John A Douglas is an emerging intermedia artist who works in digital and analogue photomedia and video installation. His performative works explore and critique notions of cultural and gender identities through the aesthetics of cinema and through accounts of local histories. Douglas's work examines the fragmented mythologies and narratives of identity and place, giving new contexts to Australian masculinity and culture.
Read MoreDouglas has exhibited widely in solo and group shows, both nationally and internationally, and holds a Masters of Fine Arts from COFA at the University of New South Wales. In 2009, Douglas was featured in an episode of ABC's Artscape program, which documented the artists participating in the Reality Check: Watching Sylvania Waters exhibition at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery. His forthcoming solo exhibition-Strange Land Vol 1-will be held at Penrith Regional Gallery and The Lewers Bequest in August 2010.
Douglas has been the recipient of a University Post Graduate Award and an Australia Council new works grant. He has been a finalist in numerous art prizes including: The Bowness Prize at Monash Gallery of Art in Melbourne; The Citibank Portrait prize at the AGNSW; and The Gold Coast City Art Prize. Douglas's work has been held in private collections since 2003 and is held in the Monash University Australian Video Art Archive (AVAA)
