DAVID STEPHENSON

“While the subject of my photographs has shifted…my art has remained essentially spiritual – furthermore than two decades I have been exploring a contemporary expression of the sublime – a transcendental experience of awe with the vast space and time of existence.”

- David Stephenson

Internationally renowned photographer David Stephenson has dedicated his practice to capturing the sublime in nature and architecture. Fresh from a successful exhibition at Julie Saul Gallery in New York, Stephenson returns to John Buckley Gallery for his third highly anticipated exhibition Heavenly Vaults. The exhibition will feature 26 selected prints from his latest monograph published by Princeton Architectural Press; Heavenly Vaults: From Romanesque to Gothic in European Architecture. Shaun Lakin, Director of the Monash Gallery of Art, will launch the book and exhibition at the opening, November 7th

Stephenson began to photograph Gothic vaults in Spain and Portugal in 2003, while completing the work for his Domes project, and his first monograph Visions of Heaven: the Dome in European Architecture. He began to focus on the Vaults project in 2006, photographing Gothic churches and cathedrals in England, Belgium and France. With the assistance of an Australia Council Artist Fellowship in 2008-09, Stephenson completed extensive fieldwork for the Vaults project, intensively photographing Romanesque and Gothic architecture in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany. The exhibition at John Buckley Gallery coincides with the launch of his second monograph, Heavenly Vaults: from Romanesque to Gothic in European Architecture, published by Princeton Architectural Press, New York.

Even though the traditional systems the underpinned church architecture have lost their unequivocal power, David Stephenson’s photographs capture the resonance of those times. More importantly his work also suggest that the feelings of aspiration, transcendence, and infinity these buildings evoke in the viewer have an ongoing relevance beyond the religious setting and help us understand who and what we are.

Excerpt from Foreword, Heavenly Vaults, by Dr Isobel Crombie 2009

David Stephenson's new book of photography is a love letter to the intricate, seemingly sui generis vaults of Europe's Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals and churches.

David Stephenson website www.davidstephensonart.com

Selected Works

David Stephenson

Born 1955 in Washington, D.C. USA
to Australia 1982, American and Australian citizenship

Academic Qualifications

2001 Doctor of Philosophy, University of Tasmania
1982 Master of Fine Art, University of New Mexico
1980 Master of Art, University of New Mexico
1979 Bachelor of Fine Art with Honors, University of Colorado
1979 Bachelor of Art with Honors (Art History), University of Colorado

Academic Appointments

2008-09 Postgraduate supervisor, School of Art, University of Tasmania
2004-2007 Head of Research, School of Art, University of Tasmania
1984-2004  Head of Photography, School of Art, University of Tasmania
1982-83     Tutor, School of Art, University of Tasmania
1979-81     Teaching Assistant, Art Department, University of New Mexico

Grants and Commissions

2007 Australia Council Visual Arts Fellowship 2008-09
2002 IRGS Grant (with Bill Hart)
2001 Australia Council Visual Art/Craft Fund Project Grant
2001 Australian Research Council Grant
1996 Australia Council Visual Art/Craft Fund Project Grant
1995 Australian Research Council Grant (with A MacDonald, R. Arnold)
1993 Arts Tasmania Project Grant (with Anne MacDonald)
1992 Australia Council Visual Arts/Crafts Board Overseas Studio Grant
1991 University of Tasmania Antarctic Commission
1990 Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board Art in Public Places Commission
1989 Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board Art in Public Places Commission
1988 University Research Grant
1985 University Research Grant
1984 New Parliament House Photography Commission
1983 CSR Photography Project Commission
1983 Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board Grant
1980 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1979 Ford Foundation Grant, through the University of New Mexico

