Donna Gough

Gough’s multidisciplinary art practice links elements from drawing, painting, sculpture, and light-based media into a practice that unearths and visualizes connections between people and their environment.

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Investigating ideas around our very existence and our ‘place in space,’ while exploring existential concepts of the universal language of geometry and Gestalt theories of our relationship with nature and the cosmos – and in particular, how we as individuals contribute to the energy that connects us.

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Her art practice draws from years of experience as a designer. In the late 80’s, she moved to London (from Australia) to undertake design studies at The London College of Printing (now ual:). These were formative years, from which her love of typography, minimalist design and an introduction to Bauhaus aesthetics

became the foundation of her 30 year design practice and – where threads can be seen in her current day art practice.

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An opportunity for a 6 month traditional animation traineeship at the Disney Studios in Sydney in 2005 was pivotal in her conceptual thinking. In hand drawn animation, a sequence of still drawings are presented linearly, over time, to create the ‘illusion of life’ when viewed sequentially. It was here that she started to think deeply about time, how we experience it – and the illusion of time (ourselves) flowing continuously from past to present and into the future.

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She has exhibited in the United States, Berlin and Australia – where her work has been included in the 65th & 66th Blake Prize and the Sydney VIVID Light Festival, along with achievements such as the UNSWA&D Sculpture & Installation Award. Recent exhibitions in Los Angeles include: Made in California group shows, outer building neon installations at Launch LA and sculptural neon installations in the Miracle Mile district. A three month Berlin residency in 2023 concluded with a solo exhibit and her recent solo show in Los Angeles featured in Curate LA’s ‘Top 10 shows to see this week’ member news.