David's art practice is a long-term exploration of human awkwardness, ritual and the ridiculous. His paintings are inhabited by a skewed and malicious cast of monsters, clowns, bears, pixies, trolls, dolls and people. These characters are filled with mirth and with sadness, both haunted and haunting. The paintings reference art history, popular culture, performance, theatre, and dance. Disinterred objects and images return – reanimated, reassembled and mutated. David's current preoccupation is an examination of the goings-on in an imaginary and possibly bewitched mid-20th century art school somewhere in eastern Europe.
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