Artists statement

"When making this series of images, I was interested in the unforeseen alignments and compositions that were created through a process of chance. I used the technique of double-exposure – an analogue photographic process that superimposes two images together by running the same roll of film through a camera and exposing it twice – thus creating a third, combined or composite image. This process is of particular interest to me – working with ideas relating to the self, memory and identity – as it helps me to create images that seem ambiguous, fragmented and in a state of transition, rather than fixed or essential." - David Rosetzky

Artist Bio
David Rosetzky is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist and educator with an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to art making. Often working with practitioners from the fields of theatre, dance, and film, Rosetzky creates videos, installations, and photographic works in which identity is intimately observed.

With an extensive exhibition history both in Australia and overseas, Rosetzky has presented his work in over 30 solo exhibitions and 60 group exhibitions. His Portrait of Cate Blanchett (2008) was exhibited in The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video at the International Centre for Photography in New York. In 2005, he was awarded the Anne Landa Award for the Moving Image. Rosetzky’s recent commissions include Air to Atmosphere (2023) at Castlemaine Art Museum as part of Castlemaine State Festival, Being Ourselves (2020) at Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, and Composite Acts (2019) at Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, for Channels International Biennial of Video Art. In 2014, the Centre for Contemporary Photography curated the survey exhibition True Self: David Rosetzky Selected works, which toured nationally.

Rosetzky’s works are held in numerous collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. He has a PhD in Visual Art from Monash University and currently teaches in the Master of Photography program at RMIT University.

David Rosetzky is represented by Sutton Gallery.