David Keeling is a painter fully grounded in western art‘s long history of classicism, the tradition which runs from Botticelli to Poussin, from Puvis de Chavannes to De Chirico. He uses that artistic language – that combination of figuration, narrative and landscape – to describe Australia‘s shorter and sadder history of invasion and ecological destruction.
David Keeling‘s work uncovers and expresses the beautiful, tragic, surreal poetry of the Tasmanian environment.
A Tasmanian monograph 2007 – hardcover.