Artists Statement

Daniel Savage is a Canberra based artist working primarily in photography, video and performance. His practice is concerned broadly with perception - investigating the way our perceptions influence and affect our interactions with art, each other and the physical world. His work is often self-referential, employing his individual experience of disability as a point of difference to engage audiences in exploring and reassessing establish ideas and preconceptions that exist within society.

Daniel Savage - Artist CV

b. 1988, USA. | DanielSavageART@gmail.com | www.DanielSavage.com.au

Education

Bachelor of Visual Arts (honours 1st class) Majoring in Photography and Digital arts, 2013,
Australian National University, School of Art

Group/Solo Shows

2017

The Sublimation project, You Are Here Festival, Canberra, Australia
The Fall of Icarus and Rugby Creed, Meeting Place 2017 showcase, Perth, Australia
X0X0, Shortlisted for Unlimited festival international collaboration commission, UK

2016

The Fall of Icarus, 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston Tasmania
FluxAbility, SCIA Expo, Carriage Works, Sydney NSW
Elevator Vignettes, You Are Here festival, Canberra museum and gallery, A.C.T Australia
DisPlace, Belconnen Arts Centre, A.C.T, Australia

2015

Blaze 9, CCAS Gorman House, A.C.T. Australia
Print By Numbers, CCAS Manuka, A.C.T. Australia
Mental, Art Not Apart Festival, A.C.T. Australia
The Warming, The Australian Galleries, Melbourne Australia
Footy Fever, CCAS Gorman House. A.C.T Australia

2014

No offense, but…, BCS Gallery, A.C.T. Australia
The fall of Icarus, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston Tasmania
Spare Time, Photo space Gallery, A.C.T. Australia
One Night Stand, You Are Here festival, A.C.T. Australia
Ongoing Self Portrait, Belconnen Arts Centre, A.C.T. Australia

2013

Graduating exhibition 2013, ANU School of Art, A.C.T. Australia
The fall of Icarus, Drill Hall Gallery, A.C.T. Australia
Pinyao Photo festival, Pinyao, China
Nocturnal, Honkey Tonks, A.C.T. Australia

2012

For we are young and free, Toyota Spirit Gallery, Melbourne VIC Australia
Graduating exhibition 2012, ANU School of Art, A.C.T. Australia
Forgotten intimacies, The Artists Shed, Queanbeyan NSW Australia

2011

Get it together: for the love of art, Photo-space gallery, ACT Australia
Chelb a soul / Bread and salt, curated by Michal Novotny & Amande In, FUTURA centre for contemporary art - Karlin studios, Pargue Czech Republic.
I got life, curated by Amande In, ANU School of Art, ACT Australia
Population 20 000, Photo-space gallery, ACT Australia

Talks, workshops, and presentations

Sticks and stones, part of Out of left field: sport and Australian Identity, National Portrait Gallery of Australia, A.C.T Australia, 2016

Following your passion: Disability and creative practice, SCIA Expo, Carriage works, Sydney NSW, 2016

Unfixed: artists in conversation (speaking tour), Unlimited festival & Brighton Digital festival, Brighton – London – Bristol – Glasgow UK, 2016

The Sublimation project, You Are Here festival, Canberra, Australia.

Audio description and accessibility workshop, public accessibility and disability arts forum, and experimental arts accessibility exhibition.

Awards / Residencies

For we are young and free exhibition, 3rd prize, award by Andy Dinan curator of MAR’s gallery Melbourne, 2012

Canberra Contemporary Art Space Emerging artists resident 2014

BCS emerging artists award and solo exhibition, 2014

Unfixed, ANAT creative research residency, Adelaide, 2015

Unfixed 2.0, ANAT / Unlimited festival / Watershed, Bristol UK, 2016