David Batchelor (1955) is a Scottish artist, sculptor, and writer.
David Batchelor's work is concerned above all things with color, a sheer delight in the myriad brilliant hues of the urban environment and underlined by a critical concern with how we see and respond to color in this advanced technological age.
His studio is a treasure trove piled high with an endless variety of fluorescent plastic objects– clothes pegs, fly-swatters, buckets, spades, children's toys, empty bottles of household products – found in pound shops and markets in cities the world over. He combines these everyday items with a range of light-industrial materials: steel shelving, commercial lightboxes, neon tubing, warehouse dollies, acrylics, plastics and so on to produce extraordinary installations which exalt the ordinary and celebrate the lurid and trashy whilst being, in themselves, often mesmerisingly beautiful.
Batchelor lives and works in London. In 2013, a major solo exhibition of Batchelor’s two-dimensional work, Flatlands, was displayed at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and toured to Spike Island, Bristol. Batchelor’s work was included in the landmark group exhibition Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 – 2015 at Whitechapel Gallery, London. A separate exhibition of Batchelor's Monochrome Archive (1997-2015) was also on display at Whitechapel Gallery until May 2015.
Batchelor’s portfolio includes a number of major public artworks including a commission for the British Council headquarters in Hong Kong, a site-specific work for the McManus Galleries in Dundee, a 10-metre high light installation at the Archway Tube Station in London, and a major commission for St. Pancras International Station entitled Chromolocomotion.
Batchelor has written and edited a number of books including The Luminous and the Grey (2014), Found Monochromes (2010) and Colour (2008) and Chromophobia (2000).
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| David Batchelor |
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| The studio |
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| Diot Stick I (multicolour) 2003 |
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| Evergreen London, UK, 2003 |
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| Candella 2005 |
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| Ten Silhouettes Gloucester Road Underground Station, London, UK, 2005 |
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| Festival Remix 2006 |
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| Green Pimp 2006 |
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| Parapillar (multicolour) 2006–07 |
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| Disco Mecanique 2008 |
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| Spectrum on 1st Street Washington D.C, 2009 |
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| Big Rock Candy Fountain Archway, 2010 |
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| Chromatology 2010 |
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| Spectrum on The Hill Seoul, South Korea, 2010 |
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| Colour Chart 08 (yellow) 2011 |
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| Brighton Palermo Remix 2012 |
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| Tomic Orange, edition of 100, published by The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2013 |
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| Concretos Roche Court, 2014 |
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| 19-20-21, Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith London, UK, 2015 |
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| Chromorama Broadgate, London, UK, 2015 |
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| Hromocochere MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK, 2015 |
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| Alt-Concreto 2016 |
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| Glowstick 2016 |
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| Seven Acts for Mercy 2017 |
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| Chromoscape 1-10 edition of 20, 2018 |
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| Glowstick 08 2018 |
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| Homage to Doctor Mirabilis Leiden Square, Oxford, UK, 2018 |
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| Multi-Colour Chart 34 2018 |
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| Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain Eddington, Cambridge, UK, 2018 |
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| Alt-Con Set 2018–19 |
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| Inter-Concreto 02 2019 |
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| Inter-Concreto 05 2019 |
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| Inter-Concreto 10 2019 |
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| Inter-Concreto 12 2019 |
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| La Source 2019 |
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| Inter-Concreto 16 2020 |
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