Portrait

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.

Vita

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.

David Taborn

"15ml. Undigested Book" -the sequel. (DT/O 2)

Plastic, paper, 22 x 4 x 2,2 cm

David Taborn

"Here Comes my Bullet" aka "Trump Lie" (DT/O 3)

Book, paper mache, metal, 20 x 23 x 13 cm

David Taborn

"Cut off in it's Prime" (DT/O 1)

Book, 20,7 x 5 x 2,8 cm