Individual Exhibitions

2009 Heavenly Vaults, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Dusk to Dawn, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2009 David Stephenson, Highland Gallery, Boulder, Colorado
2008 Star Drawings, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2008 David Stephenson, O'Sullivan Art Gallery at Regis University, Denver
2008 David Stephenson: Sublime Symmetries, Australian Embassy, Washington, D.C.
2007 Vaults, Julie Saul, New York Vaults, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2007 Vaults 2006-07, Boutwell Draper, Sydney
2007 Marking Time, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart
2006 Selected Photographs 1992 - 2003, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Symétries sublimes, photographies de David Stephenson, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, curated by Jorge Calado, with full colour 140 page catalogue
2005 Drawing Time, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2004 David Stephenson, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Cupolas, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
2004  Dome Photographs 2000-2003, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
2003 David Stephenson: The Dome Project, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, NY
2003 Skeletons, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2003 Skeletons, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
2001 Starlight: David Stephenson Photographs, Cleveland Museum of Art, USA
2001 Space + Light: David Stephenson Photographs, 1982-1996, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
2001 Dome Photographs, 1993-2000, Bett Gallery, Hobart
2000 Heaven, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
2000 Cupolas, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2000 Dome, CAST Gallery, Hobart
2000 Virtual Dome, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Stars, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Domes, Dolphin, Kansas City
1998 Sublime Space: David Stephenson Photographs 1989-98, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1998 Anatomies, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Domes, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
1997 Domes , Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
1996 Transfigurations , Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Transfigurations, Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland for Fotofeis International Festival of Photography in Scotland
1994 Winter, James Danziger Gallery, New York
1994 Dark Nature, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart (collaboration with Anne MacDonald)
1994 The Ice, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1993 Dissolution, Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne
1993 The Ice, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1992 Vast , Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
1992 Vast , Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
1991 Vast , Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
1991 Vast , Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery
1990 Untitled 1989-90, Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Melbourne
1990 Untitled 1989-90, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
1989 David Stephenson , Selected Photographs 1979-89, Salamanca Place Gallery, Hobart
1989 David Stephenson , Gallerie Cimitiere, Launceston
1988 David Stephenson , Salamanca Place Gallery, Hobart
1987 Mountain/Sea, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart
1987 David Stephenson , Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1985 David Stephenson , Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1985 David Stephenson , The Friends of Photography, Carmel
1984 David Stephenson , The Developed Image, Adelaide
1983 The Divided Landscape, Robert Freidus Gallery, New York
1983 David Stephenson , The Developed Image, Adelaide
1983 Extended Landscape, Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, Hobart
1982 David Stephenson, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
1981 David M Stephenson, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco
1981 Trans Alaska Pipeline, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Group Exhibitions

2009 Shared Sky, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2009 Natural World, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Neo-Goth: Back in Black, University of Queensland Museum of Art, Brisbane, Australia
2008 Photography and Architecture, Parc de Sceaux, Paris
2007 Ingenuidades: Fotografia e Engenharia 1846-2006, curated by Jorge Calado
2007 Galeria de Exposições Temporårias da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (BOZAR)
2007 Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2007 ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, Sydney
2007 Cross Currents: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2006 aniGma-2006 The 3d Novosibirsk International Festival of Digital Imaging, Animation & Video-Art, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia, curated by Andrey Martynov.
2006 Different Dimension, 1st Novosibirsk International Festival of contemporary photography, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia, curated by Andrey             Martynov.
2006 A Precipitation in Time, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport, curated by Troy Ruffels
2006 Artbank: Celebrating 25 Years of Australia Art, Redland Art Gallery, Queensland, and national tour, curated by Antonia Syme et al.
2005 Studies in Meditation, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, New York.
2005 Looking South, Plimsoll Galley, Centre for the Arts, Hobart.
2005 The Place Where Three Dreams Cross, Plimsoll Galley, Centre for the Arts, Hobart (national tour).
2005 Breaking Ice, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
2005 Idiosyncrasy: Painting and Photography, Qld Centre for Photography, Brisbane.
2005 Transformer, Long Gallery, Hobart.
2005 Points of View: Australian Photography, 1985-95,  Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
2005 Olhares Estrangeiros, Fotografias de Portugal, Colecçao da Caixa de Depositos, Fidelidade Mundial Chiado 8, Lisbon.
2004 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Foundation for the Arts Photography Award
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise.
2004 I want to take you higher, McKenzie Fine Art, New York.
2004 Australian Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.
2004 Tidal: City of Devonport Art Prize (Tasmanian Artist Award winner), Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport.
2004 The Nature Machine, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2003 Sky Lounge – Future Projections, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2003 First Impressions: Contemporary Australian Photograms, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
2003 Future Perfect, Bett Gallery, Hobart and assorted venues.

