CAST Gallery

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David Cross is an artist, writer, curator and Associate Professor in Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. He is the director of the Litmus Research Initiative, a centre devoted to the examination of temporary public art. He has published extensively in this area as well as convening conferences and commissioning new work in the field. With Claire Doherty he co-directed the internationally acclaimed One Day Sculpture series of twenty temporary commissions by national and international artists across New Zealand in 2008–9. He co-curated projects with Ivan and Heather Morison (UK), Lara Almarcegui (Spain), and Michael Parekowhai (New Zealand) among others. The book of the series, co-edited with Doherty, was published by Kerber Verlag in Germany in November 2009. He has developed numerous projects with Litmus including Dane Mitchell (NZ), David Clegg (NZ) and Monique Redmond (NZ).

His artwork has been exhibited in New Zealand, Australia and Eastern Europe and he has performed in international live art festivals in Poland and Croatia. His work featured in Perspecta 99 in Sydney and he has shown at Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. His work Bounce (2006) was featured in a solo exhibition at Wellington city Art Gallery and also in the survey exhibition of contemporary New Zealand performance art, ‘Mostly Harmless’, at Govett Brewster Art Gallery curated by Charlotte Huddleston. He was also commissioned to develop a new work ‘Two Lines’(2008) for He Korowai o Te Wai: The Mantle of Water curated by Ian Wedde for the Rotorua Museum and Art Gallery. His performance work Pump (2009) was selected for inclusion in Performance Studies International in Zagreb, Croata and subsequently at St Pauls St Gallery in Auckland. His writing has been published in numerous journals and magazines including Art and Text, World Art, the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Photofile and Column. He is a Wellington correspondent for online website Eyecontact.