Some of the world’s best artists begin as art school dropouts but then go on to blow minds and change history. But some are acknowledged for their special gift since the beginning. David Egan is one of the latter.
Egan has been glitter glued with accolades all the way through his art degree and then he was taken up by the top shelf OK Gallery straight out of uni. The Museum of Natural Mystery, a gallery space he runs in the back yard of his share house, has also set the tongues of local lecturers and avant art lovers wagging.
Egan’s first solo exhibition invites the audience to listen, interact and communicate with his work and the ideas he explores. A magical wooden book producing a soundtrack of oscillating musical scales provides a contemplative and delicate fulcrum for interaction. Accompanying Egan’s paintings and musical mysteries are essays by Gemma Weston and Melbourne’s Thomas Jeppe. As usual, he’s in good company.
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