Meet David Moore at the Melbourne Affordable Art Fair 2025
Painter David Moore will be at Stand A8 at the Royal Exhibition Buildings Melbourne.
When: 1pm Friday 29 August
Represented by Cascade Art Gallery
And we would love you to come and visit us at Stand A8 and say hello!
DAVID MOORE
Autumn Evening, Castlemaine, 2024
Oil on Linen
36 x 41 cm
David Moore is an Australian painter living and working in Castlemaine, Central Victoria.
Still life and landscape are his preferred subjects.
David has been painting since he was 11 years old. As a child, he would sit alongside his father’s easel at their home in Croydon, Melbourne and be instructed in the painting techniques of tonal realism. David is also a generous painting teacher and a man of stories. Many of these stories feature his father, Graham Moore, also an accomplished painter (9 times exhibitor in the Archibald portrait prize during the 1950s) and David loves to share his memories of growing up under his father’s ever-watchful eye. David Moore taught tonal painting for 30 years at Montsalvat, the Justus Jorgensen’s (1893–1975) architecturally inspired treasure in Eltham on the outskirts of Melbourne.
In 1970, David was awarded the significant prize, the Alice M. E. Bale scholarship, which afforded him a studio and the use of a house, with a few bills paid. He was assigned two painting mentors, Sir William Dargie CBE and Harley Griffiths. The latter, his preferred mentor, was chief restorer at the National Gallery of Victoria. He took David behind the scenes to see The Banquet of Cleopatra, the enormous eighteenth-century Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painting as it was being restored. For David, it was an exciting glimpse of art history being made and preserved.
David Moore’s paintings have been collected by several state collections and many thousands have been collected privately.