2003 Second Sight: Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

2003 American Beauty, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
2002 Gold Coast Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award (winner)
2002 Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise.
2002 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2002 Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
2002 In Sequence, Dolphin Fine Art, Kansas City.
2001 Striking: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Monash Gallery of
2001 Art Collection, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne.
2001 Between Phenomena-The Panorama and Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart.
2001 Night Light: Photographs of heavenly bodies, 1885-2000,  Robert Klein Gallery, Boston.
1999 Mount Wellington – Peak and Pinnacle, Allport Library and Museum of  Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart.
1999 An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. and national tour.
1999 Artificial Nature: a survey of vintage and contemporary photograms, Julie Saul Gallery, New York.
1999 Striking: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Monash Gallery of Art Collection, Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne,
1999 Casula Powerhouse Gallery, Sydney.
1999 Earth Sky, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta.
1999 Tempus Fugit/Time Flies, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City.
1998 Waterproof, Festival of 100 days/EXPO '98, Belem Cultural Centre, Lisbon.
1998 Click, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne.
1998 Parliament House Photography Project: David Stephenson and Debra Phillips, Parliament House, Canberra
1998 Constellations, University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art, Kansas City.
1998 Drawings from Light 2: The Contemporary Imagination, Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne.
1998 Ground Control, Lombard-Freid Contemporary Art, New York.
1997 Oceans and Galaxies, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York.
1997 Vantage, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
1997 Site and Sensibility - selections from the Art Bank Collection, S. H. Irvin Gallery, Sydney.
1997 What's New II, Waverley Gallery, Melbourne.
1997 The Blake Prize, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.
1996 Imagine Nature, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania Centre for the Arts, Hobart.
1996 Brushing the Dark: Recent Art and Tasmania, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, and national tour.
1996 The Power to Move: Recent Australian Photography, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
1996 Inheritance, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
1996 Contemporary Australian Photography from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
1996 Out Takes: Obscure Works by Gallery Artists, Julie Saul Gallery, New York.
1996 Gold Coast City Conrad Jupiters Art Prize (winner), Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland.
1996 City of Hobart Art Prize, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart.
1995 Likeness, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.
1996 Figure/Ground, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart.
1996 The Derwent Collection: Australian Art of the 1980s and 1990s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.
1996 The Blundstone Contemporary Art Prize (Aquisitive Award) Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, and national tour.
1994 Tradition and the Unpredictable: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
1994 Pictograms: Aspects of Contemporary Photographic Practice, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne and national tour.
1994 The Full Spectrum: Colour and Photography in Australia 1860s to 1990s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
1994 Landed: Landscape Art in Australia, 1960-90, Australian National Gallery, Canberra.
1994 Antarctica: Secrets of the Frozen World, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart,  and Museum of Victoria, Melbourne.
1994 An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, and international tour.
1994 Tableaux: Works from the Monash University Collection, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne.
1993 To the Surface-Contemporary Landscape, Centre for the Arts, Hobart.
1993 Artists in Antarctica-Visions of the Frozen World, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.
1993 Reflex, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, and national tour.
1992 A Show of Strength, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart.
1992 Location, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, and Australasian tour.
