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david rowsell

david attended the Central School of Art, Canterbury College of Art, Birkbeck and Goldsmiths Colleges (University of London), studying Fine Art and Philosophy of Art.

david has taught extensively across all areas of art and design theory and practice and at all levels: from secondary to higher education.

david began exhibiting at the Leicester Gallery (London) during the mid 1970s and has continued to show work since then with many other galleries, including the Royal Academy, the National Portrait Gallery, the Bluecoat Gallery (Liverpool), the Haworth Gallery and the London Institute Gallery.

aims

my work is an investigation into the nature of drawing and painting. for me this investigation is centred on questions about how a physical medium can reflect and embody states of mind, memories and suppositions. in order to do this I have reduced my practice to the application of colour in loosely defined grids. whilst this reduction of methods and devices produces a form of abstraction, i treat all of my work as representational.