[ David Blackmore ]

David’s socio-political art practice explores questions concerning consumerism, origin, belonging, and identity through transgressive actions performed for the photographic image, participatory exchanges, sculpture, print, artists books and zines. He studied at the Institute of Art & Design (Dublin) and the University of Westminster (London) completing a Master’s in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art (London).

He has exhibited widely, with solo shows including Stanley Picker Gallery Project Space (London), MOCA (London), Schwartz Gallery (London), SITEATION (Dublin), Central European House of Photography (Bratislava), Draíocht (Dublin) and Elliot Halls (Amsterdam). In 2023, he was commissioned by the Artichoke Trust to make work displayed across the UK on billboards and featured in BBC 4’s TV Documentary ‘21st Century Mythologies’ in 2020. He is a Senior Lecturer at University of the Arts London and a Fellow of the RSA.