Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Artist of the day, August 19, 2020: David Batchelor, a Scottish artist, sculptor, and writer (#1071)

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

The studio

 Diot Stick I (multicolour)
2003

 Evergreen
London, UK, 2003

 Candella
2005

 Ten Silhouettes
Gloucester Road Underground Station, London, UK, 2005

 Festival Remix
2006

 Green Pimp
2006

 Parapillar (multicolour)
2006–07

 Disco Mecanique
2008

 Spectrum on 1st Street
Washington D.C, 2009

 Big Rock Candy Fountain
Archway, 2010

 Chromatology
2010

 Spectrum on The Hill
Seoul, South Korea, 2010

 Colour Chart 08 (yellow)
2011

 Brighton Palermo Remix
2012

Tomic Orange, edition of 100,
published by The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2013

 Concretos
Roche Court, 2014

 19-20-21, Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
London, UK, 2015

 Chromorama
Broadgate, London, UK, 2015

Hromocochere
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK, 2015

 Alt-Concreto
2016

 Glowstick
2016

 Seven Acts for Mercy
2017

 Chromoscape 1-10
edition of 20, 2018

 Glowstick 08
2018

 Homage to Doctor Mirabilis
Leiden Square, Oxford, UK, 2018

 Multi-Colour Chart 34
2018

 Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain
Eddington, Cambridge, UK, 2018

 Alt-Con Set
2018–19

 Inter-Concreto 02
2019

 Inter-Concreto 05
2019

 Inter-Concreto 10
2019

 Inter-Concreto 12 
2019

 La Source
2019

 Inter-Concreto 16
2020
 

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