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John Moores Painting Prize 2025
I’m delighted to have been selected for this year’s John Moores Painting Prize. The exhibition opens at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool on Saturday September 6th and continues until Sunday March 1st 2026.
Parties Film
Filmmaker Jeremiah Quinn has made this film of the launch for Parties at Rogue Project Space on Saturday June 14.
Parties extended opening times and closing event.
Parties
Project Space
Rogue Artists’ Studios CIC
4 Barrass Street
Higher Openshaw
Manchester
M11 1PU
June 14 – July 27, 2025
Open Fridays and Saturdays 12-5pm
According to the aphorism ‘a picture paints a thousand words’. However, one word with contemporary resonance has multiple meanings and suggests unlimited visual manifestations. At a time when words and their usage are more fiercely debated than ever, this project explores some of the visual dimensions of one of the most compendious and controversial terms of all. From family celebrations to political associations, Parties evokes a range of activities that may have purely recreational, or alternatively, world changing significance.
Parties brings the domestic shindig, Christmas, wedding, fancy dress and work bashes, together with political visual culture, to explore the extraordinary range of images that language can evoke.
Combining paintings based on amateur photographic source material with artefacts and objects drawn from the artist’s own collection of vintage propaganda material, Parties takes a historical perspective on the power of the word to shape our lives.
Happy Holidays!
Art Monthly
Review of Ventriloquism by Bob Dickinson
Ventriloquism Exhibition Panel Discussion
Ventriloquism: The Lost Voice Spoken by Others
Panel Discussion
Saturday November 2nd 2024
The Whitaker, Rawtenstall.
I’m delighted to be exhibiting in Ventriloquism: The Lost Voice Spoken by Others at The Whitaker in Rawtenstall from August 24 to November 11 2024. Full details here.
The catalogue for ‘person or persons unknown’, featuring an essay by Phil Porter, is available now from Hive Gallery, Market Place, Bolton, BL1 2AL.
person or persons unknown
paintings by David Gledhill
Hive Gallery
Market Place
Bolton
BL1 1AL
Saturday September 2 – Sunday October 15
Open Fridays and Saturdays 1-5pm.
As we plunge ever deeper into a culture of self-branding, person or persons unknown celebrates the anonymous C20th citizens who experienced some of the most drastic upheavals in history.
Based on snapshots, studio portraits and official records collected from flea market stalls across Europe, the exhibition explores the limits of photography as an apparently ‘objective’ medium and its relationship to the portrait tradition in painting.
Drawing on a range of material produced between the 1920s and 1960s, person or persons unknown reveals how, at times of ideological pressure, individuality can be suppressed socially, politically and through representational practices. Reinvesting a sense of human presence into documents and keepsakes that have been lost, misplaced or discarded, it demonstrates the enduring fascination of the human image.
For more information or to make an appointment to view the exhibition outside gallery hours contact David Gledhill at davidgledhillartist@gmail.com.
the experience of history
new and recent work by david gledhill
7 December 2019 – 24 January 2020
open every Monday, Thursday and Friday 12-5pm.
(Closed December 21 – January 6)
Private View: Friday January 10 6-9pm
Rogue Project Space
4 Barrass Street
Higher Openshaw
Manchester
M11 1WP
the experience of history is an exhibition of paintings, films and objects based on and incorporating amateur snapshots acquired from flea markets in Europe during the past 10 years.
Most of the photographs were taken between 1930 and 1945 and provide a glimpse of a momentous period in modern history, as recorded by citizen photographers.
The exhibition features four linked projects. ‘Poland 1940-1941’ is based on an album of photographs probably taken by a German civil administrator posted to Sosnowiec in southern Poland in June 1940. ‘The Berlin Olympic Village Project’ features paintings based on amateur snapshots of the Olympic Village during the Games in 1936, together with paintings and films that depict the Village as it appeared in 2016. ‘Karel/Karl’ includes paintings based on photographs from a box of personal effects that belonged to an ethnic German carpenter from Czechoslovakia, together with assemblages that combine furniture and suitcases with documents from the box. ‘Ruth Finger’ is based on a small wallet of personal photographs taken in Germany during the 1940s.
Timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the start of the Second World War and at a turning point in British history, the exhibition shows how previously tolerant populations can be persuaded to identify with extremist ideologies through a process of indoctrination, scapegoating and pageantry.
For further information or to arrange to visit contact:
David Gledhill
Email: davidgledhillartist@gmail.com
In September 2015, myself and artists Margaret Cahill, Wolf Bertram Becker and Peter Lewis, were invited to visit the site of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Village by its current owner, DKB Stiftung für Gesellschaftliches Engagement, Berlin, and Palis Advisory GmbH, Berlin, who initiated and organised the project.
The artists have spent the past year producing work in response to the site, and Berlin 1936 is the first UK exhibition of the Project.
The first exhibition of the work took place in Berlin at DKB Deutsche Kreditbank’s headquarters during July and August 2016 and was transferred to the Gymnasium at the Village itself for Germany’s ‘Day of the Open Monument’ in September 2016.
This expanded UK edition of the Project features painting, printmaking, collage, video and 3D pieces and includes previously unseen and specially produced new work.
Olydo Berlin 2016: 80 years of the Olympic Village, Elstal.
An exhibition of contemporary art inspired by the athlete’s village constructed for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Exhibition Dates:
July 19th – August 26th Deutsche Kreditbank AG, Berlin.
September 11th Olympic Village, Elstal, Germany.
In September 2015, artists Margaret Cahill, Wolf Bertram Becker, David Gledhill and Peter Lewis, were invited to visit the site of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Village by its current owner, DKB Stiftung in Berlin, and Palis Advisory GmbH, who initiated the project.
The artists have spent the past 8 months producing work in response to the site for an exhibition at Deutsche Kreditbank’s headquarters in Berlin. The exhibition encompasses painting, printmaking, collage, video and 3D pieces and will transfer to the refurbished gymnasium at the Olympic Village itself in September 2016.
David Gledhill Painting History 