David Ralph was born in Warrnambool, Victoria. He is based in Melbourne.   David Ralph is a contemporary artist whose subjects reflect on how built environments, cities and  dwellings shape human experiences and forge identities. His paintings address the psychology of architectural spaces and what they can inform about the people responsible for them, and those who inhabit them. Recent bodies of work have specifically exampled a reconnection with the natural world, what the artist describes as the ‘architecture of escape,’ that is escaping the urban environment by way of mobile homes, caravans, cabins and ‘green’ dwellings. Ralph identifies as a contemporary painter whose use of enduring mediums such as oil paint and pencil drawing acknowledges newer forms of media and digital technology as a source of inspiration and its potential to create hybrid abstract/representational imagery.