David Stephenson: Sun Drawings

“Expecting it to return every day, all life on earth relies on our own burning star, as it progressively heats the planet towards what may become an unliveable future. Over the past few years, I have been tracing the daily passage of the sun, and its seasonal movement along the horizon, as it arcs across the sky and etches its image onto my film in exposures ranging from seconds to many hours.”

For more than four decades, David Stephenson’s practice has explored the sublime through long-term photographic and video projects spanning architecture, landscape, cities, and ecology. His work has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Cleveland Museum of Art, and Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. His photographs and videos are held in major public collections in Australia, Europe, and the United States, including the National Gallery of Australia, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.