Salon16 film

Thanks to Jackson for the editing and Graphics for the music

I’ve been screen printing a limited edition of ‘The Cyclists’ at the Print Club in Dalston in advance of the next SALON16 exhibition, Ordinary Monsters, in September.

SALON16 presents

ORDINARY MONSTERS
65 Hanbury Street
London E1 5JP

18 - 21 September 2010

Painting, photography, music, events

More information soon…

Streetwise Opera is an amazing organisation that stages professional operas performed by people who have experienced homelessness. They recently commissioned me to create four images for their upcoming winter production FABLES. The four fables are The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale & The Rose, Hey! Come On Out! by Shinichi Hoshi, and the story of The Hartlepool Monkey. The performances are to be filmed and screened as the highlight of this winter’s Shoreditch Music Festival.

A new art event in Stoke Newington opens tonight. The BHVU Open Summer Exhibition showcases local, national and international talent. David’s painting ‘I know where i’m going’ features in the show. Everyone is welcome for a drink and to vote for their favourite artwork.

PRIVATE VIEW Thursday 8 July 6-9pm

OPEN Friday 9th , Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th July
12 - 5 pm

BHVU,
Unit A,
Leswin Place,
Stoke Newington,
London
N16 7NJ

All works are for sale.

More information

David’s painting ‘I know where i’m going’ has been selected for the BHVU Open Summer Exhibition. This event showcases local, UK and international artists and takes place between 9-11 July in Stoke Newington.

The artist with the most votes is offered a solo show in 2011, so come along and vote for David’s painting!

BHVU Open Summer Exhibition

PRIVATE VIEW Thursday 8 July 6-9pm

OPEN Friday 9th , Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th July
12 - 5 pm

BHVU,
Unit A,
Leswin Place,
Stoke Newington,
London
N16 7NJ

All works are for sale.

For more information visit the BHVU website

Despite the sunny days in the studio, I still seem to be producing some seriously gloomy paintings. The title of the latest “Why don’t you kill yourself?” will be familiar to fans of brilliant 70s post-punk rockers The Only Ones.

David has designed the identity, printed, and digital outputs for Performance Matters which was launched this week. Performance Matters is a creative research project bringing together artists, curators and academics to “investigate the challenges that contemporary performance presents to ideas of cultural value”. The three-year project is a collaboration between the Live Art Development Agency, the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance at Roehampton University.

At the heart of the project is the Performance Matters website, which has information about collaborators and events, news stories and updates on activities, as well as being a space for expanded writings, ideas and images about and around the issues at the heart of Performance Matters. The website will move through three themed years of interlinked research activities, and the design will mutate and evolve over the three-year time span of the project to reflect this.

Judging by the content that’s already on the site it should be well worth keeping an eye on.

www.thisisperformancematters.co.uk

I have added some new work to the ART section including ‘The Last Thing I Remember’, a new painting in a series tentatively titled ‘Ordinary Monsters’. More paintings in this series can be seen here…

The Last Thing I Remember (2009)