Rare and intimate David Bowie photographic exhibition makes Australian debut

Joondalup Festival hosts a rare and intimate photographic series capturing David Bowie far from the spotlight — presented for the first time in Australia this March. Christine de Grancy’s ‘A Day with David’ documents an extraordinary encounter on 8 September 1994, when Bowie — accompanied by Brian Eno, André Heller and de Grancy — visited the Maria Gugging Psychiatric Clinic near Vienna, home to a renowned community of Art Brut (outsider) artists. Arriving at Joondalup Festival in the year that marks 10 years since Bowie’s passing, A Day with David offers a quietly powerful reminder of the “Starman” — not as spectacle, but as an artist still searching, listening and connecting. Invited specifically for her quiet, empathetic approach, de Grancy captured Bowie as you’ve never seen him: Absorbed, serious and humble — crouching to examine August Walla’s painted garden house, listening closely to artists’ stories, sketchi