• Research images for David Blandy’s project, Gathering Storm, Delfina Politics of Food Residency, 2022

    Research images for David Blandy’s project, Gathering Storm, Delfina Politics of Food Residency, 2022. Photographer unknown, in the collection of Blandy’s late Grandfather, Robert Blandy.

  • David Blandy, The Edge of Forever, 2022

    David Blandy, The Edge of Forever, 2022; Video still Claire Barrett. Commissioned by Towner Eastbourne, UK and John Hansard, Southampton UK. Supported by Arts Council England, Screen Archive South East and The Elephant Trust.

  • David Blandy, The Edge of Forever, 2022 - 02

    David Blandy, The Edge of Forever, 2022. Video still. Commissioned by Towner Eastbourne, UK & John Hansard, Southampton UK. Supported by Arts Council England, Screen Archive South East and The Elephant Trust

  • David Blandy, The World After, 2019

    David Blandy, The World After, 2019. Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK. Installation photo Anna Lukala. Commissioned by Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea and New Geographies, UK

  • David Blandy, Soil, Sinew and Bone, 2022

    David Blandy, Soil, Sinew and Bone, 2022. Video still. Courtesy of Screen Archive South East. As part of the installation for The Edge of Forever, 2022, Commissioned by Towner Eastbourne, UK & John Hansard, Southampton UK. Supported by Arts Council England, Screen Archive South East and The Elephant Trust.

David Blandy (UK associate) has a multi-disciplinary practice that uses performance, video, installation, role play and collaboration to deconstruct and reimagine our relationship to the world. Making links between geopolitics, the struggle of decolonisation, the ecological crisis and the self in an age of digital dematerialisation, his work takes a playful approach to lure the viewer into structural and personal analysis.

As a UK associate at Delfina Foundation as part of The Politics of Food programme in Autumn 2022, David will be exploring his familial link to colonial food production as an attempt to consolidate authority. His paternal grandfather was part of the Swynnerton Plan in the 1950s, a British Government scheme to gain favour with the Black middle class in Kenya, social engineering through agriculture. For the past few years he has been experimenting with the form of group world building, using voice, writing and drawing to imagine new worlds and societal systems collaboratively.

From 20 September to 2 October 2022 as the culmination of his residency at Towner Eastbourne, UK, David will present his research into the relationship between food production and weapons development, space exploration and the climate crisis. The Edge of Forever will continue to be developed for a solo exhibition at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton in 2023.

David has been nominated for the Film London Jarman award with Larry Achiampong in 2018. He has exhibited and performed at venues nationally and internationally, including as Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Art Tower Mito, Tokyo; Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki; Tate Modern, London; The Baltic, Gateshead; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Spike Island, Bristol; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany; MoMA PS1, New York, and JSC Düsseldorf, Germany.

David is represented by Seventeen Gallery, London. His films are distributed by LUX, London.

David Blandy was born in London, UK and is now based on the South coast in Brighton, UK.

WITH SUPPORT FROM

Gaia Art Foundation

THEMATIC PROGRAMME

The Politics of Food:
Season 5

RESIDENCY SEASON

Autumn 2022

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