About
I am an artist working with print, language and geography. My work is frequently site-specific and often considers how place and landscape shapes understanding. I work primarily with letterpress printing on paper and make artist's books, prints and installations. Through using what was once an industrial process, I am interested in where the multiple meets the unique, where the ephemeral meets the archival.
Some of the work on this site is for sale. Please use the contact form to enquire.
David Armes // West Yorkshire // 2025
Some of the work on this site is for sale. Please use the contact form to enquire.
David Armes // West Yorkshire // 2025
Residencies2023
The Caseroom, Glasgow, Scotland 2022 Bradford School of Art, Bradford, England Grafisk Værksted, Vingaards Officin, Viborg, Denmark 2021 Industriemuseum, Gent, Belgium 2020 [Muzeum für Druckkunst, Leipzig, Germany] * postponed due to Covid-19 * 2019 Bodleian Bibliographical Press, The University of Oxford, England (Printer-in-residence during 2019/20 academic year) 2018 Zygote Press, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Top Shed, Norfolk, England 2017 West Yorkshire Archaeological Service & East Street Arts, Leeds, England Deuchar Mill, Yarrow, Scotland Wells Book Arts Center, Aurora, USA Found In Blackburn (with BBC Radio Lancashire), Lancashire, England 2016 Staithes Studios Gallery, North Yorkshire, England Starshaped Press, Chicago, USA Huddersfield Art Gallery, West Yorkshire, England 2015 Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Maryland, USA The SHOP, Nelson, Lancashire, England 2014-2015 Artists' Access to Art Colleges (AA2A), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, England 2012-13 Hot Bed Press, Salford, England Grants & Awards2025
Printing Historical Society grant for research in Slovenia 2024 Leeds Inspired grant for 'To Bring This Momentum' exhibition and workshop series 2021-24 Visiting Fellow at British Library Eccles Centre for American Studies 2020 Arts Council Emergency Response Fund grant 2018 a-n bursary to attend Letterpress Workers conference in Milan 2017-18 Tracing PAPER mentoring scheme 2017 Artists' International Development Fund grant from Arts Council England and British Council to fund two week residency and research visit to New York state, US 2016 Artists' International Development Fund grant from Arts Council England and British Council to fund four week research and networking visit to Chicago and Wisconsin, US Random String post-digital technology fellowship, Ludic Rooms, Coventry, UK 2015 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust fellowship - 11 week research visit to US letterpress practitioners CollectionsPublic collections
British Library, London, England Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, England Special Collections at Manchester Metropolitan University, England Fine Art and Design Library, University of Bergen Library, Norway Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Portugal Museum Für Druckkunst, Leipzig, Germany Wells Book Arts Center, Aurora, New York state, USA Book arts library, University of West of England, Bristol, England PAGES new voices, University of Leeds, England Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales Edinburgh College library, Scotland University College London, England Vingaards Officin Museum, Viborg, Denmark Industriemuseum, Gent, Belgium Zygote Press Library, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Private collections Peter Hirschmann (Yorkshire, England) Maria White (London, England) Neil Crawford (England) |
ExhibitionsSolo exhibitions
2024 'To Bring This Momentum'; Hyde Part Art Club, Leeds, UK 2022 The Inchoate Schematic Series; The Six Shot Gallery, UK (online) 2018 The Action Of Water; 130 Vicar Lane, Leeds, UK 2016 Open House; Huddersfield Art Gallery, West Yorkshire, UK Selected group exhibitions 2023 'Print, Music & Movement; West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Huddersfield, UK 2022 WORDPLAY; 44AD, Bath, UK First Impressions; Street Life, York, UK Print International; Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, UK 2021 Who we are now, and then; Poplar Union, London, UK [then touring] Printed Poetry Symposium; Arnolfini & UWE Library, Bristol, UK 2020 Reverting To Type, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK From Futura to the Future, Museum Für Druckkunst, Leipzig, DE Post-Digital Letterpress; Museu FBAUP, Porto, PT 2019 Moveable Type; Norman Rea Gallery, University of York, UK A Liverpool Bestiary; 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA PAGES artists' book collection; ROAR, Rotherham, UK; Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery, UK; The Cooper Gallery, Barnsley, UK 2018 A Liverpool Bestiary; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK; Atiner, Athens, GR; Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK; IMPACT 10, Santander, ES Constructure; Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, UK; The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, UK; 130 Vicar Lane, Leeds, UK; The Old Courts, Wigan, UK Tracing PAPER; PAPER Gallery, Manchester, UK New Impressions; Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, Two Rivers, Wisconsin, USA 2017 Flourish Award; West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield, UK Warrington Open; Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, UK Bankley Open; Bankley Gallery, Manchester, UK Small World; PS Mirabel, Manchester, UK Pressing On; Hatch Show Print, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Surface Now; Hot Bed Press, UK hold, follow; Staithes Studios Gallery, North Yorkshire, UK (duo show with Gemma Lacey) Found In Blackburn; BBC Radio Lancashire gallery, Blackburn, Lancashire, UK 2016 Excited State; Atom Gallery, London, UK dada ist 100; Gransee, Germany Seacourt International Miniprint Biennale; The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, Bangor, Northern Ireland 2015 Constructure; PR1 Gallery, Preston, Lancashire, UK 2014 RUKSSIAN Artists’ Book – Artist’s Books in the UK and Russia; Moscow Tsaritsyno State Historical, Architectural, Art and Landscape Museum Talks & presentations'The Professional Type: how letters can shape your future', Manchester Metropolitan University (2025)
Malmö Artist's Book Biennale, SE (2022) Library Corner talks, Bristol Artist's Book Event, UK (2022) 'Landscapes of Letterpress', Industriemuseum, Gent, BE (2021) 'What's Beneath The Words', Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, UK (2019) Liverpool John Moore's University (Fine Art degree), UK (2018) 'Letterpress Printing - Past, Present, Future'; University of Leeds, UK (2018) Regional Print Symposium, Wrexham, UK (2018) Zygote Press Fine Art Printmaking Studio, Cleveland, USA (2018) 'Towards A New Ideology of Print', Oxblood Press, Wells Book Arts Center, USA (2017) 'Letterpress in the USA', Hot Bed Press, UK (2016) |