David
Manley
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Blue
Branch, Oil on Canvas, 4x3 ft., 2008 |
Silence
Of The Tree, Oil on Canvas, 4x3 ft., 2008 |
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Little
Tree, Oil on Canvas, 4x3 ft., 2008 |
Grasp,
Oil on Canvas, 4x3 ft., 2008 |
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Hot
Rod, Oil on Canvas, 4x3 ft., 2008 |
Secret
Garden, Oil on Canvas, 4x4 ft., 2008 |
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| Born Devon, United Kingdom | ||||||
| Studied Exeter School of Art, Falmouth School of Art and Birmingham Institute of Art and Design | ||||||
| Studied Exeter School of Art, Falmouth School of Art and Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. Awarded Cheltenham Fellowship, West Midlands Arts Support Award, Yorkshire Arts Travel Award | ||||||
Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Nothing But Mirrors and Tides’, Derby Museum & Art Gallery, 2002 and ‘(un) Shore Lines’, Centro de Arte, San Joao de Madeira, that toured to Estareja & Aveiro, Portugal in 2005. |
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| Numerous solo and mixed exhibitions include Birmingham Arts Centre, Camden Arts Centre, Shrewsbury, Loughborough, Trieste in Italy, Derby, and Osnabrück in Germany. Of particular note is the recent ‘Simple As Breathing’ two person show at the Art Planning Room, Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan with the painter, John France and ’Digitalis’, an exhibition curated by John Rimmer, featuring five artists that was shown in 2008 at the Sekler National Museum, Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania. | ||||||
| Statement |
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“My recent paintings connote an experience of time and place, as in much of my previous work. These new works bring semi-abstracted imagery drawn from nature back into play and a limited number of stylized motifs are employed in the pictures that try to say something about our current attitudes to the natural world around us.” |
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