"...While delighting in and affirming life through interaction with water, its metaphors and its poetry, the threat of the unknown and that which can never be controlled is a constant presence in David's work – an intriguing and at times intimidating unknown just beneath the surface..."
2023
-Green Hill Arts Gallery, Moretonhampstead, 27th April - 27th June
-National Taiwan Normal University. Group show with MA students. February
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2022
-Royal West of England 169 Annual Open Exhibition 8th October - 8th January 2023
-South West Printmaking Open 2022 - Studio KIND 1st October -15th October
-Contributor - Dasson / Issue 1 Rame Projects, Plymouth
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2021
-Soundcloud stream: Becoming Insect / Curated by Camilla Nelson / Soundart Radio
-Vienna Biennale / FOR CHANGE PLANET LOVE / Curated by Camilla Nelson The MAK - museum and laboratory. Museum of Applied Arts 28th May - 3rd Oct
-Exhibition - Sea Life / Coombe Gallery / Dartmouth / 28th May - 28th June
-High Water - Recording celebrating the highest tide this year
-FILM - A Film of Poetry and Music / The Word Café - Julie Mullen, The Arts Council England
-High Water / On March 30th, spring tide. Art.earth, Tidelines and Low Carbon Devon Zoom celebration of this equinoctial tide with tide stories. 08.30-22.00 GMT March 30
-Spring / Artist in Residence / JULIE MULLEN'S CAKEHOLE Soundart Radio
-Solo show of selected paintings / Dartington Hall Estate
-Becoming Insect / Soundart Radio curated by Camilla Nelson
"...BECOMING INSECT is one of six, one hour radio essays that weave poetry, nonfiction, theory, soundart and performance together in a shamanistic effort to become other (fungus, plant, insect, bird and animal) in order to better become our selves..."
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2020
- Artist in Residence - Sound Art Radio: Julie Mullen's CAKeHOLE show
- Flying ants + musical composition and arrangement by Martin Seager
- Insects Do Not Feel Pain. Music by Martin Seager 10 August
- Landslide + Grief. Julie Mullen's CAKeHOLE show 7 August music by Martin Seager written on a residency in Cinque Terres, Italy, Landslides, and a piece of text work made in my back yard
- 3 August 2020
- Red Propeller Gallery 1-31 August Kingsbridge . South Devon
- Insect Love Songs Curated by Fiona Benson for the University of Exeter Including: John Wedgewood-Clark, Rebecca Gethin, Kareem Parkins-Brown, Rishi Dastidar, Morag Smith, Laura Warner, and the Grand Bard of Exeter Kimwei McCarthy
- Contributor - Unpsychology Magazine The Other-Than-Human anthology Issue #6
'Love' - written in collaboration with a stream and edited by slugs Download your copy gratis
- Solo show, Dartington Round House, Dartington Hall Estate
- Publication of residency catalogue: The Ephemeral River, Dartington, Devon June 9-18 2018
- Global Nomadic Art project UK 2018, Yatoo, GNAP isbn 978-89-93531-28-2 Copies available -
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2019
- Solo show Harbour House Kingsbridge 17-29th September
- Love: a love poem - written by water Poetry reading The Word Cafe The Barrel House - Totnes
Hosted by Julie Mullen Other artists: Alice Oswald Kimwei McCarthy Christopher Cook Izzy Mattesini Paul Mortimer Music composed and performed by Martin Seager + Choir Wednesday 26th June 7.30-10pm
- Plymouth University Alumni Show Lewinsky Gallery Saturday 8 - Saturday 29 June
5 haiku films and 1 framed page of love poetry edited by slugs
- Radical Landscapes: INNOVATION IN LANDSCAPE & LANGUAGE ART Group show including Hanna Tuulikki, Harriet Tarlo...http://www.singingapplepress.com/exhibitions/ The Plough Gallery, Torrington, Devon Curated by Camilla Nelson
23nd March-20th April
"Exploring the continuum between drawn, painted and written
mark-making in the construction of landscape aesthetics."
