David Blackmore is a visual artist specializing in photography living and working in London. Originally from Dublin, Eire David has exhibited widely and his work is held in both public and private collections throughout Europe and China. David is quickly being appreciated as an artist, having been short listed for the Next level - Vorsprung durch Technik Photography award, being published and exhibited in both group and solo shows around the world. Currently David is making new work and is a Senior lecturer in art & design at The University College of the creative arts, Farnham.
07 Honourable mention, Px3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris
06 Travel and mobility award, The Arts council of Ireland
06 Visual Arts award, Culture Ireland.
06 Magenta Foundation’s Emerging Photographers Award.
05 Awarded Designplus BDI Award.
05 Awarded a Fuji Distinction Merit Award.
05 Short listed for Next Level - Vorsprung durch Technik Photography awards.
03 -05 Showcased Artist www.iadt.ie [IADT] website Dublin.
03 IONTAS 2003 Irish art traveling exhibition awarded second place.
Publications and reviews
08 'Out of ...Berlin...pass the picture'
07 'Insulating images from the digital-age onslaught' by Aidan Dunne Irish Times review 04/04.
06 Magenta's 'Flash forward'
06 Gomma magazine, 'Detox'
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03 'Exhibiting a degree of excellence - and then some' by Aidan Dunne Irish Times review 13/06
02 Anonmag 02, ‘Bus Stops’
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Exhibitions
Current
March 27th 'Pass the picture...', Annexe Gallery, Central Market Annexe, kuala lumpur, Malaysia.
Solo shows
March 8 - April 21 07 Draíocht arts centre, Dublin Éire.
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November 9 - December 16 06 gallery vassie (formerly The Hug gallery) Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Collaborative exhibitions
July 25 - August 25 07 'Terrain vague' Whitecross gallery,Whitecross
st, London, UK.
Exhibition micro site
Download 'Terrain Vague' press release
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November 04 the national, LAB’04,
ICA, London, UK.
April 04 ad lib, M+R Gallery, Shoreditch, London, UK.
Selected group exhibitions
January 08 'au salon' Whitecross gallery, Whitecross st, London,
UK.
May 07 'Tech-nique' James Hockney Galleries, Farnham, UK.
November 06 Magenta Foundation’s Emerging Photographers, Lennox
Contemporary, Toronto, Canada.
November 05 RCA Secret 2005, Gulbenkian Galleries, Kensington
Gore, London, Uk.
June 05 the wish list 2005, M+R Gallery, Shoreditch, London, UK.
June 05 Best of Photography, London Gallery West, London, UK.
June 05 forty five degrees, free range 05 Atlantis Gallery, London, UK.
July 04 Surface tension, the foundry, London, UK.
July 04 dialect, Heatham House, London, UK.
September 03 epoch, the crypt, Dublin Castle, Éire.
IONTAS 03 Irish art traveling exhibition
November 03 Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Éire.
October 03 Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, Northern Ireland.
September 03 Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo, Éire.
March 03 epoch TBMC, Dublin, Éire.
September 02 Spectrum, 4 Dame Lane, Dublin, Éire
Educational Background
05 - 06 PGCE in Further education, The University
of Reading, Reading.
03 - 05 Ba (Hons) in Photographic Arts, First Class Honours, University
of Westminster.
00 - 03 Ba (Ord) in Photography.Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design,
Dublin, Éire
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