David Price lives and works in Margate, Kent. He is Print Tutor at London Metropolitan University and also teaches part-time at Arts University Bournemouth. David studied at Edinburgh College of Art before completing a Master’s Degree at Newcastle and then another MA at the Royal College of Art where he studied Printmaking. He held a fellowship in printmaking at the Royal Academy between 2009 and 2012. He was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2009, and has been showing with Art First, London since 2010. He also co-runs London Drawing, a London based teaching practice established in 2006. Since moving his studio to Margate, his work has evolved to experiment more freely with colour. His studies in printmaking at the RCA continue to inform his primary practice of painting and drawing where each colour is applied separately, unmixed, directly onto the surface.
The subject matter for his paintings, drawings and prints has evolved too, but remains focused on the traces and remains of human life within the landscape. Reimagined buildings and structures, half decayed – litter the land. The images hint at a timeless and eternal story, reminding us of the futility of human endeavors and the certainty of loss. But, then – the retaking of the world through nature’s imperishable and perpetual growth is a reminder of life’s eternal deathless state so that these are ultimately positive images of a bright and clear tomorrow rather than simply the remains of today.
