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    • Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (2019)
    • Zygote Press, Cleveland (2018)
    • 'The Action Of Water' - 130 Vicar Lane, Leeds (2017)
    • Deuchar Mill, Scotland (2017)
    • Wells Book Arts Center, New York state (2017)
    • Staithes Studios, North Yorkshire (2016)
    • 'Open House', Huddersfield Art Gallery (2016)
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About

I 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 
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David Armes // West Yorkshire // Summer 2022

Residencies

2022
Grafisk Værksted, Vingaards Officin, Viborg, DK

2021
Industriemuseum, Gent, BE

2020
[Muzeum für Druckkunst, Leipzig DE] * postponed to 2022 due to Covid-19 *

2019
Bodleian Bibliographical Press, The University of Oxford, UK
(Printer-in-residence during 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

Grants & Awards

2021-22
Visiting Fellow at British Library

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

Collections

Public collections
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, UK
Fine Art and Design Library, University of Bergen Library, Norway
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, PT
Museum Für Druckkunst, Leipzig, DE
Wells Book Arts Center, Aurora, New York state, US

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
​Vingaards Officin Museum, Viborg, Denmark

Private collections
Peter Hirschmann (Yorkshire, UK)
Maria White (London, UK)

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

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

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

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) 

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