David Ledger (b. 1988) is a Perth-based artist specialising in oil painting. His practice explores the relationship between memory, experience and place, drawing on traditional painting techniques to create imagined landscapes where natural and constructed forms intersect.
Ledger holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Curtin University and studied classical drawing and painting at the Florence Classical Art Academy in Italy. His work has been exhibited in Australia and internationally, including solo exhibitions in Perth, Hong Kong and Iceland. Recent exhibitions include Landscape in Memory at Herhúsið Gallery, Iceland (2025), while his previous solo exhibitions include Locus in Hong Kong (2018), Plans in Perth (2013) and Rumble in Perth (2011).
Ledger was an artist in residence at Herhúsið in Siglufjörður, Iceland, in 2025 and is currently an artist in residence at Fremantle Arts Centre. His work has been shortlisted for the Mandorla Art Award and Perth Royal Art Prize for Landscape, and is held in collections including the UWA Art Collection and the Horn Collection.
Working slowly from memory and observation, Ledger's paintings consider belonging, cultural narrative and environmental change, creating landscapes that are both familiar and imagined.
Contact Details
Website: davidgeorgeledger.com
Phone: +61 431 306 695
Email: davidledgerartist@gmail.com
A vibrant oil painting depicting a reclining figure within a lush, imagined tropical landscape. The work explores themes of sleep, exile and renewal, using the figure’s rest as a metaphor for withdrawal, displacement and the possibility of recovery.
Dense vegetation gradually overtakes the remnants of a forgotten world, evoking the decline and fall of lost civilisations and the cycles of destruction and renewal within nature. Classical references are combined with an expressive contemporary palette, creating a dreamlike landscape suspended between ruin, memory and regeneration.
Materials
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
100 x 150 x 40 mm
Price/ NFS
$5,000.00
Aniketos—meaning “unconquered”—depicts the remnants of a classical civilisation slowly reclaimed by nature. Ancient columns, sculptural fragments and fallen figures emerge from dense tropical vegetation, suggesting a world in decline yet simultaneously undergoing renewal.
The work explores themes of lost civilisations, exile, resilience and the cyclical passage from destruction to regeneration. The vibrant, dreamlike palette contrasts the permanence of stone with the relentless growth of the natural world, where ruins become part of a new living landscape.
Materials
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
1200 x 900 x 40 mm
Price/ NFS
$4,500.00