David Webb Paintings

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29 MARCH (KARIBU PYRAMID)

2008 acrylic on canvas 46 x 61cm

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Exeter Contemporary Open 2010

14 Artists selected by Cathy Lomax, Domo Baal and Matt Burrows

Private View: Wed 15 Sep, 6-8pm

16 Sep - 3 Nov 2010

Exeter Phoenix Gallery

Bradninch Place

Gandy street

Exeter

EX4 3LS
Tel: 01392 667080

Images

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Works on Canvas
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Works on Paper
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CV

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David Webb

Born: 1973. Exeter, UK
Lives and works in London

Solo Exhibitions

2010 Oaxaca Stadium. Arch Gallery, London

2009 David Webb New Paintings. SE 1 Gallery, London

2008 David Webb New Works on Paper. Osokool Gallery, London
2007 David Webb Paintings. The Conservatoire, London
2006 New York Paintings. APT Gallery, London
2004 Cyprus Paintings. First Floor Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
2003 Different. Florence Trust Gallery, London
2002 Hearts and Crosses. Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Cyprus

Group Exhibitions

2010 Fwd: Drawing on Paper. Galleri Se Konst, Falun, Sweden
2010 Ray Lowry: London Calling. Idea Generation Gallery, London

2009 There and Everywhere. Transition Gallery, London

2009 South East. Curated by Clyde Hopkins and Stephen Lewis. APT Gallery, London

2009 Globe Gallery. Newcastle Upon Tyne

2009 Jerwwod 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 Triangle Alumni Exhibition. D.U.M.B.O Arts Festival, New York City
2007 Bounty – A Case of Preposterous Optimism. APT Gallery, London
2007 Building Picturing. The Painting Center, New York City
2007 Four Cornered Universe. The Foundry, London

2006 Brooklyn art under the bridge festival (Triangle Artists’ Workshop). New York City
2006 From the Medway to the Med. Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable
2006 Thread. APT Gallery, London. (co-curator)
2006 Terra Incognita. Atelier Wilhelmina Gasthuisterrein, Amsterdam
2006 Viewing Club. Uxbridge Arms, London

2005 Re-escape (Viewing Club). Bucanearo, Hamburg
2005 Sanctuary (curated by Kier Smith). APT Gallery, London
2005 BP Portrait Award. National Portrait Gallery, London
2005 Four Painters. Eye Candy Gallery, London
2005 London Art Fair (Eye Candy Gallery). Business Design Centre, London

2004 4th 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
2003 Florence Trust Summer Exhibition. Florence Trust, London

2002 CCA Show. Morfi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus
2002 Gallery Artists. Opus 39 Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus

2001 Ida Branson Memorial Exhibition. Atkinson Gallery, Millfield

2000 Twelve New Artists. Atrium Gallery, London
2000 Hung, Drawn and Quartered. Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2000 Visiting Dartmoor. Plough Arts Centre, Torrington

1998 Tabernacle Prize. MOMA Wales

1997 Wales Drawing Biennale. Aberystwyth Arts Centre, and tour

Bibliography

2009 Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Jerwood Contemporary Painters. catalogue

2009 Garageland Magazine. Issue 7: Rock 'n' Roll. Interview

2008 Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Jerwood drawing Prize. Catalogue
2007 Triangle Arts Association. 2006 Triangle Workshop. Catalogue
2007 APT Gallery. Bounty - A Case of Preposterous Optimism. Catalogue
2005 National Portrait Gallery. BP Portrait Award. Catalogue
2004 V. Pahlavuni-Tadevosian. 4th International Biennial Armenia. Catalogue
2003 Cherry Smyth. Florence Trust Summer Exhibition. Catalogue
2000 Twelve New Artists. Catalogue
1997 Wales Drawing Biennale. Catalogue

Publication

2009 Mother Hen (article). Garageland Magazine. Issue 9: Migration.

Grants/Awards
2007 Arts Council England Award (Group). Bounty. A.P.T Gallery, London
2002-2003 Florence Trust Studios residency award. London