1992 Intimations of Mortality, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
1992 Contemporary Works, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.
1991 42° South, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart, and Australia/ NZ tour.
1991 David Stephenson/Ray Arnold, Cradle Mountain Visitor Centre, Tasmania.
1991 Agfa National Photography Exhibition, Albury Regional Art Centre, New South Wales.
1990 Fragmentation and Fabrication: Recent Australian Photography, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
1989 Night, Nacht, Noir, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart.
1989 Tableaux Mourant, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania.
1988 Australian Photography: the 1980's, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and national tour.
1988 The CSR Photography Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
1988 Landfall, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart.
1988 A Place For Art, Centre for the Arts Gallery, Hobart.
1987 Photogenics: Works from the University Collection, University of Tasmania Fine Arts Gallery, Hobart.
1987 Australian Contemporary Photographers, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
1987 On Collecting Photographs: Master Photographs from St. Louis Private Collections, University of Missouri, St. Louis.
1987 The New Romantics, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, and regional tour.
1986 New Views: Landscape Photographs From Two Continents, University of Missouri, St, Louis.
1986 CSR Photography Project, Queensland Art Gallery and regional tour.
1986 Recent Australian Photography, Australian National Gallery, Canberra.
1985 Festival of Perth Exhibition, Editions Gallery, Fremantle.
1985 Approaching Landscape, Chameleon Gallery, Hobart and Penrith Regional Gallery, New South Wales.
1984 Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
1983 Australian Perspecta 1983, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and national tour.
1983 Landscape/Cityscape, Susan Spiritus Galley, Newport Beach.
1983 Not a Picture Show, Long Gallery, Hobart, and national tour.
1983 Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.
1982 Recent Acquisitions, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1982 Year of the Tree, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
1982 Southwest Regional Photography, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
1982 Northlight Southwest, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University.
1981 New Photographs, Robert Freidus Gallery, New York.
1981 Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.
1981 Northlight Southwest, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe.
1981 Contemporary Photoworks, Downtown Centre for the Arts, Albuquerque.
1981 Five States Photography, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico.
1981 Exposure Time V, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
1981 Exposure 1981, Cheltenham Art Centre, Pennsylvania.
1981 Sixth Annual Magic Silver Show, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky.
1981 Prints and Photographs, The Print Club, Philadelphia.
1980 Western Landscape Photography, 1850-1980, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California.
1980 Contemporary Photography, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.
1980 La Grange National V, CVAA Art Gallery, La Grange, Georgia.
1980 Eccentricities, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia.
1980 Conceptions Southwest, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
1980 Northlight Southwest, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe.
1980 Photospiva 80, Spiva Art Center, Joplin, Missouri.
1980 University of New Mexico Travelling Exhibition, to galleries in New York, Maine, Virginia, and Texas.
1980 Photo-Media, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
1980 MA/MFA Exhibition, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque.
1979 Photograph as Document, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia.
1979 Photoworks, Bellevue Art Museum, Washington.
1979 Exposure: Ideas and Images in Contemporary Photography, Boulder Arts Centre, Colorado.
1979 Colorado Photographers, Emmanuel Gallery, Auraria Campus, Denver Pictures, Diablo Valley College Gallery, California.
1979 Four Corners Exhibition, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe.
1979 Boulder Arts 1979, Boulder Arts Centre, Colorado.
1979 Albuquerque Contemporary Arts, Downtown Centre for the Arts and Meridian Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1978 Works on Paper, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, and seven gallery regional tour.

