David is an emerging artist with a practise based in making 3D objects and book works with a focus on narratives. Most of his work is produced in wood.
David's work combines meticulous research, wide reading and thought with encyclopaedic reference, ludic intentions and manic humour, proposing vertiginous solutions to the questions posed by history, current affairs, film; those problems and their inevitable concomitant, the unsatisfactory non sequitur.
He is inspired by the renaissance sculptors and painters of Northern Europe and often wonders whether anything good happened after 1520.
David recently graduated from Bath Spa University with a first in Creative Arts Practise. During the course, he won the Porthleven Prize, a 3 week fully funded residency in Cornwall, with two exhibitions attached. Later, David held a solo show, “I forgot much more than I ever knew” in October 2024, and his degree show piece Tolle Lege was awarded a £1000 prize to commission a work for the library in the university.
David was born in Basingstoke, England in 1970 and worked for 25 years as a graphic designer.
He is currently working on a body of work, 3D objects, relief sculptures and paintings for an exhibition to be held in 2026.
Photograph by Tom Sharp.