Bio

David Blackmore is a European artist based in London since 2003. Initially trained through the medium and criticality of photography his practice has migrated substantially favouring a Post-Medium approach. David has two sides to his practice. One is studio based, working with sculpture and print. The other consists of transgressive actions performed for the image and increasingly relational exchanges.

Hinged on the boundary area between order and dissent. Blackmore’s work takes material from the familiar and disregarded aspects of civic life. Manipulating them to form gestures exploiting the spaces between the structures and systems we live within.

Initially studying at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art & Design (Dublin, Ire) and University of Westminster (London, UK) Blackmore completed a Master’s in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art (London, Uk). David has exhibited widely internationally including solo shows at Gallery Vassie (Amsterdam), Draíocht (Dublin), Central European House of Photography (Bratislava), Schwartz Gallery (London), SITEATION (Dublin) and MOCA (London).

In 2020 David featured in BBC4’s TV documentary ‘21st Century Mythologies with Richard Clay’discussing the myth of money which is available on the BBC i-player. In 2019 and 2017 two recent works by Blackmore were accessioned to the British Museum's collection; one of which featured in I‐Object (Jan 2019).

A recent relational work European Pa55port featured at MOCA London (October, 2018), re: publica’s Berlin (May 2018) and Dublin (Sept. 2017) conferences and was presented at Rem Koolhaas / Wolfgang Tillmans’ EuroLab conference in June 2018.

David's studio is located at Chisenhale Studios Bow which he shares with Artist Fritha Jenkins and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts

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