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DAVID PENNY
Born in 1979 Manchester, United Kingdom
Lives and works in Manchester, United Kingdom
Education
2014 PhD by Practice, (Pictures of Things and Things that are Pictures), Manchester School of Art, MMU, Manchester, UK
2009 MA Photographic Studies, University of Westminster (Distinction), UK
2005 BA Photography, Manchester Metropolitan University (1st Class), UK
Work
Since 2015 Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader MA/BA Photography, at SODA – School of Digital Arts Manchester School of Art, Manchester, UK
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2025 “Soft Fields”, Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2025 “Scatterings”, The Arcade, Bush House, London, UK
2022 “A Fallen Line of Marble Drums”, HIVE, Tblisi Art Fair, Tblisi, Georgia
2021 “A Fallen Line of Marble Drums”, SNEHTA, Athens, Greece
2019 “Screen for Another Focus”, Crafts Council commission, OXO, London, UK
2018 “Screen for Another Focus”, Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2015 “A Quality of Distance”, Public Art Installation and Exhibition, METAL, Liverpool, UK
2014 “Fragments Monoliths Portals”, Grosvenor Gallery, Manchester, UK
Group exhibitions (selection)
2025 New Acquisitions, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2024 The MANCHESTER CONTEMPORARY 2024, Maksla XO Gallery, Manchester, UK
2024 “Naked Gallerist”, Maksla XO Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2024 “Carpet Land, Critical Tapestries”, Kunstall Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 “Threads”, Arnolfini – Bristol’s International Centre for Contemporary Arts, Bristol, UK
2023 New Things, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK
2023 “Paper Geographies”, Format International Photography Festival, Derby, UK
2021 “Whetstone REMOTE WORK”, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK
2020 “Paper Geographies”, Manchester Central Library, Manchester, UK
2018 “Bankley Open”, Bankley Gallery, Manchester, UK
2018 “Tracing Paper”, Paper Gallery, Manchester, UK
2017 “Of or Below”, Veneer show, Wirksworth Festival, UK
2016 “IN/OUT Spatial Correspondences”, RAUMX, Photo London, UK
2015 “JHB Archive”, BOM, Birmingham, UK
2013 “PLATFORM”, Foto Museum, Winterthur, Switzerland
2012 “A Lecture Upon the Shadow” Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2012 “A Lecture Upon the Shadow”, ShanghART, Shanghai, China
2011 “Classifieds”, Sheffield Institute of Arts, Sheffield, UK
Artist residencies
2024 Transcending the Invisible, Kings College London, Royal Society, London, UK
2021 Snehta Research Residency Athens, Greece.
2017 Interdisciplinary Artist Residency Hospitalfield, Arbroath, UK
2017 Dovecot Tapestry Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland
2015 Time and Space Residency METAL, Edge Hill Railway Station, Liverpool, UK
2013 (Dis)located Research Residency, KHiO, Academy of Arts, Oslo, Norway
Recent research activity
2024 Transcending the Invisible: Selected artist on a Royal Society outreach project matching artists with Nanophotonics researchers to bring the invisible into focus. Kings College, London, UK. See more: https://transcendinginvisible.org/transcending-the-invisible-launches/
Publications and conferences
2023 Membrana – International Journal of Photography, A Fallen Line of Marble Drums
2022 Science Open Journal, A Fallen Line of Marble Drums ISBN 978-1-78017-594-2
2017 Source, The Photographic Review, Issue 91. this/that
2016 At the Surface: Boundaries of the Image, Photomedia conference , AALTO, Helsinki
2016 Photographic Objects: Tracing Paper, 21st Century Photography Conference, UAL, London
2014 Fragments, Monoliths, Portals, Photomedia conference, AALTO, Helsinki
2014 Source, The Photographic Review, Issue 74, Fragments, Monoliths, Portals, Essay by Gavin Murphy
2013 Outside of the Walls, Pipline Magazine
2012 AXIS Open Frequency Artist, May 2012
2012 Photography and the Artist Book, Museums ETC, ISBN: 978-1-907697-50-0
Works in public collections
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK