- ‘South Downs Sienna V’
Review
“The winner is David Scott Moore. Judge Carol Burns, Archant Arts Editor says “The winning entry was chosen for its drama and powerful capturing of not only the landscape but also of how the light can shape that landscape. The work revels in the scale of the subject and plays with the concept of landscape through its square format. It is immersive: the viewer is seduced to come ever closer to the work, much as we are when the landscape is before us”. ” – On ‘Sussex Downs Sienna V’ – Sussex Life/ Paint Out – Landscape Painter of the Year 2016 (April 2017)
Exhibitions/ Prizes/ Commissions/ Publications
Mall Galleries online, London SW1, March 2018 – July 2018
Battersea AAF, Cameron Contemporary Gallery, London, March 2018
WAW Group Show, Putney Wandsworth, London, Jan. Feb. 2018
‘Making a Mark’ Art Blog review, 2017
The Discerning Eye Exhibition – ‘Invited Artist’ by Miranda Richardson (Actor, Art Collector and Selector) Mall Galleries, London, SW1, November, 2017
Cameron Contemporary Art Gallery, Winter Show, Nov. 2017 – Feb. 2018, 2nd Avenue, Hove
Gallery 57, Group Show, Arundel, West Sussex, Winter, 2017/2018
Gallery 57, Group Show, Arundel, West Sussex, Autumn, 2017
‘Featured Artist’ Cameron Contemporary Art Gallery Summer Show, Hove, East Sussex, 2017
‘Landscape Painter of the Year Winner 2016’ – Sussex Life Magazine/ Paint Out, exhibition, articles and an interview, January & April 2017
Battersea AAF, Cameron Contemporary Art, London, Spring 2017
Saatchi Art – ‘Artist of the Day’, December 2016
Cameron Contemporary Art Gallery, Winter Show, 2016, 2nd Avenue, Hove
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize National Exhibition, 2016, Mall Galleries, London
Cameron Contemporary Art Gallery, Summer Show 2016, 2nd Avenue, Hove
Phoenix Arts Association, Open Studios, May 2016
Saatchi Art, ‘New Artists Feature’, April 2016
ING/ Discerning Eye Exhibition 2015, Mall Galleries, London – selected by Stephen Doherty, Art Critic, Somerset House, London
Shortlisted for Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) Open Exhibition 2015, Mall Galleries, London, SW1
Saatchi Art chief Curator features ‘Sussex Downs Sunset XXVII’, ‘Invest in Art’, October 2015
Inside Sussex, Interview with artist, 2015
Artists’ Open Houses Exhibition, Brighton, 2015
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2015 shortlist, Mall Galleries, London, SW1
Brighton May Festival Open Houses 2015
Art In Brighton Publication
Big Heart Charity Art Auction, Brighton Dome Theatre, May 2015
20 Painters Regional Exhibition, shortlist, 2014
A3 Exhibition, Phoenix Arts Association Gallery, Brighton Housing Trust Auction, November 2015
Testimonials
“I was drawn to ‘Sussex Downs Sunset XXVII’ so much is because of the incredible way it captures the mood and light of what is at first glance a dark day. It actually seems to get brighter as the day gets darker.” A. Barras, University of Brighton, 2016
“We love the dramatic and intensely colourful sky!” ‘Sussex Downs Sunset Crimson I’ – Big Heart Auction Team, Brighton Dome, 2015
Statement
Painting outside in the changeable conditions of landscapes are an inspirational subject matter that can be representational of life’s changes, the inconstant of human reaction, time and memory.
Painting outside also allows a great freedom and meditative head space placing me within the scene so that even a small painting can have a large sense of space. Painting live and intuitive interpretations can help to ultimately invite the viewer in closer to the painting and it’s surface, and my first-person narrative of the original event. How I am feeling and thinking about the scene and what I communicate gets subliminally recorded into the painting – this can go beyond the conscious intentions and selected colour palettes, allowing the painting to be open to interpretation from the spectator.
In the studio, I layer some of the paintings with further paint and glaze leading to stages of creation and destruction making new surface tensions, oppositions/ harmonies and new colours that become revealed in these ongoing processes, by the use of memory and from discoveries made afterwards. When developing the paintings in the studio in this way, elements of the original on-site marks are left visible through the semi-abstract journeying to help communicate live but albeit latent essences as a record of the original on site experiences.
Influences – Kapoor, Kiefer, Martin, Macgill, Rembrandt, Corot, Kirkeby, Klimt, Enkaoua, Gallen-kallela, Turner and Eardley.
Biography
David has been selected for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2016′, has exhibited at the ‘Discerning Eye Exhibition 2015’, reached final judging of the Lynn Painter-Stainers in 2015 and has been pre-selected for the RBA Open, 2016. He has been featured in Saatchi ‘Art artists to look at – Invest in Art, 2015, Saatchi Featured Artist, 2016 and ’ Saatchi Art’s ‘Artist of the Day’, 2016.
In 2015, he donated a work to the ‘Big Heart Auction’ at the Brighton Dome, has exhibited across the South including Brighton and Lewes, and has work in collections as far as Sydney Australia and China.
After graduating with a BA Hons degree in Art from Manchester Metropolitan University He became an artist and a sculptor, Lecturer and then finally a Landscape Painter at the Phoenix Brighton Arts Studios. Whilst working on the large scale sculpture works of Anish Kapoor and Anslem Kiefer he developed a fascination of sculpted form and shape which reflects in his processes of painting’s use space, distance, form and surface.
Education
Manchester Metropolitan University – BA Hons Art and Design 3D/WMCT
University of Brighton – PGCE PCE
Northbrook College – Art and Design Foundation in Art Studies/ National Diploma
Literature/ Media/ Articles
‘Inside Sussex’ Magazine Artist Interview, July 2016
Big Heart Art Auction, Dome, 2015
Absolute Brighton, Art Wave Project Manager 2005
Richard Deacon, Turner Prize Winner Sculptor – letter correspondence,1995
Peter Dormer, Art and Design Critic – letter correspondence,1994
Arts Industry Roles
Sculptor – on large Anish Kapoor, Anslem Kiefer sculptures, MDM -2006-2011
Team leader Galleries – ‘Frieze Art Fair’, Regents Park, 2006
Fund Raiser -‘Arts Council’ fund, ‘Soundwave Festival’, Cultural Services, 2007
Project Manager -‘Artwave Visual Arts Festival’, Lewes District Council, 2006 –2007
Gallery Committee member – Phoenix Arts, 2004
Private Collections of Painting (outside UK)
Private Collection, South of France
Private Collection, Tenerife
Private Collection, Portugal
Private collection, China
Private collection, Sydney, Australia
Art Lecturing
Landscape Painting Lecturer– Varndean College 2013- 14
Lecturer, Collyer’s Sixth Form, A level Art and Design/ critical studies 2012-13
Lecturer, Sussex Downs College, EVOC, Art National Diploma 2008
Sculpture Tutor, Sussex Downs College 2006 -08
Lecturer, Sussex Downs College, Lewes- A level- Fine Art, Art and Sculpture 2005 – 08
