David Storey Exhibition Brochure

David Storey

Ghost Dance
22nd February - 19th March





Private View:
Wednesday 22nd February 6pm - 8.30pm
Bio
Threadneedle Prize finalist David Storey is a British figurative painter. His psychologically charged paintings are about memory, with half-remembered people and places emerging from complex layers of texture and colour.
David comes from West Cumbria, a bleak coastal plain, welded onto the side of the Lake District. The municipal buildings and churches are mainly Victorian and built of sandstone that turns black when it rains... and it rains an awful lot there. This melancholy and primordial world of black buildings, rain, sea and mountains in which he grew up is the one that he paints.
'Personally, I find working with memory very therapeutic as well as creatively invaluable. I become haunted by the image I'm developing and it's tremendously satisfying when I manage to get the milky idea from the back of my mind onto the canvas. My paintings are an exploration of memory. They offer glimpsed or half-remembered figures and faces – re- imagined ancestors recovered from a personal archive of the forgotten.
‘Wherever possible I paint using my fingers, palette knives and rags instead of brushes, I achieve a much more expressive result and find I can create a fuller range of tones, colours, textures and lines working this way.’
Richard Unwin writing about David's work:
"Sharing in their fragility, the characters Storey depicts are aware they stand on the edge, but they are aware too that we who look on them are also fragile. The blurred faces gaze out as if to ask if we who exist now have forgotten those who went before and if we believe our experiences today are really unique; the couples trapped in tension stand as a mirror to all relationships, while the most haunting characters come as associates of Ebenezer's ghosts, ready to awaken us to who we truly are”.


Selected Shows
2016 AAF, London
2016 Featured as Inside the Studio artist at Saatchi Art
2016 'A Cast of Characters', Cameron Contemporary, Brighton 2016 'Festival' exhibition, Cameron Contemporary, Brighton 2016 'Art Without Boundries' exhibition, Leyden Gallery, London 2016 Invited to judge the Travers Smith Art Prize
2016 AAF, New York
2016 Chosen by Saatchi Art as their 'Artist of the Day'
2015 AAF, London
2015 Solo Show, Panter and Hall, London
2015 Saatchi Art Exhibition, 'Curated by Rebecca Wilson'
2014 AAF, Hamburg
2014 Art Southampton, New York
2014 Solo show, Thomas and Paul Contemporary, London
2014 AAF, London
2013 AAF, Hamburg
2013 'Prelude' at Thomas and Paul Contemporary, London
2013 AAF, London
2013 Finalist, Saatchi Art 'Showdown'
2012 Finalist, Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London
2012 Finalist, The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
2012 Saatchi Art exhibition '100 CURATORS 100 DAYS'
2011 Cultivate, Vyner Street Gallery
2011 Fern Felix, Glasgow
2011 ArtBeat Festival, Woburn
2010 The Coningsby Gallery, London
2008 Lautieri Moores Open, The Gallery in Cork Street
2005 Encounters, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
2003 Sussex Open, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
1999 Icons of Pop, National Portrait Gallery, London
1986 Festival of British Art & Design, Vienna
Collections
Work owned by private collector in France, Spain, Germany, Holland,Italy, Japan, Australia, UK, USA and elsewhere.
Press
2014 Article by Richard Unwin , The Art Collective
2014 David Storey in conversation with Mike Southon in front of an invited audience at the Thomas and Paul Gallery, London.
2013 Interview, The Art Collective
2011 BBC2 arts programme 'Show Me the Monet'
2010 Sunday Times Magazine article



Catalogue & Price List



‘Each of my paintings is based on a found image of some sort, an image that somehow resonates. I then embark on a process of unlocking the image through a series of sketches and experiments. This journey of development and discovery can take anything from 10 days to 10 years until a kind of alchemy takes place and things seem to harmonise of their own accord in a way that can be very rewarding.
I paint in an expressionistic way using rags and sponges because the physical marks and textures are a fundamental element of what I am trying to achieve. The challenge for me though is to retain an economy of execution – an effortless effort.’
"In my case all painting... is an accident. I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.”
~Francis Bacon



