David Art Wales Studio

David Art Wales Studio Online gallery for Australian artist David Art Wales.

There’s a funny story behind the sale of this painting, which is 120x80cm and painted on rigid acoustic felt.The side yo...
19/08/2026

There’s a funny story behind the sale of this painting, which is 120x80cm and painted on rigid acoustic felt.

The side you’re looking at was originally the back.

The daubs, scribbles and splatters weren’t intended as a composition. I was simply testing how the porous felt responded to different materials & mark-making. Meanwhile, I’d only just begun painting the “proper” side.

Then two young collectors, Georgie and Derek, saw it—and wanted the accidental side.

They weren’t at all concerned that the front was unfinished, because they had no intention of displaying it. They chose the side that was never meant to be seen.

Perhaps that’s why it worked. I made these marks without trying to impress anyone, explain anything or cater to anyone. The work appeared before my ego had a chance to arrive.

A useful reminder that sometimes the part you aren’t focused on is the part that feels most alive.

Thank you, Georgie and Derek. I love your nonconformity. ☺️🙏

Me & Namey.
31/07/2026

Me & Namey.

Artists spend a long time making their work. You build a relationship with the piece you’re working on. If you’re lucky,...
13/07/2026

Artists spend a long time making their work. You build a relationship with the piece you’re working on. If you’re lucky, it sells. And you rarely ever see each other again.

I’ve sold over a thousand prints and paintings since Dani and I moved back from NYC eight years ago. Most simply disappeared into other people’s lives.

These two clown works turned up in a Sydney house I was visiting. The owner bought them during a visit to my East Village studio in 1991.

It took us 35 years for us to stumble across each other again.

Dani quit her job so we could work on a project together called Prints of WalesToday was our first day and it was AWESOM...
06/07/2026

Dani quit her job so we could work on a project together called Prints of Wales

Today was our first day and it was AWESOME!

Follow our Insta to see how we go & check us out at printsofwales.co

On Saturday we installed It’s the Little Things at Holeywood.As we chose each artwork over the two-week submission perio...
25/05/2026

On Saturday we installed It’s the Little Things at Holeywood.

As we chose each artwork over the two-week submission period, and I packed them into waterproof tubs, assuming we had maybe 50 artists total.

Ten hours of unpacking, cataloguing (thanks to the heroic ) and hanging later, we discovered we were very wrong.

There are now OVER 100 ARTISTS in the exhibition.

As my mum would say: “Hell’s bells.”

Still more to do, but somehow we’re on schedule for the opening: Sat 30 May, 6–8pm, Holeywood at

Coinciding with the × Street Fair on Foster Street. Come say hi & get some culture into ya.

Sincerity feels passé these days, but here we go in any case.I built Holeywood, the pegboard gallery inside the for 3 r...
20/05/2026

Sincerity feels passé these days, but here we go in any case.

I built Holeywood, the pegboard gallery inside the for 3 reasons:

1 I was bored.

2 I was tired of making art that felt useless and wanted to make something functional.

3 I was lonely and hoped it’d help me make friends.

So I spent the past two years slowly transforming the hotel’s old smokers’ lounge, which had become a graveyard of broken furniture, into a piece of art that’s a place to make & show art.

If you want to see the result, the opening of Holeywood’s first ever show is 30 May, 6–8pm (the same night Vivid takes over the neighborhood).

Or drop by over the two weeks that follow, Tues–Sat, 6–8pm.

Cheers,

Sincerity feels passé these days, but here we go in any case.I built Holeywood, the pegboard gallery inside the for 3 r...
20/05/2026

Sincerity feels passé these days, but here we go in any case.

I built Holeywood, the pegboard gallery inside the for 3 reasons:

1 I was bored.

2 I was tired of making art that felt useless and wanted to make something functional.

3 I was lonely and hoped it’d help me make friends.

So I spent the past two years slowly transforming the hotel’s old smokers’ lounge, which had become a graveyard of broken furniture, into a piece of art that’s a place to make & show art.

If you want to see the result, the opening of Holeywood’s first ever show is 30 May, 6–8pm (the same night Vivid takes over the neighborhood).

Or drop by over the two weeks that follow, Tues–Sat, 6–8pm.

Cheers,

May 30 is a big one this year. Our opening is from 6-8pm but from 4pm to 4am, Foster Street becomes a street fair for Vi...
12/05/2026

May 30 is a big one this year. Our opening is from 6-8pm but from 4pm to 4am, Foster Street becomes a street fair for Vivid x Hollywood Quarter, with food trucks, workshops, family-friendly entertainment, live performances, and of the spectacular lights of Vivid Sydney.

I should’ve entered this portrait in the into the this year but I was too busy organizing the group show at (which ope...
11/05/2026

I should’ve entered this portrait in the into the this year but I was too busy organizing the group show at (which opens 30 May). It’s our accountant, who I call Mr. Maraschino because he likes those cherries in his cocktails.

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