DAVID WEBB
David Webb (b.1973, Exeter) makes abstract paintings, drawings, screenprints and stained glass windows. He studied at Hastings, Aberystwyth and Canterbury, before gaining a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at the Cyprus College of Art in 2002.
He has been awarded residencies at the Florence Trust, London, and the Triangle Workshop in New York; as well as painting Fellowships at Yaddo, New York, The MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, and the Vermont Studio Center. He has received awards from The Gihon River Collective and The David & Rosamond Putnam Transportation Fund.
David has had solo exhibitions in Cyprus, Armenia and at The Royal Over-Seas League, Transition Gallery and dalla Rosa Gallery in London. He has a forthcoming solo exhibition at Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London. Selected group exhibitions include the Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Contemporary Painters and at Eagle Gallery, dalla Rosa Gallery and Kapil Jariwala Gallery in London. Internationally he has been included in several group exhibitions in Cyprus; as well as in New York, Berlin and Vancouver.
He has work in private collections nationally and internationally, and several corporate and public collections, including The National Library of Wales, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the Kasser Mochary Foundation, New Jersey. David designed a stained glass window for the new Methodist church in Stoke Newington, London, and was recently commissioned to design and make a suite of stained glass windows at a private residency in Brockley, London.
He lives and works in SE London, and since 1999 has regularly visited and made work on the west coast of Cyprus. He teaches an open tutorial-based painting class (The Blackheath Atelier) two days a week at The Conservatoire, Blackheath, London.
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