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A B O U T
Drawing is the basis of everything I do. It is like a hidden language that operates directly out of the nervous system. This is echoed through other forms of media which separately take into account properties of collage, painting and fine print to produce a material outcome best termed collectively as ‘flat sculpture’.
In addition to the poetic variables associated with language, I find this process of making ultimately presents a way to interfere with an established aesthetic or pattern of meaning through perceptions of value, class, or identity which has always been a thematic concern.
I work and live between Manchester, the Scottish Borders, & London.
C O L L E C T I O N S
Works are held at the Tate Collection as well as Tate Library for artist’s books who also hold a substantial amount of self-published titles. Works are also held in the collections of the Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of Manchester, as well as the ongoing collections of The Serving Library, Soho House, London, & The British Council Art Collection along with various private collections. .
C O N T A C T
For further details please contact:
Matt’s Gallery, 6 Charles Clowes Walk, London, SW11 7AN
info@mattsgalery.org
+44 (0)20 8067 3842
Or directly at:
studio.oedition@gmail.com
Instagram: david.studio.o
C U R R E N T L Y
UPCOMING . . .
2026 Abbey Fellowship Award in Painting, British School at Rome.
2025/26 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NY. Artist’s Grant Award,
PRESENTLY . . .
2025 Visual Arts Residency, Cove Park, Argyll. Scotland.
2025 A Pastiche of Different Techniques. Monograph, Published by Slimvolume.
2025 Tales from the Expanded Moment, Matt’s Gallery, London. Sept-Nov,
Ongoing White Columns Curated Artist Registry, White Columns, New York. Link Here
PREVIOUSLY , , ,
2024 A Pastiche of Different Techniques
Solo Exhibition, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
2022/3 A Pastiche of Different Techniques
Solo Exhibition, Moon Grove, Manchester
2020/21 The Serving Library Collection
019, Ghent, Belgium, On tour at Ravisius Textor, Nevers, France; LLS Paleis,
Antwerp, Belgium; and PXL, Hasselt, Belgium.
2019 Double Act
Cample Line, Solo Exhibition. Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
The Annotated Reader
Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh. Touring to New York Art Book Fair, & Cork St, London,(2022)
Curated by Jonathan P Watts & Ryan Gander
2018 The Serving Library V David Osbaldeston
Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University. UK
2017 Drawing Biennal
The Drawing Room, London.
Public View
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2016 The Top & Bottom of It. Mechanism for a Future Reference
Matt’s Gallery, Solo Exhibition. London.
2015 Modern History, Vol 1, 2, & 3
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool. Atkinson Gallery, Southport. Bury Art Gallery,
Manchester. UK. Curated by Lynda Morris,
Drawing Biennial
The Drawing Room, London.
2014 The Measure of All Things
Collective Gallery, Solo Exhibition. Edinburgh.
Chancellors Fellow, Residency in Art Writing,
Edinburgh College of Art & Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.
Annals of the Twenty Ninth Century
Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge. UK
A Model of the Serving Library, Dexter Sinister
Tate, Liverpool. UK
2013 Inflection Sandwich
Piper Keys, Solo Exhibition. London.
Drawing Biennial
The Drawing Room, London.
Life is an Illusion, Love is a Dream
The Royal Standard, Liverpool. UK.
2012 Marbled Reams, Tom Godfrey.
The Modern Institute / CCA Glasgow. & Limoncello, London. UK
What We Have Done and What We Are About to Do
CCA, Glasgow. UK
Publish & be Damned, Artists Book Fair,
ICA, London.
2010 Rijksakademie Open Ateliers
Amsterdam. NL
Out of Time (The Light of Day, The Action of the Play)
Solo Exhibition. Castlefield Gallery, Manchester. UK
2009 4 x 4
Anya Gallacio, David Mabb, Shana Moulton, David Osbaldeston,
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool. UK
2008 The Pleasure of Your Company, (Nought to Sixty)
Solo Exhibition. ICA, London.
Another Shadow Fight
Solo Exhibition. International Project Space, Bourneville, University of Central England, Birmingham. UK
2006 Your Answer is Mine
Matt's Gallery, Solo Exhibition. London
2004 Romantic Detachment
Grizedale Arts, PS1, New York
MONOGRAPHS
2015 Inflection Sandwich, Published by Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL.
Edited & Designed by Wiil Holder. Texts by Will Holder, John Russell, Jonathan P Watts
2025 A Pastiche of Different Techniques, Published by Slimvolume, UK
Text by Andrew Hunt
A C A D E M I C
Presently, I am Reader (Associate Professor) in Fine Art, Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. Previously, I have been Lecturer in Painting & Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art, as well as External Examiner at City & Guilds School of Art, London, University of Reading, UWE, Bristol, & Leeds Beckett University.
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