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About.html
David Blackmores' artist statement & biograph.

Artist statement

Originally I trained in photography, over the past few years my practice has broadened to incorporate additional mediums.

I make work that presents views of life exclusive to the current epoch, the result of modern, social & global concerns. I am specifically interested in the idea of control & limitations encountered within daily life. My work is the visual manifestion of an internal resistance against these restraints and the resulting work forms a muted acknowledgement of its existence 

Biography

Aside from his own artistic practice David works part time as a Senior lecturer at the University for the Creative Arts. Blackmore has also guest lectured at a number of institutions including the University of Westminster [London] and the Institute for art, design and technology [Dublin].

In 2007 Blackmore was mentored by artist/academic Grace Lau. More recently David received a portfolio award during the Bratislavan month of photography and had a solo show at the Central European House of photography in Bratislava. Blackmore’s current series of drawings ‘Borrowed from my bank’ were published in Holland by the newspaper nrc.next last November.

artists_cv.html
David Blackmores' edited artists cv.

Awards
08 Bratislavan month of photography, portfolio award winner.
06 Travel and mobility award, Arts council of Ireland.
06 Visual Arts award, Culture Ireland.
06 Magenta Foundation’s Emerging Photographer Award.
05 Designplus BDI Award.
05 Fuji Distinction Merit Award.
05 Short listed for Next Level Photography awards.
03 IONTAS exhibition award winner.

Publications & reviews
08 ‘De krediet crisis eist veerkracht van de mens’, nrc.next 25/11. ['Borowed from my bank' 2008-09]
08 ‘Out of ...Berlin...pass the picture’ [Detox 2003-06]
07 ‘Insulating images from the digital-age onslaught’, Aidan Dunne Irish Times 04/04. [Detox 2003-06]
06 Magenta’s ‘Flash forward’ [Detox 2003-06]
06 Gomma magazine, [Detox 2003-06]
04 Oragami camera -’the national’
03 ‘Exhibiting a degree of excellence - and then some’, Aidan Dunne Irish Times 13/06
02 Anonmag 02, [Bus Stops]

Solo exhibitions
07 March, Draíocht arts centre, Dublin.
06 November, gallery vassie, Amsterdam. Draiocht, Dublin.
09 April, Central European house of photography, Bratislava.

Collaborative exhibitions
07 July 25 - August 25 ‘Terrain vague’ Whitecross gallery, Whitecross st, London.
04 November the national, LAB’04, ICA, London.
04 April ad lib, M+R Gallery, Shoreditch, London.

Selected group exhibitions
September 09 'Biographica', Bombay cricket club, India.
August 09 'mus-mus - Paris'
November 08 'mus-mus @600' invited photographer.
March 08 'Pass the picture...', Annexe Gallery, Central Market Annexe, kuala lumpur, Malaysia.
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.
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

David Blackmore portfolio 2009
Portfolio list of projects by David Blackmore selected thumbnail images from each body or work

Disposable - ongoing project of no fixed location

Cracked LCD's [working title] 2008-09 work in progress, more coming soon.

Project description and introduction

In ‘Cracked LCDs’ Blackmore has been photographing broken Liquid Crystal Display Screens from the latest digital devices such as laptops, phones and cameras; technologies that play a large part in our modern daily routines. These digital forms have almost completely replaced analogue technology in industry and are fast replacing analogue forms in photographic art. Produced using solely traditional photographic equipment, Blackmore’s work catalogues and questions the place of obsolete technology in art and contemporary life. Technical notes David dismantles and removes the screens from collected devices. He then solders copper wires on to the connection points, in order to illuminate the screens. To date David has been experimenting with two analogue production techniques. Screens are either photographed using a large format camera or the LCD screen itself is used as a positive slide from which large cibachrome prints are made. Print sizes Print sizes are restricted due to maximum size of cibachrome paper. 40 x 30 inch / 101.6 x 76.2 cm These images will be exhibited as large-scale prints in order to confront the viewer with images that do not appear to be photographic but seem to be digital constructed images.

