AboutI am an artist working with print, language and geography. My work is frequently site-specific and considers how sense and experience of place can be represented. It explores the ways we describe liminal states and how landscape shapes understanding. I work primarily with letterpress printing on paper and, through using what was once an industrial process, I am interested in where the multiple meets the unique, where the ephemeral meets the archival.
Much of the work on this site is for sale. Please use the contact form. David Armes // West Yorkshire // 2020 Residencies2019
Bodleian Bibliographical Press, The University of Oxford, UK (Printer-in-residence for 2019/20 academic year) 2018 Zygote Press, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Top Shed, Norfolk, UK 2017 West Yorkshire Archaeological Service & East Street Arts, Leeds, UK Deuchar Mill, Yarrow, Scotland Wells Book Arts Center, Aurora, USA Found In Blackburn (with BBC Radio Lancashire), Lancashire, UK 2016 Staithes Studios Gallery, North Yorkshire, UK Starshaped Press, Chicago, USA Huddersfield Art Gallery, West Yorkshire, UK 2015 Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Maryland, USA The SHOP, Nelson, Lancashire, UK 2014-2015 Artists' Access to Art Colleges (AA2A), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, UK 2012-13 Hot Bed Press, Salford, UK CollectionsPublic collections
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, PT Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, UK Book arts library, University of West of England, Bristol, UK PAGES new voices, University of Leeds, UK Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK Edinburgh College library, UK University College London, UK Private collections Peter Hirschmann (Yorkshire, UK) Maria White (London, UK) Grants & Awards2018
June: a-n bursary to attend Letterpress Workers conference in Milan 2017-18 Tracing PAPER mentoring scheme 2017 April: Two week visit to New York state funded via Artists' International Development Fund grant from Arts Council England and British Council 2016 October & November: Four week visit to Chicago and Wisconsin funded via Artists' International Development Fund grant from Arts Council England and British Council May to November: Random String post-digital technology fellowship, Ludic Rooms, Coventry, UK 2015 July to October: Winston Churchill Memorial Trust fellowship - 11 week research visit to US letterpress practitioners |
'between sun turns' (2019)
'N Y L Y N' (2018)
'a boundary bureaucracy' (2018)
'rights & exceptions' (2018)
'The Action Of Water' installation (2017)
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