MacDonald: "Peaks of inspiration", Sydney Morning Herald, 4 May 1996
Giles Auty: "Theories with holes", The Weekend Australian, 11-12 May 1996
Susan Falkiner: "Brushing the Dark", Art Monthly Australia, No. 90 June 1996
Barb Smith: "Fotofeis International Festival of Photography in Scotland", Art Monthly Australia, No. 90 June 1996
Freda Freiberg: "Photography"(review of Transfigurations at Robert Lindsay Gallery), The Age, Melbourne, 20 September 1996
Michael Read: "Phenomena", in See, Issue 1:4, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, 1995
A. D. Colman: "Photography", The Observer, New York, February 1994
Sean Kelly: "Dark Nature", Contemporary Art Tasmania Issue No. 3, Hobart, Autumn, 1994
Jonathon Holmes: "The Green and the Wild: Dark Nature, Anne MacDonald and David Stephenson", Artlink Vol. 14, No. 2, Winter, 1994
Robert Rooney: "Absence makes an odd appearance" The Weekend Australian, August 6-7, 1994
Adrian Colman: "Time and the Photographer", Research News No. 6, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1993
Elwyn Lynn: "Exposure to contrast", The Weekend Australian, July 31-August 1, 1993
Elwyn Lynn: "Photos to go places", The Weekend Australian, August 7-8, 1993
Greg Neville: "Conditioned Reflex", The Age, Melbourne, December 15, 1993
"Breaking Rules, Okay", Australian Photography, Sydney, December 1993
Greg Neville: "An art in search of identity", The Age, Melbourne, December 31, 1993
Robert Rooney: "Focus on Asian Relations", The Weekend Australian, December 5-6, 1992
Sean Kelly: "42 Degrees South", Art & Text, Number 39, May 1991, Melbourne
Greg Neville: "Stephenson has nature's power of astonishment", The Age, Melbourne, 22 November 1991
Edward Colless: "David Stephenson", Photofile, Number 34, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, December 1991
Stephanie Radok: "Anti-aesthetics", Artlink, Vol 11 No 4, Summer 1991/92, Adelaide, 1991
Beatrice Faust: "Focus is on the dignity of labor", The Age, Melbourne, 2/3/90
Stuart Koop: "David Stephenson at Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery", Agenda, Ewing and George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University, Melbourne, 1990
Photographs reproduced in Island, Issue 45, Spring 1990, Hobart
David McDowell: "Playing Dead and Other Affectations", Photofile, Summer 1989-90
Susan Leggett: "Monumental landscapes related to man", The Mercury, Hobart. 9/9/89
Edward Colless: "Hobart Commentary", Art and Australia, September 1989
Beatrice Faust: "Glamour, mystery, and magic", The Age, 24/6/87, Melbourne
Heather Curnow: "Mountain/Sea", Photofile, Sydney, Spring 1987
Heather Curnow: "Talented interpreter captures essence of Tassie landscape", The Mercury, 6/8/87, Hobart
John McDonald: "Romantics under the umbrella", Sydney Morning Herald, 26/9/87
Elwyn Lynn: "Rescued from their ersatz agony", The Weekend Australian, 26-27/9/87
Mark Hinderacker: "Panoramas..", Sydney Morning Herald, April 1,1985
Jonathon Holmes: "Resuming our journey into the landscape...", Art and Australia, Volume 22, Number 4, Sydney, 1985
Geoffrey Lea: "Baring nature's soul", The Mercury, 20/7/85, Hobart
Brian Allison: "David Stephenson", Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Autumn 1984
Jonathon Holmes: "Provincialism and Art", Island 14, Hobart, 1983
Marion Hardman: "Not a Picture Show (Calling the Shots)", supplement to Island 16, Hobart, 1983
Jonathon Holmes: "Not a Picture Show", Photofile Spring 1983 Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 1983
Annette Van den Bosch: "Anzart-in-Hobart", Art Network Winter 1983, Melbourne, 1983
Jonathon Holmes: "Contemporary Visual Arts in Tasmania", Australian Art Review, Sydney, 1983
Jonathon Holmes: "Contemporary Visual Arts in Tasmania", Studio International, Volume 196, Number 1002, London, October 1983
Ben Lifson: "The Conscience of Collections", The Village Voice, July 22-28, New York, 1981
Visual Studies Workshop: Afterimage, Volume 8, Number 5, Rochester, New York,1980
Ned Rifkin: "Southwest 1978- Works on Paper", Artweek, Number 18, San Francisco, 1978

Curatorial

1985 New Landscapes: Photographs from Two Continents, a survey exhibition of recent landscape photography in Australia and America; Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, The Developed Image, Adelaide, The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, and the University of Missouri- St. Louis, USA.  Full color catalogue.

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