David Ashley Kerr (1986, Yarram∗, Australia) is a curator, writer and trained photomedia artist.
David has played an active role in arts development in Melbourne (Naarm), Australia and in Northern and Eastern Europe. He focuses in his transdisciplinary research on cultural analysis through a media and art historical lens.
In 2013 co-founded curator-led gallery Strange Neighbour with fellow artist-curator Linsey Gosper. He taught at Photography Studies College and Deakin University before relocating to the EU in 2015. In 2018 David was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and from 2019-20 Visiting Researcher at the Center for Artistic Research of the University of the Arts Helsinki. David was a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Latvia and taught at ISSP Skola from 2021-23, and since late 2021, is the custodian of LOW gallery + projects, an independent art NGO based in Rīga, Latvia. Since 2023 he worked as senior curator at Latrobe Regional Gallery in Brayakaulung country on Gunai-Kurnai land, and currently lives in regional Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. low.gallery
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PODCAST / Talking Gippsland , David Ashley Kerr, Episode 32. Ed – Triple M Gippsland
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∗ Kerr acknowledges the Brataualung people of the Gunaikurnai nation as the traditional owners of his place of birth, Yarrem Yarrem.