HOGCHESTER ARTS

Karen David is an artist and researcher working with fiction as a catalyst for making, and exploring the way materials hold personal narratives. David’s PhD imagined a fictional commune, and using her solo tabletop role playing game, she activated resident avatars, creating new networks of thought through rules, play and imagination.

 

Works take reference from pop culture, science fiction, stage magic, eco-communities and range from oil painting using cake-decorating and marbling techniques, informational posters, readings and field recordings, tapestries, archives, documentation of road trips, photographs of family dinner tables, curation and storytelling.

 

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Projects Include:

New Contemporaries 2024, touring The Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth (2024) and ICA, London (2025)

C.A.P. (Conference on Arts and Planning), Kobe, Japan (2025)

The Restless Surge of the Liquid State (2025)

Solo exhibition and 111-page Mulberry Press publication with SE8 Gallery; The Fortune-Telling Fan (2025)

Worcester Museum; ‘Six Forms of Precipitation’ performance at ICA LIVE (2025)

Fraudulent mediums and miracle-mongers’ (2024)

Journal of Contemporary Painting; PhD thesis ‘Creating Myth in Studio Practice Through Fictional Narrative’ (2024)

University of Worcester; ‘Review of Full of Days by Andy Holden’, Journal of Contemporary Painting (2023)

Curator of The Collector’s Room (2020)

JGM Gallery; Short fiction ‘Spirit in the Sky’ for Sally O'Reilly's The Open Arms (2020)

Group exhibition Liquid Crystal Display at MIMA, Middlesbrough and SITE gallery, Sheffield (2019)

Solo exhibition Pure Reason Tint of Violet, VITRINE Bermondsey Square, London (2018)

Visiting artist at Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau, Germany (2019)

Research trip to Judd Foundation, Marfa, Texas and UFO Museum, Roswell, New Mexico; and founder of Cork Lined Rooms (2013-present).