Dr Dave Evans

Lecturer
Fine Art

Dave Evans is an artist based in Liverpool. He makes artworks that explore the complexity of the systems that he finds himself tangled in. Often working in a site-specific context, his work questions the levels of visibility and audibility that different parts of these complex systems are afforded. Recent work has explored audibility in the home, considering his own experiences as a carer though reconfiguring the isolated quietness of domestic labour into a more public and noisy form via sound and ad hoc radio broadcast. By considering these spaces as active and dynamic assemblages, Dave’s work asks if these sounds can be considered more than noise and reframes them as speculative 'vocal systems' with their own unique voices. This work was developed during a residency at the Pervasive Media Studio at Watershed in Bristol during 2024, and during a series of live ‘Vocal Systems’ broadcasts on WCXG 90.1 fm in New York during 2025.

Dave holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, an MA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art and undergraduate degree in Sculpture from the University of Wolverhampton. Previous academic appointments include Research Fellow at The Royal College of Art and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Lincoln University.