Public Collections

Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Arizona State University, Tempe
Art Bank, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, New York
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester
La Grange College, La Grange, Georgia
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Collection of Photography, Centro Português de Fotografia, Oporto
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Parliament House, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney
University of Sydney
University of Tasmania, Hobart
Victorian Department of Education, Melbourne
Wellesley College Museum of Art, Massachusetts

Corporate Collections
Bank of America
Citibank
Deutsche Bank
Goldman Sachs & Co
Kerry Stokes Collection
Mellon Financial Corp.
Pfizer, Inc.
Wesfarmers Collection

Books and Catalogs

Jorge Calado: David Stephenson: Sublime Symmetries, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2006.
David Stephenson: Visions of Heaven: The Dome in European Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2005.
Isobel Crombie and Susan van Wyk: Second Sight: Australian Photography in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003.
David Stephenson (with essay by Greg French): Skeletons, Space + Light Editions, Hobart, 2003.
Charles Green and Jason Smith: Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002.
Jan Schall, editor: Tempus Fugit: Time Flies, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, and University of Washington, Seattle, 2001.
David Stephenson (with essay by Keith F. Davis): Stars, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, Space + Light Editions, Hobart, 1999.
Blair French, editor: Photo files: an Australian photography reader, Power Publications, Power Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, 1999.
Susan Van Wyk: Sublime Space: David Stephenson Photographs, 1989-98,
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1998.
Keith F. Davis: An American Century of Photography: From Dry Plate to Digital (2nd Edition, Revised and Enlarged), Abrams, New York, 1998.
Jorge Calado: A Prova de Agua/Waterproof, Edition Stemmle, Zurich, 1998.
David Stephenson : "Transfigurations", 5 colour illustrations pp. 98-103, in Pedersen, B M , editor: Fine Art Photography 2, Graphis Inc, New York, 1997.
Victoria Hammond, editor: Brushing the Dark- Recent Art and Tasmania, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Hobart, 1996.
Peter Hay, editor: Imagine Nature, School of Art, University of Tasmania, 1996.
Anne Kirker:  The Power to Move, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1996.
David Stephenson (with essay by Victoria Hammond): Cupolas, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, and Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, 1996.
Alasdair Foster, Ken Gill, and Euan McArthur, editors: Fotofeis '95- International Festival of Photography in Scotland, Fotofeis Ltd, Edinburgh, 1995.
Edward Colless: The Error of My Ways, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1995.
Stuart Koop and David Stephenson: The Ice, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1994.
Museum of Fine Arts: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection: Tradition and the Unpredictable, Houston, 1994.
Keith F. Davis: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, Hallmark, Kansas City, 1994.
David Stephenson: "Marks in the Landscape: Notes 1979-1991", Our Common Ground- A Celebration of Art, Place & Environment, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects & The Centre for Environmental Studies, Hobart, 1994.
Ray Arnold: To the Surface-Contemporary Landscape, Plimsol Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, 1993.
Juliana Engberg: Location, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1992.
John Mcqueenie: 42° South, Chameleon, Hobart 1991
Fred Levine: "And we fill the void with our presence- An introduction to the photographs of David Stephenson", Vast: Photographs from Europe and Antarctica 1990-91, by David Stephenson, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, 1991
National Association for Visual Arts:  Who's Who of Australian Artists, Thorpe, Melbourne, 1991.
Max Germaine: Artists and Galleries of Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990
Sue Backhouse: Tasmanian Artists of the Twentieth Century, Pandani Press, Hobart, 1988
Jim Logan: Night, Nacht, Noir, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart, 1989
Anne MacDonald: Tableaux Mourant, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1989
Helen Ennis: Australian Photography: The 1980's, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, and Melbourne Oxford University Press, Oxford, Auckland, New York, 1988
Sandra Byron: The CSR Photography Project Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1988
Jonathon Holmes: Photogenics: Works From The University Collection, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1987
David Stephenson: Mountain/Sea, Chameleon, Hobart, 1987
Graeme Sturgeon: The New Romantics, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1987
Tom Patton: New Views: Landscape Photographs From Two Continents University of Missouri, St. Louis, 1986
Christine Godden: CSR Photography Project: Selected Works, CSR, Ltd. Sydney, 1986
Jan McDonald: Australian Artists' Index, Arts Libraries Society, Sydney, 1986.
David Stephenson: New Landscapes: Photographs From Two Continents University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1985
Ray Arnold: Approaching Landscape, Chameleon, Hobart 1985
Glen Puster and Gayle Pollard: Not a Picture Show, Hobart, 1983
Bernice Murphy: Australian Perspecta 1983, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Tasmanian School of Art: Extended Landscape, Hobart, 1983
Harvey Himmelfarb and Roger D. Clisby: Large Spaces in Small Places, A Survey of Western Landscape Photography: 1850-1980, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 1980
Boulder Arts Center: Exposure: Ideas and Images in Contemporary Photography, Boulder, Colorado, 1979

