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Dan David is an award winning sculptor and stone carver based in Norwich. He trained at Bath and qualified in 1995. His work is informed by an abiding interest in developing new languages in stone carving: demonstrating curiosity and humour and exploring the relationship between traditional techniques and contemporary visual culture.
Dan David is an award winning sculptor and stone carver based in Norwich. He trained at Bath and qualified in 1995. His work is informed by an abiding interest in developing new languages in stone carving: demonstrating curiosity and humour and exploring the relationship between traditional techniques and contemporary visual culture.
This experimental approach, investigating the interplay between materiality, concept and scale, marks a shift in conventional practices with stone, as heplayfully scrutinises the tension between the images he chooses to represent– temporary symbols of their time – and the permanence of the material andits historic associations.
We love how Dan is dedicated to developing a new sculptural language, reimagining the relationships between traditional techniques and contemporary visual culture. Embracing the unconventional, Dan plays with the permanence of his sculpting materials and the temporary nature of the subjects he chooses to represent. Dan embraces the unconventional and transforms the historical connotations of both the subject and material of his art, playing with ideas of permanence.
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AR: What was the driving force behind your choice to become an artist? Dan: I have always loved working with my hands and enjoy the creative process. My traditional training as a stone carver has its particular constraints and i enjoy pushing the boundaries. AR: Does your artwork have a message? Dan: Not a message as such. I like to play with the ideas of perception and assumption. For instance I often disguise the stone by spray painting it, giving it a new surface so that it challenges the viewer. If anything its more about memorialising. Setting an object in stone, ...
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