'Borrowed from my bank' 2008-09 - work in progres, more coming soon

Project description and introduction
“Unfortunately I, like the majority of people, owe money to banks. After a visit to one of these institutions I took one of those pens given away to customers. When I got home I began to work out my monthly in-comings and outgoings, rent, travel, food etc.. with the intention of forming some kind of repayment plan. I got frustrated and looked down at the pen I was writing with; the branded blue pen from the bank. Printed on the spine of the pen was the phrase ‘Borrowed from my bank’. Given my current financial situation ecoomic situation in general I found this to be irritating almost as if the banks were laughing at me. I then decided to see how much ink I could get out of each pen from the banks. I started to fill in each square on A3 graph paper until the ink ran out. I wanted to see if I could fill the page or not. In the same way I try to stretch my wages and balance debts each month. As I progressed through my experimentation I decided to start using the language of the banks. I began to replicate graphs of personal debt, designs found inside envelopes from banks and those inside envelopes obscuring pin numbers while in the postal system. All these primary research sources form part of how banks communicate with us and the visual language they use to do this. The pens as objects themselves are integral to the project, each page was made using a specific pen and the title of each work is the slogan found on the pen. In an exhibition each page would be framed with the corresponding pen but in a printed context I decided to photograph the pens in a similar vein to the images banks us on their leaflets, posters ect…”

'Borrowed from my bank' tearsheets
nrc.next dutch tear sheet nov 08
pdf available

Detox 2003-06

Project description and introduction
'Over the past decade institutions and public sector organisations within Europe have initiated the use of blue [UV] lighting in certain areas of semi-public space. Specific spaces which intravenous drug users have been known to frequent.'

Detox image titles

Interiors
Level 1 stairwell, King Place car park, Brighton, UK.
Reception area, The Metropolitan Children's Court, Dublin, Éire.
Toiletten, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Deutschland.
Arts block, Trinity College, Dublin, Éire
Holding cells, Rathfarnham Garda station, Dublin, Éire.
Pool Valley car park, Brighton, UK.
A & E x-ray department, The Adelaide & Meath Hospital, Dublin, Éire.
Corridor leading from court 16, The Four Courts, Dublin, Éire.
Little east street, Brighton, UK.

Monochromes [Taken within public tiolets using blue uv light]
Untitled dryer, 2004.
Untitled tiles, 2005.
Untitled Bush, 2005.
Untitled tiles, 2004.
Untitled floor, 2004.
Untitled wall, 2005.

Detox tear sheets
Gomma magazine tear sheet # 1 & 2
Gomma magazine tear sheet # 3 & 4
Gomma magazine tear sheet # 5 & 6

Magenta foundations 'Flash forawrd - Emerging photographers 2006, Toronto, Canada


Untitled white book
Full flash interactive book, requires fash player

Dublin_untitled 2002-03
Project description and introduction
dublin_untitled 1
dublin_untitled 2
dublin_untitled 3
Installation at M+R gallery, Kingsland Road, London EC1-april 2004
IADT permanent collection

bus stops 2001-02
Introduction
Stage 64
Stage 53
Stage 54
Stage 22
Stage 10

Tear sheets
anonmag cover tear sheet
anonmag tear sheet

david's
Introducion
David [no.1 of 10] 2001.
David [no.2 of 10] 2001.
David [no.3 of 10] 2001.
David [no.4 of 10] 2001.
David [no.5 of 10] 2001.
David [no.6 of 10] 2001.
David [no.7 of 10] 2001.
David [no.8 of 10] 2001.
David [no.9 of 10] 2001.
David [no.10 of 10] 2001.

euronation
Introduction
The Liberties, Dublin.
Surrey, England.

Print editions
Information regarding print sales and editions.

Contact details
Contact for price lists, to arrange a private viewing/commission.

Blog

David's online visual diary

Practitioners

Marco Bohr
David Laudien
Andrew lynch
Aidan O'Neil
Philippe Sibelly
Sonja Suominen