STATEMENT OF WORK

Drawing is the basis of everything I do. It is like a hidden language that operates directly out of the nervous system. This also manifests itself through other forms of media which separately take into account properties of collage, painting and fine print to produce a material outcome taken together as ‘flat sculpture’.

A process of transition from one state to another provides the initial basis for what happens in the studio. It is somewhere in the gap between intention and realisation when each time a transformation takes place something different occurs. In addition to the poetic variables associated with language, I find this process of making ultimately presents a way to interfere with an established aesthetic or pattern of meaning through perceptions of value, class, or identity which has always been the thematic foundation for what I do.

I work and live between Manchester, London & Scotland. U.K. 

Works are held in the Tate collection & Tate Library for artist’s books who also hold a substantial amount of self-published titles. Additional works are also held in the collections of the Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of Manchester, & The British Council Art Collection along with various private collections. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/david-osbaldeston-11956

I am presently Reader (Associate Professor) in Fine Art at Manchester School of Art,  Manchester Metropolitan University, and formerly lecturer in Painting & Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art. https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/profile/dosbaldeston

Further Information:  http://davidosbaldeston.com

2024