B. 1973

Damon Kowarsky is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice spans drawing, printmaking, and painting. Renowned for his meticulous craftsmanship and exacting technical skill, he explores the ways architectural forms, urban landscapes, and shared public environments shape our collective experience. Through these precisely rendered spaces, Kowarsky examines how individuals navigate the physical world and one another.

Kowarsky’s visual language is distinguished by its pristine finish, clarity of line, and a distinct tactility. Informed by his training as a scientific, courtroom, and archaeological illustrator, as well as his extensive travel, his works present factual reality with a sense of quiet illusion. Everyday scenes are reconfigured into images that feel simultaneously familiar and estranged - slightly surreal compositions that test the boundary between the ordinary and the extraordinary. This interplay between precision and ambiguity invites viewers to consider how the mind constructs and interprets place.

Central to his practice is an interest in mapping global environments through personal encounters. Since completing studies in Printmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts and the Glasgow School of Art, Kowarsky has travelled widely - journeys that continue to inform the cultural, architectural, and atmospheric qualities of his imagery. Kowarsky has been the recipient of major awards including the Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award and the Creative Victoria New Works Grant. His work is held in significant public and private collections both in Australia and internationally.