David Usher is a Brisbane born Toowoomba based artist who holds a Doctorate from the University of Southern Queensland

David has shown with several galleries including Doggart and ALG, and has work in collections including Queensland Art Gallery, Artbank, Brisbane City Hall Gallery and Queensland Potters Association.

“My arts practice utilises the mediums of clay and paint to reimagine the experiences of being immersed in the Australian landscape. These experiences and stories are drawn from road trips to remote locations in Western Queensland and these are places I returns as often as possible to paint en plein air. As a part of this process, it is critical to my method that the mark-making is intuitive and undertaken with the intent of capturing the moment. The en plein air studies once completed are taken back to the studio where these works act as a point of departure for larger paintings and ultimately the making of ceramic forms that
will complement the paintings. It is important to the development of new works that I continue to work intuitively and to retain the immediacy and sense of movement in nature and to capture something of the intrinsic energy that being immersed in the landscape brings. This approach carries through to the ceramic forms and the surfaces of these forms utilising underglaze colours and over-glazes before the final firing process. My arts practice is focused upon sharing the ‘landscape’ experience, and the observer is invited to interpret or overlay their own experiences of traveling through the Australian landscape, hopefully these works are a catalyst for these moments.”

David Usher