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Portfolio for White Columns Artist’s Registry. New York.
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.

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Spring | Summer 2024.
‘Soanyway’ Issue 16 A contribution of six collage works on paper to peer reviewed online journal on the theme of Ekphrasis & Prosopopoeia: Mapping, Interpreting and giving Voice.

David Osbaldeston. Imposters 1-6. Six collages, oil on paper, mixed media.

Ekphrasis & Prosopopoeia: Mapping, Interpreting and Giving Voice. Ekphrasis – a vivid description of a scene or work of art. Mediums converge: one medium of art is related and relayed in another.  Prosopopoeia – an abstract thing is personified, or an absent or imagined person or thing is represented as speaking. The artist, writer, singer gives voice to an animal or an inanimate object. In an interdisciplinary art setting, who speaks for who, what speaks to what, who borrows whose voice? How does one form describe another, how is an image or idea translated across mediums, contexts and languages?

‘A Pastiche of Different Techniques’
Private View 6-8pm, April 4 continues to May 25
Solo presentation of new and existing works initiated from Moon Grove, Manchester now extended at Glasgow Print Studio, 103 Trongate, Glasgow.

Limited edition made available on the occasion of the exhibition at Glasgow Print Studio. ‘A Pastiche of Different Techniques’ is a 4 Colour Screen print, printed on 300 gm ‘Bread & Butter’ paper, 56 x 76cm, signed edition of 50 copies. £100. To purchase, please contact Glasgow Print Studio.

Oil paint on collage for the group exhibition I WISH…held at Shandy Hall. The Laurence Sterne Trust, Coxwold, Yorkshire, over the summer of June - August 2023.

Better known as originator of the comic novel The Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, and beginning with ‘I Wish…’ Sterne’s novel delivers engaging textual ploys to convey graphic interplay between image and text. Arguably it achieves this with an immediacy of effect that insists on reminding the reader they are engaging with a highly convoluted narrative delivered through the lens of Sterne as one of the earliest proponents of meta-fiction; where the boundaries between author and character are blurred.

This work is now in a private collection.

To mark the closing of ‘A Pastiche of Different Techniques’ at Moon Grove, Manchester, there will be an edition launch from 6-8pm on 25th JANUARY 2023 with all proceeds to support the gallery’s future programme.

The Ardent (lover #1)
Two-colour screen print on Velin D’Arches 250gm with decal edges. Paper size 56 x 76cm, Image size 49 x 70. 2023
Edition of 20 + 10 AP’s
Signed and numbered

To celebrate Valentine's Day 2023 copies of the edition will be available for a special launch price of £150.
The price after 14 February will be £225. (Last Few Copies Left)
To purchase or for more information please contact: mail@moongrove.org

David Osbaldeston
'A Pastiche of Different Techniques'

Wednesday 23 November 2022
6.00pm and 9:00pm

The exhibition will run from
24 November 2022 to 25 January 2023

For his exhibition at Moon Grove, artist David Osbaldeston has created a suite of site-specific works for the gallery’s intimate domestic location. Spread between the building’s ground floor rooms, entrance, staircase and first floor landing, Osbaldeston’s prints and paintings dwell on contemporary criticism associated with Nietzsche’s ‘Eternal Return[ii]’, alongside bourgeois elements of taste associated with Modernism and philosophical aesthetics development since the Enlightenment. Click HERE to go to the gallery website for further images and details.