Damon Kowarsky studied printmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts and Glasgow School of Art and Advanced Figure Drawing with Godwin Bradbeer at RMIT.

Since graduating in 2000 he has exhibited regularly in Australia and abroad and worked as a scientific, courtroom, and archaeological illustrator. This last activity took him to the western deserts of Egypt where he assisted on a dig for the Dakhleh Oasis Project.

Kowarsky has travelled extensively in North Africa, West and South Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Mexico. The unique and very distinctive architecture of these regions and the colours of sky and earth inspire much of his work.

In 2007 he taught drawing at Beaconhouse National University Lahore and studied miniature painting under Murad Mumtaz and Mahreen Zuberi. In February this year he returned to Pakistan to conduct a printmaking workshop at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and hold a very successful solo exhibition at Alhamra Art Gallery Lahore.

Kowarsky has recently returned to Australia from travels in Pakistan, Iran and Uzbekistan. He is currently working on a series of works inspired by his experiences in these countries for exhibitions in Australia and internationally.