Wesley Dowling is a Melbourne-based emerging queer artist whose work encompasses lens based and interactive digital media. He creates interactive artworks that examine and queers the normative structures that are embedded in digital imaging and computing.

Wesley graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours First Class) at RMIT in 2019. His work has been exhibited in galleries and public spaces such as Hume Winter Lights Festival (2022), Knox Immerse Festival (2021), Gertrude Street Projection Festival (2021), Collingwood Yards (2020-21), The Wrong Biennale (2019, 2021), No Vacancy (Melbourne 2019), and West Projections Festival (2018). He was a finalist in the 2020 Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award. He was also commissioned by Bunjil Place to produce new work for the Midsumma Festival in 2021. He was also an artist in residence in the Centre for Projection Art Residency Summer 2020 Program.

Education

2019 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours, First Class), RMIT University, Melbourne Australia

2017 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), RMIT University, Melbourne Australia

2014 Diploma Photo Imaging, RMIT University, Melbourne Australia

Awards / Residencies

2020 Artist in Residence - Centre for Projection Art Residency Program.

2020 Finalist - Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award

2017 Borges RMIT Print Imaging Practice Graduate Award - RMIT Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduate Exhibition

2014 Best Fine Art Print Award - RMIT Photo Imaging End of Year Exhibition

Commissions

2021 Realness, Midsumma Festival, Bunjil Place, Narre Warren VIC.

Collaborative Projects

2023 The strange microcosmic lab of Oumpalous, Le Cube Garges, Paris France as part of ISEA2023 (interactive design in collaboration with Alison Bennett).

2022 Vegetal/Digital, Mars Gallery, Windsor VIC (interactive design in collaboration with Alison Bennett).

Exhibitions

2023 Chin Chin Wall of Art, Melbourne, VIC

2023 City of Canada Bay Digital Gallery, Rhodes, NSW

2022 Hume Winter Lights Festival, Broadmeadows, VIC

2022 Colour Open Air v.2, Collingwood Yards, VIC

2021 Encounters with Incomprehension (online group show), The Wrong Biennale,

2021 Knox Immerse Festival, Boronia, VIC

2021 Past Presents Futures, Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Fitzroy VIC

2021 A Strange Space, Midsumma Festival, Collingwood Yards VIC

2020 City of Stonnington: Light In The Dark, Greville Street, Prahran VIC

2020 Light Windows, Center for the Holographic Arts NYC, Collingwood Yards, Melbourne VIC

2020 Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award (group show), No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne VIC

2019 Sightings & Listenings Graduate Exhibition (group show), RMIT, Melbourne VIC

2019 Press Refresh, (online group show), The Wrong Biennale, <https://press-refresh.net/>

2019 Revisiting the Symbol (group show), Urban Art Collective, Memphis, Tennessee USA.

2019 Honours Program Exhibition (group show), Site Eight Gallery, Melbourne VIC

2019 Archway Activation (group show), First Site Gallery, Melbourne VIC

2019 Hyper Copy (group show), Albert St Gallery, Brunswick VIC

2019 Public Viewing of Projection Masterclass Works (group show), Melbourne Polytechnic, Fairfield VIC

2019 No Vacancy Window (screen), No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne VIC

2019 QueerTech.io, Midsumma (festival), Melbourne VIC <https://queertech.io/>

2018 West Projections (festival), Footscray, Melbourne VIC

2018 2Q18 (group show), Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC

2017 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduate Exhibition (group show), RMIT, Melbourne VIC 

2017 Between Realms (group show), First Site Gallery, Melbourne VIC

2016 In Flux (group show), Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy VIC

2016 White Gloves Evening (group show), RMIT, Melbourne VIC

2015 Click 2015 (group show), Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy VIC

2014 RMIT Photo Imaging End of Year Exhibition (group show), RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne VIC