David Shillinglaw
FEB - MAR 22 | David Shillinglaw
David Shillinglaw lands at Eritage for one month artistic residency inside the gallery space. David is a UK based artist, born in 1982 in Saudi Arabia to British parents, he grew up in London and went on to graduate from Central Saint Martin’s in 2002.
David explores the conflicted, messy human condition: a relentless need for control within a disordered world. His paintings, sketches and sculptures offer insights into how he navigates his own chaos and tries to make sense of life on Earth.
Shillinglaw works present a tumultuous system in which natural forms, freely connected words and human features both burst from and are contained within grids, boxes and organised lines. Words and phrases are a key tool for David to explore our cultural response to the spectrum of the mind.
"All my work is about describing space: the internal space of my mind; the organs and systems under my skin; the physical spaces I inhabit, from rooms, to gardens and trains. This stretches out to the internet or cyber space, the space of a city, a country or continent—the planet as a whole. Perhaps the hardest to comprehend is ‘outer space’. I find it almost impossible to imagine its dark vastness. I find something compelling about trying to explore these ideas through drawing, painting and collage. Like a caveman scratching a constellation on a muddy wall, I construct maps to navigate impossible terrains. " David Shillinglaw
