DAVID TABORN
Born 1947
Studied at Birmingham College of Art and The Slade School of Fine Art.
From 1979 to 1982 David was Fellow in Fine Art at Nottingham University and also a guest artist in Residence at the same location.
From 2003 to 2006 he was a NESTA Fellow and most recently in 2006 he held the Established Artist Fellowship at UrbanGlass, New York, USA
Awards
1969 Jackson Travel Scholarship
1969 Louisa Anne Ryland Bequest
1970 Jackson Travel Scholarship
1970 Louisa Anne Ryland Bequest
1972 Slade Leaving Scholarship (Boise)
1981 East Midlands Arts Purchase Award
1982 Midland View II, (Major Prize Winner)
1994 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award
1995 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Award
2005 British Council Award
2006 Art Council Award
2008 British Council Award
2018 Gottlieb Foundation Award
Exhibitions
1969 Southern Young Contemporaries
1970 Southern Young Contemporaries (Arts Council Prize)
1970 Northern Young Contemporaries (Stuyvesant Prize)
1971 Northern Young Contemporaries (Arts Council Tour)
1972 Paolozzi’s Choice of Post Graduate Shows, Greenwich Theatre Art Gallery
1972 Platform ’72’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1973 One Man Show, Greenwich Theatre Art Gallery
1974-1979 Various Mixed Exhibitions
1979 Nottingham University Art Gallery (Solo)
1980 Midland View (Touring)
1980 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition XII
1981 Nottingham University Art Gallery (three painters)
1981 Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (One Man Solo)
1981 Nottingham University Art Gallery (Solo)
1982 Midland View II (Major Prize Winner)
1982 Nottingham University Art Gallery (Solo)
1983 Leicester Schools Exhibition
1984 “One of a Kind’, Maryland Institute USA (Touring Show)
1984 Air Gallery, London
1984 Aberdeen Art Gallery
1985 Edinburgh College of Art
1985 Crawford Centre for the Arts, St. Andrew’s University
1985 Midland Group, Nottingham
1986 Odette Gilbert Gallery, 5 Cork Street, London
1989 Gallery 202, London (Solo)
1989 Woodlands Art Gallery, London (Solo)
1990 Hunting Group Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
1991 Courtauld Institute, Loan Exhibition
1991 Hunting Group Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London & Paris
1992 Grob Gallery, London (Solo)
1992 Dormagen Kulturhaus, Germany
1992 Factual Nonsense presents ‘A Guide for the Perplexed’
1992 Nottingham University Art Gallery (Solo Retrospective)
1993 Reg Vardy Art Gallery, Sunderland University (Solo)
1993 Taborn’s Wet & Dry, Pastels (1991-1993) Factual Nonsense, London
1993 East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute of Art.
1993 Hardcore, Factual Nonsense, London.
1993 Féte Worse Than Death, Factual Nonsense, London
1994 Hunting Group Exhibition, R.C.A., London and touring.
1994 Seamless Cream, Factual Nonsense, London (Solo)
1994 Lead & Follow, The Continuity of Abstraction, Atlantis Gallery, London.
1995 Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham UK (Solo)
1996 Gallery 27, Cork St. London
1996 Contemporary Art Society, South Bank, London
1996 Second Impression, Reg Vardy Art Gallery Sunderland
1998 Galeria Casa da Imogen, Curitha, Brazil
1998 Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham UK (Solo)
2000 JHW Fine Art, Air Gallery 32 Dover street, London (Solo)
2000 Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany
2001 ‘The Tomorrow Gate’ BritArt Gallery, London
2002 Singer& Friedlander Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London
2004 Singer& Friedlander Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London
2005 Singer& Friedlander Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London
2005 Galerie Kusseneers, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
2005 Art Cologne, Germany
2005 Ghent Art Fair, Belgium
2006 Art Cologne, Germany
2006 ‘Mind Matterss’ Galerie Kusseneers, Antwerp, Belgium (Solo)
2008 ‘Humunculus’ Robert Lehman Gallery, Brooklyn NY USA (Solo)
2010 LASSCO/Brunswick House (Solo)
2014 Dormagen Kulturhaus, Germany
2019 Kudlek Gallery, Cologne, Germany
COLLECTIONS
Courtauld Institute
The Warwick Arts Trust
Nottingham Trust
Essex and Metropolitan Estates plc
Duchess of Westminster
Dormagen Art Collection (Germany)
Government Art Collection (UK)
WORKSHOPS
Music Workshop, London South Bank Art Centre,
Rambert Dance Project, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol.
Monotype Workshop, Air Gallery, London
What People Say
“extraordinary subtlety, and impressive underlying urgency”
John Russel Taylor, The Times 1989
“excellent abstract paintings…”
A. Gordon, The Hill 1989
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile “complex and alive”.
A.Sebestyen, New Statesman 1989
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