David Ogle

David Ogle’s artistic practice spans a range of media yet tracks along a consistently evolving set of aesthetic and conceptual concerns. Incorporating drawing, sculpture, installation and new media, Ogle often works in the ‘grey area’ between different mediums, recurring visual motifs often surfacing across this disparate array of disciplines. In disrupting our expectations of these boundaries, his work produces paradoxical elements that are always combined with simplicity and material presence, continually providing a physical, and often-illusionary, confrontation in real-space.

Much of Ogle’s early work derived from drawing, revealing an act or process of mark making that became the fundamental rationale of the work. In the application of such processes to physical sites, his works on paper leave the confines of a flat surface, their aesthetic qualities manifest in physical space. Spaces that simultaneously shape the work and become manipulated by it, encouraging viewers to navigate their environments in new ways.

Materially, Ogle's practice seeks a mode of fragility, frequently revealing strong geometric forms within a space, though forms that lack the weight and immobility of sculpture. Like the dimensionless properties...

2012 - 2015 | Ph.D. Collaborative doctoral award: The University of Liverpool/FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)

2011 - 2012 | M.A. Contemporary Arts Research: Lancaster University - Distinction

2006 - 2009 | B.A. (hons) Fine Art (History/Practice): Lancaster University - 1st Class

2005 - 2006 | Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Stockport College, 2006

2015 | Mark Devereux Projects Open House, Manchester, UK

2014 | In Another Light, The National Trust - Croft Castle, UK (solo)

2014 | Regenerate 14, The Lab Magazine, Copenhagen

2014 | Regenerate 14, The Lab Magazine, Berlin

2014 | David Ogle, Sake No Hana, London (solo)

2013 | Federation House Open, Manchester, UK

2013 | Crystallize, Old Billingsgate Market, London

2013 | Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, The Pyramid Arts Centre,

2013 | Mak?ng Sense, Fallout Factory, Liverpool

2013 | MDP AfterHours, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

2013 | Means of Feedback, CUBE, Manchester

2013 | Light in Contemporary Sculpture, The Royal British Society of Sculptors, London (solo)

2013 | The Catlin Art Prize 2013, LondonNewcastle Project Space, London/

2013 | David Ogle - Subterranean. The Royal British Society of Sculptors - Sculpture Shock, The Vaults, London (solo)

2013 | Kinetica Art Fair 2013, Ambika P3, London

2012 | Sculpture Shock Finalists Showcase, The Royal British Society of Sculptors, London

2012 | Kinetica @ The Village Underground - Shoreditch, London

2012 | Object – Memory, The Lica Building, Lanc...