David Taborns vielfältiges Werk bewegt sich vor allem zwischen Malerei und dem dreidimensionalen Bereich. Er versteht Objekte damit auch als Bildträger, die intermedial die Eigenschaften der Malerei aufgreifen. Sein künstlerischer Ansatz ist humorvoll und verspielt – dabei schafft er es gleichzeitig auf beeindruckende Weise, eine politische Dimension in seinen Arbeiten zu entfalten, die kritische Fragestellungen evozieren.
Fellowships:
2006 | Fellowship, UrbanGlass, New York, USA |
2003-2006 | NESTA Fellow, UK |
1979-1982 | Fellow in Fine Art, Nottingham University, UK |
Awards:
2018 | Gottlieb Foundation Award |
2008 | British Council Award |
2006 | Arts Council Award |
2005 | British Council Award |
1994 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award |
1982 | Midland View II (Major Prize Winner) |
1981 | East Midland Arts, Purchase Award |
1972 | Slade Leaving Scholarship (Boise) |
1970 | Jackson Travel Scholarship |
Education:
1970–1972 | Slade School of Fine Art |
1966–1970 | Birmingham College of Art |
Workshops:
1990 | Music Workshop, South Bank Centre, London |
1989 | Rambert Dance Project, Arnolfini, Bristol |
1984 | Monotype Workshop, Air Gallery, London |
Exhibitions:
2014 | Dormagen Kulturhaus, Germany |
2010 | Lassco, Brunswick House, London |
2008 | Robert Lehman Gallery, NY |
2006 | Art Cologne, Germany |
Mind Matters, Galerie Kusseneers, Antwerp, Belgium | |
2005 | Galerie Kusseneers, Antwerp, Belgium (solo) |
Art Cologne, Germany | |
Ghent Art Fair, Belgium | |
Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London | |
2004 | Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London |
2002 | Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London |
2001 | ‘The Tomorrow Gate’, BritArt Gallery, London |
2000 | JHW Fine Art, Air Gallery (solo), London |
Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne | |
Art London, UK | |
1998 | Galeria Casa da Imogem, Curitiba, Brazil |
Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham UK | |
1996 | Contemporary Art Society, South Bank, London |
‘Second Impressions’, Reg Vardy Art Gallery, Sunderland | |
1995 | Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham |
1994 | ‘Seamless Cream’, Factual Nonsense, London (solo) |
‘Lead & Follow – The Continuity of Abstraction’, Atlantis Gallery, London | |
Hunting Group Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London and touring | |
1993 | ‘Fête Worse than Death’, Factual Nonsense, London |
Works on Paper (1991–93), Factual Nonsense, London (solo) | |
Factual Nonsense, London (mixed) | |
Reg Vardy Art Gallery, Sunderland University (solo) | |
East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute of Art, London | |
1992 | Grob Gallery, London (solo) |
‘A Guide for the Perplexed’, Factual Nonsense, London (solo) | |
University of Nottingham Art Gallery (solo retrospective) | |
Dormagen Kulturhaus, Germany (solo retrospective) | |
1991 | Courtauld Institute Loan Collection, London and Paris |
1990 | Hunting Group Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London |
1989 | Gallery 202, London (solo) |
Woodlands Art Gallery, London (solo) | |
1986 | Odette Gilbert Gallery, London |
1985 | Midland Group, Nottingham |
1984 | Air Gallery, London; Aberdeen Art Gallery |
1983 | ‘One of a Kind’, Maryland Institute, USA |
1982 | Nottingham University Art Gallery (solo) |
1981 | Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (solo) |
Nottingham University Art Gallery (solo) | |
1980 | John Moores XII, Liverpool |
1979 | Nottingham University Art Gallery (solo) |
1972 | Paolozzi’s ‘Choice of London Postgraduate Shows’, M.o.M.A., Oxford |
1971 | Northern Young Contemporaries (Arts Council Prize) |
1970 | Northern Young Contemporaries (Stuyvesant Prize) |
Southern Young Contemporaries (Arts Council Prize) | |
1969 | Northern Young Contemporaries |
Southern Young Contemporaries (touring) |
Collections include :-
Government Art Collection,
NESTA Collection,
Simmons & Simmons,
Warwick Arts Trust,
Nottingham University,
Courtauld Institute.