Residencies
2008 Residency. Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
2007 Fellowship. The MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, USA
2006 Triangle Artists’ Workshop. Triangle Arts Association, New York City
2001-2002 Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Cyprus (Artist-in-residence)
2001 Kings School, Canterbury (visiting Artist)

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. Hastings College of Art

Statement

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David Webb - Current Work

My work involves looking for distinctive shapes and objects. I aim for them to seem curious and familiar, rather than recognizable. The idea of the painting appears (or returns to me) through paring down my source material - usually drawings - to leave the essential forms. Though un-peopled, the landscapes, buildings and objects often intimate the memory of a relationship or narrative.

Following residencies in Brooklyn, New Hampshire and New York State I have focused on my observations of the migration of Monarch butterflies, alongside the landscape and city/townscape of North East America. This relates to ongoing themes of travelling and location, a sense of place and position - not topographical; more distinct, pared reflections of my observations and memories. This concept of migration has subsequently developed into making work about my family, focusing specifically on the journeys made by my Grandmother by sea and over-land in the late 1940's from London to Tanzania and the return in 1953, which brought her young family home.

Contact Details

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A.P.T Studios
6 Creekside
SE8 4SA
London
United Kingdom

email

Essay by Cuillin Bantock

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David Webb - New Paintings

Somewhere in Cahiers d’Art Braque comments that the only thing that matters about a painting is what can’t be put into words. What Braque is saying is that a painting by-passes verbalisation and operates entirely through the eyes, between painter and observer. A painting may be recognised or identified long before it is literally understood.

It is arguable also, that what makes a painting any good is that it persists in the observer’s mind once the looking is over, the nutritive power that the memory of a painting may have.

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.

Close inspection shows that these images are hard-won. A barely detectable, remote red can glimmer through a charcoal with just enough facture to keep the surface alive. Webb has an enviable feel for the way paint behaves. In Suez, for example, an essentially conventional landscape-type composition is given life entirely through the interplay of greeny-greys, near-earth sepias, and just sufficiently brushy mark-making. Without in any way being melancholic, these paintings are subdued yet affirmative. Slow-burners, if you like, their apparent softness is often built round a steely sense of scale.

The old figurative versus non-representational debate is yesterday’s argument and Webb moves around easily in this territory. What unifies this air-filled opus is an instinctive feel for natural light without in any sense being depictive of the particular. Even at their least referential, whatever the image, the work is grounded in a felt reality.

Braque commented also that with age, art and life become one, the implication being that all the artist has to do is to be, without any sense of performing for someone else. In the way he ploughs his own furrow, Webb clearly belongs to the high ground of painting. This by no means gainsays either his evident ambition or committed professionalism. A painter to watch.

Cuillin Bantock

January, 2009

Current Group Show: Jerwood Drawing Prize

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Jerwood Drawing Prize 2008

9 May - 7 June 2009 (private view: 8 May, 6pm)

DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery
Aykley Heads
Durham
DH1 5TU

link to gallery

David Webb - New Work on Paper

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1 December 2008 -
16 March 2009

Osokool Gallery
Hand Made Food
40 Tranquil Vale
Blackheath
London SE3 0BD
Tel: 0208 297 9966

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There and Everywhere
Helen Couchman Liz Harrison David Webb

6 - 29 November 2009
Friday-Sunday 12-6pm

Private View 5 November 2009, 6-9pm

Transition Gallery
Unit 25A (second floor) Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN

Tel: 020 7254 4202/07941 208 566

Forthcoming Solo Show - May 2010

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Oaxaca Stadium

New Paintings by David Webb

7^th May - 12^th June 2010

Private View: Thurs 13 May, 6-9pm

Opening Hours: Tues – Sat, 10-5pm

Arch Gallery
15 - 16 Resolution Way
Deptford
London
SE8 4NT
Tel: 020 8469 0260
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