David Gates
- domobaal gallery
- Backyard Sculpture'19
- Götzbau (Lothar Götz)'18
- Found & Forged (solo)'16/7
- A Circle'14
- The Rural College of Art (solo)'13
- publications & editions
- news
- selected external resources
- xxruralxx.org
- @xxruralxx
- The Rural College of Art on vimeo
- [click on titles to download]
- For David Gates pinhole images, far from being nostalgic, authenticate the present, making it vibrant and shimmering by pushing the not too distant past away, opening up the future to the possibility of possibilities. They interrupt the flow of time by opening up a strict set of rules to the chance of failure. By pushing the process towards it's breaking point the image struggles to hold to the surface. This surface of performance, pride, mistakes, a semblance of constructed ideas can be investigated with fresh eyes again and again. Although objective they seem personal, deserted by and separated from reality, they probe the murkiness of history and the subjectivity of recollection with a loose grip on the emotive and the unquantifiable. They play with the untrustworthiness and art of history.
- MASS magazine
- David Gates and Neil Gall discuss Backyard Sculpture, published March 2022 (7 pages)
- 60 Pages #4
- Guest Appearance by David Gates on #60 Pages, Berlin, Zurich 2013 (4 pages)
- Manifestos for Interregna
- Manifestos for Interregna: Some Notes on The Rural College Archives, 2014
- Artist's Newsletter
- The Rural College of Art, review in AN by Catherine Linton in AN 2013 (2 pages)
- David Gates 'The Rural College of Art'
- The Independent art feature (link)
- Aus dem Feld curated by Paul Feigelfeld and Eva Wilson, Wilson Chamber, Berlin Gallery Weekend
- Press Release, Berlin 2013. (2 pages)