David Austen

(British, born 1960)

love town by david austen

David Austen

Love Town, 2013

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little la luna by david austen

David Austen

Little La Luna, 2023

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Biography

Timeline

1960
Born in Harlow, Essex
1978 - 1981
Maidstone College of Art
1982 - 1985
Royal College of Art, London
2008 - 2009
Stanley Picker Fellowship, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames
2011
Bryan Robertson Award

Exhibitions

2011
Watercolour, Tate Britain, London
2010
End of Love, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (solo)
2009
Man Smoking, Schiavo Mazzonis Gallery, Rome (solo)
My love, I have been digging up my own bones in the garden again, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
David Austen, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, Kingston-upon-Thames (solo)
No Shoes on the Carpet, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
2008
Conversations, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art, A Foundation, London
At Home, Voewood Projects, High Kelling, Norfolk
Order Desire Light, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Literature

2011
Liz Jobey, ‘Q&A’, FT Magazine, 12 February
2010
End Of Love, Catalogue, Modern Art Oxford
2009
James Clegg, ‘David Austen’, Art Review, December
2008
Martin Westwood, ‘David Austen: Surfacing At The Crossroads’, Turps Banana, Issue Five
'David Austen and Man Ray’, The Herald, 8 March
‘Dark futures with a nod to a surreal past’, The Scotsman, 14 March
‘David Austen, Exhibition at MK G’, MK News, 21st March
Hannah Duguid, ‘Pleasure, pain and the art of opposites’, The Independent, 8th May
Helen Sumpter, ‘Where the magic happens’, Time Out, 9-15th May
‘Artprojx: David Austen’, Kultureflash.net, 16th May