www.davemd.co.uk
David uses analogue and digital photography to explore ideas about landscape and the environment. His work can loosely be divided into observational photography or ‘quiet photography’, and work with a more conceptual approach via abstraction, collage and the constructed image.
Since moving back to South Wales in the summer of 2019, David has been re-connecting with the area he left as a child. This process has driven the development of recent work which as well as referencing his own roots, documents the evolving landscapes of South Wales, reflecting on their sense of place and the role of photography in historical documentation.
Since completing an MA in Communication Media in 2006 and a one-year fellowship at the University of the West of England (UWE), David has exhibited throughout the UK. Further afield he was lead artist on an exchange program between Bristol and Hannover (2018/19) and part of Shutterhub’s ‘Post cards from Great Britain’ project in Haarlem, Netherlands (2020). Recent highlights in Wales include curating the ACW funded group show Hibernators|Gaeafgwsg in 2022 and in 2024 showing as part of the Inside/Out exhibition at Oriel Y bont, USW. David self-published his first photo book ‘joining the dots..’ in April 2025.
Born: Cardiff, Wales
Lives: Abergavenny, Wales
Education
Solo exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
David uses analogue and digital photography to explore ideas about landscape and the environment. His work can loosely be divided into observational photography or ‘quiet photography’, and work with a more conceptual approach via abstraction, collage and the constructed image.
Since moving back to South Wales in the summer of 2019, David has been re-connecting with the area he left as a child. This process has driven the development of recent work which as well as referencing his own roots, documents the evolving landscapes of South Wales, reflecting on their sense of place and the role of photography in historical documentation.
Since completing an MA in Communication Media in 2006 and a one-year fellowship at the University of the West of England (UWE), David has exhibited throughout the UK. Further afield he was lead artist on an exchange program between Bristol and Hannover (2018/19) and part of Shutterhub’s ‘Post cards from Great Britain’ project in Haarlem, Netherlands (2020). Recent highlights in Wales include curating the ACW funded group show Hibernators|Gaeafgwsg in 2022 and in 2024 showing as part of the Inside/Out exhibition at Oriel Y bont, USW. David self-published his first photo book ‘joining the dots..’ in April 2025.
Born: Cardiff, Wales
Lives: Abergavenny, Wales
Education
- 2006-2007: Junior Fellow, Art Media & Design, UWE Bristol
- 2003-2006 : MA Communication Media (Interactive), UWE, Bristol
- 1981-1985: OND/HND Musical Instrument Technology, Guildhall University, London
Solo exhibitions
- 2020: Another Surface, Gallery at Home, Usk
- 2013: Lost in Transition, Searchers contemporary, Bristol
- 2012: What you see is what you see, Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol
Group Exhibitions
- 2025: Open exhibition, The Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy
- 2024: Winter Open, Cardiff M.A.D.E
- Narcissus in Bloom, Ffoto Cymru 2024, USW Cardiff
- Black Swan Art Open 2024, Frome, Somerset
- Inside/Out, Oriel Y Bont, University of South Wales Treforest
- 2023: Resilience, Cardiff M.A.D.E
- 2022: Winter Open, Cardiff MADE
- Camaraderie, Gallery at Home, Usk
- Hibernators, The Art Shop, Abergavenny (curator)
- 2021: OPEN 20/21, Shutter Hub, London
- Oriel Lockdown, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
- 2020: Sacred Space : two metre distancing, Walking the Land (online)
- Postcards From Great Britain: Haarlem, Shutter Hub, Netherlands
- Everyday Delight, Shutter Hub, Free Project Space, London
- 2019: Home is not a Place, Gallery at Home, Usk, S.Wales
- Anderswo ist hier:Elsewhere is here, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol (lead artist)
- 2018: Elsewhere is here:Anderswo ist hier, Turba Gallery, Hannover, Germany
- Summer Show, Atkinson Gallery, Street, Somerset
- 2017: 165th Autumn Open, Royal West of England Academy (RWA)
- Rising Film Screening, St John on Bethnal Green, London
- 2016: 164th Autumn Open, Royal West of England Academy (RWA)
- Evolver Magazine Prize, Black Swan Arts, Frome
- Utopia:Dystopia, FaB 2016, Bath
- Of the Sea, Chatham Historic Dockyard
- 2015: A Day in Future Wales, Arad Goch, Aberystwyth (Ystrad|Strata)
- 163rd Autumn Open, RWA Bristol
- The Plymouth Contemporary Open, Peninsula Arts Gallery
- 2014: 162nd Autumn Open, RWA Bristol
- Shooting from the Hip, Centrespace gallery, Bristol
- BV Studios Group Show, Sidcot Gallery, Sidcot Somerset
- 2013: W_CA Contemporary Landscape Photography, Worcester Gallery & Museum
- 161st Autumn Open, RWA Bristol
- The National Eisteddfod, Denbigh, North Wales
- 2012: 160th Autumn Open, RWA Bristol
- All at Sea, Pie Factory, Margate
- New Visions II, The Grant Bradley Gallery, Bristol
- 2011: Rural Idyll 2, Suffolk
- Real Bath Art Prize, Fringe Arts Bath
- 2010: The Open, Motorcade/Flashparade, BV Studios, Bristol
- Phone-ography, Photographique, Bristol
- 2009: Memory & Imagination, Glamorgan University Art Purchase Prize
- Territory, The Otter Gallery, The University of Chichester
- 2008: ArtSway Open 08, ArtSway, Station Road, Sway, Hampshire
- Through the Lens, RWA Bristol
