'Drawings from life'
These works are an investigation into 'Life Drawing' using MRI scans.
Dave Farnham

Dave Farnham
Location: London
Website: www.davefarnham.co.uk
MA Fine Art practice and theory, Middlesex University, London, 2002-2003.
BA Fine Art, BCUC, High Wycombe,1998-2002.
Exhibitions
Prizes:
2004 - Winner - 'Prospects Drawing Competition' - Tea Building, London.
Solo Exhibitions:
2008 - 'Dulce et Decorum est' - SevenSeven Gallery, London.
Curatorial Practice:
2007 - 'Projektar' - SevenSeven Gallery – co-‐curated with The Projection Gallery, London.
2006 - 'No-ship' - SevenSeven Gallery – co-‐curated with Jay Patel, London.
2004 - ‘Halbes Haus’ - Three Colts Gallery – co-‐curated with Boo Ritson, London.
2003 ‐ ‘Intoxicant’ – Limehouse Arts – co-‐curated with Rupert Townsend, London.
Selected Exhibitions:
2012 - 'Beyondmemory' - Celeste Network, Studio Marangoni Gallery, Florence.
2012 - 'London Art Fair' - Art Projects Screening Room, Guillochon Gallery, London.
2011 - 'Les Télévision' - French Riviera, London.
2011 - 'Drawing Crowds' - The Stone Space, London.
2011 - 'Jerwood Drawing Prize' - Jerwood Space, London.
2011 - 'On Your Marks' -‐ BBC Big Screen, Projection gallery, Walthamstow.
2011 - 'Connection Point London' - The Nunnery Gallery, London.
2011 - 'Scope Basel' - Guillochon Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
2011 - 'Smile For London' -online video/animation competition – shortlisted.
2010 - 'Icons' - auction in aid of St Joseph’s Hospice, London.
2010 - ‘Melt’ - Mile End Pavilion, London.
2010 - ‘Visions in the Nunnery 2010’ - The Nunnery Gallery, London.
2010 - ‘At home; in public’ - BBC Big Screen London, E17 Arts Trail Festival, London.
2010 - 'Rage' - FAT Toronto Alternative Fashion Week, Canada.
2010 - Can You Hear It? - The Nunnery Gallery, London.
2010 - 'Magmart/Video Under Volcano' - PAN international video exhibition, Italy.
2010 - ‘Supermarket 2010' ‐ Stockholm Art Fair, SevenSeven Gallery, Sweden.
2010 ‐ 'Print Now' ‐ London Art Fair, Bearspace Gallery, London.
2009 ‐ 'Videoholica 2nd Edition’ ‐ International Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria.
2009 ‐ ‘Fault Line: Art in the Age of Anxiety’, The Nunnery Gallery, London.
2009 ‐ ‘Visions in the Nunnery 09’ - The Nunnery Gallery, London.
2009 - ‘Lumen Evolution Festival 2009’ -‐ The Projection Gallery, Leeds.
2009 ‐ 'London Art Fair' -‐ Business Design Centre, London.
2008 ‐ 'Half the Story' ‐ Auction in aid of St Joseph’s Hospice, London.
2007 ‐ 'Peer Esteem' ‐ Five Years, Regent Studios, London.
2007 ‐ 'Action!' ‐ The Projection Gallery @ v22 Ashwin Street, London.
2007 ‐ '(Deviant)' ‐ Art Festival, Sweden.
2006 ‐ 'You'll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference' ‐ Hayward Gallery Touring.
2006 ‐ 'Liverpool Biennale’ – exhibited with The Projection Gallery, Liverpool.
2004 ‐ 'XS' ‐ FA Projects, London.
2004 ‐ 'Platform' ‐ 291 Gallery, London.
2003 ‐ 'Viva Las Lime' ‐ Limehouse Arts, London.
2002 ‐ 'Klones' ‐ exhibited with Gonzalo Benard, Lisbon, Portugal.
2002 ‐ 'Notably' ‐ Pump House Gallery, London.
2002 ‐ 'ISCA' ‐ International Group Show, Lisbon, Portugal.
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These works are an investigation into mark-making, where I try to revise and rethink the "traditional" approaches to mark-making generally associated with painting and drawing. In this case, I have used pyrotechnic fuse-wire as a means... |
"David Farnham explores, in his photos, familiar toy soldiers who appear to have actually participated in warfare. Staged to show the physical evidence of battle with explosive debris on the soldiers’ bodies and at their feet, and... |
