Damien Baumgartner is a surrealist artist based in Melbourne, Australia. His unique take on Australia’s landscape delivers previously unseen perspectives of rural and highway environments. Seen through low level perspectives with roadkill often punctuating the foreground, the paintings explore the strangeness and melancholy of roads and highways and their relationship to fauna and the environment.
Damien completed his Masters of Fine Art at the University of Tasmania examining the visual and psychological implications of roads and highways in northern Tasmania. He now lives in Melbourne and continues to paint, draw and illustrate with his unique surrealist style.
Damien grew up in Melbourne and Launceston, Tasmania. Whilst working as a wildlife monitor on a windfarm on the northwest tip of Tasmania he was inspired on his present artistic path.