- Article - Love Poetry: The Slug Edit - The Learned Pig Published in The Learned Pig
- The Word Cafe, Soundart Radio Interview with Julie Mullen18th February
2018
-YATOO + GNAP-UK video exhibition at the Science Cabin, UNIST Global Nomadic Art Project Video Exhibition 18th to 31st of OctoberYatoo is the Korean Nature Artists' Association
http://www.natureartbiennale.org/en/bbs/board.php?bo_table=nomadic&wr_id=132
- Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2018, Video exhibition 'Wind' Korean Nature Artists' Association - YATOO August 20 - October 16 Gongju, Chungnam 314-861, South Korea
- Visiting workshop lecturer Plymouth University Summer school August
- Residency:-The Ephemeral River A Global Nomadic Art Project with CCANW and ARTDOTEARTH initiated and supported by YATOO at The Dartington Hall Estate, Devon, UK
June 9 -18 see more here
​- gallery@oxo group show Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, South Bank, London 29 March - 8 April
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2017
- Royal William Yard Sea Tunnel Compound a show by Katy Richardson, Laura Hopes, Peter Chesbrough and LLyr Davies for Plymouth Artweekender September
- Guest speaker and performer Emma Bush peer group workshopWarm Up Coombe Farm Studios, Dittisham, South Devon April
- Selected and hung Drawn The Royal West of England Academy 1 April - 4 June
- after alert catchers: a report on an other (than) worded event
Beyond Words: Privileging the Unspoken in Arts and Communities in a Posthuman World
Plymouth University, March 2017
Mark Leahy
artist - writer - teacher
Read excerpt of 'alert catchers' paper
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2016
- Review ---- Throw only to an alert catcher at unpopular-culture.com December 25
- Throw only to an alert catcher show reel of work made on location at Dawlish Warren Nature Reserve
- Gallery 333 Exeter Phoenix Wed 16 Nov - Sat 07 Jan 2017 a collaboration with Megan Calver and Gabrielle Hoad
-lie lie lie Artists' book in collaboration with Megan Calver and Gabrielle Hoad. published October
- Throw only to an alert catcher Group exhibition
Beach huts x3 Dawlish Warren, South Devon Supported by the a-n Professional Development Bursary 21st - 22nd October 2016
- a-n Professional Development Bursary awarded
to develop a new thematic collaboration (blog link here) at Dawlish Warren Nature Reserve, Devon
with Megan Calver and Gabrielle Hoad
- Visiting lecturer to the MA Contemporary Art, Plymouth University
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2015
- The Observatory, Spud -- shortlisted with Megan Calver and Gabrielle Hoad
- Transition. Newlyn Gallery -- shortlisted with Megan Calver and Gabrielle Hoad
- Review of Love Rules OK a show by Megan Calver at Plymouth University Gallery Space 101 2014
read review
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2014
- Flow Little Dartmouth . Group show. South Devon . 14 - 27 July
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2013
- Thomas and Paul Gallery Little Venice . London Group show
- Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 10th June -18th August
- Open Studio Bogliasco Foundation, Liguria, Italy May
- The Yard Gallery Exeter
2012-2013
Neoreplicants 16th November -30th December 2013 3d digital print commission . University of Exeter & Exeter Phoenix
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2012
- 3D commission
University of Exeter/Exeter Phoenix
- Film Painting Prize 2011 OPEN gallery, Shoreditch, London
2011
- The Art Collective Exhibition Brick Lane, London
- Dust on the Mirror Gallery North, Newcastle
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2008
- Tempo Reale British School at Rome, Italy Group Show
- Awarded MAstar Axis Website for Contemporary Art
click here for editorial
- Slippage Plymouth Univrsity
please click on 'slideshow' above to view
AN magazine review
- Awarded MA Fine Art University of Plymouth
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2007
- Journey University of Wales, Swansea Land/Water Research exhibition
- Clifford Fishwick Gallery Exeter Group show
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2005
Nests Eden Project Cornwall
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2004
- Women of Achievement Theatre Royal Plymouth group show
- Artspaces Gallery Totnes. Devon Various group and solo shows.
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2003
- Andras Kaldor Gallery Dartmouth, Devon Solo show
2002
- Ariel Gallery, Totnes, Devon Group show
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1993-97
- Set up studio in NW Sicily
- Exhibiting widely in Italy
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1990
- Awarded B.A. Hons. University of Middlesex​
