Maui Firescreen (2019)
Oil on an Oak Fireguard
58cm x 71cm
Maud Fairwing / Reliable Narrator (2021)
Oil on a Silver Plated Brass Plate
35cm x 35cm
SOLD
Maiden Voyage New Plymouth / Ngāmotu 1893 (2021)
(Referenced from the first known image of
women going to a polling station in New Zealand)
Oil on a Vintage Suitcase
61cm x 40cm x 20cm
Portrait of a Lady Chicken (2021)
Oil on a Brass Plate
51cm x 51cm
SOLD
Sunken Kirk of Swinside Fell (2021)
Oil and Enamel on a Vintage Jaguar Bonnet
131cm x 116cm
Good Girl Gone Bad (2021)
Oil and Enamel on a Vintage Brass Table Top
61.5cm x 61.5cm
A Computation of Time (Beatrice Tinsley) (2021)
Oil and Enamel on a Vintage Daimler Bonnet
114cm x 114cm
Heather Feather (2021)
Oil on Board (Nine Panels)
225cm x 225cm
Crepuscular Sect
Oil on Tin Can
21cm x 18cm x 25cm
SOLD
Cupids on Badgers
Oil on Accordion Case (comes with accordion)
45cm x 49cm x 24cm
Lindsay / God of Subsistence
Oil on Jeep Car Bonnet
120cm x 78cm
SOLD
Little Hand / The Inverse Principality
Oil on Tin Can
10cm x 15cm
Morning Brass
Oil on Found Metal Decorative Plate
43cm x 43cm
SOLD
Polycycle Sigil
Oil on Singer Gazelle Car Bonnet
109cm x 108cm
SOLD
Ship Inside This House You’ve Made
Oil on Tin Can
15cm x 10cm x 4cm
SOLD
Supernova Sam
Oil on Metal Filing Cabinet Panels
117cm x 120cm
SOLD
The Kraken
Oil on Canvas
60 x 70cm
No.16 – Compound Cluster Fit
Oil on Car Panel
1480cm x 123cm
Manu Likes To Disco
Oil on Capri Car Bonnet
127cm x 134cm
SOLD
Jean Jean Bloemfontein
Oil on Car Bonnet
121cm x 115cm
SOLD
Blue print for a Bear (2016)
Oil on board
196cm x 196cm
SOLD
Cartoon Swamp Jazz (2016)
Ink on Board
104cm x 128cm
Mabel (2012)
Oil on Wood
128cm x 58cm x 40cm
SOLD
Soft Cone
Oil on filing cabinet panel
121cm x 60cm
SOLD
Herman
Limited Edition of 33 Screen Prints on Cairnes Eco Kraft paper
50cm x 70cmm
ENQUIRESolo exhibitions:
2019 ‘Original Myth’ Potocki Paterson, Wellington
2018 ‘Scrapyard Saints’ Potocki Paterson, Wellington
2016 ‘Instruments of Possession’ Potocki Paterson, Wellington
2015 ‘Inflammable Liquids’ See Studio, London
2009 ‘Petrol’ Signal Gallery, London
2008 ‘Gullwing Mary and the Dannevirke Divas’ Empire Gallery, London
2008 ‘Morri’s Gumpy’ Charlotte Street, London
2006 ‘Ted Mongering’ Foundry, London
2005 ‘Saltarello’ Charlotte Street, London
2004 ‘No Peerless Social Lion’ Foundry, London
2003 ‘Making up for Lost Body Language’ Anvil House, Wellington
2003 ‘No.2 Join the Hayboy Club’ Start Gallery, Wellington
2002 ‘Cordial Factions’ Anvil House, Wellington
2002 ‘Vocabulary Gone Feral’ Walrus Gallery, Wellington
2001 ‘Barney’s World of Absolutes’ Gallery on Riddiford, Wellington
2001 ‘My Guru Needs Fixing’ Rimu Street Gallery, Eastbourne
Selected group exhibitions:
2017 ‘Objects of Desire’ Apart, London
2015 ‘Lost and Found’ James Freeman Gallery, London
2012 ‘Apart Winter Show’ Apart, London
2011 ‘Apart Summer Show’ Apart, London
2011 ‘Generations’ Chelsea Old Town Hall & Saatchi Gallery, London
2011 ‘Configured’ Signal Gallery, London
2010 ‘From London to Lille’ Vertikall Gallery, Lille
2010 ’10 Years Apart’ Apart, London
2010 ‘Carrousel du Louvre’ Louvre, Paris
2010 ‘Jam 3’ Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris
2010 ‘Cluster Fits Five’ Foundry, London
2009 ‘Artists for Dalai Lama’ Krauts Gallery, Köln & Frankfurt
2009 ‘Nice Old Bank on the Corner’ Apart, London
2009 ‘Go Figure’ Krauts Gallery, Cocoon Club, Frankfurt
2008 ‘House of Yamake’ Apart, London
Statement:
David’s work mixes painting techniques and media, which along with his conceptual and physical motifs, hint at alternate ways of seeing.
Repetitive line work, features heavily in his work, which he uses to abstractly plot narratives, and convey essential character study information.
He predominantly chooses found objects to paint on, such as vintage car bonnets, or old metal objects with typography and defects, that then become woven into his work.
The past lives of these items, form an important element of his work, as well as reflecting his interest in the passage of time, which has, and remains, a constant theme of his work.
He lives and works in Taranaki on New Zealand’s North Island.