Dustin J Voggenreiter, b 1983, Fremantle, Western Australia
Dustin Voggenreiter is an artist who grapples with big ideas, reaching back towards the dawn of time to explore the evolution of human perception. His work addresses the limited window of human perceptual experience, through a practice spanning animation, sculpture and monochromatic post-painting abstraction.
Working with an eclectic material pallet, the artist translates Darwinian accounts of our uniquely human visual perceptions into objects which allude to a tenuous grasp of reality. As a species, our perceptual experience appears intuitive and veridical; however, evolution science explains a reality that appears alarmingly opposed to those experiences.
Dustin’s works are at once pleasurable explorations of texture and colour, as well as being a meditation on the invisible forces underlying the contemporary human experience.
He has recently graduated from the MFA program at RMIT, has begun exhibiting at galleries throughout Australia, and has completed the Situate Residency during the first half of 2022.