David O
Reader in Fine Art
Recent awards include Abbey Fellowship Award in Painting, The British School at Rome for 2025/6 and separately by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NY. in the form of an Artists Grant for 2024/5.
Most recent solo exhibitions and commissioned activities include 'Tales from the Expanded Moment', Matt’s Gallery, London, Sept-Nov 2025. A Pastiche of Different Techniques, Glasgow Print Studio. In 2025 I have been a recipient of a Visual Arts Residency at Cove Park, Scotland which is joint supported by The Hope Scott Trust & Creative Scotland.2025. Also, in the same year my work has been the subject of a Monograph: A Pastiche of Different Techniques. Published by Slimvolume, UK. 2025.
My work has been acquired by Museums such as the Tate Collection as well as the Tate Special Collections Library who hold a substantial amount of related books. Works are also held in the collections of the Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of Manchester, as well as the ongoing collections of The Serving Library, Soho House, London, & The British Council Art Collection along with various private collections.
Artist Statement.
What I do moves fluidly between drawing, print, collage and painting to explore patterns of meaning, value, class and identity through a form of making best described as ‘flat sculpture’. The work engages with the transformation of materials, objects and spaces that contend with power relations or hierarchical structures which has always been of thematic concern and often is accompanied by the associative qualities of language
I work and live between Manchester, London & Scotland.
Further information: https://www.davidosbaldeston.com/
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
External Examiner, MA/MFA Fine Art
City & Guilds, London, 2022 - 25
External Examiner, BA, MA, Fine Art, UWE, Bristol, 2015-19
External Examiner, BA Fine Art, University of Reading, 2010
Lecturer in Fine Art, Painting & Printmaking,
Glasgow School of Art, 2006-8
Research
Exhibitions
Osbaldeston, D., 2022. David Osbaldeston 'A Pastiche of Different Techniques', Moon Grove, 24/11/2022 - 25/1/2023.
Osbaldeston, D., 2018. Abstract Things: The Serving Library V David Osbaldeston, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, 2/11/2018 - 15/12/2018.
Osbaldeston, D., 2015. Modern History Volume 1, 2, & 3 curated by Lynda Morris, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, Bury Art Gallery, Manchester.
Osbaldeston, D., 2015. The Top & Bottom of It, Mechanism For a Future Reference, Matt's Gallery, London, 2015.
Osbaldeston, D., 2014. Annals of the Twenty Ninth Century, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge.
Osbaldeston, D., 2014. The Measure of All Things, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh., 15/3/2014 - 27/4/2014.
Osbaldeston, D., 2014. The Measure Of All Things, The City Dome, Collective Gallery, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh.
Osbaldeston, D., 2013. Living Matter - Inflection Sandwich, Piper Keys, London.
Osbaldeston, D., 2012. Marbled Reams, The Modern Institute, Glasgow.
Osbaldeston, D., 2010. A Model of the Serving Library (Diagram For A Search Engine), Amsterdam Kunstverein, Artists Space, New York 2011-12, Banff Centre, Canada 2011, Tate, Liverpool 2014.
Osbaldeston, D., 2010. Rijksakademie Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam.
Osbaldeston, D., 2008. Another Shadow Fight, International Project Space, University of Central England, Bourneville.
Osbaldeston, D., 2008. The Pleasure of Your Company - Nought to Sixty, ICA - The Institute of Contemporary Arts, 15/9/2008 - 22/6/2008.
Osbaldeston, D., 2008. The Pleasure of Your Company, ICA Galleries, Nought To Sixty, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
Osbaldeston, D., 2006. Your Answer is Mine, Matt's Gallery, 30/8/2006 - 8/10/2006.
Osbaldeston, D., 2006. Your Answer Is Mine, Matt's Gallery, London.
Artefacts
Osbaldeston, D., Holder, W., 2015. 'David Osbaldeston: Inflection Sandwich'.
Robin, K., Osbaldeston, D., 2007. 'A Trade Double, E3 4RR Portfolio'.
Osbaldeston, D, 2007. 'A Trade Double, Matt's Gallery Portfolio', A2 Folded Lithographic Ltd Edition Artwork. Made alongside 12 other national & international artists, designed by Phil Baines Professor in Typographic Design Central St Martins School of Art. Commissioned and produced by Matt's Gallery, London., Contemporary Art Society, Tate Gallery, British Council Collection, Leeds College of Art & Design, 2007-10.
Fusco, M., 2005. 'PUT ABOUT, AN ANTHOLOGY OF INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING', Book Works, London.
Books
Hunt, A., Osbaldeston, D., 2025. 'A Pastiche of Different Techniques', Slimvolume.
Hunt, A & Osbaldeston, D, 2008. 'Another Shadow Fight: David Osbaldeston in conversation with Andrew Hunt', International Project Space, University of Central England, Birmingham.
Osbaldeston, D., 2004. 'On communication', Cornerhouse, Manchester.
Book Chapters
Osbaldeston, D., 2018. 'The Serving Library Annual 2018/19'. In The Serving Library Annual, Roma Publications.
Osbaldeston, D., 2004. 'The pen'. In Put about: a critical anthology on independent publishing, Book Works.
Conference Papers
Osbaldeston, D., 2019. 'Abstract Now Abstract Then, Gustav Metzger & Contemporary Drawing', Drawing Research Forum, The Drawing Room, London, 1/11/2019 - 1/11/2019.