David Smith

Introduction

David Smith’s work is largely drawn from his explorations and wanderings in the suburbs of the anti-rational, meditations on zones of absence, or absurd accretions of uncoordinated trance incubations. Its form is shifting and protean, taking in prose, poetry, mixed media and collage.

Re-current subjects in David’s work
Some elements, themes and obsessions include neither-neither, the liminal, implosion, corresponences, the exile of The Shekinah, trance, the despised, the ignored, the prima matera, a magical universe, Burroughs and ‘word’ - the only word for word is word - Jack Parson’s Rocket Science and desert invocations, Malcolm Lowry’s Volcano and The Bride’s Reception.

Current Research
David is currently researching themes and ideas pullulating around the statement ‘in every grain of wheat lies hidden the soul of a star’ by the seventeenth century alchemist Oswald Crowl. Possible outcomes may take the form of a treated or rectified book.

Background

Exhibitions in United Kingdom and New York

Work in various collections worldwide  

Publications - Ambit, AOI, Images 18, 19, 20, 21, 22  

Previous Clients - The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Financial Times, The Daily Express, Time Magazine, Readers Digest, New Scientist, Times Education Supplement, Prospect, Radio Times, Media International, Nursing Times, Computer Weekly, Classic FM Magazine, Tomorrow’s World Magazine, Airline Business Magazine, Human Resources World Link, Cross Border Publishing, Logica Software, eCommerce, Canon UK, Hitachi, Dedalus Publishing, Teach Yourself Books, West Country Ambulance Service, University of London (King’s College.)  

Teaching - Visiting Lecturer, Exeter College, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, North Devon College. Associate Lecturer, University of Plymouth, Faculty of Arts.