David Batchelor (artist and writer)

David Batchelor (born 1955, Dundee) is a Scottish artist, writer, and a Senior Tutor in Critical Theory in the Department of Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art in London.

Life and work

David Batchelor studied Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham (1975–8), and Cultural Theory at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Birmingham University (1978–80). He has exhibited widely in the UK, continental Europe, the United States and Latin America; written two books, Minimalism (1997) and Chromophobia (2000), is the editor of Colour (2008) and contributed to a number of journals including Artscribe, Frieze (magazine), and Artforum. David was a member of Tate Britain Council from 2002-5, an advisory body on development and programming at Tate Britain.

He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including the British Art Show at SNGMA in Edinburgh, Days Like These: Tate Triennial of Contemporary Art at Tate Britain, the 26th São Paulo Biennale, Extreme Abstraction at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Folkestone Triennial in Folkestone and Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Tate Liverpool. He is represented by Wilkinson Gallery in London and Galerie Leme in São Paulo.

David Batchelor has made colourful lightbox installations using salvaged bits and pieces from the streets of London. Batchelor takes industrial debris – trolleys, shelving units, factory scrap – and transforms them into frames to hold assemblages of neon, perspex and found shopfront signs.^{[citation needed]}

Two of his works are held in the collection of Tate.^[1]

References

1. ^ tate.org

Bibliography

• Batchelor, David, Found Monochromes, Ridinghouse: London, 2010
• Batchelor, David (ed.), Colour, Whitechapel: London/MIT Press: Boston, 2008
• Batchelor, David, Chromophobia, Reaktion Books: London, 2000 ISBN 978-1861890740

External links

• David Batchelor's website
• Information about David Batchelor on ArtFacts.Net
• David Batchelor – Tate Collection
• David Batchelor – Saatchi Gallery
• David Batchelor – Galeria Leme
• David Batchelor – Staff profile at the Royal College of Art
• Batchelor's work on the London Underground
• David Batchelor's work for Archway Investigations and Responses

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