David Chesworth

Born in 1958 in Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom, David Chesworth is an Australian-based interdisciplinary artist known for his sound art installations and video artworks, often in collaboration with other artists. Chesworth moved from Britain to Melbourne in the late 1960s, later completing a B.A. Honours in Music at La Trobe University Melbourne in 1980, a PHD in Fine Art at Monash University Melbourne in 2018 and a Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow (School of Art) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne in 2023.

Chesworth creates unique, large-scale sound installations developing new possibilities for the creative use of soundscapes in multi-disciplinary environments. His work examines the diverse ways we sense the sounds of the natural world, the human experience, cultural memory and future philosophies.