Articles and Reviews

Stuart Koop: “David Stephenson”, Art/Text, No. 64, Sydney, February 1999.
Peter Timms: “Finding that uncool beauty in nature”, The Age, Melbourne, 5 May 1999.
Elisabeth Kirsch: “David Stephenson: Domes”, Kansas City Star, July 29, 1999.
Anna Clabburn: “Male artists meet the heroic challenge”, The Age, Melbourne, 16 September 1998.
Courtney Kidd: "The Unframed Eye: Perspectives on Antarctica", Art and Australia, Volume 33, Number 4, Sydney, 1996.
John MacDonald: "Peaks of inspiration", Sydney Morning Herald, 4 May 1996.
Giles Auty: "Theories with holes", The Weekend Australian, 11-12 May 1996.
Susan Falkiner: "Brushing the Dark", Art Monthly Australia, No. 90 June 1996.
Barb Smith: "Fotofeis International Festival of Photography in Scotland", Art Monthly Australia, No. 90 June 1996.
Freda Freiberg: "Photography"(review of Transfigurations at Robert Lindsay Gallery), The Age, Melbourne, 20 September 1996.
Michael Read: "Phenomena", in See, Issue 1:4, The Friends of Photography,San Francisco, 1995.
Adrian Colman: "Time and the Photographer", Research News No. 6, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1993.
Jonathon Holmes: "The Green and the Wild: Dark Nature, Anne MacDonald and David Stephenson", Artlink,
Elwyn Lynn: "Exposure to contrast", The Weekend Australian, July 31-August 1, 1993.
Elwyn Lynn: "Photos to go places", The Weekend Australian, August 7-8, 1993.
Greg Neville: "Conditioned Reflex", The Age, Melbourne, December 15, 1993.
"Breaking Rules, Okay", Australian Photography, Sydney, December 1993.
Greg Neville: "An art in search of identity", The Age, Melbourne, December 31, 1993.
Robert Rooney: "Focus on Asian Relations", The Weekend Australian, December 5-6, 1992.
Sean Kelly: "42 Degrees South", Art & Text, Number 39, May 1991, Melbourne
Greg Neville: "Stephenson has nature's power of astonishment", The Age, Melbourne, 22 November 1991
Edward Colless: "David Stephenson", Photofile, Number 34, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, December 1991
Stephanie Radok: "Anti-aesthetics", Artlink, Vol 11 No 4, Summer 1991/92, Adelaide, 1991.
Beatrice Faust: "Focus is on the dignity of labor", The Age, Melbourne, 2/3/90
Stuart Koop: "David Stephenson at Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery", Agenda, Ewing and George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University, Melbourne, 1990
Photographs reproduced in Island , Issue 45, Spring 1990, Hobart
David McDowell: "Playing Dead and Other Affectations", Photofile, Summer 1989-90
Susan Leggett: "Monumental landscapes related to man", The Mercury, Hobart. 9/9/89
Edward Colless: "Hobart Commentary", Art and Australia, September 1989
Beatrice Faust: "Glamour, mystery, and magic", The Age, 24/6/87, Melbourne
Heather Curnow: "Mountain/Sea", Photofile, Sydney, Spring 1987
Heather Curnow: "Talented interpreter captures essence of Tassie landscape", The Mercury, 6/8/87, Hobart
John McDonald: "Romantics under the umbrella", Sydney Morning Herald, 26/9/87
Elwyn Lynn: "Rescued from their ersatz agony", The Weekend Australian, 26-27/9/87
Mark Hinderacker: "Panoramas..", Sydney Morning Herald, April 1,1985
Jonathon Holmes: "Resuming our journey into the landscape...", Art and Australia, Volume 22, Number 4, Sydney, 1985
Geoffrey Lea: "Baring nature's soul", The Mercury, 20/7/85, Hobart
Brian Allison: "David Stephenson", Photofile, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Autumn 1984
Jonathon Holmes: "Provincialism and Art", Island 14, Hobart, 1983
Marion Hardman: "Not a Picture Show (Calling the Shots)", supplement to Island 16, Hobart, 1983
Jonathon Holmes: "Not a Picture Show", Photofile Spring 1983 Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 1983
Annette Van den Bosch: "Anzart-in-Hobart", Art Network Winter 1983, Melbourne, 1983
Jonathon Holmes: "Contemporary Visual Arts in Tasmania", Australian Art Review, Sydney, 1983
Jonathon Holmes: "Contemporary Visual Arts in Tasmania", Studio International, Volume 196, Number 1002, London, October 1983
Ben Lifson: "The Conscience of Collections", The Village Voice, July 22-28, New York, 1981
Visual Studies Workshop: Afterimage, Volume 8, Number 5, Rochester, New York,1980
Ned Rifkin: "Southwest 1978- Works on Paper", Artweek, Number 18, San Francisco, 1978

Curatorial

1985 New Landscapes: Photographs from Two Continents, a survey exhibition of recent landscape photography in Australia and America; Tasmanian School of Art Gallery, The Developed Image, Adelaide, The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, and the University of Missouri- St. Louis, USA.  Full colour catalog.