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.

David Armes // West Yorkshire // 2019

Residencies

2018
August/September
Zygote Press, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
May to June
Top Shed, Norfolk, UK

2017
August to November:
West Yorkshire Archaeological Service & East Street Arts, Leeds, UK
July:
Deuchar Mill, Yarrow, Scotland
April:
Wells Book Arts Center, Aurora, USA
January & February:
Found In Blackburn (with BBC Radio Lancashire), Lancashire, UK

2016
December:
Staithes Studios Gallery, North Yorkshire, UK
October & November:
Starshaped Press, Chicago, USA
May & June:
Huddersfield Art Gallery, West Yorkshire, UK

2015
October:
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Maryland, USA
April to July:
The SHOP, Nelson, Lancashire, UK

2014-2015
October 2014 to July 2015:
Artists' Access to Art Colleges (AA2A), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, UK

2012-13
June 2012 to February 2013:
Hot Bed Press, Salford, UK

Collections

Public collections
Book arts library, University of West of England, Bristol, UK
PAGES new voices, University of Leeds, UK

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

Grants & Awards

2018
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

'rights of way' (2017)

'N Y L Y N' (2018)

'a boundary bureaucracy' (2018)

'rights & exceptions' (2018)

'The Action Of Water' installation (2017)

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