David Theobald

Born 1965 in the UK. Originally trained as a chemical engineer before spending 15 years working in finance. Nine years ago I decided to change profession and pursue a career as a full time artist. I am married and have four children.

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I work primarily in digital media, video and video installation, mainly using digital composition and animation.

Today, location is not so much defined by geography, but by our position within the complex web of processes that make up contemporary society. My work attempts to capture such a situation, caught in a perpetual state of transit where increasing complexity is often presented as the illusion of progress. As the global economy lurches towards an uncertain future, these complex connections that form the basis of day-to-day existence seem ever more evident and ever more precarious.

How can art respond? I think that art is the ideal place for thinking about these issues. By reinterpreting ethics as a process of imagining and recognizing new possibilities rather than simply choosing from commoditized options, we can shift it to the heart of a polit...

Education:
2006-8 MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths
2003-6 BA Fine Art Wimbledon School of Art
1983-7 MEng in Chemical Engineering, Imperial College, London

Exhibitions:
2010
RE: animate, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys, Wales
Holding Time, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London
ev+a, Limerick, Ireland

2009
Baggage Reclaim, Prussian Projekte, Nottingham
Celeste Prize, Alte AEG Fabrik, Berlin
In To Land, Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury
COE 09, Claremorris, Ireland
Modern Times, Vegas Gallery, London
Cut to the Chase, Bargate Monument Gallery, A Space Arts, Southhampton, Jul 4 - Aug
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2009, Royal Academy, London, Jun 8 - Aug 16
Creekside Open 2009 (selected by Mark Wallinger), APT Gallery, London, Jun 4 - 21
The Open West, The Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Feb 21 - Mar 27
Oxford Contemporary, Ovada, Oxford, UK
Trampoline: Platform for New Media Art, Radiator Festival 09: Exploits in the Wireless City, Nottingham, Jan 16
Art Projects, The London Art Fair 2009, London, Jan 14 - 18

2008
ArtSway Open08, Sway, New Forest, Dec 6 - Feb 8 2009
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2008, Dec 5 - Feb 1, Rochelle School, London
Figuring Land...