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David Webb

 

 

 





Facade 2010 : Acrylic on canvas : 50 x 58cm

Fin 2010 : Acrylic on canvas : 33 x 26.5cm



A painter worth his salt takes risks. The risks that David Webb takes in his work are those of non-confrontational, apparent simplicity, of quiet subtlety of colour and facture allied to a lean pictorial formality. Yet these natural-looking paintings repay a long and hard look. There is nothing here of proficient bravura or the esprit of the immediately optical, as of a clever conjuring trick. Instead, they are achieved visual statements which defy easy analysis and yet stay in the mind.

Cuillin Bantock (2009)



Secret Seat 2010 : Acrylic on canvas : 150 x 140 cm

Valetta 2010 : Acrylic on canvas : 40 x 46 cm



 

EDUCATION

1998-2000 MA Fine Art, Painting. Canterbury Christ Church University College

1999 Painting Summer School. Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Cyprus

1994-1997 BA (Hons) Fine Art. School of Art, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

1992-1993 Foundation Course in Art and Design. Hastings College of Art



SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 New Paintings. SE1 Gallery, London

2008 New Work on Paper. Osokool Gallery, London

2006 New York Paintings. APT Gallery, London

2004 Cyprus Paintings. First Floor Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia

2002 Hearts and Crosses. Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Cyprus

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 There and Everywhere. Transition Gallery, London

2009 Jerwood Contemporary Painters. Jerwood Space, London and tour

2008 Small is Beautiful XXVI. Flowers East, London

2008 Jerwood Drawing Prize. Jerwood Space, London and tour

2008 The Painting Room. Transition Gallery, London

2007 Bounty - A Case of Preposterous Optimism. APT Gallery, London

2007 Building Picturing. The Painting Center, New York

2007 Four Cornered Universe. The Foundry, London

2006 Brooklyn Art Under the Bridge Festival. Triangle Artists' Workshop, New York

2006 From the Medway to the Med. Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable

2006 Terra Incognita. Atelier Wilhelmina Gasthuisterrein, Amsterdam

2005 Re-escape. Viewing Club, Bucanearo, Hamburg

2005 BP Portrait Award. National Portrait Gallery, London and tour

2004 Fourth International Biennial. Gyumri Centre for Contemporary Art, Armenia

2004 Painters. Long and Ryle, London

2004 re:project. Access Gallery, Vancouver

2003 Reduced. Century Gallery, London

2003 Common Fields. Studio Voltaire, London

2002 CCA Show. Morfi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus

2002 Opus 39 Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus

2001 Ida Branson Memorial Bequest Exhibition. Atkinson Gallery, Millfield

2000 Hung, Drawn and Quartered. Phoenix Gallery, Brighton

1998 Tabernacle Prize. MoMA Wales

1998 Wales Drawing Biennale. Aberystwyth Arts Centre and tour

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2008 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. Artist Fellowship

2007 Arts Council England. Group Award, Bounty, A.P.T Gallery, London

2007 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA. Artist Fellowship

2006 Triangle Arts Association, New York City. Artist Workshop

2002-03 Florence Trust Studios, London. Residency Award

2001-02 Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Cyprus . Artist in Residence



COLLECTION

National Library of Wales

Triangle Arts Association, New York, USA