David Blackmore

David Blackmore is a European artist. His initial training was through the medium and criticality of photography. However, over the past decade, his practice has migrated substantially away from photography favouring a Post-Medium approach. Blackmore has two sides to his practice. One is studio based, working with sculpture and print. The other consists of transgressive actions performed for the image and increasingly relational exchanges. Blackmore's works are gestures against authority. Gestures that exploit the gaps, spaces and boundaries that exist between the structures and systems we live within. Hinged on the boundary areas between order and dissent his work takes material from the familiar and disregarded aspects of civic life Blackmore’s works articulate a frustration with the way our lives are dictated to by systems of order.

Initially studying at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art & Design (Dublin, Ire) and University of Westminster (London, UK) Blackmore completed a Master’s in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art (London, Uk). David has exhibited widely internationally including solo shows at Gallery Vassie (Amsterdam), Draíocht (Dublin), Central European House of Photography (Bratislava), Schwartz Gallery (London),...

2014/16 Master of Fine Arts, Slade School of Fine Art (London, UK)
2005/06 PGCE in Post Compulsory Education, University of Reading (Reading, UK)
2003/05 Ba (Hons) in Photographic Arts, University of Westminster (London, UK)
2000/03 Ba (Ord) in Photography, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art & Design (London, UK)

Solo Exhibitions
2017 V3NTUR35 LTD, Black Box, University for the Creative Arts, (Farnham , UK)
2013 Island, Siteation (Dublin, IRE)
2010 Self help, Schwartz Gallery, (London, UK)
2009 Detox, Central European House of Photography (Bratislava, SK)
2007 Detox, Draíocht (Dublin, IRE)
2006 Detox, Gallery Vassie (Amsterdam, NL)

TWO AND THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017 Migrant, Division of Labour (London, UK) & The HIVE (Worcester, UK)
David Blackmore, Sonia Boyce and Mark S Gubb. Curated by Emalee Beddoes.
2016 Vault, University College London Art Museum (London, UK)
David Blackmore, Kara Chin & Naomi Fitzsimmons. Curated by Andrea Fredericksen
2014 Manifesto, OFF_FESTIVAL (Bratislava, SK)
David Blackmore & Dhruv Malhotra. Curated by Zuzana Lapitková.
2004 ad lib, M+R Gallery (London, UK)
David Blackmore & Yiannis Habbibis. Curated by Rupert Blanchard and Ma Chung Kin

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 I object: Ian Hislop searches for dissent, British Museum (London, UK) Curated by Thomas Hockenhull
2018 Creative Unions, Lethaby Gallery (London, UK)
2018 Disruptors and Innovators: Journeys in gender equality at UCL, Octogan Gallery (London, UK)
Curated by Dr. Nina Pearlman
2017 UPROOTEDNESS, 310NXRd (London, UK) Cura...