David Batchelor (born 1955 in Dundee) is a Scottish artist and writer.

Life and work

David Batchelor studied Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham (1975–8), and Cultural Theory at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Birmingham University (1978–80). He has exhibited widely in the UK, continental Europe, the United States and Latin America; written two books, ''Minimalism'' (1997) and ''Chromophobia'' (2000); is the editor of ''Colour'' (2008); and contributed to a number of journals including

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, Frieze (magazine), and

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. David was a member of Tate Britain Council from 2002–5, an advisory body on development and programming at

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. He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including the

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at SNGMA in

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, ''Days Like These: Tate Triennial of Contemporary Art'' at

, the 26th

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, ''Extreme Abstraction'' at the

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in Buffalo, the Folkestone Triennial in Folkestone and ''Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today'' at the

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and

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. David Batchelor has made colourful lightbox installations using bits and pieces salvaged from the streets of London. Batchelor takes industrial debris – trolleys, shelving units, factory scrap – and transforms them into frames to hold assemblages of neon, perspex and found shopfront signs. Two of his works are held in the

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collection.tate.org
/ref> He is the brother of Buddhist scholar and author Stephen Batchelor.

References

Bibliography

*Batchelor, David, ''Found Monochromes,''

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: London, 2010 *Batchelor, David (ed.), ''Colour'', Whitechapel: London/MIT Press: Boston, 2008 * Batchelor, David and Briony Fer, ''Unplugged'', Talbot Rice Gallery: Edinburgh, 2007 *Batchelor, David, ''Chromophobia,'' Reaktion Books: London, 2000

External links

David Batchelor's websiteInformation about David Batchelor on ArtFacts.NetDavid Batchelor – Tate CollectionDavid Batchelor – Galeria LemeDavid Batchelor – Staff profile at the Royal College of ArtBatchelor's work on the London Underground
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