Sea Cruise oil on canvas 40 x 51cm £2300



Seated Nude 2 oil, acrylic and pastel on canvas 51 x 41cm £2300



Woman Waiting (Hotel) ink & acrylic on paper 38 x 28cm £900
The Face in the Mirror acrylic & ink on paper 38 x 28cm £900 The Dreamer acrylic on paper 38 x 28cm £900



Empire oil on linen 53 x 65cm £2,400



Simone (the artist's wife) oil on canvas 71 x 61cm £2500



Hampstead Incident (Single figure) acrylic and ink on paper 30 x 24cm £900



Waiting Room acrylic & watercolour on paper 38 x 28cm £900


Girl in a Green Dress ink, pastel & watercolour on paper 42 x 38cm £950
Nude 002 oil on canvas 30 x 25cm £1,400



The Philosopher oil & acrylic on canvas 34 x 28cm £1,100



The Class (Study) oil on canvas 28 x 34cm £1,200



Young Woman Reading a Letter oil on canvas board 24 x 20ins £2,400



Good Friends oil on wood panel 50 x 40cm £2,300
People Forget oil on canvas 70 x 60cm £2,300 Four Girls Dancing oil & acrylic on canvas 66 x 55cm £2,200



The Kiss oil & acrylic on paper 76 x 38cm £2,200



Amazing August oil & acrylic on canvas 100 x 120cm £3,000
The Lookouts 4 oil & acrylic on canvas 64 x 53cm £2,300 Seated Nude oil on canvas 70 x 60cm £2,300



Nighthawks oil on canvas 60 x 70cm £2,500
The Lake of Tears (Bluebeard’s Castle) oil on canvas 58 x 78cm £2,500



Nude 006 oil on canvas 30 x 24cm £1400



Woman Waiting (amber) oil on canvas 40 x 50cm £2,300



The Gathering oil on canvas 60 x 76cm £2,300



Nude 003 oil on canvas 30 x 24cm £1,400



Perfect Day oil on canvas 70 x 50cm £2,400



Nude 008 oil on canvas 30 x 24cm £900



Girl With Orange Hair oil on canvas 61 x 61cm £2500



Hotel, 2016 ink & acrylic on paper 28 x 38cm £900



Ghost Dance oil on canvas 100 x 120cm £3,000


Price List
The Dreamer
Woman Waiting (Hotel)
Waiting Room
The Face in the Mirror
Nude 008
Hotel, 2016
Hampstead Incident
(single figure)
Girl in a Green Dress
The Philosopher
The Class (study)
Nude 006
Nude 002
Nude 003
Four Girls Dancing
The Kiss
Sea Cruise
Seated Nude
Seated Nude 2
Good Friends
The Lookouts 4
Woman Waiting (amber)
The Gathering
People Forget
Young Woman Reading a Letter Widow's Son
Empire
Perfect Day
Simone (the artist's wife) Nighthawks
The Lake of Tears
(Bluebeard's Castle)
Girl With Orange Hair Amazing August
Ghost Dance
Acrylic on paper
Ink & acrylic on paper
Acrylic & watercolour on paper Acrylic & ink on paper
Oil on canvas
Ink and acrylic on paper Acrylic & ink on paper
Ink, pastel & watercolour on paper Oil and acrylic on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil & acrylic on canvas Oil &acrylic on paper Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on wood panel
Oil & acrylic on canvas Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas board Oil & acrylic on canvas Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Oil & acrylic on canvas Oil on canvas
38 x 28cm 38 x 28cm 38 x 28cm 38 x 28cm 30 x 24cm 28 x 38cm 30 x 24cm
42 x 38cm 34 x 28cm 28 x 34cm 30 x 24cm 30 x 25cm 30 x 24cm 66 x 55cm 76 x 38cm 40 x 51cm 70 x 60cm 51 x 40cm 50 x 40cm 64 x 53cm 40 x 50cm 60 x 76cm 70 x 60cm 61 x 51cm 61 x 51cm 53 x 65cm 70 x 50cm 71 x 61cm 60 x 70cm 58 x 78cm
61 x 61cm 100 x 120cm 100 x 120cm
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Highgate Contemporary Art
Widow’s Son oil & acrylic on canvas 61 x 51cm £2,400
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